Comments on: iWork / iLife ’09 UI Roundup

By: Cocoia Blog » iPad UI Roundup

Cocoia Blog » iPad UI Roundup — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:59 +0000

[...] also takes the scrubbing we’re familiar with from iMovie and iLife (see also: my iLife UI roundup) and applies to it to a photo album, to allow for easier and visual navigation of images. I think [...]

By: Christopher Francis O'Donnell

Christopher Francis O'Donnell — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:16:46 +0000

I will eat someone if Snow Leopard doesn’t include iTunes-style scroll-bars. Literally.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:24:42 +0000

I so have to agree with Stilgherrian about the whole icon meaning issue, I mean yeah not many people still use white-out. I would have to say that Apple usually does a good job with picking icons that best fit the meaning of their apps/programs/features but as for auto-correct, I think they were more focused on bring the recreating the past rather than having one that better describes what the feature actually means. I mean the white-out bottle looks neat and all but that’s pretty much it. I do have some non-English friends who have said that the reason it seems that Apple is so popular is #1 their stuff just seems to work and #2 they try their hardest to make their stuff easy to navigate, especially with the help of their icons. I’m not harsh on Apple for their new auto-correct icon but I do wish that they would go back to the ‘08 icon or at least make something similar. Also about the whole issue of the scroll bars, I just don’t see why they keep the aqua bars around when it sure seems like they are trying to get away from aqua (probably aqua takes up too much space and for Snow Leopard they want to reduce the overall footprint). The iTunes bars are so nice looking and they really look sharp upon the iPhone themed OS and so if they could merge those together with their current darker non-aqua/non-metal theme that would be awesome, would sure beat Microsoft Vista/Windows 7’s theme. Even though you might think that overall appearance isn’t important, well what would you rather look at, something that looks professional and well thought-out with style to it or something that is an eye sore?

By: Movingzen

Movingzen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:41:19 +0000

Hi sebastiaan,
Great writeup!
By the way, can you guide me how to make a picture that has shadow at the left and right corner like in your article, its look great, kinda love it! ^.^ Picturesque cant do that :((
Thanks mate!

By: Snow Leopard: Bye Bye Aqua, Hello Marble? - MacTalk Forums

Snow Leopard: Bye Bye Aqua, Hello Marble? - MacTalk Forums — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:04:26 +0000

[...] interface of iWork / iLife ‘09 gets a thorough going over at Cocia (found this via Daring Fireball a while back). The image that Phase put up looks similar to the HUD [...]