Designers on Android are doing wonderful stuff: http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
Reminds me of all the screenshots of awesome Linux desktops people post. However, looks nice != good UX
Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will
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#22Okay, only semi on-topic, but I'm curious. Am I the only one who finds this interface interesting, but unbearably ugly? Mostly, the boxes around icons and the form factor of the phone itself. I usually appreciate them all - iOS, Android 4, QNX and the Lumia 800 - but this is hate at first sight. I can't even explain why. Anyone else? I feel weird, like someone who is about to give Inception a rating of 2 on IMDb.
They took almost all of the iOS UX and pasted some new ugly graphics on top.
I did not see a single thing that iOS does not do. Drag to reorder, got it, splashscreen info/camera, got it, notifications, got it, even the swipe down from the top for notification center.
So TL;DR a leap forward for Android is two steps behind iOS?
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#23Okay, only semi on-topic, but I'm curious. Am I the only one who finds this interface interesting, but unbearably ugly? Mostly, the boxes around icons and the form factor of the phone itself. I usually appreciate them all - iOS, Android 4, QNX and the Lumia 800 - but this is hate at first sight. I can't even explain why. Anyone else? I feel weird, like someone who is about to give Inception a rating of 2 on IMDb.
I was looking more at the funtional differences instead of the skin which seems to be quite dramatically different from anything currently out there. Although at the moment I don't see how I would know what pinching and swiping would do at any given moment.
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#24> Making good on the trend described in mobile app designer Josh Clark’s An Event Apart talk, “Buttons Are a Hack,” there are almost no buttons to be seen at all. Everything slides, pinches and magically appears in context.
For the love of God, please don't let this start to be a thing.
I watched the video, and the phone seems like hell to use. Wait, do I swipe down or left to call? Up or diagonal to get to my address book? Oh no, I have to pinch. Oh crap, that just took a photo.
Buttons provide unambiguous affordance. I'll just leave this here, since it seems like every week new designers forget about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
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#25Innovate is a valueless term. If you've got something basically right, the patience to refine it and the maturity to leave what is correct alone is more important.
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.
Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will
#26Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will
#27> Making good on the trend described in mobile app designer Josh Clark’s An Event Apart talk, “Buttons Are a Hack,” there are almost no buttons to be seen at all. Everything slides, pinches and magically appears in context. For the love of God, please don't let this start to be a thing. I watched the video, and the phone seems like hell to use. Wait, do I swipe down or left to call? Up or diagonal to get to my addres…
It's already a thing. How many times do you tap the Home button on iOS to launch foo? How many fingers do you swipe to open blah blah on OSX?
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#28> Making good on the trend described in mobile app designer Josh Clark’s An Event Apart talk, “Buttons Are a Hack,” there are almost no buttons to be seen at all. Everything slides, pinches and magically appears in context. For the love of God, please don't let this start to be a thing. I watched the video, and the phone seems like hell to use. Wait, do I swipe down or left to call? Up or diagonal to get to my addres…
Well said. Gestures are all good, until they become arbitrary and everywhere. My 1yo can navigate through the apps on my iPhone because the system's unexciting but intuitive use of buttons for the most important things: app icons are buttons, most things interesting to her are tappable, and mostly importantly, when something goes "wrong" - app showing ads, reaching an unrecognized page of SpringBoard - she could always push the only big physical button to get back and restart. Now that simplicity is another kind of coolness that we should really shoot for.
(There are definitely arbitrary use of gestures in iOS, but they are mostly for non-essential tasks or to provide shortcuts. You could swipe an item in a table to reveal the delete button, but you almost always can find an "Edit" button to achieve the same goal.)
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#29That title is hilarious. Compare user experiences before iOS and after. But, these guys made a skin so they're the innovators. OK.
And, as ever, what would this article be without the inevitable trotting out of the old "fanboy" chestnut. If there were a "tech blogger bingo" card this one would surely be a winner.
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#30What an awful, misleading title. A) Apple is innovating the user experience. The author even specifically says that Apple is far ahead in the game, but doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is precisely because of past innovation. B) It's not even necessarily Apple who have to innovate. There are tons of developers writing libraries for iOS that make UX and user experiences better. Tons of developers meaning more dev…
As a life-long Mac user and Android UI dev there seems to be a distinct pattern forming:
1. Revolutionary services start on iOS.
2. Innovations on common mobile services start on Android and get "finished" later by Apple.
There's plenty evidence to support this - almost all new stuff announced by Apple in the last two WWDC were things already done on Android. But they were all unfinished ideas. Apple recognized the usefulness and completed them.