I can't believe Apple is incapable of adding a live weather icon. Looks like I'll continue using Fahrenheit for the time being.
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You should start believing then, bacause that's what they did. Clock showing time is fine, but weather ... no way.
I agree with your story, small nuance though, older people won't understand the meaning of the new buttons, especially not the tiny box looking icon's. I'm a graphical user interface designer myself and it even cost me some time to figure out what was doing what but that's because I'm not afraid to just try it, older people often don't have this "courage" being afraid to erase everything by mistake.
I give iOS 7 a 5 minus at the scale of 1 to 10. Hopefully they can lift it up to 6 or 7 with new designs, or even better, let the user decide with what design they like to work with.
Ive is an industrial designer, that's a whole other ballgame when talking about designing machines and user interfaces. That's where it went wrong, they, Apple, thought Ive could design everything and Apple was wrong. Simple as that.
Dumbest statement ever , works great on my iPhone 5 , and after using it for almost a week (registered developer ) ill never revert back ...! Very happy with what was done . And Xcode 5 is a big step up as well ....
Everything has been thought through. And through.
Maybe if the icons were "thought-through" only once they wouldn't look so repulsive. Apple got it wrong this time, it's not only how ugly and nonuniform the icons and the native apps look, it's that the whole new feel they gave to the new iOS is so unAplle-like and lacks its own character.
It's too bad that a single aspect of a new iOS (the terrible design in that case) could overshadow all the great functionality that was added. What were they thinking?
Maybe if the icons were "thought-through" only once they wouldn't look so repulsive. Apple got it wrong this time, it's not only how ugly and nonuniform the icons and the native apps look, it's that the whole new feel they gave to the new iOS is so unAplle-like and lacks its own character.
It's too bad that a single aspect of a new iOS (the terrible design in that case) could overshadow all the great functionality that was added. What were they thinking?
Bad news for Apple: The iOS 7 backlash has begun
Craig Federighi, Apple senior vice president of software engineering, announces the company's iOS 7 mobile software at Apple's Worldwide Developers.
Apple described the revamped look of its upcoming iOS 7 software as "stunning," with "an elegant color palette" and typography that's been "refined for a cleaner, simpler look."
But a chorus of critics is chiming in with negative reviews of the mobile operating system.
Apple showed off iOS 7 on Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Many industry watchers quickly praised Apple for finally changing the look of its iPhone software, which has been static since its debut in June 2007. Many still praise the revamp, though some have noted Apple seemed to be taking its design cues from rivals Microsoft (MSFT), BlackBerry (BBRY) and the former Palm's WebOS.
But the tide seems to have turned toward the negative.
The Atlantic reported that some designers were calling Apple's new flat-looking iOS user interface "ugly," "harsh" and "blinding."
Ryan Katkov, a designer for Life360, thinks Apple fell victim to "design by committee," something for which Google (GOOG) is famous, he wrote.
Joshua Topolsky, a writer at the Verge, said the iOS 7 design is confusing and inconsistent.
Criticism of Apple's new color scheme was particularly rough.
"Am I alone in thinking the iOS 7 home screen icons look ugly, poorly balanced, and of an unattractive color (palette)?" Circa CEO Matt Galligan wrote.
Designer Jason Santa Maria tweeted that iOS 7 got its color palette "from a Pantone fire sale " and the user interface was hit with a "ugly stick ."
Search Twitter for "iOS 7" and "ugly" and you'll find many more such comments.
Check out the comments to the Mashable review article. Commenters said iOS 7 looks "cheap," "childish" and "designed by Fisher Price." A number of posters said Apple's late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, known for his good taste, would never have approved the new look.
"My eyes hurt from the fluorescence!" wrote Kiran Kashalkar.
"It's like I'm looking at the poop of a unicorn that had diarrhea from eating too many Skittles," said Eli DeOliveira.
"My eyes are burning," wrote Michelle Romanowski.
"Those gradients hurt my eyes!" said Sais Shishir KS.
Judging from the comments online, the bright pastel colors of iOS 7 are giving a lot of people headaches.
The backlash against the new iOS is picking up steam with Tumblr blogs being created to criticize it. One blog, Designers Complaining, has compiled Twitter complaints about iOS 7, many of which are quite funny. Another Tumblr blog called Jony Ive Redesigns Things parodies iOS 7 by showing what other things would look like with the new motif, created by Apple's design chief.
Apple shares were down a fraction in afternoon trading on the stock market today. If the direction holds, it would be Apple's third down day in a row.
Source: http://news.investors.com/technolog...-aapl-facing-backlash-over-ios-7-redesign.htm
Doesn't need any explanation
Craig Federighi, Apple senior vice president of software engineering, announces the company's iOS 7 mobile software at Apple's Worldwide Developers.
Apple described the revamped look of its upcoming iOS 7 software as "stunning," with "an elegant color palette" and typography that's been "refined for a cleaner, simpler look."
But a chorus of critics is chiming in with negative reviews of the mobile operating system.
