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Re: iOS 7

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Post by coldtea »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #65
btipling wrote: post #5

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.

They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs. The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is. I'm staying with Windows Phone.

>They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs.

What's ugly about those tabs?

And what's ...skeuomorphic about them? They remind you of real life huge rectangles with webpages on them that you browse through 3D space at home?

>The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple.

BS, if they didn't make any drastic changes the same people would say "oh, they didn't go far enough" etc.

The new UI looks extremely polished and well thought out. And it wasn't just a design overhaul, they changed tons of behaviour and added lots of features too.

>I'm staying with Windows Phone.

Well, if you already have a Windows Phone, I don't think you're the kind of person that would appreciate iOS, anyway.

Re: iOS 7

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Post by adw »

drpancake wrote: post #88
miguelrochefort wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs. The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is. I'm staying with Windows Phone.

I'm not sure if flipping through 3D browser tabs mimics a real-life affordance.

It's a card index. (I happen to think it's a decent metaphor, but whatever, it's Internet Hate Week today.)

Re: iOS 7

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Post by r4dius »

Angostura wrote: post #255
nobodysfool wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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) Yea, that's one thing which Skeuomorphism does well is I know instantly what I can interact with and what I can't. I still may not know what to 'tap-and-hold' but at least I know what scrolls, what turns, what swipes.

> Yea, that's one thing which Skeuomorphism does well is I know instantly what I can interact with and what I can't. It does it well when it is done well. Then there are elements like the red book mark in Contacts. where you think - what the hell is that meant to do?

Apple had certainly gone too far in some cases (the Podcasts app is my personal favorite with a reel-to-reel acting as UI), but many apps were finally striking a good balance. The Google Search iOS app, for example, uses dimension and light beautifully to represent what's part of the chrome, what's active, what's tappable, etc. Facebook is also finding a decent rhythm.

Re: iOS 7

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Post by Chirael »

Nice video but pretty surprised to see people reading off cue cards instead of talking directly to the viewer. Comes off as a little unpolished and jarring. I just kept wanting is say, hey, I'm over HERE, not off camera - who's over there that you keep talking to instead of me?

Re: iOS 7

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Post by ajanuary »

twoodfin wrote: post #118

The biggest surprise for me was the apparent introduction of a "double tap" action to switch between apps in the new multitasking view. I couldn't understand what the advantage of that was over a single tap. Has Apple used "double tap" in iOS before? It seems like something they'd studiously avoided in the past.

Double and triple click have been used for quite a while now http://www.flickr.com/photos/adurdin/4944720731/lightbox/

Re: iOS 7

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Post by sneak »

jlarocco wrote: post #72
rabino wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you wait until you have a freakin' phone in your hand and try it?

Because once the upgrade is installed there's no going back?

Backup your device-specific SHSH signatures for 6.x now!

(Or has Apple closed this hole yet with timestamping?)

Re: iOS 7

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Post by dsego »

drpancake wrote: post #88
miguelrochefort wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs. The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is. I'm staying with Windows Phone.

I'm not sure if flipping through 3D browser tabs mimics a real-life affordance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZLvVTWuJM

Re: iOS 7

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Post by pallinder »

A couple of things after having played around with it on my iphone 5 for a while.

1. It "feels" slower, might be because it's not 100% optimized yet, but what I suspect is causing this feeling is the new animiations. Everything just feels sluggish, kind of like using an android feels to me.

2. It appears harder to locate things in apps.

3. The paralax animiations arent all that obvious and doesnt add as much depth as I initially thought it would.

4. Some of the app redesigns are really nice (address book for instance).

5. The thin font is really hard to see sometimes.

6. The new design of the notification view is really nice.

That's it for now.

Re: iOS 7

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Post by 6thSigma »

ubernostrum wrote: post #107
6thSigma wrote: post #14

Apple is continuously playing catch up with iOS rather than innovating like they were known for in the Jobs era. Most of these features are just copies of other popular apps/operating systems that came out over a year ago.

Obligatory flamebait response to your flamebait comment: Android is a great R&D department. As long as it takes Apple less than three years to develop and deploy a feature they copy, Apple will still have it in the field on their devices before Android vendors do!

My comment isn't flamebait - I genuinely think iOS has played catch up to Android for the past 2-3 years.

But ya, vendors taking forever to update Android is a big problem. That's why I stick with Nexus devices.

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