I personally despise the look of live tiles and I wouldn't be able to stand using a Windows phone or Windows 8. Why not just use a Windows phone if you want that?
I do agree with the second half though.
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iOS 7 Hopes and Wishes (merged)
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I personally despise the look of live tiles and I wouldn't be able to stand using a Windows phone or Windows 8. Why not just use a Windows phone if you want that?
I do agree with the second half though.
My top things would be..
Completely redesigned SMS app..
iPod streaming lyrics (like soundhound)
Visual voice mail upgrades
Contact menu updated with pictures
Toggles in notification center
New email app
New way to scroll back through words for editing(circle thing sucks)
Completely redesigned SMS app..
iPod streaming lyrics (like soundhound)
Visual voice mail upgrades
Contact menu updated with pictures
Toggles in notification center
New email app
New way to scroll back through words for editing(circle thing sucks)
Not live tiles in the exact Windows Phone sense, more in an iOS way. For example, I'd like my weather app to show the current temperature instead of 73 degrees and sunny all the time.
Kill the lock screen. That's useless. And make homescreen with large clock and live weather app and launch pad.
Make Notification Center sync with its self.
Annoying when you have it on 3 devices you have to manually clear it off each device everytime you've read it on 1 device
Annoying when you have it on 3 devices you have to manually clear it off each device everytime you've read it on 1 device
Ok I see what you mean. I agree I've always thought it'd be cool if the clock app would show the actual time. They make the Calendar app do that, why not?
Another little thing that would be kinda cool and maybe handy.... if in the settings 'app', you had the hidden search box so you could filter out the settings. Like on OS X.
Could help a lot of people.
Could help a lot of people.
This.
I honestly do believe that average smartphone user is educated enough to be able to deal with a more complex UI. And by educated I mean "has used a smartphone and the technologies in it long enough to have learned a thing or two".
Tight integration with other services: Dropbox, Flickr, Evernote.
No more skeumorph designs.
Ability to remove Apple default apps.
Ability to set default apps for such things as camera, browser, mail, including the lock screen.
Multi user accounts on the iPad, with individual Apple ID's.
Side by Side feature for apps on iPad.
NFC (wallet and mobile to mobile syncing)
Party mode for Facetime (me, my mom, and sister who all live in different cities,all on our devices chatting for example)
No more skeumorph designs.
Ability to remove Apple default apps.
Ability to set default apps for such things as camera, browser, mail, including the lock screen.
Multi user accounts on the iPad, with individual Apple ID's.
Side by Side feature for apps on iPad.
NFC (wallet and mobile to mobile syncing)
Party mode for Facetime (me, my mom, and sister who all live in different cities,all on our devices chatting for example)
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But I like the lock screen
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NEW. UI. !!
I'm so tired of the same home screen every day for the past year and a half I could about barf. lol first world problems
But I like the lock screen
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NEW. UI. !!
I'm so tired of the same home screen every day for the past year and a half I could about barf. lol first world problems
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I think it needs both.
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I completely agree
Nothing ever needs a more complex UI. It can have more advanced features without being unsimplisitic and confusing.
Is Skeumorphic design that is the problem or bad design that just happens to be Skeumorphic?
You wouldn't want bad non-skeumorphic design either right?
Also curious do you want Finder on your iOS device?
Sure Finder was a great thing 20years ago but in many ways it's also the most anachronistic skeumorphic design idea possible.
To me bad design is bad design, and good design is good design. Skeumorhpic or otherwise. There are many instances in iOS of bad or dated very quickly design that really could be overhauled, but i wouldn't rule out a particular design track because it was over used by people who didn't know better.
I just want a UI refresh. It looks terribly dated. My iPhone 2G (1.1.4 with installer) with the suave theme looks better than my iPad on iOS 6. Btw it could be a little more stable I've noticed a few crashes on Safari but mostly in Mail.
And native file support would be great, specially if it had some kind of dropbox support.
And native file support would be great, specially if it had some kind of dropbox support.
For my part, it would be the latter. I'm happy to see familiar analogies used to make functionality more predictable.
But I think most people would agree, that more recently, Apple has made a few design choices that clearly takes skeumorphic design to an extreme that actually makes the app less functional and harder to use. Specifically the Podcast app is pretty strange and remarkably inconsistent from the rest of iOS.
Now that orthodox skeumorphic enthusiast Forstall is gone, I'm pretty sure things are changing over in Cupertino. For the better.
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Geofenced springboard layouts.
When I travel to NYC, I want my apps to be organized with NYC/transit apps on the first home screen. When I go back home to my humble suburb, I want those tucked away (or even removed) since they're useless. When I'm in, say, Europe, I want another set of travel-related apps up front.
When I travel to NYC, I want my apps to be organized with NYC/transit apps on the first home screen. When I go back home to my humble suburb, I want those tucked away (or even removed) since they're useless. When I'm in, say, Europe, I want another set of travel-related apps up front.
I don't think Forstall was a designer, a good engineer by all reports, but not a designer. Engineer tend to get fixated on ideas like that, which is why it's very rare to see people who cross over between the two. I think he was just following "What steve would do" without ever understanding when it didn't work and importantly when there were opportunities to push design new ways and train the user into new function.
Yeah I think there are many ways just like this geofencing could make the device more responsive. I'd happily give up consistency on the first page for this.
They could do this on the spotlight page have it so you tap the search field to bring up the keyboard, but otherwise it's a page of the apps the phone thinks you would want. Let the user pick between page 1 or spotlight as the their home page. Even go as far as user defined fixed spots, so the public transport app is always in the same spot. Local food guide in another, etc.
To each his own
I frankly don't mind complexity to some extent, as long as it's still Apple style. I wouldn't mind having to actually learn something new about iOS on my own for once.
I frankly don't mind complexity to some extent, as long as it's still Apple style. I wouldn't mind having to actually learn something new about iOS on my own for once.
