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Alternate Icons on iOS 7 Website Likely Old Marketing Material

munakib said:
these icons wont be changed, I have never seen apple change icons based on feedback from a BETA project. They will update it later if they feel the need. Currently to defend their brand, they will keep telling us how amazing these icons are and we simply dont get it. So everyone LIVE WITH IT! :(
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first world problems... I have to wonder if there is an Android forum where people are agonizing over the design of THEIR icons...
 
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Deal with it
 
I love it!

I'm using IOS 7 beta with my 4S, and it looks and works great. I would like a bit less neon overall, but thrilled at the level of stability, etc., in this beta.
 
I'm fine with the ideas of the designs for all the icons..
except game centre.

It looks like it was ripped directly from a 13-year-old's tutorial on how to make glass spheres in GIMP.

Ugly, Un-intuative and unnecessary.

(The Safari icon, in comparison, is minimalistic and simple.)
 
I understand completely why people don't like it, fine stay on iOS 6. For me it's a welcome upgrade and I can't wait to get it! :)
 
I don't know. I think I like the changes to the OS. But the icons all still look a bit randome. They lack the design language to unify them. Look really weak. Perhaps they look better in live use. I also ponder how they would look along side the existing range of icons for third party apps. Getting a bad feeling about this. Still might improve yet. No doubt there will be a trend with developers to change their icons to fit the new visual Eco system.
 
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ricosuave said:
For those of you who are using iOS 7, does the places button within photos still exists? I didn't see it in the keynote.
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It doesn't.

However, they have kind of added it in a different way. So where before you had your camera roll, which was a single grid of photos, it's now organised by time and location.
 
You're looking at them wrong.

These icons are actually great, so everyone shut up, you're looking at them wrong. I don't have ios 7, but i'm pretty sure this is what happened:

7 months ago...
In a small room at apple hq, johnny ives and co are discussing the removal of skeuomorphism. The great thing about skeuomorphism is that it describes things well; icons look like physical buttons with shading/gradient, and users know what they are immediately. The big problem was "how can we convey 3D depth to buttons/icons without the use of skeuomorphic design?"

Some time past...
The answer was to convey 3 dimensions in a different way, through the use of transparency, layers, and by utilizing the phone's accelerometer to move the background image. Pretty brilliant.

Currently...
Apple posts a photo of ios7 icons on their website with a white background (with faint transparency marks). People loose their ****. But they're intended to be looked as on top of a background image, and when you see that, i'm sure they will look stunning. The neon will stand out, they will convey properties of an icon, and the transparency will look modern and fresh.


Also, I bet Ive's has final say on icon design and for whatever reason the ball was dropped a bit. iOS7 was made in just 7 months. I bet they'll change some of them for congruity.
 
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thasan said:
and you are clever and you see it :D
its insulting to call someone Dull...you probably arent bright enough to figure that out :mad:

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of course (99% sure) he/she hasn't :rolleyes:
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You are among the dullest.
 
laurim said:
first world problems... I have to wonder if there is an Android forum where people are agonizing over the design of THEIR icons...
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No, you won't. However there is a big difference. iOS is closed. With android if you don't like a particular skin/theme you can in many cases change it or chose another vendor whose skin you like better. If you want to stay or you are invested in the Apple ecosystem then you don't have a choice - you have to take what Apple gives you. So yes people are going to be more vocal about changes they don't like.
 
laurim said:
I think the circles for signal strength make perfect sense. It's the indication of battery strength on the Mac laptops and on my lawnmower. The bar graph is stupid and takes too much vertical space. It's not like it's graphing actual data. If it makes you feel better, the dots are bars that haven't been stretched to increasing heights artificially. Instead of 4 bars, you have 4 dots. Is it that hard?
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No, it's not hard at all. But then again, I never said it was too hard for me to understand. Just that the vertical bars are more or less a standard practice, like the standardized icons on your car's controls. I never considered them as graphing actual data. Hell, for that matter, they could just use one vertical bar and make it taller or shorter depending on signal strength. Could even be a horizontal bar. There are lots of indicator possibilities, but having some things standardized helps people know where and what to look for as they use different devices. Just like operating different automobiles.
 
osaga said:
You're looking at them wrong.

