WWDC’s best announcement was something that Windows did 15 years ago – here is why it is great
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I could spend most of my time writing about Apple – I followed with the WWDC Show today, but my first computer experiences were from a distinct Windows taste. In fact, I have used Windows since Windows 95, but the first edition that I really fell in love with was Windows 7.
But it was none of the new functions or functionality that attracted my attention at that time – it was the design. Windows 7 NAM Microsoft’s operating system of a steadfast, gray platform that could give yourself Boredom in one that was modern, sleek and stylish, all in one OS update.
The most important element in this was Aero, the glass-like transparency effect of Windows 7. With this in place, colors are subtly broken by windows and title rods, and the glittered and shining in real time while dragging your apps around your screen. For my young brain obsessed by design, it was a graphic miracle.
It was, to borrow Steve Jobs, so good that you wanted to lick it.
Of course I was devastated Microsoft This design has taken it away and I still do not think that the company has been able to match it in a year and a half.
But see how Apple reveals its new ones Liquid glass Design language during the company WWDC Keynote Today I felt a sudden shock of nostalgia. Here was a glassy, translucent interface that used light and color to create beautiful effects on your desktop. It was all that I loved from that Halcyon Windows 7 days, back with new twists for a new era.
Who would have thought that Apple would return a Microsoft design with such answers?
More than just fashion
Of course, liquid glass will probably deliver a lot of fuel for those critics who claim that everything Apple does, copy the work of other people. But not only does Liquid Glass show what a braindead this is, it also emphasizes exactly the kind of thinking that goes in all designs of Apple – and to see an important difference between his mindset and that of Microsoft.
Because I was also essentially a cosmetic paint layer. The point was great to look – and certainly, it was about that department extensively – but it did not go much further than that.
Liquid glass, on the other hand, is about form And function. It is not only a beautiful sight (although it is also in kicking) but offers much more about further inspection.
For example, Apple made a point of showing the responsiveness of his new interface. Swipe up or down and the floating menu panels of your iPhone automatically adjust their size. Changing something will encourage it to bend with your mouse or finger. It is all designed to influence the way you use your device, not just how you look at it.
This affects a core principle that Apple has powered since the days of Steve Jobs: “Design is how it works.” Many people think that ‘design’ simply makes something beautiful, and that is all there is. But design should never exist alone to serve himself – it must serve the user, and that means that you have to make something that works incredibly well. Design is what that happens.
Steve Jobs summarized it when he launched the original iMac. In response to the Bill Gates of Microsoft who claimed that Apple had only put a new lick of paint on its old devices, jobs was shot back: “The thing that our competitors miss is that they think it’s about fashion, and they think it’s about the appearance of the surface. They say:” We’ll say a little color on this piece of junk computer and we also have one “”. “
In other words, you can’t put a lipstick on a pig. Dress up a terrible device and you still have a terrible device underneath. Something has to work brilliantly and look great to be well designed.
This idea makes me so enthusiastic about liquid glass. It is not only a revival of the elegant transparency effects of Windows 7s Aero, but it actually adds extra functionality. It gives you new ways to use your Mac or your iPhone, and it looks beautiful while you do it.
Design is how it works. Liquid glass has proven the net.
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