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A few links about UI trends and changes in Tiger.

Brent Simmons:

• OS X user interface trend: goodbye stripes
• Smart things – about the lack of convention for creating Smart Lists.
• Splitters gone wild – about the inconsistancy of Window Splitters user interface.
• The inexplicable pressed state of the round textured button
• What I think happened to Mail – includes some interesting comments about the usability pros and cons of the new toolbar icons.
• Capsules are the new new new thing
• Focus madness
• Mail and click-through

Michael McCracken:

• Using Hypertext Links in Native UI
• The Mac UI Question

And more…

• John Siracusa: Tiger’s new look – more about Mail’s toolbar icons.
• maczealots.com: Mac OS X Tiger: What’s Different
• Sven-S. Porst on Apple’s use Source Lists.
• Rob Griffith: The many faces of Apple’s OS X applications – about Tiger’s six types of interface (metal, aqua, smooth platinum, pro, etc.)
• Khoi Vinh: Window Dress for Success – more about Tiger’s different window types – “a brief and dramatically unscientific table that outlines my interpretation of each usage”
• Chris McElligott: Window States Mania about the 3 toolbar states for the new “Unified Toolbar” window style.
• Michael Dupuis: The New Inconsistencies of OS X. Or, How Mac OS X Can Become Windows

Published at 5:49 pm on June 3rd, 2005.
Topics: Mac User Interface