14 DAY TRIAL // Care to make your acquaintance with the key design alterations in OS X 10.10? If you’re not much of a reading fan, you can try this 60-second presentation of the most important changes in OS X Yosemite. Best of all, it’s made by Apple.
Released on YouTube for everyone to get accustomed with the new design, “The New Look of OS X Yosemite” is a one-minute clip that goes through the most important visual changes occurring in the desktop OS, starting with the traffic lights in every application window and ending with Notification Center.
“We reconsidered every element of the Mac interface, large and small. The result is something that feels fresh, but still inherently familiar. Completely new, yet completely Mac,” Apple says in the description of the video.
On the marketing pages of OS X Yosemite, the Cupertino titan further notes that “Over the years, OS X has changed in many ways. But the principles that define it haven’t: power, simplicity, beauty.”
“So when we set out to create OS X Yosemite, we wanted to make it more powerful and easier to use, while maintaining the elements essential to Mac. It’s the next natural step in the evolution of OS X. Not just because of how it looks. But because of what it empowers you to do,” the company adds.
The most obvious changes are translucency in windows and the streamlined toolbars. Then there’s the new Dock, the new icons, the all-new color palette (which – thank God – is stronger than the one they chose for iOS 7), and the new buttons.
With OS X Yosemite, Apple made the iconography more consistent than ever before. Key examples include the iTunes, App Store, and iBooks icons. Right now it’s easy to mistake the Mac App Store from iTunes because they’re both the same blue, the same shape, and they both send you to an applications venue. In OS X 10.10, iTunes is red, while Mac App Store is blue.
“This new approach to the icons gives the entire app family a more harmonious look while making each one instantly recognizable,” says the company
Without further ado, we invite you to watch Apple’s 60-second presentation of the fundamental design changes in OS X 10.10 in the embedded clip below.
Apple emphasizes design because OS X Yosemite really is mostly a redesign of the Mac OS, with few new features added to the mix. To see the clip in even higher quality, visit Apple’s web site at http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/video/.
