Recently I’ve been noticing more and more applications that are standing out from the crowd. It seems that we are no longer bound to the basic aqua look and feel that we’ve been in for so long. As the horizontal stripes disappear, new and custom interfaces are making their way onto the Mac. But why aren’t more applications taking advantage of this? And where are we going?

Here are a few Mac GUI examples.

Aqua - Firefox
The basic aqua look and feel is nice and white. This is pretty much where everyone under OSX started out and quite a few carbon apps still support this interface.