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For me personally, NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP was probably peak UI design.

Mac OS X Server/Rhapsody v, where they basically mixed NeXTSTEP and Mac OS 9, and early Mac OS X releases (before brushes metal) were also nice. All downhill from there… now get off my lawn! ;)

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Here here! I miss my NeXT (I used way beyond a reasonable length of time lol). Fantastic UI.

So many modern UIs are so damn space inefficient. Drives me mad. It’s like designers think everyone is an 80yo with Parkinson’s and bad eyes. Massive screen waste; white space everywhere; blah blah.

I hates it.

But but my whitespace! I really love low density interfaces. The new DB app manages to fully halve the number of connections on a screen compared to the old one. That’s progress!

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