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Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by slantyyz »

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.

I've been an Apple fanboy since around 1984, and I have to agree with you.

I very much prefer the UI of my Jelly Bean Nexus 7 to this thing they call iOS 7.

And before anyone says I don't like change -- the new UI does make iOSWhat I hate is when Apple apologists say "you just have to get used to" the new look. I'm already used to the new look, but I still don't like it.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by selectodude »

iclelland wrote: post #67
vvhn wrote: post #33

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I've only been running iOS since it GM'ed ( which wasn't too long ago) but havn't seen some of the stuff shown there. iMessages certainly do that on my 4S. The notification badge on the Applications icon is always on top. I run into the battery low notification every day and it hasn't yet disagreed between values shown at the status versus the 20% and 10% thresholds you get these alerts from. Are these possibly from…

The battery notification looks identical to that in iOS6, and probably has the same behaviour. If you run your phone with the display off, say from 21% battery down to 11%, then it will cross the 20% reporting threshold. The next time that you unlock the phone and activate the display, you will get the notification. It's not inconsistent; nor is it just being "optimistic" -- it may be poorly worded, but it consistent…

It doesn't show that message every time you unlock. Just once, after it hits 20 percent. And then again, once, after it hits 10 percent.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by arrrg »

scep12 wrote: post #46
marrs wrote: post #41

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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 very sloppy. Especially for Apple.

Eh. Apple has always been phoning in their accessories. They were never particularly good. I don’t see this as indicative of anything, it's just Apple being sloppy as they always are with these kinds of things.

Where it counts Apple does not typically exhibit this behaviour, as evidenced by both new iPhones.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by slantyyz »

mcphilip wrote: post #84
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…

That's a super cynical way to interpret this. I found the tumblr useful in aiding me in my decision whether to immediately upgrade to iOS 7 or not.

Putting the "meh" UI esthetic aside, I didn't want to upgrade because my iPhone 4 had become a pig under 6, and 7 performs a hair worse than 6 in terms of speed and battery life.

There are, however, some valid reasons to upgrade in spite of iOS 7's drawbacks (don't get me started on how the new lock screen keypad makes it harder for me to unlock my phone with just my thumb).

* Call blocking has "finally" (gruber's favorite line lately) been implemented properly -- if you are one of those people who are increasingly getting more telemarketer calls on your cell number, this is a huge deal.

* Safari runs faster on iOS7 than iOS6. 90% of what I do is browsing, so this can be a tradeoff that is well worth making.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by madeofpalk »

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.

Here's a video of the animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNvFR7Mgxk&t=30s

IMHO, this is the opposite of sloppy.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by warfangle »

Coincoin wrote: post #85
Jtsummers wrote: post #76

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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).

What? They fixed that? Nope, searching anything with "verse" still makes Google think it knows better than you and searches for "vs" instead.

Anything?

https://www.google.com/search?q=chapter+and+verse&oq=chapter...

Nope.

https://www.google.com/search?q=free%20verse ?

Nope.

Something just random, that I didn't think would have anything interesting?

https://www.google.com/search?q=seventeen+verse

Nope. What search terms replace "verse" with "vs" for you? Or do you google comparisons constantly?

Or are you just a troll?

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by hahainternet »

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

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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…

> Not having FM radio for example is like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs.

Tell that to my mother, who used her phone's built in FM radio daily until her retirement.

It's clear from the tone of your post though that dissent is useless.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by madeofpalk »

ahunt09 wrote: post #66
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…

I think that it's more complicated than just criticism of a less than perfect UI. I think it's an expression of the Apple community's concern that without Steve Jobs, Apple will no longer be able to produce the highly polished products that the community has come to expect.

> Apple community's concern that without Steve Jobs[...]

The Apple community isn't concerned about a lack of Jobs, it's a portion of the non-Apple, Tech community that likes to shout this one out.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by slantyyz »

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).

>> How it works and feels is much more important than how it looks ("design is how it works").

As an iPhone 4 user who upgraded to iOS 7, I would have loved the option to turn off all those extraneous animations that force me to wait for them to finish running before I can do anything.

In other words, I want to lose some "how it looks" features because they drag the whole thing down ("how it works") for me on my phone.

Re: Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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Post by sxcurry »

wehadfun wrote: post #89
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…

It probably took hours to create this tumblr and the author did not get paid. I think this tumblr is fantastic. We need more people like this. Ready to call out crap.

Crap? Really? I upgraded yesterday and think it's amazingly good, in spite of a few minor issues. Do you have any concept of what it took to imagine, develop, implement, test, and distribute something like this to 100 million devices?

Crap, really?

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