I’ve made this a few days ago and played around a bit with designs and layout.
Is this a contemporary UI design for mac/win ? If not what do you suggest?
This looks very, very great. Be sure, your User will Love it!
Maybe you’ll Share your Control.
I can’t speak for design as that part of my brain is severely underdeveloped. That being said it does appeal to me.
Na, that’s not modern enough.
- Way less contrast between grey and white. White in white looks great.
- Round corners are out of fashion. Give it some hard corners.
- Shadows are out of fashion, too.
Looks very nice, by the way 
Beatrix has some points, because it looks a bit old fashioned.
But on the other hand, it still looks very nice!
[quote=225694:@Beatrix Willius]Na, that’s not modern enough.
- Way less contrast between grey and white. White in white looks great.
Looks very nice, by the way :-)[/quote]
Thanks for the tips. Thanks you all.
I didn’t tried with white in white but I must I admit a cool idea, although, working with it over a longer period of
time it hurt my eyes. I removed the background (which was a sort of fibre paper pattern) and replace it
with 98% which seems OK to me.
For real ? I must have missed the new time. Is there a guidline or any examples I can an idea from?
The white in white was a joke. That’s what for instance the new Office 2016 is doing.
[quote=225725:@Rob Egal][i]- Round corners are out of fashion. Give it some hard corners.
- Shadows are out of fashion, too.[/i]
For real ? I must have missed the new time. Is there a guidline or any examples I can an idea from?[/quote]
You may start with https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/AppAnatomy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH4-SW1
Beatrix quite rightly points to fashion. You will notice that the examples in the Apple HIG no longer show gradients or shadows. This is the “flat” look inspired by both iOS and Yosemite and El Capitan.
reminds me to OS/2
everything has a beginning
Time Warp…
LOL but back in those times I was in more favor of Geoworks Ensemble than on OS/2 or Win3.
Geoworks was so lightweight and had powerful Apps running even on older 8088 and 80286 while Win3.x and OS/2 needed 80386 for multitasking…
[quote=225900:@Tomas Jakobs]LOL but back in those times I was in more favor of Geoworks Ensemble than on OS/2 or Win3.
Geoworks was so lightweight and had powerful Apps running even on older 8088 and 80286 while Win3.x and OS/2 needed 80386 for multitasking…[/quote]
Back to the future indeed. Geoworks Ensemble was efficient, snappy. Pure mouse and graphics window pleasure in a Dos app. Same kind of interface as Windows, without Windows.
They ended up bought out by Microsoft who according to Bernard Vergnes was supposed to profit from their UI experience in making Windows less sluggish.
I think at the time the big error from Microsoft was to make Windows multitasking. On the processors of that era, it was like powering an entire factory on a moppet engine. Geoworks, like Mac OS X at the time, was using a single task, which explains a great deal of its performances.
I loved it! Was my 2nd contact with a Desktop OS after GEOS on Commodore 
Got it wrong. Mac OS 6.5 or 7, hell not X…
80286 was capable of multitasking, even on 8088 you could hibernate tasks and switch between Apps. Remember Desqview? or Good Old TSR Programming… still know Interrupts 27 and 21 from Power-BASIC 
Of course they could do multitasking. In text mode that was easy.
My point is about the processor power to do graphics multitasking. If memory serves, the 80286 was doing less than a megaflop. There was no graphic coprocessor either at the time. Look at today’s slowdowns with i5 at 100 Gigaflops and graphic coprocessors.
Apple was right not to do multitasking until processors and graphic coprocessors got up to the task. In the mid to late eighties, Windows was an underpowered resources hog, while Mac OS was fast as can be. Actually, if memory serves, not that different from today’s experience.
While I am in nostalgia, I recently downloaded a neat little Mac OS classic emulator from http://hackthemac.blogspot.fr/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html
Funny how I had forgotten the look…
oh you could buy the 8087 or 80287 co-processor but at least for me back in those times (still was going to school and jobbed in my holidays for my PC) this was out of reach… and I do not know anybody who ever bought it… man do you know how proud I was on my real 80386DX with 25 Mhz, no crippled down 386SX with 32Bit internal and only 16Bit external Bus… 
Everybody played around with Homecomputers like Commodore Amiga 500 or Atari ST/TT and I was the only PC guy without any graphic card - just Hercules in 2 colors - and cgaemulator in 4 colors and 320x200 Pixels… heck this was a time…
sigh now we both drifted back in Nostalgica…
holy cow… you know what I’ve found?
http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/ega/640kb/win101/
[quote=225973:@Tomas Jakobs]holy cow… you know what I’ve found?
http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/ega/640kb/win101/[/quote]
Yikes! Halloween was yesterday.