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The choice of colors and gradients look terrible. They made iOS look worse. They swung too far away from skeuomorphic design. Even the art on the icons, without considering the colors, look like an amateur drew them. Look at the SDK icon: http://i.imgur.com/JXw7KQA.png That is ugly. So is the iTunes icon, so is the Safari icon. Not a fan.
The parallax effect looks fun but it will have to be subtle enough to not be gimmicky after a week or two.
So, this update might actually get me to switch back to iOS from Android. Anyone else?
The choice of colors and gradients look terrible. They made iOS look worse. They swung too far away from skeuomorphic design. Even the art on the icons, without considering the colors, look like an amateur drew them. Look at the SDK icon: http://i.imgur.com/JXw7KQA.png That is ugly. So is the iTunes icon, so is the Safari icon. Not a fan.
It's interesting to see how iOS and Android each go back-and-forth swiping features from each other (or from popular accessory apps; Apple's the worst at doing that).
Parallax is a nice touch. At first glance, iOS 7 looks like a hybrid of Android and WebOS. Especially the card multi-tasking approach. Notification center is cleaner but the colors are all over the place. Lock screen is pure Android (animated wallpapers, etc.) They might have made it too flat actually. A lot of text everywhere (the user will definitely get confused on what to tap and what not to tap) Cupertino might…
This one is a big question mark, since it means that the device is either really locked down, or activation lock is just a marketing bullet point that won't mean much in reality. I'm not sure which of those choices I prefer.
Parallax is a nice touch. At first glance, iOS 7 looks like a hybrid of Android and WebOS. Especially the card multi-tasking approach. Notification center is cleaner but the colors are all over the place. Lock screen is pure Android (animated wallpapers, etc.) They might have made it too flat actually. A lot of text everywhere (the user will definitely get confused on what to tap and what not to tap) Cupertino might…
So, this update might actually get me to switch back to iOS from Android. Anyone else?
Parallax is a nice touch. At first glance, iOS 7 looks like a hybrid of Android and WebOS. Especially the card multi-tasking approach. Notification center is cleaner but the colors are all over the place. Lock screen is pure Android (animated wallpapers, etc.) They might have made it too flat actually. A lot of text everywhere (the user will definitely get confused on what to tap and what not to tap) Cupertino might…
Look at the example screen for "Control Center" -- it looks like a geometric indistinguishable mess. The line around buttons is the same as the line dividing sections is almost the same as the line in sliders.
The example screen for weather shows thin white text against a light blue background, which I can barely make out on my monitor, let alone on a phone.
If anything, phones need extra affordance as what is a label and what is tappable, since we have fat fingers, hold phones faraway where things are small, and often in bright sunlight where there's little contrast we can make out. Phones need extra contrast, not less.
I'm really not one for hyperbole, but Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. This isn't about an aesthetic choice, it's just about common-sense usability and quality control. That weather app looks completely useless in the real world, and the fact that Apple's internal processes have allowed this to be launched does not bode well.