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iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Re: iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Post by neovive »

The comparisons are pretty striking. Apple really set the standard for smartphone design and it took competitors quite a while to catch up. I have an Android phone and iPad and I think both design approaches have their benefits and drawbacks.

It was probably easier to design an app using the iOS 6 and lower defaults and have it look nice, while the completely flat design requires careful use of whitespace and color and differentiate the various UI sections and elements. In the long-term, best practices will be better documented and flat designs won't be a problem.

Re: iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Post by querulous »

apps that mostly use standard controls look much better to me (instapaper, quip, punjabi dictionary, stamps for direct mail) but anything with significant custom controls looks terrible. a bunch of them look like they belong on android. i guess that's cause for optimism as it means apps can look great and designers should eventually manage to get a feel for the platform

Re: iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Post by thechut »

Most look like Android apps to me, whats not showing here is that most of these have shifted to using left side pull out menus, just like Android.

More cross platform design consistency is a good thing in my opinion.

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Post by city41 »

I feel like the befores are significantly better. The gradients and heavier weights divide up the space better, and let you easily find the natural boundaries. In the afters almost everything blends together.

Re: iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Post by telcodud »

teaneedz wrote: post #64
crazygringo wrote: post #42

Wow. Hipmunk is a great example, in my opinion, of how flat can be bad by removing so many visual cues. The old one is easy to see, understand, and instantaneously "grok", because of the depth cues and shading. The new one is a mess of plain colored boxes, where you have to spend time figuring out what is a header, what is a row, etc. -- it's not instantly obvious. The prices are clearly clickable on the left, on the…

Hipmunk really makes the problems of flat design stand out. There is a common belief that simpler design means better UE. The things that are being tossed out in flat design are the things that often made good designs intuitive in the first place though. Many designers are reaching incorrect conclusions about simplicity and the whole KISS principle. The whole KISS principle doesn't require throwing out pixels and pro…

It'll be interesting to hear the views from Hipmunk designers or engineers, if any, lurking on HN.

Re: iOS 7 before and after screenshots

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Post by nnnnni »

Whoa, a cell phone number was included in one of the screenshots? That can't be good. (Cobook Contacts)

Also, the interface for Photo Investigator is horrible. It's really hard to read the buttons at the bottom!

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