Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by NoSorryCannot on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:10AM
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Pill-shaped buttons were part of the Aqua theme in the original release of OS X. For a long time after that, UIs aped Aqua with pinstripes and jelly-shaded pills and while the pinstripes and jelly have gone, I think the pills are here to stay for some styles.
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Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by systemvoltage on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:31AM
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Yeah but there was a huge push just last year, basically every single SaaS app to Firefox, everyone folded. During the Aqua days, every company had their own unique take on design. Today, it is a design monoculture driven by the types of Stripe and Apple.
Design used to be a differentiating feature. Everything looks the same today. Kind of a Big Tech dystopia, even in design.
Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by dvtrn on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:18PM
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As the owner of an ultrawide...so much whitespace.
Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by NoSorryCannot on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:09PM
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My point was, a lot of UI followed or was heavily inspired by whatever Apple was doing even then. These days, there's more Google in the mix.
Before pill buttons, they were gray beveled rounded rectangles, be it native or web, on every platform.
I don't view now as being especially dominated by sameness versus the past.
Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by Angostura on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:17PM
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Aqua - the "lickable" theme. I miss it, I prefer it to the current washed out MacOS where I cant tell what is what.
Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:26PM
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It was already there 10 years earlier in OpenLook.