The Operating System Iceberg Explained

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
0:23 System Sounds
1:33 Splash Screens
2:09 Android Skins
2:53 Clippy and Friends
3:34 Android Dessert Naming Scheme
4:11 OS Mascots
4:41 Skeuomorphism
5:20 Neomorphism
5:49 The Nook
6:46 Great Redesign of 2014
8:15 Windows XP Themes and Skins
9:42 Microsoft Office for Mac Icons
10:20 Personal Digital Assistants
11:23 Symbian OS
12:05 Frutiger Aero
12:23 Touchwiz
13:42 Father of 2000's UI/GUI

I'm also on Odysee!

[MadDannyWest]

What I like most about this channel so far is how it shows the passage of time through things we all interact with but don't notice subtly changing with each passing year.

[RaiPiez]

feels like i just found a hidden gem of a channel. thanks for letting me think back on simpler times

[killedsinners]

Super obsessed with the old designs, I personally think it's better than "flat designs"

[StarLotus]

As a Brazilian, it's amazing to learn that one of the greatest graphic designers from Frutiger Aero was from Brazil! I wish more people know about him!

[bepsianimates]

I am really happy you included the PSP Flash Screen. That beautiful sound will always be remembered by me. It feels like.. people kinda.. forgot.. about the masterpiece that is a PSP. Glad to still have mine.

[AndreasMolnar-Dev]

I truly like the style of that video. Before watching, I thought more about a collection of different OSes, but that really well combined them and wrapped that topic up.

[whogaze]

TempleOS would have been an amazing addition to this

[cookqie]

Ive watched this video and your Frutiger Aero video, and through your video essays I have been able to put my finger on things like nostalgic 2000s UI design and why I miss and remember them.

your videos feel like my memories becoming unlocked, and have also really made me more interested in the fusion of technology and design and the impacts they have. I hope your channel grows even further :)

[savvepk]

As far as I'm aware, the chase of minimalism is mostly coming from UI designers wanting increased readability and for logos to be recognisable faster, as well as in today's day of dark modes and stuff It'd be hard to design a more dimensional icon style that'd be easily readable on both light and dark mode
The rise of HiDPI displays also contributed to this, icons now had to be nicely scaleably which isn't really possible in standard bitmaps, so people started transitioning to vector graphics

[mint_]

This channel explains everything I've ever wondered about the changes in technology in the past 15 years.

[byteseb]

Great video as always, but we need a second part

[Thisispow]

8:41
This image of the starfish unlocked a deep, deep memory. I've seen this before I'm pretty sure more than a decade ago, I don't remember where though.

[XxLIVRAxX]

I never thought I would be so emotionally invested in the subject of software aesthetic, great vid!

[MsMRkv]

I actually liked TouchWiz, unlike most other tech nerds who who hated it. But honestly, that water droplet sound effect was so annoying. At first I kinda liked it but over time it drove crazy lol. Anyway, good video 👍, you're truly an underrated youtuber.

[orbambassador]

my music playlist somehow slipped in around 12:20 lmao

[marcinmarcin]

13:37 I belive there was "samsung experience" skin between TouchWiz and OneUI, besides that nothing else to stick to! Very cool episode.

[detroitfinedining]

Thank you for making the icebergs straightforward and to the point, no long intro that pretty much has no context lol

[glorimona]

This video is incredible and fits the exact niche of things that I've adored for over a decade!

[neoqueto]

This iceberg still feels a bit surface-level to me. And it's more about GUI/UX and branding, not OS per se.

Some ideas for a true level 9 or 10, most of which are really retro, and some for earlier categories:
- Susan Kare (seriously, a video all about GUI and no mention of the mother of all of OS iconography herself?)
- what is a UI design language?
- Light pens and the early beginnings of GUI / Ivan Sutherland and his legacy
- Xerox Alto
- Apple Lisa
- Contiki (before it became strictly an embedded/IoT platform)
- KolibriOS
- GEOS
- BeOS
- ChromeOS
- DOS-based GUI and assistants
- the extremely skeuomorphic "virtual room" GUI craze of the 90s (Microsoft Bob, Packard Bell Navigator) and the weird attempts to make a 3D GUI (Wave3D)
- the user interfaces of VR
- Amiga Workbench and its more modern iterations
- OS-tan
- promotional materials and paraphernalia
- Samsung's Bada OS lmaooo xD (can't mention TouchWiz without mentioning Bada too)
- PSION Teklogix with EPOC being a grand-grand-grandfather to Symbian
- Nokia Maemo/Intel Moblin/MeeGo and what is Qt
- SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS
- Tizen, WebOS
- KaiOS
- Wearables
- Weird Linux distros such as Red Star OS or Hannah Montana Linux
- RIM/Blackberry
- MINIX and the Intel scandal
- Real-time operating systems
- X Window System
- Plan9 from Bell Labs and Inferno
- Google Fuchsia
- Microsoft Singularity
- SGI IRIX

And of course, last, but not least: Temple OS.

[ll-bzre]

I just discovered this channel today and I LOVE it
I really hope it blows up soon !!