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What iOS7 should look like

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Re: What iOS7 should look like

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typical designer. they just look at static mockups and don't think about interactions. okay if you have the 2x2 icon, how will other icons move relative to it when the big icon is moved around?

You might want to take a look how Windows Phone 8 does it. WP8 has different size tiles and moving them around is a piece of cake.

Exactly. WP tile resizing is fantastic. I'm not sure I could go back to iOS, even with it's app ecosystem.

Re: What iOS7 should look like

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Meh. It doesn't seem like an obvious win to me. Especially the notepad.

Seriously.... I think the Apple iOS7 designs have some weird points, but they're overall decent enough, and hardly deserving of the shrill reactions I've seen. None of this guy's "fixes" really seems very compelling, and I'm left wondering why he bothered to write an entire blog post about them...

[and I'm no Apple fanboy, I like Android...]

Re: What iOS7 should look like

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true. There was a zoomed out and pixellated comparison days ago between the default apps on both versions, and iOS7 was clearly brighter.

I've been using it on my phone for the past week and in practice there is no difference.

In practice, you probably use 3rd party apps, which might bias your opinion of the OS as a whole. Possibly.

Re: What iOS7 should look like

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>This is crucial if Apple wants the OS to continue to look consistent, because there is no way all developers are going to go back and redo the icons for all of their 900 000 apps!

And this is part of the point I think about the huge change here: Old unmaintained apps will look OLD and apps with active teams behind them will not.

Re: What iOS7 should look like

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IMHO this a far, far better design than Apple's. The saturated colors in Apple's design are just too garish. Some of the app and icon designs are really messed up, as the OP notes. (e.g. Notes, Calendar). How did Apple's GameCenter icon even make it past 1st draft. It is just mind-bendingly awful. Although the configurable-size widgets are a good idea, perhaps the OP could outline how the interface should work when t…

Now I want you to take that brightness slider, and drop the brightness on the phone 30%. Oh look, you just bought a good chunk of extra battery life. And with the bright colors you can still see stuff.

Re: What iOS7 should look like

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I like how in the :( versions the top status bar is all cluttered with low battery, gps, bluetooth, wifi etc. And the :) version is clean & minimal. Subtle persuasion! I don't think the app icons are an improvement, I dislike both. The final redesign, the lock screen, I way prefer the iOS version. The time is hard to read on the redesign.
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