Bash my UI

[Awooga]

Hello,

For the past weeks I've been working on the UI of an iPhone app (the coder left me in the lurch but I thought it would be a good exercise to complete it; maybe I can sell it to someone else)

Anyway, it's a photo uploader for the iPhone & iPod touch and looks like this (by now):

As you can see i'm not a pro, but I want to improve...
If you can tell me what's wrong with the UI you would help me a lot...

Thanks in advance
Benedikt

 

[psonice]

Looks good to me. Only thing I'm not too keen on is the mail/twitpic etc. icons. They're good, but look too much like app icons instead of buttons, especially on a dock-like bar at the bottom. Unless of course they launch an app-like new window?

 

[Awooga]

Looks good to me. Only thing I'm not too keen on is the mail/twitpic etc. icons. They're good, but look too much like app icons instead of buttons, especially on a dock-like bar at the bottom. Unless of course they launch an app-like new window?

No, actually not...

An alternative would be:
1.) circular icons
2.) angular icons
3.) text (doesn't work very well, as you have to make the text quite tiny; it also doesn't look like a button then...)

Or are there any other alternatives?

Thanks a lot for your comment...

 

[psonice]

Just make the buttons anything other than square with rounded corners? If they were rectangular, they'd look like buttons, it's just that they are pretty much the exact same size + shape as the iphone's app icons so that's what they look like. Just a small difference would do it.

 

[Shawnpk]

I say go either round or segmented. Round will go nicely with the upload image and segmented will go nicely with the camera/library button. Also, it looks like you need a title on your navigation bar.