These icons are actually great, so everyone shut up, you're looking at them wrong. I don't have ios 7, but i'm pretty sure this is what happened:

7 months ago...
In a small room at apple hq, johnny ives and co are discussing the removal of skeuomorphism. The great thing about skeuomorphism is that it describes things well; icons look like physical buttons with shading/gradient, and users know what they are immediately. The big problem was "how can we convey 3D depth to buttons/icons without the use of skeuomorphic design?"

Some time past...
The answer was to convey 3 dimensions in a different way, through the use of transparency, layers, and by utilizing the phone's accelerometer to move the background image. Pretty brilliant.

Currently...
Apple posts a photo of ios7 icons on their website with a white background (with faint transparency marks). People loose their ****. But they're intended to be looked as on top of a background image, and when you see that, i'm sure they will look stunning. The neon will stand out, they will convey properties of an icon, and the transparency will look modern and fresh.


Also, I bet Ive's has final say on icon design and for whatever reason the ball was dropped a bit. iOS7 was made in just 7 months. I bet they'll change some of them for congruity.
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Only problem is that this already exists in Android and isn't that brilliant at all. The icons are just terrible, and that's it. That's why people are upset. When 9to5Mac released a "mockup" of the icons, I commented there was no way the icons would look that bad, lets just wait for WWDC. Well it turns out the icons were nearly exactly correct. So yes, they really are just that bad. It has nothing to do with brilliance or misunderstood genius.
 
TheGenerous said:
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Deal with it
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not really, the software does not really polished up. ;)

people are not complaining just sake of complaining. iOS 7 supposed to be fix the inconsistency across the app and unify them but where as it did the opposite.
 
I'm sorry, I just can't get over how horrible the icons are. So bad. The emperor has no clothes, folks.

The interaction design is fine or perhaps an improvement in spots- you can only truly tell once you use it. Readability a little down, for sure. Those thin fonts with blurred backgrounds are terrible (Windows 7 Aero anyone?) But with that said, the typography in most places is a nice shift in the right direction on retina displays.
 
I don't understand why everyone's complaining about Game Center's icon when no one uses I t anyway. And if you tell me it looks inconcistant with the rest if the UI, inconsistency or not I ****ing love the look of the game center icon and even more so how the Actual app looks. And I don't know why everyone's bitching about Safari's icon either. It looks fine to me.

And since I mentioned inconsistency, the camera app icon looks the most out of place.
 
xdhd350 said:
No, it's not hard at all. But then again, I never said it was too hard for me to understand. Just that the vertical bars are more or less a standard practice, like the standardized icons on your car's controls. I never considered them as graphing actual data. Hell, for that matter, they could just use one vertical bar and make it taller or shorter depending on signal strength. Could even be a horizontal bar. There are lots of indicator possibilities, but having some things standardized helps people know where and what to look for as they use different devices. Just like operating different automobiles.
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I think people will get over it. Really. If I roll my eyes even harder, the nerves will tear right off my eyeballs. seriously. Have you ever. EVER. changed your behavior based on how many bars you have?
 
the8thark said:
I am neither european nor asian. I am Australian. And what was shown on iOS7 in the keynote looked amazing to me. Including the new icons. These icons bring to iOS what was lacking in some parts of OS X recently. Colour.

I am glad Apple told Forstall what part of his lower half to shove his skumorphism up. And hope it never comes back. For the short time Ive and co had to work on iOS I am amazed at what they did do and it'll only get better.

I think everyone has their own tastes when it comes to icons. Some love them and others hate them.
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I love the redesign especially the Safari icon.

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wilhelmer said:
I just noticed that the newsstand icon looks different in the US and the international version:

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So they come up with different sets for internationalization? Poor design choice imo. Good signs are globally recognizable...
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The whole idea of news stand is a miss imo. I dont think it should be on iOS at all.
 
azentropy said:
No, you won't. However there is a big difference. iOS is closed. With android if you don't like a particular skin/theme you can in many cases change it or chose another vendor whose skin you like better. If you want to stay or you are invested in the Apple ecosystem then you don't have a choice - you have to take what Apple gives you. So yes people are going to be more vocal about changes they don't like.
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Well there is hope for you. You can go to a platform that satisfies your needs.
 
AdonisSMU said:
Why is that one using googles icon for mail?

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Sure it is. I know if the design bothered me that much Id move along.
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Run from a visual issue to a bunch of all kinds of issues? Yeah, that's a great idea.

I'll stick to whining and maybe they will change something for the better instead.
 
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