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Resolved Am I the only one? [who hates the idea of flat]
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Not that I think it *will* be flat but you're not alone.
Flat design is synonymous with lazy designer.
There's a 100% chance that no matter what Apple announces, the tech blogs and commenters will scream "but, but... Google, Google, Google. Apple is done. Sky is falling".
So predictable.
I know, it's childish, obvious and tedious. I just want to scream "SHUT UPPPPPPPPP YOU GOONS!!"
Negative press (IE: being a totally lazy journalist) seems to sell, which is sad, as positive, happy stories are FAR better for the heart
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I wait for the phrase "iPhone killer" to be used, then laugh with despair at the sheer ineptitude of the person using it. Next up, will be "revolutionary" and "a game changer".
Yeah, whatever... how about a record changer, as-in change the record, it's cracked!
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Which is funny because as many have pointed out OS X has been moving towards flat since its inception.
I envision a unified look and feel. I expect X.9 to continue to get flat (though I think that they bring back the colors in areas like the favorites bar - after all flat doesn't mean colorless or drab) and iOS to move towards that look and feel.
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I with you, iOS needs more functionality, these flat mock-ups remind me of something created by kids with crayons on white paper, which is why so many people can't stand how windows 8 looks. I just can't imagine Apple doing that to the iPhone.
Heavy gradients are a thing of the past, deal with it.
Honestly, this crusade against flat seems to be perpetrated by people with little taste or design sense.
Was that supposed to be an argument against flat design being lazy because it didn't work - all I saw was a gallery lazy, uninspired, and bland designs.
No, it's "perpetrated" by people that have the common sense to realise that slapping a bunch of rectangles on a page with no colour isn't a viable sense of design.
Common sense? Just because you think flat design is "lazy" doesn't mean it isn't viable. You obviously have no concept of minimalism.
Your opinion doesn't make something fact.
You are basically saying, a design that has multitudes of layers to the point of chaotic is better than minimal with clean lines and solid colors. I think the world of design has a few things to argue about that.
Uh huh. So you'd rather have something that's overcrowded and layered with unnecessary gloss? Good thing you're not a graphic designer.
BS
Go get the Yahoo Weather app, check out the wind, precipitation, and the Sun & Moon and then come back and tell us you think it looks like a lazy designer made it.
Is all flat design good? Obviously not. But your sweeping statement is absurd.
More/Less/Slightly more?
Watch --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
PS: MacRumors is hilarious, because everyone speaks as if they are a prophet with divine wisdom, and know best. If people were less snotty and arrogant, this forum would be more tolerable.
Human pride - SO very ugly.
Snap chat
Do you think Snap Chat has a heads up on the FLAT design? Look at the newest update of their app. Very Flat totally different experience.
Do you think Snap Chat has a heads up on the FLAT design? Look at the newest update of their app. Very Flat totally different experience.
Oh, no - I wasn't referring to you! Also, watch the video if you get time - it's funny because it is SO true Take care
i said usually, not 100% of the time lol. and i know its gonna happen regardless, so i learned not to care anymore about it.
You know, some days I wake up in the morning and come here to read the intelligent posts.
You're not really helping me out here.
Skeuomorphism in iOS has gotten totally out of hand. It has gotten to a point where the app lose functionality. The contacts app looks like a book on the iPad. That design paradigm limits the potential functionality of a contacts app. Same story with the Reminders app and the Notes app.
No, you absolutely do not know what you're talking about. Nothing has been shown yet. You're making yourself miserable all over this forum over something that hasn't happened yet.
I love talking with people who come from different perspectives and have different opinions, there's a lot of benefit to skeumorphism, sure, and it's added a lot of magic that people have fallen in love with iOS for. I think these are the things you're worried about losing.
Time will tell on Monday what will actually go down. If the past several decades of this company's business practices and history are any indication, they will show us a tempered update on Monday, not one that will completely overhaul everything they've been doing and that's made iOS so successful over the past 6 years or so.
So for now, I recommend you don't go into panic mode and wait till Monday to see what happens. If this is a huge issue for you, I'm pretty positive you could jailbreak your device and slap on a skin that will bring back all the skeumorphic magic you're afraid of losing.
Oh, and lastly, there's always the solution to not update. That should pretty much solve every single one of your concerns.
One thing I find interesting was the report that Apple has been playing around with the idea of motion based icon visuals similar to what the volume slider does in iOS 6.
Continued development of such a feature as well as its very existence contradicts what everyone is assuming Apple means by going towards "flat" design.
Continued development of such a feature as well as its very existence contradicts what everyone is assuming Apple means by going towards "flat" design.
http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/06/wwdc-...books-genius-like-radio-app-plus-new-tidbits/