The icons! Those icons look great, for the most part. Still 'flat' while keeping the iOS personality.
iPhone 6: An edgy concept
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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this is an advertisement, then all it advertises is that he is incompetent at industrial design.
Yeah, well he is not an industrial designer, doesn’t advertise himself as one and doesn’t sell his industrial design skills. Which he doesn’t have. Doesn’t even claim to have. Not even a little bit. He is a fucking graphic designer and that’s exactly how you should judge this.
If he's not an industrial designer, then why is this an industrial design?
It's like you hand me an album of somebody scratching at a violin for 80 minutes and tell me that the point was the album art, he's "not a musician" and "not advertising himself as one", gosh.
Excuse us silly engineers that got distracted by the actual content of the damn link. Guess we didn't see the trees for the forest.
If the point is to have a portfolio piece as a visual designer, Make a brochure for something that already exists, or that is unique and doesn't exist. This is an uncanny valley of being unimaginative yet impossible and that distracts me (and many readers here) from everything else.
Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. Just build a strong magnet in there (as was suggested, maybe via the speaker). The advantage of the connector would not be the disconnect-on-trip feature, but rather convenience for plugging and unplugging. Namely, it's a lot easier to just have the cord snap it place magnetically than to futz around with the small metal tip[0]. You're assuming it'd either be too weak or too strong. They would calibrate i…
I don't know about you, but a Lightning connector is one of the easiest I've used. There's no "futzing around".
I use a thick case (OtterBox defender series iirc), and I'm sure that's what causing me the extra frustration. It's by no means a painful experience, though. I guess I wasn't properly separating my daily experience from the product's design :)
Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#74I would highly recommend the majority of you here to stay away from fashion shows and car conventions if this is your reaction to this concept.
Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#75Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…
Thanks! Great response. Too many people arguing about nothing. I wish I had those skills. I'm a software engineer and am in no way a designer. I've mucked with so many design tools throughout my career and it just never really clicked. I can't draw so that might be a contributing factor.
Anyway, dude has some skills.
Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#76Some nice ideas in there, but I have a few objections: On a practical level, this would be more better described as a prototype for the iPhone 8 + iOS X ... or something a bit further out than next year. Is that too nit-picky? Probably. As far as the aesthetics go - it looks almost exactly like the HTC One, albeit without a bezel. For a product designer with imaginative ideas about nearly everything else, I would have hoped for a more interesting enclosure design.
Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept
#77It is obvious that this is not an attempt at trying to design a plausible iPhone. It is an attempt to show case his design chops. Unfortunately, I can't give him full marks on his design, I was put off by his "Accidental Gesture Recognition" paragraph. It is a short paragraph of 7 lines, 3 of which are hyphenated.
Pedantry aside, I think the mockups look great.
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#78Very impressive - I'd love to have something that looked that damn cool. The wrap around screen kept making me think of infinity pools.
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#79That Magsafe Lightning concept would never work. Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets, not only is the Lightning connector 8-pin, but one of the only reasons MagSafe even works is that laptops are strong enough to still be in the same place if tugged slightly. Your phone will now not only be tugged along with the cord, but will then disconnect more easily and fly across the room.
The entire discussion about MagSafe Lightning is pointless. A truly innovative iPhone 6 would use wireless charging.
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#8096GB drive? Seems fishy to me.
Honestly, that's the most realistic aspect of the whole concept.