24.10.2013 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Get to know OS X Mavericks: Design changes

Apple's latest updates to both iOS and OS X have largely banished skeuomorphism--design elements that imitate real-world counterparts. (The leather textures in Mountain Lion's Calendar, Contacts, and Notes applications are the most familiar examples.) Much like iOS 7, OS X Mavericks strips out these gaudier elements of Apple's past designs and flattens faux-3D textures. Here are some of the visual changes you will likely notice in the new Mac OS.Leather be goneAccording to legend, Steve Jobs so admired the leather texture of the seats in his private jet that he demanded Apple's designers incorporate their texture into the Calendar, Contacts, and Notes applications (complete with stitching). As much as we love Jobs's vision for most things, though, his obsession with rich Corinthian leather is one we're happy to see fade away in OS X Mavericks.Not only has the leather border disappeared from each of the above-mentioned programs, but you'll also no longer find faux bindi

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