The entire OS is not a 6 months work. It can goes as far as 2 years ago.
Source: WWDC developer videos (I forgot which section)
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Does Jonny Ive really understand interface design?
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The entire OS is not a 6 months work. It can goes as far as 2 years ago.
Source: WWDC developer videos (I forgot which section)
All signs indicate that he knows nothing about design and is likely color blind.
You must have one helluva time navigating the web; considering most of the links are hyper-text.
And a sunflower tells you it's about photos?
People take pictures of flowers. Nobody takes pictures of weird colour wheels.
Who says the photos app icon has to be something people take pictures off
So it could be a baby and it would make perfect sense by that standard?
No
You can't get a home builder to do interior design, their perspective will always be a little or way off.
Tim Cook is giving Jony Ives and Craig Federighi too much freedom, all three of them are out of noggin lately.
There's only two ways to visually design a OS with a "Flat" look and unfortunately iOS 7 doesn't land on A or B.
A ) Super flat non-gradient design must be a two colour scheme, such as Windows Phone 7 & 8. Unfortunately it's a waste of a high resolution screen and that explains how the Lumia 900 got away with their mid range specs during their launch.
B ) Flat design with gradients that are very subtle with colour change, 3D F/X with minor shadowing and drop shadows, they must be constant across the board. Perfect example would be Skype, eBay, Google and Facebook mobile which had achieved this design aspect properly.
Honestly, iOS 7 looks like a page ripped out of Dora's colouring book, My Little Pony and a essentially a Teletubby phone. Its humanly impossible to have two neon colours that are in a gradient and sitting on a white background to look good. You can't even place bright yellow on white back ground.
An eye for design is something you're born with, enhanced when you take a design course and fully brought to life when you're in the working field
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The Apple Store Icon is Apple's "best" ver so far, it's a "little" better than stock apps.
You can't get a home builder to do interior design, their perspective will always be a little or way off.
Tim Cook is giving Jony Ives and Craig Federighi too much freedom, all three of them are out of noggin lately.
There's only two ways to visually design a OS with a "Flat" look and unfortunately iOS 7 doesn't land on A or B.
A ) Super flat non-gradient design must be a two colour scheme, such as Windows Phone 7 & 8. Unfortunately it's a waste of a high resolution screen and that explains how the Lumia 900 got away with their mid range specs during their launch.
B ) Flat design with gradients that are very subtle with colour change, 3D F/X with minor shadowing and drop shadows, they must be constant across the board. Perfect example would be Skype, eBay, Google and Facebook mobile which had achieved this design aspect properly.
Honestly, iOS 7 looks like a page ripped out of Dora's colouring book, My Little Pony and a essentially a Teletubby phone. Its humanly impossible to have two neon colours that are in a gradient and sitting on a white background to look good. You can't even place bright yellow on white back ground.
An eye for design is something you're born with, enhanced when you take a design course and fully brought to life when you're in the working field
PS:
The Apple Store Icon is Apple's "best" ver so far, it's a "little" better than stock apps.
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Dont forget, what you see in beta 1 is exactly what the final version is going to be. They wont care about the other 4+ beta's
Greetings from the future. You were right. The golden master of iOS 7 felt a lot more finished and had a much better set of icons. And most of the interface complaints after that were resolved in 7.1. However, by travelling back in time to tell you this, I fear I have inadvertently created a timeline where iOS 7 stayed exactly the same as it was in the first beta. Whoops.
Actually, colourblindness makes iOS 7 look better, not worse. I showed a screenshot of it to my colourblind father, and he quite liked it. I then looked at the home screen myself with a red/green colourblindness simulator, and the look is significantly improved from the mess of colours it had before. So tell me who is colourblind, the users or the designers?
The difference is web is content and not an OS/UI which are completely different things. Also most things for the web were designed before touch interfaces and before mobile interfaces, so using that as an example of how things should be especially for touch interfaces on smaller mobile devices is simply not a good idea at best.
Who says the photos app icon has to be something people take pictures off
So it could be a baby and it would make perfect sense by that standard?
Or food... Considering that's the most clicks item... Hehe
Haha, you've got a point there. However, as far as browsing iOS, I've been so used to using buttons. It just became natural to me. Tapping text on the web is its own thing.
I think my problem with Apple's implementation of flat design (and flat design in general), is that there's no tactility, no small satisfaction or reward for using the UI. It makes the icons and OS looks way less warm/friendly, and almost unnatural. It lost its human touch.
I wish they would've dialed back some of the unwanted flourishes, but reengineered the apps more. Third party apps often have a simpler, better design than Apple's stock apps which are becoming more and more cluttered with toggles, buttons, and options.
I wish they would've dialed back some of the unwanted flourishes, but reengineered the apps more. Third party apps often have a simpler, better design than Apple's stock apps which are becoming more and more cluttered with toggles, buttons, and options.
I really like the new design. Not all icons are that great, but overall an improvement from ios6. The main problem for me is that the ui is not consistent throughout the os.
For example:
When I want to create a new text message, the icon (which is not a + sign, like many others in the os) is above right. When I want to create a new email, the icon (also not a + sign) is below on the right. To create a new album/folder in the gallery (pictures) app, the icon (a + sign) is above left. A new appointement in the calendar app is above right and this time also a + sign.
I just hope it gets more a little more consistent in the future.
For example:
When I want to create a new text message, the icon (which is not a + sign, like many others in the os) is above right. When I want to create a new email, the icon (also not a + sign) is below on the right. To create a new album/folder in the gallery (pictures) app, the icon (a + sign) is above left. A new appointement in the calendar app is above right and this time also a + sign.
I just hope it gets more a little more consistent in the future.
LOL I couldn't stand the look of iOS 7 and seriously considered jumping to an HTC One, but after a few days, you get used it and it makes iOS 6 look SO dated. You are spot on.
It does help, it's subtle, but works. You could try the turning on Dynamic Type as well for apps that support that feature.
Settings>General>Text Size
I understand why it is under Accessibility, but I could see a case being made for lumping all text related options under 'Text Size'.
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THAT would go great with a gold iPhone....
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Yep, no one takes pics of a color wheel...
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