Design a common Illustration style
We need to come up with a fun, humane illustration style to help us in less than great moments of the OS and apps (crash recovery, empty states, …)
I'd go for a little more organic curves than what's currently in the symbolic but use color sparsely (Use black and white + key color).
Cases where we want interesting/expressive graphics
- Installer (wireframes)
- Initial setup
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Welcome tour
- Initial animation
- Subsequent pages
- Software
- Featured app banners
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App initial states
- Books
- Boxes (this could become an onboarding tutorial)
- Document Scanner?
- Music
- Photos
- Videos
- Could be expanded to include other apps that would benefit from onboarding:
- Software (to replace the existing "let's go shopping" graphic)
- Weather
- Problem Reports
- Empty states where some interest is wanted:
- To Do
- Web offline state?
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Failure/error states
- Unresponsive app dialogs
- Other
- Mouse/touchpad test page
- World clock thumbnails
- Weather app backgrounds
Cases were we want more muted graphics
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Whole app is empty
- Books
- Boxes
- Contacts
- Music
- Notes
- Photos
- Videos
- Location is empty
- Builder (no document selected)
- Files - empty folder
- Clocks - no world clocks, no alarms
- ...
- Off/broken states (probably lots more of these):
- Bluetooth settings
- Wi-Fi settings
- Printer settings
- Thunderbolt settings
Edited by Tobias Bernard