Spring makeover for Bookends' GUI?

ablaze · Post by **ablaze** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:28 am

As much as I love Bookends, its GUI feels a bit anachronistic today.

I tried to do some little spring makeover for Bookend in Photoshop.

It has unified toolbar with standard info-icon and a nice placeholder text for the info where the search is performed.

The only thing I don't like about my suggestion is the lousy icon that replaced the "book" icon. Other than that I think this would be a nice facelift for Bookends, giving it a bit colour here and there, not too much, just to make it a bit more attractive, and adjusting the interface elements for Tiger looks.

What do you think of it?

Post by **Jon** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:43 am

It looks pretty. Some elements don't make a lot of sense (like the combobox for selecting formats -- it really should be a regular popup men). And I'm not sure that green and red make a lot of sense for enlarge and shrink (go and stop?). But it does look pretty. Thanks for the mockup.

Jon
Sonny Software

Post by **Jon** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:22 pm

BTW, since your artistic skills surpass mine, if you would like, you can send the icons to me (with an "up" and a "depressed" shading, if you have it). In fact, I invite anyone who would like to do to this. Perhaps I can use them...

Thanks,

Jon
Sonny Software