iOS 7 is a radical departure from anything Apple has done design wise, but OS X Mavericks largely still looks like the Mac operating system we all know and love. Much of the leather and linen has been removed in Mavericks, but the OS hasn’t been fundamentally redesigned like iOS.
A designer from the U.K. named Stu Crew sent us his “Ivericks” concept for OS X that blends the design language of iOS 7 with the desktop. “In order to visualise the new style on a Mac screen I recreated several elements and applied them to several programs,” said Crew. “Created to explore the idea of an updated OS X, this is just a update of looks with a few new functions taken from both the iPhone and iPad.”
You can see more of Crew’s concepts and explanations for his design decisions at the source link below. We think it looks pretty good. Will be interesting to see what Jony Ive does with next year’s release of OS X.
Source: studoesdesign
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8 responses to “What OS X Could Look Like Once It Has Been iOS 7-ified [Concept]”
Very nice, I really like some of the subtle changes in the beta, would be awesome if they went all out like this.
I love the applications redesigns he made, here is a concept image I made a while back of what the OS could look like..
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-next-Mac-OS/9995849
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http://imageshack.us/a/img441/1912/ocqa.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img209/5691/oiea.jpg
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Will be interesting to see what Jony Ive does with next year’s release of OS X….
Don’t you mean this year? Mavericks is going to be released very soon.
The “traffic lights” are too big and close together.
I’ve had a hunch for some time OS XI & iOS 8/9 will actually be a fusion of the Operating Systems & the above is a good stab at how the ‘desktop & laptop’ interface would look – I like it.
They can only fuse them by either crippling the desktop system or making the phone as complex as a desktop.
I don’t really care if they revamp the mac OS UI too, but make it faster, snappier and more memory efficient. The mountain lion is ridiculously poor in performance especially if you don’t have SSD and 16GB of memory
Now that’s an ugly interface. It’s ugly on a phone screen and just gets uglier when expanded to the size of a computer monitor.