This seems like a great supplement for folks couldn't get to go to WWDC because it was sold out.... WWDC on Tour basically....
As I've already gone to WWDC, would there be any benefit to going?
iOS 7 Tech Talks
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#13I went to one of these in Toronto a few years back and it was great. Pity there isn't a web track like they had back then.
I went to the one in the Netherlands in november 2008. At the time, one half of the workshops were about making web apps for iPhoneOS and the other half was about developing for the then recently launched App Store. It was a great experience because there were a lot of Apple employees to ask technical questions.
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#14Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
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#15Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
I wouldn't go that far, but they are bad. I think it will take some time for Apple's designers to adjust to the new style. Or maybe this was so far down the designer food chain that it got plopped onto the desk of an over-worked and under qualified graphic intern.
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#16Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
I wouldn't go that far, but they are bad. I think it will take some time for Apple's designers to adjust to the new style. Or maybe this was so far down the designer food chain that it got plopped onto the desk of an over-worked and under qualified graphic intern.
Can you clarify what's bad about them?
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I wouldn't go that far, but they are bad. I think it will take some time for Apple's designers to adjust to the new style. Or maybe this was so far down the designer food chain that it got plopped onto the desk of an over-worked and under qualified graphic intern.
Can you clarify what's bad about them?
I don't think they're that bad, but they're inconsistent.
Part of the whole thing about going flat is to rid yourself of unnecessary decor. This also means moving away from extreme levels of detail in favor of big, bold symbology - whittle down to the basic symbol and use that.
I think they've done this well for NYC and SF - large swathes of color, immediately recognizable symbology, and large undetailed shapes that are still recognizable.
Ditto Japan, though that one sort of derived itself.
Berlin, London, and Shanghai are weird though. Berlin and Shanghai especially - highly detailed silhouettes on what is otherwise a very spartan backdrop. Seems incongruous, especially when paired with the first two icons in the set.
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#18Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
I wouldn't go that far, but they are bad. I think it will take some time for Apple's designers to adjust to the new style. Or maybe this was so far down the designer food chain that it got plopped onto the desk of an over-worked and under qualified graphic intern.
Or maybe you're jealous that you don't work there?
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#19I went to one of these in Toronto a few years back and it was great. Pity there isn't a web track like they had back then.
I went to the one in the Netherlands in november 2008. At the time, one half of the workshops were about making web apps for iPhoneOS and the other half was about developing for the then recently launched App Store. It was a great experience because there were a lot of Apple employees to ask technical questions.
That series was also pretty long, and went to a lot more cities.
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Can you clarify what's bad about them?
I don't think they're that bad, but they're inconsistent. Part of the whole thing about going flat is to rid yourself of unnecessary decor. This also means moving away from extreme levels of detail in favor of big, bold symbology - whittle down to the basic symbol and use that. I think they've done this well for NYC and SF - large swathes of color, immediately recognizable symbology, and large undetailed shapes that…
Inconsistently consistent with the rest of iOS 7 though... :)