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Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by gfodor »

alecsmart1 wrote: post #131

I don't understand how changing the design adds to functionality. Instead of giving a new half baked look, Apple could have concentrated on adding features to its existing look. Flat design is good but like most things its just a phase. Why not add background downloading etc. to the current design. From design point if view iOS 6 is fairly good and very consistent.

Uh, they did. They added a whole bunch of new features, actually.

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Post by gfodor »

myko wrote: post #61
threeseed wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He didn't have to change anything. He wanted to. And when you see the iPhone 5C with iOS 7 it's pretty clear why.

I don't get it, why?

the iPhone 5C package is a love letter to the art of graphic design. use of color, layout, typography, and form to create a device that has the soul of a printed magazine. at least, that's what i gather.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by gfodor »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #125
devx wrote: post #4

Most things about iOS7 seem inconsistent, and like they were rushed - which they were. I mean Johny Ive was head of UI for like 9 months only, and had to change everything in iOS in that period. These changes should've arrived in iOS8 in order to be well thought out and mature enough, but for some reason they decided to push them to iOS7.

> I mean Johny Ive was head of UI for like 9 months only, and had to change everything in iOS in that period. This is the real issue. There are few "complete redesign" success cases, but somehow Apple thought they would pull it in a matter of months.

So far it sounds like they did. The main criticisms of iOS 7 are, as usual with new Apple products, from the edges of the digerati. I'll see what my wife says when she gets it on her new 5S.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by jfarmer »

gfodor wrote: post #140
jfarmer wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One word: antennagate.

Antennagate was a myth. They didn't change anything about the antenna, as far as I know, yet somehow the whole problem just disappeared.

And still they released a phone with antenna issues. People complained just as they are now. Apple did something relatively rare and issued a "mea cuppa" in the form of a free case. Life went on.

My point was that controversies like these design hiccups, the shape of the case, etc. are not new to Apple.

In some ways the design issues are significantly less severe since they can be corrected without new hardware.

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Post by RobAtticus »

warfangle wrote: post #96
Coincoin wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? They fixed that? Nope, searching anything with "verse" still makes Google think it knows better than you and searches for "vs" instead.

Anything? https://www.google.com/search?q=chapter+and+verse&oq=chapter... Nope. https://www.google.com/search?q=free%20verse ? Nope. Something just random, that I didn't think would have anything interesting? https://www.google.com/search?q=seventeen+verse Nope. What search terms replace "verse" with "vs" for you? Or do you google comparisons constantly? Or are you just a troll?

Agreed, I had a hard time getting the behavior described. Googling for "orange verse tangerine" finally did it. Other things that don't make as much sense to be compared, such as "giraffe verse tangerine" only produce a suggestion of "Did you mean..." but still it searched for my original query.

Seems Google does this for things that are likely comparisons (e.g. oranges and tangerines), which seems reasonable.

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Post by thisisnotatest »

warfangle wrote: post #96
Coincoin wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? They fixed that? Nope, searching anything with "verse" still makes Google think it knows better than you and searches for "vs" instead.

Anything? https://www.google.com/search?q=chapter+and+verse&oq=chapter... Nope. https://www.google.com/search?q=free%20verse ? Nope. Something just random, that I didn't think would have anything interesting? https://www.google.com/search?q=seventeen+verse Nope. What search terms replace "verse" with "vs" for you? Or do you google comparisons constantly? Or are you just a troll?

I work on Synonyms at Google. We're constantly tweaking our algorithms. It's possible that at one point one tweak made us more aggressive with replacing "verse" with "vs", but then later another tweak made it less aggressive. :-)

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by epo »

Coincoin wrote: post #85
Jtsummers wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't that happen, back around 2009? I remember many of my searches failing to find things they had the month or two before because Google was treating my parameters more as suggestions (returning results with 1 or 2 of the 4 or 5 words I'd used, ignoring quotes for grouping, etc).

What? They fixed that? Nope, searching anything with "verse" still makes Google think it knows better than you and searches for "vs" instead.

I'm sorry, not following this, the word is "versus", a verse is typically something like a unit of a song. Or is this American usage, in which case what do you call a "verse"?
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