While Apple has made some substantial moves away from skeuomorphic design in Mavericks, it hasn’t banished the look entirely. Not dead yet If you miss the skeuomorphic design of apps, there’s always the Chess application. And certain icons in System Preferences are flatter, losing their metal texture of old. The Dashboard background was once littered with Lego-like dots it’s now a smooth gray grid. ![]() If you compare Mavericks’s DVD Player to the one found in Mountain Lion, for instance, you’ll find that controls such as Video Zoom, Video Color, and Audio Equalizer are less transparent than their Mountain Lion counterparts. Not content to strip out merely the leather and linen, Apple’s designers also went after some less noticeable textures. ![]() Where once you saw linen, now you have dark gray. But no more: It too has been given the heave-ho. That subtle pattern of white and gray threads appeared in the background of Notification Center, Mission Control, and even OS X’s Accounts window.
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