Dr. Drang upgraded a work machine to Mojave and shares a few thoughts on the use of transparency scattered throughout the macOS interface, with screenshots to bring the points home. Good read.
Transparency
Dr. Drang upgraded a work machine to Mojave and shares a few thoughts on the use of transparency scattered throughout the macOS interface, with screenshots to bring the points home. Good read.
I agree with Drang. Increased transparency isn’t increasing usability or readability. It should be genuinely configurable.
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t help but feel a sense of old timey syndrome reading through this.
The “transparency” isn’t necessarily transparency. Apple doesn’t even call it that. Pretty sure they call it tinting. The Safari dropdown for example, Apple says it gets tinted to match the “mood and temperature” of your wallpaper. The UI takes on the color theme of your wallpaper. They even have developers videos explaining how “translucent” layers don’t need to sit directly above the wallpaper for the colors to shine through. I don’t see how this harms usability, its just a visual flourish.
Aqua had plenty of visual designs that were simply flourishes for the sake of it, without any real logic. So does this new design. In fact, OSX originally launched with a transparent dock that was far more transparent.
This is genuinely weird. I wonder if his iMac is one of the low end systems supported? The effect on my screen looks nothing like that.