I'm a fan of everything in iOS7 bar the icons
Sums it up for me really. They should have taken some flat icon lessons form this
http://theultralinx.com/2013/05/miui-iphone-cydia.html
Am I the only one?
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Sums it up for me really. They should have taken some flat icon lessons form this
http://theultralinx.com/2013/05/miui-iphone-cydia.html
But thats all that happens... You go 'wow' when you first look at it and then it rapidly becomes 'meh' and it just ends up eating into resources etc...
That's why you go live tiles. Best of both worlds. Come on Apple, get copying MS and get some live tiles on there!
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Not sure what people are expecting these days?
Phones in general has reached a natural peak in terms of functionality and UI design (while retaining practicality), much like desktop OSes have.
Its near impossible to really innovate now.
Phones in general has reached a natural peak in terms of functionality and UI design (while retaining practicality), much like desktop OSes have.
Its near impossible to really innovate now.
Pretty much every design in history has people that like it, and people that don't.
I certainly think this one will grow on people when they actually see and use it, setting a darker wallpaper takes the bright edge off the theme too and that will help if people don't like that.
It's certainly a big improvement though.
I don't think widgets would be a wow factor, or even really that interesting, how iOS works means it doesn't really warrant them, and they're hugely over rated anyway, they just irritate me on my Android phones more than do anything useful.
I certainly think this one will grow on people when they actually see and use it, setting a darker wallpaper takes the bright edge off the theme too and that will help if people don't like that.
It's certainly a big improvement though.
I don't think widgets would be a wow factor, or even really that interesting, how iOS works means it doesn't really warrant them, and they're hugely over rated anyway, they just irritate me on my Android phones more than do anything useful.
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I think i pinned it, for me I hate this new see through crap its got going on, with some thing like the control center it just so bad.
Love the simple design of some of the apps like Safari and the Video player which have removed a lot of the crap we didn't need.
Love the simple design of some of the apps like Safari and the Video player which have removed a lot of the crap we didn't need.
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Yeah soon the phones will become filled with only useful features since we`ll get rid of other things...
It will just call, why text when you can call
Why do lines/bars mean more than dots?
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The line is a dot to you!
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You really think we reached the peak when they released the iPhone? That's just your lack of imagination speaking.
There are parts of the new interface that look just completely unthought-out, in particular like already mentioned the Control Center, and also the lack of 'buttons' on the navigation bar. All there is its place is blue text in a lighter font next to the black bold font of the navigation title. There is just too much white in general, the dots for the cellular signal I think have just been changed to dots from bars for the sake of changing, when I know that the bars would fit just as well as before.
Even the slide to unlock on the lock screen, from a HCI point of view, is not obvious to an iOS newcomer which direction you need to slide.
The styling is nice in some places, the icons and in general the flatness, but in others they've gone too extreme, and omitting key HCI concepts that make a UI good instead of just being average.
Even the slide to unlock on the lock screen, from a HCI point of view, is not obvious to an iOS newcomer which direction you need to slide.
The styling is nice in some places, the icons and in general the flatness, but in others they've gone too extreme, and omitting key HCI concepts that make a UI good instead of just being average.
Used to like iOS, but having moved to WP, i look at iOS7 & just think "and?"
Why do they still need to put names under all the icons, surely people must know that this icon is for email, this one for camera, this one for browser by now.
If my ipod touch will run it, i'll end up sticking it on, but somehow dont think the OH will wont her iphone upgrading to this.
Why do they still need to put names under all the icons, surely people must know that this icon is for email, this one for camera, this one for browser by now.
If my ipod touch will run it, i'll end up sticking it on, but somehow dont think the OH will wont her iphone upgrading to this.
Prior to the iPhone a peak was reached... It takes something massive to cause a dramatic shift in technology now which then progresses slowly until the next shift/jump. As I've said elsewhere, you can't reinvent the wheel year on year, but there are cycles where something new changes everything and then the next few years aim to polish and build on it.
Well I think it looks stunning. Very clean and simple and without any unnecessary clutter.
Of course it won't please everyone but what do you expect them to do? If they keep it the same people moan they're stuck in the past. If they change it then some won't like the new style.
Like it or not, this is the way all design seems to be going, not just iOS but Windows 8, Android and so on.
No-one's forcing you to upgrade - if you don't like the new style then stay with iOS6. Of course you'll miss out on the new features but at least you have the choice, unlike with Android where, once your phone is a year or so old, you'll probably not be offered an update at all and, even if you are, you'll have to wait ages for it.
I applaud Apple for having the bravery to try something new and for supporting phones over three years old.
Of course it won't please everyone but what do you expect them to do? If they keep it the same people moan they're stuck in the past. If they change it then some won't like the new style.
Like it or not, this is the way all design seems to be going, not just iOS but Windows 8, Android and so on.
No-one's forcing you to upgrade - if you don't like the new style then stay with iOS6. Of course you'll miss out on the new features but at least you have the choice, unlike with Android where, once your phone is a year or so old, you'll probably not be offered an update at all and, even if you are, you'll have to wait ages for it.
I applaud Apple for having the bravery to try something new and for supporting phones over three years old.
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I feel kind of indifferent towards it. There are some nice little tweaks (which probably should have been included years ago) but I don't think they've improved the design. They haven't made it worse either (IMO).
It feels like they've just made it look different for the sake of making it look different which in their case I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.
It feels like they've just made it look different for the sake of making it look different which in their case I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.
This really isn't a new design though. It's still fundamentally the same static grid. And I don't really know how Ive can sit there and promote the 'absence of clutter and ornamentation' and at the same time add parallax effects to the wallpaper, semi opaque overlays and animated embellishments to the first party apps.
I think it looks nice in places, but design philosophy he's promoting doesn't seem to match the product we're all seeing. The design seems weak, and that shows in the way it's been inconsistently applied.
I think it looks nice in places, but design philosophy he's promoting doesn't seem to match the product we're all seeing. The design seems weak, and that shows in the way it's been inconsistently applied.
