Aqua
アクア / 2000–2014 / Style / Apple UI
Mac OS X's lickable design language: gel-gloss buttons, pinstripes, deep shadows and the genie effect staging digital parts as touchable objects — defining 2000s UI at large.
Gel-gloss buttons / Pinstriped grounds / Deep drop shadows / Metaphors of water and light
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Mac OS X Public Beta, 2000 / Jobs's 'lick it' line / the return in Liquid Glass