Apple showed off iOS 7 on Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Many industry watchers quickly praised Apple for finally changing the look of its iPhone software, which has been static since its debut in June 2007. Many still praise the revamp, though some have noted Apple seemed to be taking its design cues from rivals Microsoft (MSFT), BlackBerry (BBRY) and the former Palm's WebOS.
But the tide seems to have turned toward the negative.
The Atlantic reported that some designers were calling Apple's new flat-looking iOS user interface "ugly," "harsh" and "blinding."
Ryan Katkov, a designer for Life360, thinks Apple fell victim to "design by committee," something for which Google (GOOG) is famous, he wrote.
Joshua Topolsky, a writer at the Verge, said the iOS 7 design is confusing and inconsistent.
Criticism of Apple's new color scheme was particularly rough.
"Am I alone in thinking the iOS 7 home screen icons look ugly, poorly balanced, and of an unattractive color (palette)?" Circa CEO Matt Galligan wrote.
Designer Jason Santa Maria tweeted that iOS 7 got its color palette "from a Pantone fire sale " and the user interface was hit with a "ugly stick ."
Search Twitter for "iOS 7" and "ugly" and you'll find many more such comments.
Check out the comments to the Mashable review article. Commenters said iOS 7 looks "cheap," "childish" and "designed by Fisher Price." A number of posters said Apple's late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, known for his good taste, would never have approved the new look.
"My eyes hurt from the fluorescence!" wrote Kiran Kashalkar.
"It's like I'm looking at the poop of a unicorn that had diarrhea from eating too many Skittles," said Eli DeOliveira.
"My eyes are burning," wrote Michelle Romanowski.
"Those gradients hurt my eyes!" said Sais Shishir KS.
Judging from the comments online, the bright pastel colors of iOS 7 are giving a lot of people headaches.
The backlash against the new iOS is picking up steam with Tumblr blogs being created to criticize it. One blog, Designers Complaining, has compiled Twitter complaints about iOS 7, many of which are quite funny. Another Tumblr blog called Jony Ive Redesigns Things parodies iOS 7 by showing what other things would look like with the new motif, created by Apple's design chief.
Apple shares were down a fraction in afternoon trading on the stock market today. If the direction holds, it would be Apple's third down day in a row.
Source: http://news.investors.com/technolog...-aapl-facing-backlash-over-ios-7-redesign.htm
Doesn't need any explanation
You mean, no mater what Apple does, Apple fanboys will always shout hallelujah. Apple already know's about the bad reviews which are by any means legitimate. You can't argue about 'taste' but you sure can argue about bad interaction design. Some "buttons" doesn't make any sense, it's a guessing game. Apple need to adjust this and quite frankly they already doing so.
Looking it at the bright side, as a developer (and not a graphic designer) I can make icons similar to those ones (for my apps)...
It is not going to happen but apple could launch an open contest to create the icons. The prize could be the new mac pro fully equipped + 3 displays + 5,000 iTunes credit (or something like that)
It is not going to happen but apple could launch an open contest to create the icons. The prize could be the new mac pro fully equipped + 3 displays + 5,000 iTunes credit (or something like that)
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The subtle gradients of the old weather icon is where they should be aiming with all their apps IMO.
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That's fantastic.
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That's fantastic.
It's still a question of taste, but colours and consistency are much better in that rendering.
The gamecenter design makes the most sense to me. The circles are abstract --this carries over to the App, which also utilizes circles for displaying and sorting data. MUCH more logical and functional than green felt.
I hope Apple sticks to their design principles and tells the critics to take a hike.
The shadow in the icons look a bit too much (it would only work when viewing the phone from that specific angle, unless it had a dynamic shadows system that would be too much work for little gain). But everything else in that design is great.
I hope Apple sticks to their design principles and tells the critics to take a hike.
If they hike with their wallets it might not be the best idea.
I like the notion behind it but feel like its too busy. They could have done two icons and the point would be there. Four is too much.
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They do mean something. They indicate the strength of your connection.
My issue is that for years they only seem to have judged that based in distance to the towers and no indication of the traffic currently going through them. I would like to see them come up with a way to calculate based on both. So we get a better idea of our signal.
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I disagree just a little. I think that some slight difference and 'sets' is okay. But they need a better logic in who how they assemble the sets. Something to help trigger intuitive leaps with customers. So like their 'message' apps would be a set and might be phone, messages and FaceTime. Internet might be a set with email and safari. And so on.
Consensus
I read ALL comments on iOS 7 icons, and here is the consensus: 4% -- ROTTEN.
The icons are so bad, in my opinion, that I am really not looking forward to upgrading for the first time since iPhone, but I know eventually I will have to. I just hope this does not metastasize to OS X.
I read ALL comments on iOS 7 icons, and here is the consensus: 4% -- ROTTEN.
The icons are so bad, in my opinion, that I am really not looking forward to upgrading for the first time since iPhone, but I know eventually I will have to. I just hope this does not metastasize to OS X.
They are likely capable of doing it. They just choose not to. Perhaps since, unlike the clock which can update offline, it would need to sync with a server on a regular basis to verify that info and they felt that was too much of a potential drain to the system to hoist in everyone.