iOS 7's Design is Confused
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iOS 7's Design is Confused
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Re: iOS 7's Design is Confused
#2Don't get me wrong-- I like change, and the direction Apple is headed in with some of the UI changes (the calendar) look fine, but there are still a few problems with iOS 7 that make it look a little bit amateurish in some areas.
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#3The gradients are only problematic if interpreted as lighting. If merely decorative, no problem. Note that almost all of the gradients involve hue shifts.
The spacing of the balloons is actually clever. Balloons from one party are closer spaced than balloons from different parties. I prefer space around the text to space around the balloons.
I agree that the calculator et. al. Could be customizable. That aside, it's more or less the same controls as before but using more screen real estate rather than requiring flicking between screens. I think it's a serious improvement.
Re: iOS 7's Design is Confused
#4The gradients are only problematic if interpreted as lighting. If merely decorative, no problem. Note that almost all of the gradients involve hue shifts. The spacing of the balloons is actually clever. Balloons from one party are closer spaced than balloons from different parties. I prefer space around the text to space around the balloons. I agree that the calculator et. al. Could be customizable. That aside, it's…
Personally, I don't really like the hue shift. It's kind of jarring in my mind, since I am used to using gradients more subtly.
I never really thought about the spacing between balloons in a group message between different people (is that how it works?), and if that's so, then I guess that makes sense. Though, the spacing still is odd looking to me-- maybe I'm just claustrophobic.
Re: iOS 7's Design is Confused
#5The gradients are only problematic if interpreted as lighting. If merely decorative, no problem. Note that almost all of the gradients involve hue shifts. The spacing of the balloons is actually clever. Balloons from one party are closer spaced than balloons from different parties. I prefer space around the text to space around the balloons. I agree that the calculator et. al. Could be customizable. That aside, it's…
Personally, I don't really like the hue shift. It's kind of jarring in my mind, since I am used to using gradients more subtly. I never really thought about the spacing between balloons in a group message between different people (is that how it works?), and if that's so, then I guess that makes sense. Though, the spacing still is odd looking to me-- maybe I'm just claustrophobic.
I agree the spacing could be adjusted a hair. I don't care for several of the gradients either, but I don't see them as lighting so mich as someone's idea of decoration. Note that the non gradient icons are mainly white or black backgrounds.
Re: iOS 7's Design is Confused
#6Don't get me wrong-- I like change, and the direction Apple is headed in with some of the UI changes (the calendar) look fine, but there are still a few problems with iOS 7 that make it look a little bit amateurish in some areas.
That was my first thought. It looks like a first attempt by someone trying to learn Flat UI. For some reason, it just looks a bit to kludgy for me.
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#7The icon backgrounds now look largely redundant. Apple could have done better by getting rid of the backgrounds altogether like Android.
Re: iOS 7's Design is Confused
#8Don't get me wrong-- I like change, and the direction Apple is headed in with some of the UI changes (the calendar) look fine, but there are still a few problems with iOS 7 that make it look a little bit amateurish in some areas.
That was my first thought. It looks like a first attempt by someone trying to learn Flat UI. For some reason, it just looks a bit to kludgy for me.
To be fair, this is the first time Apple's tried flat UI :P
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#9meh , it's ok imho , they flatten their UI , but it's not flat/flat. I think it's a good compromise. Anyway i'm more interested in the dev features themself , and i found them a bit disappointing , no great deal of changes.
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#10meh , it's ok imho , they flatten their UI , but it's not flat/flat. I think it's a good compromise. Anyway i'm more interested in the dev features themself , and i found them a bit disappointing , no great deal of changes.
I was actually pretty excited to try out Airdrop (and the joke about bumping phones was pretty funny), but then I realized it was iPhone 5+ (though, I do have an iPad Mini).