Apple: We now have an all new redesign for macOS 11... Designers: Apple's done i...

x3haloed · on July 5, 2020

The battery icon sucks, but you’re missing the forest for the trees.

JoBrad · on July 5, 2020

It looks like a baby bottle. Which might be an inside joke, since it’s sipping power?

bigyikes · on July 5, 2020

Looks more like a partially depleted uranium fuel cell to me... I hope that isn’t the final design

catalogia · on July 5, 2020

Oh wow, that looks shockingly like the battery widget[plasmoid?] from KDE 4.0. Unfortunately I can't find a screenshot of it, but I recall it being huge, bright green, and very round. What the hell were they thinking?

_tw9j · on July 5, 2020

They went too far on that one.

Do designers consider how expensive the gpu rendering is for skeumomorphism or neuromorphism?

quenix · on July 5, 2020

What? It is? Forgive my ignorance, but isn't it just bitmap rendering? E.g. rending a flat icon should take approx the same GPU toll as a skeumorphic icon

jayd16 · on July 5, 2020

Flat design lets you make smaller 9 slices I guess. Smaller textures take up less ram but even that's a stretch.

_tw9j · on July 5, 2020

I wasn't talking about icons alone in my second statement. :/

The design trend require soft shadows to be rendered on many elements in layers which I exaggeratedly pointed out. I apologise.

jayd16 · on July 7, 2020

Shadows lead to overdraw I suppose, but I don't believe most UI frameworks draw front to back anyway. They end up accelerating it by making large, multi-element bitmaps of the final render. It ends up being a very small cost.