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So how hard was it for the developers to support iOS 7? If they used the correct core UI elements, the transition was seamless[~], right? Because with Android (until recent versions) such a major update in UI would have been a disaster (not that develoeprs care much, there aren't even strict UI guidelines). [~] edit: -smoothless | +seamless
Smoothless?
One thing I'm seeing on Hipmunk specifically is lower contrast and lack of shading has to be made up for by white space - the after seems to have a lot less information on screen, while still being (at least in my perspective) harder to read at a glance.
It sucks. I wish the kids would get off that particular lawn.
I wish they would have been more consistent with their screenshots (at least per app). Its kind of annoying to compare what is clearly an iPhone 4-sized screenshot (with no status bar) to an iPhone 5-sized screenshot with status bar.
Devs, please remember to make the changes necessary so that the new keyboard is used in your application.
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To be fair it's a new style language. It's going to take time for people to normalize on designs. Eventually I think that there will be a more homogeneous experience, but right now everyone is trying to feel it out and explore. Design follows trends, but right now there aren't any trends to follow in ios7.
Previously, wasn't it just follow Apple's style guide or go home? If so, what's happened in iOS 7? Are Apple just being far more lax in enforcing a style guide or is the style guide out of the window now?
I don't like most of the "after" shots. It's now a lot harder to see what is a button/control and what is just decoration.
I like them. The information is much more clear.
I don't know which button state is worse, selected or unselected. I can't read either of them in the iOS7 version.
The "after" screenshots don't seem to have anything in common anymore. Some of the apps look like Android, some look like Windows Phone, some look like Palm webOS. The previous iterations at least shared a few button styles and navigation bar styles, but now it seems like everyone has taken the opportunity to reinvent those too. It's certainly ok by me that app developers are taking more liberties in making their app…
I noticed that too. Lots of the new apps have a distinctly "Android" feel to them, even to the point of Fancy having what looks clearly like an Android menu button (though not in the standard Android location). A fun flame war to start (i.e. let's please not) would be to argue whether this is due to app designers feeling an increasing need to target Android or whether it's because the truth is that iOS's "new look" s…
I feel like Apple learned the wrong lesson from the huge flap last year that suddenly jammed "skeuomorphism" into all our vocabularies. There's nothing wrong, IMHO, with UI that looks like a polished, compact control panel. The problem was UI that looked like a rodeo in an office-supply warehouse. I do like Android's "floating cyberspace icons" approach, but I liked Apple's "UFO hi-fi panel" look too, and it's a sham…