Tell Gus what you think, but remember- you are in his home. Be a good guest.

An excellent, if slightly illegible start. What would be amazing would be if you were to use your newfound texture patterns to make VoodooPad look like the kind of notepad a Voodoo magician would keep their writing in. Something with sort of a skin background, perhaps, with symbols burnt into the flesh as the toolbar icons...

Posted by Leon Spencer at September 8th 2005 01:47 AM

How do you do that, just out of interest?

Flower power is most psychedelic. When I glanced at the Dalmatian screenshot, I thought of it more as "Riddled With Bullets VoodooPad". Maybe that's something I need to worry about.

-M

Posted by Matt Gemmell at September 8th 2005 02:20 AM

Bad Gus. Bad, bad Gus.

Posted by Mark Roseman at September 8th 2005 04:29 AM

Brilliant--UI design as satire!

Posted by Buzz Andersen at September 8th 2005 06:44 AM

That's just wrong.

Sick and wrong...

Posted by chris wilson at September 8th 2005 09:30 AM

Two words: add plaid!

Posted by Daniel J. Wilson at September 8th 2005 10:55 AM

We need Tiger fur. kthx.

Posted by Justin Williams at September 8th 2005 02:11 PM

I'm with Chris - that's just wrong.

Brilliant satire, but wrong.

Posted by joe at September 8th 2005 08:06 PM

Gus -- A great way to point out the idiocy of changing the UI all the time. Can you convince Q. to show other developers how to do it?

Also, I think you should make the window shape changeable. Especially with non-anti-aliased pixels like iTunes.

Posted by Dan Wood at September 8th 2005 08:10 PM

Haaah! Great, just great. Shame the UI folks at Apple won't get it. :D

Posted by Brian at September 8th 2005 09:26 PM

Bravo, and well done.

I think it should be taken a step further, though. The current Apple design isn't willfully bad, I don't think, but it has two major problems:

1) Willfully ignores previous (or, indeed, any) human interface guidelines.

2) Takes bad web design as inspiration.

So, I'm going to say that we should follow right along and add... you guessed it...!

THE BLINK TAG

Let's make all our UI elements blink for the love of God!

Posted by Grant Laughlin at September 9th 2005 03:12 AM

Go for the gold! Here's your new texture:
http://www.bonzoesc.net/images/upload/mac-text-texture.png

Posted by BonzoESC at September 9th 2005 09:46 AM

Hillarious. Really Great! But seriously if you'll do it: how? ;-)

Posted by Dominik Wagner at September 9th 2005 02:38 PM

The folks over at Rogue Amoeba just let slip the secret - set the window's background color with a pattern NSColor taken from an image.

Oh, and great job, Gus, but I think you need to take it a step further. I want an OS 10.0-esque pinstripes background!

Posted by Kevin Ballard at September 9th 2005 09:32 PM

You know, if these were actually Blue Dalmation and Flower Power; like the real iMac graphics, it wouldn't look half bad. These *images* suck as backgrounds, but the basic concept of Blue Dalmation and Flower Power windows... I dig it.

Posted by Dan Ridley at September 9th 2005 11:41 PM