Mac os big sur review7/3/2023 ![]() The Buttons are all in the window to the right, while the Side Panel alone is on the left and we have no control in that one at all. I really do like the way this looks, but the spacing is completely off. If you take a look at Finder, you can probably tell that it’s been completely redesigned. My third concern is when it comes to UI Design. Apple is aiming for consistency between macOS, iOS and iPadOS, so I think it would be great to have Notifications work in the same way as they do on Apple’s other platforms. Rather than getting a massive list of all of your Notifications, they are now grouped into a stack which you can then expand to access all of them. Again, I just wish that they worked like they do on iOS or iPadOS. On iPadOS for example, you just bring the Mouse to the top portion of the screen and the Notifications Panel drops down. Essentially, just like you can on iOS 14, I think that being able to just drag them out of the Widgets Panel and onto the Home-Screen would be ideal, especially on a Mac, since you have a much larger Display, compared to an iPhone. ![]() My only complaint here is that I wish you could place them on the Desktop as well, rather than having them constrained in this separate Widget Panel. These can be Small, Medium or Large and they’re fully interactive. They look and work exactly like they do on iOS 14, meaning that you can just add different sizes. Next-up, Widgets are absolutely brilliant. On iOS, you can have third party apps in the Control Centre, I am predicting that this will also be possible later on, in macOS. So, if you ever wanted to have, let’s say, ‘Do Not Disturb’ Mode or even AirDrop in the top bar, that is now possible. But, probably my favourite thing about the Control Centre is that you can even drag elements outside of it and onto the top bar. You can now keep all of those in the Control Centre, which does mean that you can indeed clear up a lot of space out there. For example, having the Control Centre means that you no longer need individual Icons in the top bar for things such as WiFi or Bluetooth. ![]() Now, speaking of the Control Centre, there are a lot of things that I like about it. I wouldn’t normally have a problem with this, if the device had a Touchscreen but…it doesn’t. My second concern is the Control Centre. So, I do like how it looks and how it works a lot, you can even control the Screen Brightness from there and even things such as the Keyboard Backlight, which I think is absolutely brilliant as it just looks and behaves so much like iOS. ![]() This means that for people like me, who have a ton of Icons there, many of those Icons would not be visible anymore due to the extra spacing required. Not only that, but Apple has also added more space between the Icons in the top bar. However, on macOS Big Sur, UI Elements are all over the place. The Contrast is almost entirely gone on the top bar, making everything barely even readable. Everything looks pretty great, I’ve never had any issues identifying UI Elements. On the current macOS Catalina, all the top bar Elements are perfectly visible. I think it looks absolutely gorgeous, however I do have some concerns that I want to raise, which hopefully Apple will address by the time macOS Big Sur releases to the public. This was one of my favourite macOS features ever and now with macOS Big Sur in 2020, Apple has redesigned macOS pretty much entirely again.Įssentially, we get an even more iOS like look with things such as Control Centre, the Notifications and Widgets panel from iOS 14 as well as System Toggles that look exactly like they do on iOS. I’m actually a massive fan of this Design. With macOS Mojave, in 2018, we got Dark Mode. I was actually a big fan of this design, I literally had zero issues with it, but I always felt like it could be improved. This was the biggest design change that the Mac ever got, at least up until that point. Gone was the skeuomorphism that Steve Jobs was a big fan of, as now we got the same design language as on the iPhones and the iPads with iOS 7, back in 2013. A design that featured a heavy emphasis on transparency, 2D effects and simplicity. But in 2014, Apple released macOS 10.10 (Yosemite).
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