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And so, it's only appropriate that one of the first new Mac apps launched with an even closer iOS 7 style was Simplenote for Mac. It was the original iOS 7-styled app, launched nearly 30 months before iOS 7. iA Writer took the next step, making a lighter, typography focused writing app with zero settings or options. WriteRoom was the original UI-free writing app that, while being a traditional windowed app, harked back to terminal-powered text editors like Vi.

There's been a steady march to lighter, less distracting UIs for years now, with writing apps leading the way. These apps give us the best concrete glimpse of the future of the Mac, as it already exists today.

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And then, for a better idea of the future of pro apps on the Mac, there's everything from Apple’s own iWork apps to the new OmniFocus and Sketch that have this year redefined the way inspectors work on Macs, even while sticking with more dated designs. But for a glance forward, the best place to look is at the apps that have already been designed with a lighter, thinner UI that’s reminiscent of iOS 7. Steven Hackett rounded up the progress of Apple's user interface designs over the years, for a solid look at the past and a perspective on how Apple might change OS Xs design. It also seems rather unlikely OS X will be fully redesigned as deeply as iOS 7 (and as so many designers have mocked up, as in the above OS X Ivericks concept). There’s next-to-no way Apple’s going to turn OS X into iOS directly, with its one-app-at-a-time model. But this year’s 10th release of OS X is all but guaranteed to be a far sharper change from everything that’s come before-one Apple presumably wants the world to help them test, by opening OS X beta testing to everyone this week. OS X Lion was the “Back to the Mac” version that brought new apps and design from iOS over to the Mac, and Mavericks continued that tradition by gaining iBooks and Maps from iOS. It’s so sharply different from everything that came before, it’s hard to imagine that Apple won’t work some of the iOS design changes into the Mac this year. iOS 7 was a complete redesign of the original modern mobile OS, with bright colors, thin fonts, and swipe-orientated navigation. If the Mac was Apple’s only computer, we could at best expect light UI changes and perhaps some new built-in apps in the next version of OS X.īut today, it’s iOS that’s the OS everyone notices, in a world where iPhones and iPads vastly outsell Macs. Mavericks itself wasn’t a huge leap forward for OS X, design-wise, but it dropped some of the more skeuomorphic elements from the OS and rebuilt the core of the OS to be more energy efficient and speed up the entire system. It’s been 6 months since OS X Mavericks was released, which is a relatively short time but in the age of annual OS upgrades, it’s half a generation. OS Xi - A Realistic Peek at the Next OS X OS Xi - A Realistic Peek at the Next OS X | Techinch tech, simplified.

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