What’s a good technical objective/improvement for hiding the location status/scrubber and other typical music file controls in the iOS music app to off-screen, requiring additional taps to access what used to be out in front? What’s the benefit of not using all that empty white space in this instance, especially considering the fad of making bezels as small as possible (which tends to create more available space...for emptiness).
It’s often too hard to find (or none really exists) to see the functional/technical objective of certain ”overnight changes” in 2013, when an action results in more work for a user. For the 1,000th time, it’s not that iOS6 was perfect and should be brought back. Rather, there wasn’t this sense then like there is now that the user should be presented with the absolute minimal amount of interface cues. And, gladly, someone at Apple is realizing those mistakes and slowly bringing back more common-sense interface cues with each iOS revision.
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I have no problem agreeing that aspects of iOS6 were “too far” and unnecessary extra design fluff. Similarly, there are too many aspects of unnecessary extra design minimalism with flat design and iOS/OSX/website design (in general) after iOS and to today. It’s good to see things heading back towards a common sense middle.
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I have a similar argument for Apple hardware. As someone who records multi-track music often, it’s especially aggravating to live thru all the port-reduction, including the ever-still-so-common USB-A and headphone jack ports. Just last weekend I was recording music on my portable MacBook Air which thankfully still has a headphone jack. I however was using my AirPods and there was significant delay/latency and garble/distortion to the point that they were unusable. Had I not had a 1/8” headphone jack I would have been forced to leave my workspot and plug into my USB hub and USB audio interface, just to get access to a corded zero-latency headphone. Apple’s focus on minimalism via port reduction and abandonment too often results in noticeable pain for me that was not present before 2013.
Again, it should be form ahead of function for these technological powerhouses. Are they designing for the runway or real life?