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Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by kalleboo » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #29

Is it just me or is all that gray stuff kinda ugly? And I thought WE started the gray trend way back when... (see http://qbix.com ) :) I think iOS 7 is Apple's Vista :-( Except instead of functionality gaffes, it's the UI changes that no one really wants.

Wouldn't that make it Apple's Windows 8?

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by melange » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

interpol_p wrote: post #33

andyhmltn wrote: post #2

Nice post. The one that REALLY annoys me is reminders. If I want to add a reminder, I would assume subconsciously I have to press the add symbol. But that adds a new list. To add a new item you have to tap an empty white box with no visual cue . Brilliant.

The reminders app is an abomination and has been since iOS 6. I only use it through Siri ("Remind me to ..."). How did they ever let this app see the light of day?

I couldn't agree more. I think iOS7 is a great upgrade in general, but the reminders app is confusing and visually terrible. Notes is pretty bad too.

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by hellweaver666 » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:57 PM UTC

andyhmltn wrote: post #2

Nice post. The one that REALLY annoys me is reminders. If I want to add a reminder, I would assume subconsciously I have to press the add symbol. But that adds a new list. To add a new item you have to tap an empty white box with no visual cue . Brilliant.

For me the big annoyance are the "shuffle" and "repeat" buttons in the music app. Identical buttons right next to each other in the interface and they behave differently. I can't even tell if the shuffle is active or not as the labels toggle between "shuffle" and "shuffle all". Which one is "off" ?

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by jpalacios » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

sdnguyen90 wrote: post #37

pretty annoying reading articles in safari scrolling down and accidently pulling up the control center

That was one of the first things I noticed. You can disable it in general settings but unfortunately it is all or nothing. Now I can only pull it up from the lock screen.

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by nemesisj » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #14

> I have no idea why the calendar is in German although the rest is in English I had the same issue (with a different language). I really hope it's a bug because it makes no sense. Here goes: In General > International, you can set "language" to english. So far so good. Then you can set "region format" for things like date and time formatting to use a sensible local format instead of e.g. the crazy US date format. Bu…

Yeah, as you realised, and as another person mentioned, it has always worked this way on pretty much every OS I've used - Linux, Windows, Mac OS, iOS.

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by mikeryan » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

All this free UX QA is going to make for a heck of an UI in about 6-12 months....

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by melange » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

Michael_Murray wrote: post #28

samnardoni wrote: post #4

Everything is confusing if you pretend to be an idiot.

Actually, that's backwards... You know that something is well designed precisely by pretending to be an idiot, and asking yourself if you still know what to do...

Users are not idiots - they are just people with different priorities to you. That's why this is a deeply flawed approach to design.

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by rpc_was_taken » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #35

masklinn wrote: post #14

> I have no idea why the calendar is in German although the rest is in English I had the same issue (with a different language). I really hope it's a bug because it makes no sense. Here goes: In General > International, you can set "language" to english. So far so good. Then you can set "region format" for things like date and time formatting to use a sensible local format instead of e.g. the crazy US date format. Bu…

It works the same in Mac OS and Windows since time immortal as well.

since time immemorial

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by devx » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

Gone are the days when Apple used to make "perfect" user experiences. These days Apple seems care more about "modern aestethics" that look "beautiful" than actually good design, as it used to when Steve Jobs was alive.

I expect the Mac OS X interface to become worse with time, too.

Re: Confusing UI in iOS7

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Post by kenrikm » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

samnardoni wrote: post #4

Everything is confusing if you pretend to be an idiot.

While on a personal level I agree with you, having interacted directly with my users for many of them it's not pretending (idiot is the wrong term) I don't think it's a good idea to measure users based on our own yardstick.

Now the article did seem to be coming from a place of "I have never seen a computer, phone or tablet before in my life how does this work?"