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On iTunes 10 Is So Incredibly Ugly

It's not just gays. I'm straight as an arrow and I want to stab myself in the face when I look at the new iTunes interface.

The excessive saturation and gradient in the new dock icon make it look like the cartoonish icons from Microsoft. The photorealistic icon aesthetic goes back to the NeXT days and is one of the distinguishing features of OS X.

The checkboxes in the list view don't have well-defined borders making it hard to tell if it's a clickable control.

They took out the subtle vertical grid lines in the list view too. That drives me up the wall.

The proportions of the volume slider are off--it's too tall! And the volume slider button is too small to have any detail on it.

Steve Jobs was the guy who criticized Microsoft designs for having "no taste." I have to wonder if Microsoft bought Apple and the news just hasn't leaked out yet.

Posted on September 3, 2010 at 2:01 am 0