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Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by mc32 »

romain_dardour wrote: post #3
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…

Poster here: Indeed it's just me submitting. But it's open to submissions. I'm not answering every single case you mention. The examples I posted show how inconsistent the UI is. Taste is in the eye of the beholder and I didn't mention what I find ugly but what shows a lack of afterthought. Just one example here to answer, "Poor Contrast" ( http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439835569 ) On an iOS device, this is not…

I don't see the same inconsistency on "case". iOS7 seems to use Capitalization for verbs, "actions," whereas it uses lowercase for nouns. "Send" or "Edit" but "return".

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by Oletros »

coldtea wrote: post #62
hahainternet wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out. Seems they're losing that attribute without gaining the others.

> Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out. Actually you only lose features you wouldn't want in the first place and would drag the whole thing down (less battery life, bulkier, etc). Not having FM radio for example is like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs. As for "incredib…

> Actually you only lose features you wouldn't want in the first place and would drag the whole thing down (less battery life, bulkier, etc)

And why I wouldn't want them? Are you deciding what I want or not?

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by jpea »

whizzkid wrote: post #47

Isn't Apple hiring the best/smartest/creative developers? How are these small/annoying issues are passing the test cases? Don't they have the same development cycle as they had while developing the first Iphone which was a huge thing at the time.

It's perhaps because they pushed a whole UI redesign out in the matter of a few months. And it's multilingual. And it cannot take into account 3rd-party apps and their inconsistent designs.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by zenojevski »

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 not bad per se, but it looks like someone designed the cover, and someone else designed the phone, and they never tested them together, or just didn't care.

Again, this is not technically bad, but if you flaunt having a "staggering attention to detail" this is a sort of slap in the face of credibility.

Having them design a larger hole to encompass the "iPhone" logo (even while still half-covering the babble below) would have, instead, sent a very clear "we cared" message to users.

"hon" also is an informal diminutive for "honey".

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by ynniv »

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…

Criticizing Apple for poor design is like criticizing IBM for being unreliable: rather important because that's why people chose them in the first place. I'm still hoping that iOS 7 is an elaborate prank, and will be replaced by something worthy of Apple before the majority upgrades.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by Jtsummers »

jusben1369 wrote: post #63
coldtea wrote: post #57

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. Google HAS produced a UI as bad as this. Actually worse. The Android UI, up until 4 was amateur hour. And still is not up there yet. It's just held in much less scrutiny compared to Apple, because nobod…

Apple is really defined by superior design. Google is defined generally by superior engineering. A better point to make would be if Google revamped their search engine and it was meaningfully degraded experience for search. They'd be criticized and rightly so as that's what they're supposed to do better than anyone else.

Didn't that happen, back around 2009? I remember many of my searches failing to find things they had the month or two before because Google was treating my parameters more as suggestions (returning results with 1 or 2 of the 4 or 5 words I'd used, ignoring quotes for grouping, etc).

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Post by kamjam »

rjv wrote: post #64
coldtea wrote: post #57

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. Google HAS produced a UI as bad as this. Actually worse. The Android UI, up until 4 was amateur hour. And still is not up there yet. It's just held in much less scrutiny compared to Apple, because nobod…

I respectfully disagree with "And still is not up there yet." Android 4.0+ has fantastic design, in my opinion.

Android since Gingerbread has had superior design for me, but I'm more of a function over form kind of guy and don't want to mess around with things looking pretty when I need to get stuff done.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by gurumeditation »

orofino wrote: post #42
coob wrote: post #32

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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.

Theres nothing sloppy about this transition it makes sense.

They did have a nicer one in beta 1 though where the message came up under the keyboard blurred

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