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Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by Oletros »

coldtea wrote: post #154
jusben1369 wrote: post #63

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Apple is really defined by superior design. Google is defined generally by superior engineering. A better point to make would be if Google revamped their search engine and it was meaningfully degraded experience for search. They'd be criticized and rightly so as that's what they're supposed to do better than anyone else.

> Apple is really defined by superior design. Google is defined generally by superior engineering. Wait what? When did that happen? When did Google get "superior engineering"? For search, web etc, perhaps. But as far as iOS vs Android is concerned that was never the case. For starters, Apple design and engineered the iPhone first. Google's Android FIRST came out a whole year later. Early Android prototypes, shown by…

> Early Android prototypes, shown by Google just before the iPhone was announced had half-size screens and physical keyboards, just like the rest of the smartphones of the day.

And now it is clear that you don't know a shit abouit what your talking

By the way, Apple also invented the wheel and the sliced bread

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by lostlogin »

slantyyz wrote: post #116
vvhn wrote: post #114

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>I very much prefer the UI of my Jelly Bean Nexus 7 to this thing they call iOS 7 That's kind of ironic given that the Android blogs and _some_ comments on forums (including hacker news) are all "The UI is Android ripoff" (while the Windows Phone camp is "The UI is a Windows Phone ripoff")

While I understand that some parts could be considered a "ripoff", the bulk of the new UI simply feels like a new skin over the old UI (keep in mind that I upgraded my iPhone 4, which doesn't get all the wizzy features that newer phones get). And this new skin at times burns my eyes, especially some of the nauseating color choices. Thank goodness I don't use Game Center. The colours for the bubbles make me want to li…

The colours might make you unwell, but have you seen game centre in iOS 6? Forcing the user to use some sort of command line interface would be less offensive.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by lostlogin »

hemancuso wrote: post #120

From what I hear nothing has helped improve Apple's autocorrect more than http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/ I must imagine that this tumblr is already being poured over in Cupertino and radar's are being filed in right now. This tumblr is a good thing.

That site is hilarious. What blows my mind is how autocorrect so often defaults to lewd and totally inappropriate statements. It's like it's trying to cause amusement.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by lostlogin »

Oletros wrote: post #170
coldtea wrote: post #153

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> Tell that to my mother, who used her phone's built in FM radio daily until her retirement. An older woman close on retirement is not exactly having her finger on the pulse of what's current, does she now? I mean, I'm giving an example of a similar obsolete feature ("like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs") and your counter-argument is what a retiree does? Might as well have replied "well, my grandfather…

> Might as well have replied "well, my grandfather rocks floppy disks on his 286 just fine". Well, it is clear that you like stupid analogies and you have not clear what it is obsolete or not and radio is not obsolete.

I haven't listened to the radio since I got a smart phone and know many in the same position. My crappy anecdata isn't any kind of data point but radio listeners must surely be in decline - podcasts are my replacement. If I wanted non stop adverts I'd watch TV.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by coldtea »

Oletros wrote: post #168
coldtea wrote: post #151

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> And why I wouldn't want them? Are you deciding what I want or not? No, Apple's deciding and the market votes with his wallet (and judging from their actually buying stuff --and at the quite expensive end of the market at that--, it has voted much in favor of those decisions for a decade or so). There's always some people, call them sui generis, or mavericks, or loonies, that do want a floppy drive in their laptop,…

> No, Apple's deciding and the market votes with his wallet (and judging from their actually buying stuff --and at the quite expensive end of the market at that--, it has voted much in favor of those decisions for a decade or so). So, when Apple said that the MINIMUM screen size for tablets was 10" people talked with their wallet and this was the right size. When Apple released iPad Mini people talked with their wall…

>So, when Apple said that the MINIMUM screen size for tablets was 10" people talked with their wallet and this was the right size.

When Apple released iPad Mini people talked with their wallet and this was a right size along the regular iPad?

Is there even a question here?

Nobody said "10 was the one and perfect size until Apple added 7". Just that Apple releasing a 10" only, for the first versions of the iPad, was a wild success.

Apple had decided to release a 10, and then they decided to add a 7 to that line. Both were mass bought. So clearly both were good market decisions.

Other vendors had a 7 even before -- their sales were 1/10 the iPad 10 available at the time or less.

>Really, do you have top put a nonsensical analogy to try to defend the indefensible?

The "indefensible" being a company offering a specific feature set of their choice and not every possible feature desired by some users or offered by some competitor?

If the resulting products sell well, then surely, they didn't make a mistake in ommiting stuff.

I don't know how you can defend the contrary. Based on some unalienable right to get what you like in a specific product from a specific brand?

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by jcutrell »

r00fus wrote: post #163
jcutrell wrote: post #65

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I think the visual explanation here offers credence to the criticism. This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique. The worse thing would be if people blindly said things like "iOS7 is just not intuitive" and went on to drink their PBR and evangelize about Phonebloks - instead, these are real examples of why iOS7 could be better. At the very least, this thread is instructive for learning designers…

> This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique. Critique that doesn't actually tell what's wrong ... isn't. Let's talk about the z-index issue with the AppStore icon. How is this reproduced? I have never seen that. How do I know it's not shopped? All it says is "z-index". Not useful. Not really a critique to me, it's just too terse.

Critique doesn't always explain reproduction. That's more like a bug report I think. Actually saying what's wrong is describing that the UI has a clear problem with z-index. I would understand if someone was trolling the Apple bug submission process, but they aren't; they are pointing out flaws with clear visual examples.

I disagree that critique must inherently describe the problem. Sometimes, the problem is fairly self descriptive, especially with what this blog provides, which is obvious issues that most of the blog's audience will immediately understand as "sloppy" - that is, I shouldn't have to explain why the z-index issue is sloppy to justify my criticism, but if you want a bug report, I can explain how I got there.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by warfangle »

thisisnotatest wrote: post #148
warfangle wrote: post #96

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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. :-)

Neato :)
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