A cleaner look for ExpanDrive 2

Jeff Mancuso April 7th, 2009

Here is a sneak peak at the updated GUI coming in ExpanDrive 2

expandrive 2.0
ExpanDrive 2.0 GUI
We’ve done our best to redress the ills that John Gruber pointed out in our 1.0 GUI and we now sport a look which more closely follows the “guidelines” put in place by iLife suite (we like to think of iLife as the HIG guidelines, v2.0). We have inline buttons with rollovers, customizable drive colors and icons, shortcut keys that follow system wide guidelines, and we long ago dropped our gross famfamfam Silk icons in the action drop down menu.


ExpanDrive 1.03 — it’s sorta ugly.

  • http://maccoterie.com/ mzch

    When do you release 2.0?

  • http://www.iheartdark.com Dark

    I am definitely liking the cleaner look. Very nice. Though I still really don’t like the drive icons themselves.

    To me they just don’t fit at all. With the system OR the application.

  • http://davidcintron.com David Cintron

    Looking forward to the update. 2.0 GUI looks slick.

  • http://lukedorny.com Luke Dorny

    Yep, this is a great move, guys. thanks!

  • Dave

    I’m a developer as well and I can tell you professional graphics make a world of difference.

    How about having the user able to customize their drive icons?

  • Jasper

    Is there a way to beta test as a registered user? I’d love to give it a swirl.

  • Jeff Mancuso

    Dave – We’re going to allow users to drop icons into ~/Library/Application Support/ExpanDrive/Icons – and they’ll get picked up by the GUI We’ve also contacted a couple icon designers about a better icon/logo, but that’s still a few months away

  • Dave

    If you are looking for a new icon/logo check out 99designs.com Great place to get work done.

  • http://forgecode.net/ Nick Forge

    Looking good, Jeff!

    On the topic of the Drive Manager UI – I’d love to see dividers added, so that drives can be logically grouped. If this worked in the ExpanDrive menu as well, it would make the experience a LOT nicer. I currently have 12 drives in my menu, and for certain drive names, it takes a good couple of seconds to scan the list.

    Looking forward to v2.0.

  • Jeff

    Looks great! I’ve used both sftpdrive (win) and Expandrive (mac) and they’ve worked great for me…. except ftp drives on the Mac. I recently experienced file corruption when using ftp; is ftp support in 2.0 moving out of the beta stage?

  • Jeff Mancuso

    Dave – we just put up a contest for a new icon over there. Thanks for the suggestion. http://99designs.com/contests/20440/brief

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