Ask HN: Why does OS X have more aesthetically beautiful GUI applications?

Posted by adtac on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was in the other Ask HN thread asking about note taking apps. The solutions that were OS X only had such a beautiful interface/UX.

Now, aesthetics is probably a perspective thing. But still I can't help but feel that these applications are a notch above, say, Linux GUI applications.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does OS X have more aesthetically beautiful G... by iampoul on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:28AM (#13220034)

Better guidelines, https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...

And i also think its cultural thing though, they most likely have a huge community with people who has a flare for designing things that goes into the Apple-ecosystem, OS X is pretty nice to look at, and therefor people need to up their design principles to make their applications fit the OS, but don't get me wrong, there are a lot of ugly apps fro OS X as well, they just don't get the same promotion as the good looking apps. :D

Apple is a lot about design, also when it comes to development.

Only my personal thoughts and what i believe might be the reason.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does OS X have more aesthetically beautiful G... by PaulHoule on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:20AM (#13219961)

On Linux they can't be bothered to get font metrics right for starters.

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