Simon Fell > Its just code > Mac UI's

Mac developers in general appear obsessed with usability and appearance, I don't think this is a bad thing, its one of the things that makes using a Mac an enjoyable experience. However for graphically challenged developers such as myself (there's a reason I concentrate on web services :)) it leads to a frustrating number of hours with graphics tools and interface builder. Anyway, the unofficial apple weblog was quick to point out that SF³ isn't pretty, and hey, I'm not going to argue, even more depressing is the fact that there was about 4 different, equally ugly UIs before it. However unlike my first trip into OSX land, there's now a bunch of great blogs and resources for the youngling cocoa developers

• Matt Gaemmell has a bunch of useful code, including RoundedBox which I used to tidy up the SF³ UI (see below)
• CocoaDevCentral has some great tutorials to get you pointed in the right direction, and links to a bunch of great blogs.
• Wil Shipley has an invaluable series of posts called pimp my code.
• The red sweater blog has a great post on some UI changes in FlexTime and how they were done.
• The CocoaDev wiki seems to have something to stay about anything you might run into.

Here's what the reworked SF³ UI looks like, still need to do some work on the S Icon/button.