Last month Apple announced the biggest design update of the Mac operating system since the launch of Mac OS X 20 years ago. That design overhaul caused some consternation amongst Apple\u2019s long-term loyalists who loved the raw pixel power of the original OS, the mother of all screen-as-desktop OS designs...
Last month Apple announced the biggest design update of the Mac operating system since the launch of Mac OS X 20 years ago. That design overhaul caused some consternation amongst Apple’s long-term loyalists who loved the raw pixel power of the original OS, the mother of all screen-as-desktop OS designs.
Alan Dye, Apple’s VP of human interface, says that this is more than a simple design merge of the Mac OS and iOS and that Big Sur retains something essentially Mac. ‘It would have been really easy for us just to use the same exact icons from iOS and probably saved us a fair amount of time. But we just didn’t feel like that was the right thing to do. We really want to keep the spirit of what we love so much about Mac icons.
The redesign though is more rigour than razzmatazz. As Dye says, what is most obvious about Big Sur is a ‘reduced visual complexity’. A key part of this is making the right and relevant controls most visible and available at the right time. The smart use of translucency and shading helps create a kind of fluid hierarchy of controls. ‘Buttons and controls appear when you need them and disappear when you don’t.’ Full-height sidebars and integrated tool bars positions controls more handily.
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