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Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Post by radley »

taligent wrote: post #38
radley wrote: post #30

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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 u…

Please. And almost all of those 'new' ideas on Android have been taken from Palm, Windows Mobile, Newton etc.

No, those would be "old" ideas. There are plenty of new ones.

Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Post by lucisferre »

radley wrote: post #32
radley wrote: post #26

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You're not looking deep enough.

Arg - I was hoping you'd figure out that the designers ARE the users and Android gives them a UX that's not permitted on iOS. But hey, flame on.

Fair enough, and thats an interesting point, though I have my doubts about the relevance of the point.

First as an overall product and market strategy for a phone that's about as good an idea as making a mass market product designed for developers.

Second I think equating a handful of UI skinning enthusiasts as the whole of product and experience designers is perhaps going a bit far, no? Sure I'll admit I couldn't live without the Go launcher on my Android, but I'd still switch back to iPhone in heartbeat because the overall experience is still much smoother. Subjectively speaking anyways.

Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Post by shadesandcolour »

tysonjennings wrote: post #7
shadesandcolour wrote: post #4

For all of the innovation that Android claims to have going for it, is this Feel UX really the best that you can do? Honestly this is barely changed from the default android UI. You repackaged the widgets so they're on their own page which you could already do. You added a shortcut screen which can hold both widgets and apps and contacts which is the same as any regular Android screen and you put the apps on one page…

I don't think 'Android' is claiming anything. There was a story on here a few days ago about the online religious battles between the various tech factions, mobile in particular. It was kind of pathetic. When you start anthropomorphizing an electronic gizmo, maybe its time to go outside and get some fresh air. Just a thought.

Excuse me for not clarifying: Android users, Android developers, people writing articles that anthropomorphize android. Certainly the little green robot isn't claiming anything.

Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Post by radley »

lucisferre wrote: post #42
radley wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arg - I was hoping you'd figure out that the designers ARE the users and Android gives them a UX that's not permitted on iOS. But hey, flame on.

Fair enough, and thats an interesting point, though I have my doubts about the relevance of the point. First as an overall product and market strategy for a phone that's about as good an idea as making a mass market product designed for developers. Second I think equating a handful of UI skinning enthusiasts as the whole of product and experience designers is perhaps going a bit far, no? Sure I'll admit I couldn't li…

1) Isn't Linux is a successful mass market product designed for developers?

2) Where the best designers go, so follow consumers. Apple proved that, no?

Re: Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will

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Post by lucisferre »

radley wrote: post #44
lucisferre wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, and thats an interesting point, though I have my doubts about the relevance of the point. First as an overall product and market strategy for a phone that's about as good an idea as making a mass market product designed for developers. Second I think equating a handful of UI skinning enthusiasts as the whole of product and experience designers is perhaps going a bit far, no? Sure I'll admit I couldn't li…

1) Isn't Linux is a successful mass market product designed for developers? 2) Where the best designers go, so follow consumers. Apple proved that, no?

1) It isn't really mass market except in cases where someone has built some half decent UX on top of it. But yes the CLI tools are an amazing UX for developers, no developers are not a mass market

2) Again a handful of skinners (many of whom are really just sticking half naked women on the screen) are probably not representative of the whole of design or even the best of it.

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