{"id":8921,"date":"2014-06-06T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:37:06","slug":"mac-os-x-yosemite-under-the-magnifying-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/mac-os-x-yosemite-under-the-magnifying-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Min Ming Lo<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

Apple revealed a sneak peek into Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this week. Not surprisingly, Apple updated its desktop OS to match iOS 7’s design language. The new OS X now embodies a brighter and flatter styling, coupled with icon updates, font changes, and translucent materials. Here’s a quick look at the visual design changes in Yosemite and my impressions of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n

I generally like the new application icons (except for System Preferences) and Dock. I’m not fond of the bright blue folders, the thin and hollow<\/a> toolbar buttons, the translucent and sidebars and title bars, or the readability of Helvetica Neue<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Update (2014-06-18): There’s a new (and better) System Preferences icon in DP 2<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Update (2014-08-01): Paul Kafasis<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

The simplification generally works well. These new icons are still recognizable as representations of real-world objects, without unnecessary embellishments or detail. However, Safari\u2019s new icon is somewhat problematic.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Min Ming Lo: Apple revealed a sneak peek into Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this week. Not surprisingly, Apple updated its desktop OS to match iOS 7’s design language. The new OS X now embodies a brighter and flatter styling, coupled with icon updates, font changes, and translucent materials. Here’s a quick look at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,545,30,903],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-icons","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13783,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/13783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}