The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
A designer archives how the Mac Dock looked from Mac OS X through macOS 27.
Jim Nielsen published a short archive post collecting screenshots of the macOS Dock from Mac OS X through macOS 27. The images grew out of research notes for a chapter on app icon history related to The iOS App Icon Book. The post is purely visual design history and does not describe any vulnerability, incident, or AI development.
- Author archives a graphic of Mac Dock designs from Mac OS X through macOS 27.
- Post is visual design history, not a security or AI story.
From the original article
1 min read at blog.jim-nielsen.com
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). At the time, I didn’t know what to write.
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