Why do people care so much about ICON looks - it is what happens when you select that makes the difference. As long as I can tell what each is for I don't care what they look like. I buy and use a phone or tablet for function and not for style.
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App icons for iOS 8 and beyond
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Because I paid for a premium products with a premium look and feel. It does that job perfectly on the hardware side of things but the software no longer does. I do not want the UI of my sleek and elegantly designed iPhone to look childish and cartoonish looking. It doesn't mesh very well. The iOS 7 design language may complement the 5c well but not the rest of the lineup.
I want to UI to look like it belongs on an apple device and not a competitors or a Chinese counterfeit.
I want apple to think different and innovate not follow trends or copy competitors.
If iOS 7 is any indication of apple product or service without the guidance and direction of Steve Jobs, then I'm very worried. I love apple, but iOS 7 has been another slip up under Cook although it does has potential nonetheless.
Hopefully they learned from what worked and what didn't in 7 and make an OS upgrade that looks and feels great that gets people excited about apple again and not something that is made for the sake of being new or different.
I've been an iOS user for 6 years, and iOS 7 did get me excited about Apple again. I felt that iOS needed a design refresh at least a year or two before iOS 6, so the change with iOS 7 was very welcome. I, too, enjoy a premium look and feel, and iOS 7 paired with my iPhone 5s gives me just that.
I greatly enjoy it. I feel the design of iOS 7 exceeds that of iOS 6 and before, and the new features just enhance the experience. I hope iOS 8 continues down the same path as iOS 7.
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And that's what you got.
You got that too. The iOS 7 UI does not look childish and cartoonish. It's modern. It's modern UI design that just not used to its full potential.
Who knows how advanced this alleged build is, when it dates back to, so much can happen in a month, I'll be hoping to see some radical changes within the icons/dock until I have clear proof it ain't gonna happen
I hope so too!
Some icons are actually fine the way they are but some need a complete re-do (I'm looking at you Safari, Camera, Photos, Game Center, etc.). I just think they need a consistent look and feel across the board.
As for the dock, I'm not too crazy about the flat dock as it feels like a step backwards (iOS 1-3). If they don't wanna make it a 3D shelf, the least they can do is reduce the height. I want less obstruction of my wallpaper! Would a 3D dock fit within iOS 7's design philosophy? It would work better with the whole parallax thing on the home screen IMO.
This got me thinking, maybe this is why they went with that grid system for the existing icons so they can scale into circles later on nicely.
Yeah but then people won't be able to bitch. They need to complain about things that are useless, of course. Why would they have better things to do?
Yes i loved the clean sharp interface, frosted glass look and paralax in 1995 :^)
Thanks for trying.
No parallax, but we sure got lots of "flat" and a limited palette of colors. And ios 7 did away with the "sharp interface". Frosted glass might as well be fake leather or felt.
I fee like if they were going to switch to round apps they would've just done it in iOS 7. I mean that was a redesign of iOS
I think these icons are here to stay, they've already done what they needed to in terms of design in iOS 7, now for 8 they will polish and refine it, and maybe make more smaller tweaks. I wouldn't expect any drastic icon changes except for maybe iTunes if the rumors about the OS X one getting redesigned are true, that could mean in iOS 8 and iTunes 12, the icons and all storefront apps could be revamped. I expect a lot of speed optimizations for iOS 8.