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Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by marrs »

janlukacs wrote: post #27
dasil003 wrote: post #19

Although I'm a perfectionist and I believe a lot of these issues should be addressed, the tumblr itself bothers me. It's the logical culmination of Fail culture where hipsters in armchairs laugh at the inadequacy of everything while producing nothing. All these things could have been constructive criticism in another context, but here they just serve to further someone's twitchy compulsion to be entertained for anoth…

here's the thing though, If google would have released an UI as bad as this (just my oppinion as an iphone user) all the tech press and the hardcore apple fanboys would have trashed it online and offline for months. Who will be the role model from now on for "near perfection", "attention to detail"? Just look at this: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/hon.jpg?... and tell me how you feel about it :)

You're upset that the cover is obscuring the word "iPhone"? Or is "hon" a euphemism for something and I'm not getting it?

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by orofino »

coob wrote: post #32
Jtsummers wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hadn't sent a message with my updated phone, just did to test this out. When you send a message it gets a colored talk bubble and then shifts up into position. During the shift the keyboard/text entry field stay on top. It doesn't last long, it would probably look cleaner if they'd made the talk bubble stay above the entry field (so that it doesn't get cut in half).

No, they keyboard and message box are clearly on a layer above the speech bubbles. There is nothing wrong with this behaviour.

See, I'm inclined to call it sloppy, this would look nicer if it wasn't sloppy, the screenshot shows a state that makes no sense to a normal user.

However, if this is actually happening in some transition, then leave it. We all know that there are only so many hours. Bring some polish to this transition with a future update. I can't see dinging them on design for a slightly sloppy transition.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by Angostura »

sspiff wrote: post #5
coldtea wrote: post #2

This is quite bad -- only a small percentage are genuine examples of sloppu UI. It seems to be put together by one guy (instead of user submissions like similar sites) and not quite design savvy at that. Case in point: 1) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61441688489 (this is supposed to show "poor alignment") 2) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439801745 (this is supposed to show "stray dropshadows" -- didn't they…

I agree that not all examples are good, but how can you defend the blue text/red caret? There are also quite a few genuine design errors (Z index of updates available, alignment in the timer, ...) on the site.

> but how can you defend the blue text/red caret?

As someone with slightly less than perfect eyesight it's an absolute godsend.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by stordoff »

sspiff wrote: post #5
coldtea wrote: post #2

This is quite bad -- only a small percentage are genuine examples of sloppu UI. It seems to be put together by one guy (instead of user submissions like similar sites) and not quite design savvy at that. Case in point: 1) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61441688489 (this is supposed to show "poor alignment") 2) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439801745 (this is supposed to show "stray dropshadows" -- didn't they…

I agree that not all examples are good, but how can you defend the blue text/red caret? There are also quite a few genuine design errors (Z index of updates available, alignment in the timer, ...) on the site.

I may be in the minority, but I really like the red/blue difference. I think it looks pretty good, and would be useful to quickly see where the cursor is.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by scep12 »

marrs wrote: post #41
janlukacs wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

here's the thing though, If google would have released an UI as bad as this (just my oppinion as an iphone user) all the tech press and the hardcore apple fanboys would have trashed it online and offline for months. Who will be the role model from now on for "near perfection", "attention to detail"? Just look at this: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/hon.jpg?... and tell me how you feel about it :)

You're upset that the cover is obscuring the word "iPhone"? Or is "hon" a euphemism for something and I'm not getting it?

It's very sloppy. Especially for Apple.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by vicbrooker »

Personally I think that it's a bit misleading to lump bugs and questionable design choices under the same 'sloppy' banner.

Good quality criticism regarding choices developers and designers have made have lead to some of the best debate and discussion I've seen on HN. Conversations that focus on criticizing execution (for example the UI bugs in the tumblr) have been some of the worst.

As a developer I would get huge value out of having a nuanced discussion about the pros and cons of iOS 7's language, particular as we begin (or have begun) redesigning our apps - hopefully that is something this tumblr can evolve into eventually.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by ygra »

coldtea wrote: post #2

This is quite bad -- only a small percentage are genuine examples of sloppu UI. It seems to be put together by one guy (instead of user submissions like similar sites) and not quite design savvy at that. Case in point: 1) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61441688489 (this is supposed to show "poor alignment") 2) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439801745 (this is supposed to show "stray dropshadows" -- didn't they…

Regarding the alignment one, I guess it's about the many seemingly random baselines and horizontal alignment points: http://imgur.com/pDEuLb6
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