Creating Final Cut Pro/Professional-like interfaces

Question

I'm in the process of creating an OSX application to be used by professionals, and want to adopt the dull/gray look of Final Cut Studio and other professional-use applications. I want the interface to be toned down, to be less distracting while trying to create the rich content, probably similar to Apple's rationality, and I think is justification to break away from standard HIG.

I was wondering if anyone has done something similar, and has any pointers or examples.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

The look and feel of Apple's "pro" applications is defined in ProKit, which is a private system framework located in the system PrivateFrameworks folder. ProKit extends several of the AppKit classes such as NSWindow and NSButton with NSProWindow, NSProButton, etc. Because ProKit is private, Apple can change it at any time without notice, so you should always be cautious when using it.