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The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
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The author reflects on the history of macOS icon design while archiving a visual compilation of the Mac Dock's evolution from OS 10 to the present. The piece serves as a personal project to preserve design history.
Why it matters
It documents the aesthetic evolution of one of the most iconic user interface elements in personal computing history.
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book .
The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS version of that chapter (which Michael ultimately ended up writing).
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