Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Jun 15, 2025

Mockup time! What could be a reasonable "middle ground" between the Mac OS design that we have today and the radical Liquid Glass design we saw this week from #WWDC25?

Disclaimer: this does not attempt to solve all the issues of modern Mac OS design, such as cramped toolbars caused by full-height sidebars and combining the toolbar with the title bar. I feel like the Apple of today is too far gone to do anything about those.

Read on to see what I actually tried to address.

Show threadMatt GoddenJun 15, 2025
@tuomas_h Would still go back to Snow Leopard in a heartbeat.
Show threadTuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Jun 15, 2025
@metaning You and me both.
Show threadMatt Godden
@tuomas_h The more I use modern macOS - I went from High Sierra to Ventura, I miss proper narrow title bars, with the full-width button bar as a separate thing below (and tear-off inspectors). Everything in the new style feels clumsy, like trying to run waist deep in water. Whatever vertical space is “gained” by combining the title and tool bar, is lost with the huge padding on the dock, etc.
Jun 15, 2025 at 7:29pmMona for Mac