On 11 sep 2010, at 01:53, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10-Sep-2010, at 10:26, Cesar Alsina wrote: >> >> On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Mark Smith wrote: >> >>> traffic lights >> >> Taking about traffic lights, notice that now the >> close/minimize/get-mini-controller buttons now run vertically? I think is >> the only occurrence in the entire UI. > > They have always been vertical in the iTunes mini browser. > > Well… for certain values of always. iTunes is often the first application to get a new look that later becomes one of a few types used as a system wide solution. I have sometimes wondered, or gotten irritated, over Apples constantly difficulties to be consistent gui wise. My idea is that bigger changes to the gui shouldn't be introduced as some kind of prototype that is tested on one application and later gets spread and replaces what was targeted to be replaced by it. This makes OS X a bit messy with more or less a constant porototype stage mixed in with the other more established looks other applications use. The introduction of new gui designs could be set on hold until a certain point in time were a syncronized system wide introduction takes place. Typically every major cat version would be perfect for this but it could also be done sometimes in between the ref version changes. I bet the new iTunes looks is soo spread to all/most of the other windows that now looks like iTunes 9 did. Why do Apple not do this right away and keep the gui more consistent without this kind of prototype testing in the customers products is beyond me. Or rather I understand the advantages of tests done like this, I just dislikes it since these tests should be done outside the production version alteady sold to and in use by the customers! But it seem to be heating up the hype surrounding Apple products. // John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
