System Status Tool Explorations (MacOS)

MacOS Right corner with concept Status Tool showing HD, Battery CPU and more
MacOS Right corner with concept Status Tool showing HD, Battery CPU and more
MacOS Right corner with concept Status Tool showing HD, Battery CPU and more

Revisiting an old design from the amazing @yuhang to sharpen my more subtle GUI skills.

I specifically loved the idea of showing the most consuming apps right in the tool / widget with their app logo for an instant overview of system impact.

Wanted to try my hand at a cross between Apple's system settings and a tool like MacPaw's Clean My Mac menu.

Some considerations:

  1. CPU load: flows right to left chronologically, like in Activity Monitor, but the background grid cutoff on the right still feels a bit 'off'.

  2. Colors: In MacOS Activity Monitor, CPU load is a blue and red combo graph, i chose grey here for secondary color, but obviously, there is a reason for this choice. So probably a rookie move :)

  3. Release button from HD is only an option from an external hard-drive. Wondering if i should show it in fixed HD.

  4. Icons: Used the SF icons here, only changed the memory icon slightly. But like CleanMyMac (a subtle blur) these should be a little more custom in future versions.

Font: SF Pro

Icons: SF Icons

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