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Pure opinion here. Personally I use the calculator a lot on my phone, and love having a quick way to access it. The timer icon is actually the clock app, I got confused by the icon too.
After playing around with the Beta for a while, I can say that the design doesn't make sense until you actually use it. Give it some time.
Ive may be a master of industrial design and user interaction, but it's looking like that mastery doesn’t translate to graphic/user interface design.
This author is confused. Anyone who's tested any BETA 1 of iOS knows how unfinished it can be. This isn't your Google "beta." It's a legitimate beta.
If Apple substantially changes the designs (iconography included) between now and shipping, it would make for a first.
I feel similarly to the author. Overall I like the design and think it's a much-needed step forward for the OS, but the iconography is distracting. The removal of any kind of affordance in the slide-to-action bars is also a step back.
There are lots of places in the OS where I'd expect, under normal circumstances, some pretty substantial redesign, but Apple has never been known to overhaul their designs significantly between beta and release.
One thing I can't understand, why would they make the blurred background on the Control Center lighter and put white text and controls on it?? Is this supposed to be customizable?
I was actually really looking forward to iOS 7. I'm currently on an old feature phone and I haven't quite decided between iOS or Android. I've messed around with an old Galaxy S 4G and an iPad 2, and after seeing iOS 7 I think I'm definitely leaning towards getting an Android based phone.
One thing I can't understand, why would they make the blurred background on the Control Center lighter and put white text and controls on it?? Is this supposed to be customizable?
I think in terms of UX, iOS 7 will be a win. But in terms of graphical design I think it's much less successful. Ive may be a master of industrial design and user interaction, but it's looking like that mastery doesn’t translate to graphic/user interface design.
It's not bad, but I miss the iOS-ness. I thought this would have been a refinement and extension of their current style. A lot of their stuff is good. I don't think they needed such a massive overhaul.
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The design won't change significantly in the next months. For example, the Game Center design is likely there to stay for the most part. And, by the way, I acknowledged that it's a beta and there's time to improve.
What's your source for that? Based on experience with previous betas, it could absolutely change. In the iOS that Game Center debuted, it didn't even work until BETA 4.
This is first pass for developers. Lots can be tweaked before Fall.
Skeuomorphism was cool back in 1987 when it was novel that VGA existed.
If it takes Apple until IOS 7.1 to fix some of the subtle gradient issues, so be it.
This author is confused. Anyone who's tested any BETA 1 of iOS knows how unfinished it can be. This isn't your Google "beta." It's a legitimate beta.
I've been running the beta 1's since iOS4, and while they can be glitchy, buggy, and crashy, the UI is never really incomplete. If Apple substantially changes the designs (iconography included) between now and shipping, it would make for a first. I feel similarly to the author. Overall I like the design and think it's a much-needed step forward for the OS, but the iconography is distracting. The removal of any kind o…
I don't think any of us know how the beta as it sits today is going to compare to the final release, but saying that it won't change because previous betas didn't change doesn't seem like a fair comparison.