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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
What are some examples of design in the industry that you do like? Serious question, I'm genuinely curious.
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As far as mainstream industry OSes? None. They are boring and uninspired and generic but that's what you have to do for the mass market right? Some of the Linux distros look pretty good out of box though.
Here are some examples of what I like, mostly user customized Linux. One rule is that I really can't stand most icons as they often don't follow a good rigid design scheme and many look cartoony and unprofessional and idiosyncratic with each other.
I've been trying out a few different distros with Oracle VMBox. I'm liking Ubuntu although it's a pretty fresh install, I haven't done much with it.
My WinXP music production and gaming machine because that's what my licenses were for and there was more legacy software I needed that had 64-bit problems. I thought all the icon dock software out there was boring so I made my own custom shapes. Still way too busy and too many icons though. I need to delete the upper dock and remove a bunch of it.
I haven't had a Windows 7 system for a few months so I can't get any screens. Waiting for a new Sandy Bridge laptop after recall delays to install 7 Enterprise and other virtualizations on it.
Now if we're talking about industrial design, that's a different matter, there's so much more stuff out there that is more interesting than a piece of folded, rounded, textured, aluminum but I totally understand if you like that look. The centered Apple logo always bugs me though, because they always put it smack dab center and that's usually the last place you want to place something in good design. MacBook Airs are actually quite beautiful without it.