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macOS 12 Monterey Beta 5 Reveals Updated iWork Icons
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Spot on that share menu, probably one of the hardest things to get around for iOS newcomers.
It has subsections of a classic File menubar (can save to Dropbox, iCloud, etc from there), but can also “share to app” or “share to someone in some recently used app” or “share to a device via airdrop”, it also has automation macros, random functionality like “Find on page” on safari… what the hell this button. Kitchen sink, I’ll take that.
Ah yes, finally on our way back to the golden area of incredibly detailed and pleasing icons... ☺️
Neue Icons für iWork in macOS Monterey
Mit macOS Big Sur rückte der Look der macOS-Benutzeroberfläche dichter ans iPad und iPhone – und macOS Monterey verfolgt weiter diese Richtung. Apple passt wohl mit Erscheinen von macOS 12 auch die iWork-Icons an die iOS-Versionen an.
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They're not the same ressources who work on these things.
If you make a designer work on sonething, it doesn't mean a programmer isn't working on something else.
Nonetheless I totally agree that iWork doesn't compete with Office, and with Teams and all the updates they brought to Outlook in the last two years, Microsoft are a few more laps ahead of Apple.
The new icons certainly pair better with their iOS counterparts and create a stronger 'brand' for each app. The Mac icons however do come across a bit strange, the issue is most of the 'Big Sur style' icons started life as symbols in iOS and are then being made to look like real life objects - the result is invariably a bit strange.
One example is Safari. This began as a realistic compass on Mac OS X, then in iOS 7 became an abstract symbol representing a compass, fast forward to Big Sur and that abstract symbol is now in 3D like it's a real life object, but unlike any I've seen.
These icons have a similar issue:
Pages: You've got a realistic pen drawing a line, bit ambiguous but OK
Numbers: White 3D bars, do you get these in real life? What are they made of?
Keynote: A sort of cartoony futuristic table, nothing looks like this in reality, with a document with a pie chart on (isn't this a bit spreadsheety?)
I'm still of the opinion that all Apple icons are in need of a complete rethink. We'll soon be a decade on from iOS 7 which forms the base of the icon aesthetic and it's gone as far as it can now.
One example is Safari. This began as a realistic compass on Mac OS X, then in iOS 7 became an abstract symbol representing a compass, fast forward to Big Sur and that abstract symbol is now in 3D like it's a real life object, but unlike any I've seen.
These icons have a similar issue:
Pages: You've got a realistic pen drawing a line, bit ambiguous but OK
Numbers: White 3D bars, do you get these in real life? What are they made of?
Keynote: A sort of cartoony futuristic table, nothing looks like this in reality, with a document with a pie chart on (isn't this a bit spreadsheety?)
I'm still of the opinion that all Apple icons are in need of a complete rethink. We'll soon be a decade on from iOS 7 which forms the base of the icon aesthetic and it's gone as far as it can now.
It's the weirdest freaking icon ever -- but... my god. If they ever change this icon I would be at a total loss. That icon is the most stable, consistent thing in my life.
Apple needs someone on top with good taste who has absolute veto power over design, a Jobs figure. When you have to contend with equal peers it tends to leave a hesitation to being overly critical and a mishmash of different design philosophies.
That's a step in the right direction. The inconsistency of app icons in Big Sur/Monterey is still big though.
Please Apple, next we need an overhaul for these abominations.
Please Apple, next we need an overhaul for these abominations.
I always put my whisky glass like that after I finish drinking. I think it is a sign, we should drink whisky on a beach
Can they change either the image or colours of the Numbers app? In its latest rendition with the all-white bars, the image looks like it's "giving the finger".
The current release version doesn't look like that because each bar is a different colour. But with all bars being the same colour, it looks like fingers from the same hand.
this is kinda funny, but also I can't not see it any more.
The current release version doesn't look like that because each bar is a different colour. But with all bars being the same colour, it looks like fingers from the same hand.
this is kinda funny, but also I can't not see it any more.
Not even joking, but I have installed Mountain Lion on my older computer, running an old soft (iLife, iWork, Aperture)
The icons are an absolute candy, compared to nowadays ones.
I know that many people don’t like the old style, but it so refreshing to look at calendars app, which looks like, you know, calendar. Notes, that look like notes, not just a white screen. Also running Tiger, as I have loved the first so much, it was the bees knees
Sorry to bump this but I figured in your obviously non researched armchair assessment you missed the fact that Numbers does in fact have "pivot tables", but they weren't named by some idiotic programmer with no concept of user friendly design. (Microsoft trademarked PivotTable in 1994) They're called categories because they categorize things. In a typical Apple fashion, they bucked the trend and obviously disgruntled you by dissing convention in favor of logical and user-first decision making. It's what makes iWork great. Sadly it's often avoided by MS Office users that have become accustomed to horrifying design trends. iWork is in fact, not useless. It's the most innovative, creative, and user friendly office suite in the world. This doesn't mean it's perfect. It means it accomplishes the vast majority of user's tasks with many magnitudes more efficiency after just a few minutes of poking around the app. (And often provides far better looking results.)
Intro to categories in Numbers on Mac
In Numbers on Mac, learn how to organize a table with categories to group and view your data in new ways.
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