I just applied to the SF one. It would be great if I could get into one of these. It would be my first in person Apple event.
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#22Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
No, it's also other people that are not appreciating a certain deliberate design aesthetic.
You could show them the work of great Swiss designers for example, and they would think the same.
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#23Best part: "We’ll be posting videos of the sessions shortly after the last event"
what do you mean "best part"?
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#24nice, just signed up.
last time I attended was in Rome.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm not sure what your point is, but the one I went to was pretty intimate (I’d definitely like for Apple to include the Netherlands again. Since the one I took part in, they haven’t included it in their World Tours. I might go to Berlin, but it’s not exactly close to where I live and I’d risk Apple sending German speaking devs.
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#27Just signed up for the Berlin event; would be my first time at an Apple event so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
For people who have attended a previous event: How long before the actual events did you get your invite?
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#28Signed up! Fingers crossed...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I actually thought that Shanghai was the best one. Unlike on iOS 7, nothing is centred in the other icons.
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#30Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
No, it's also other people that are not appreciating a certain deliberate design aesthetic. You could show them the work of great Swiss designers for example, and they would think the same.
I don't care a lot about the deeper artistic value of this all, but I haven't seen anyone deny that this design is very polarising. Much more so than the visual style that has been used in previous WWDC slides.
The question remains whether a polarising design makes sense for things like developer sessions, or Apple's "iOS for businesses" website a while ago. If not, then it might technically be good design, but used in the wrong context.