I was relieved when Apple announced there would be no major UI changes in Snow Leopard. I like the OSX GUI a lot. Some minor tweaks are fine but there's always so much pressure to 'make it look different' that we often give up perfectly functional UIs for the promise of something indescribably better. It rarely works out in the end. Radical GUI overhauls almost have to be tied into radical UI toolkit overhauls to force developers to adopt your fancy new ways of doing things.
I am surprised he didn't cover the changes to the Services menu. I feel like it's one of the biggest obvious changes to Snow Leopard. I doubt many people used, or even understood, what the Services menu was in previous versions. It's now an incredibly useful context sensitve feature that appears to be extensible through Automator. This could be the biggest stealth UI paradigm shift in SL. My only gripe is discoverability. Apple did a great job fixing this feature but people who are used to ignoring it will continue to do so. Something simple like an icon next to the menu entry might have caused people to give it another glance.
Overall this is a fantastic review. I am a little disappointed that 10.7 came out around page 13. I'll never catch up now.
I am surprised he didn't cover the changes to the Services menu. I feel like it's one of the biggest obvious changes to Snow Leopard. I doubt many people used, or even understood, what the Services menu was in previous versions. It's now an incredibly useful context sensitve feature that appears to be extensible through Automator. This could be the biggest stealth UI paradigm shift in SL. My only gripe is discoverability. Apple did a great job fixing this feature but people who are used to ignoring it will continue to do so. Something simple like an icon next to the menu entry might have caused people to give it another glance.
Overall this is a fantastic review. I am a little disappointed that 10.7 came out around page 13. I'll never catch up now.