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Re: iOS 7

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Post by Geee »

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.

Maybe they left some rubber duckies in there to remove later followed by huge applauses ;)

I like the overall new style, however a bit of redefining here and there would be good, like some of the icons. Great update.

Re: iOS 7

#72

Post by jlarocco »

rabino wrote: post #47
crazygringo wrote: post #30

Oh God why. I've got nothing against flat design done well, but this just makes everything so much harder to SEE . 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…

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?

Re: iOS 7

#73

Post by rabino »

bcks wrote: post #62
crazygringo wrote: post #30

Oh God why. I've got nothing against flat design done well, but this just makes everything so much harder to SEE . 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…

Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface? I mean, I mostly use my phone to read email. Why would they reduce contrast on the default text and make it even harder to read?! Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif. What's the point if everyone has to increase the size of the text to read it?

Are you seriously asking if Apple did usability testing for a design decision? Really?

Re: iOS 7

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Post by electrichead »

I still can't get over the choice to push in Bing. I know that both companies are hoping that the collaboration is going to equal good things for both of them but really, it is likely going to go the other way.

Re: iOS 7

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Post by nodata »

rabino wrote: post #47
crazygringo wrote: post #30

Oh God why. I've got nothing against flat design done well, but this just makes everything so much harder to SEE . 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…

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

Because then there would be no comments here :)

Re: iOS 7

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Post by usaphp »

The more I read comments on HN the more I wonder - what kind of project does the company has to release in order to get a positive comments from HN readers. It just looks like there is a bunch of losers who hate everything that other people do and complain about everything they see, instead of just being happy for something...

Re: iOS 7

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Post by inovator »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #20

I watched the key note with my girl friend - she is technical but still very much has a girls perspective and can be taken as a good representation of her friends. She flipping loves this redesign and I'm pretty certain my not techie iPhone/iPad using parents will too - and that, is was really matters to Apple, that 98% of their market will love it and not just the 2% of us who build for their platform. I like most o…

I am the 2% and I still love it

Re: iOS 7

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Post by inovator »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #20

I watched the key note with my girl friend - she is technical but still very much has a girls perspective and can be taken as a good representation of her friends. She flipping loves this redesign and I'm pretty certain my not techie iPhone/iPad using parents will too - and that, is was really matters to Apple, that 98% of their market will love it and not just the 2% of us who build for their platform. I like most o…

I am the 2% and I still love it

Re: iOS 7

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Post by ahsanhilal »

1. The multi-tasking, switching between apps thing is exactly as it is in the android. 2. The tabbed view in safari pretty much mimics Chrome

So much for apple creating their own distinctive UI/UX. I don't think you can convince a lot of people that Apple does things differently or 'in their own unque way' that easily with this update for ios. And I say this as someone who owns and develops for iOS only.

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