In regards to the Game Center icon: I hated it until I actually used the app, which I rarely do (love to play games on my iOS devices, but this just isn't a feature I need for most of them). The layout of the app itself is exactly the same was what's shown in the icon. I think that makes it a good design choice. After a couple of times using Game Center, I think everyone will understand it and it will make more sense.
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For anyone complaining about icons... which ones and why?
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I can't wear my black leather jacket with any of the icons on my iPhone. So I have to use android when I'm in a leather state of mind.
I think the icon redesign is better, especially when taken together. The icons now are much more distinctive. The old camera icon was just a lens that was hard to decipher, compared to the obviousness of the new icon.
The only one I dislike is the newsstand icon. Because it's a too complicated illustration for the size. I like the icon, but it doesn't work at small sizes.
The only one I dislike is the newsstand icon. Because it's a too complicated illustration for the size. I like the icon, but it doesn't work at small sizes.
But wouldn't that suggest it's a chess game?
Game Centre isn't actually a game, so some game related icon would be too specific to one type of game. The current icon fits perfectly with the apps internal design, once you've seen that, the icon makes sense.
What I don't like about them is that they remind me of someone who has just learned drawing shapes in Photoshop and has dicsovered the gradient tool.
They look cheap and like they weren't important. They are advertised as with great attention to detail but I can't see or feel that. It's just circles splattered with rendom fancy gradients. Some people don't care about that, but I do.
There might be a grid or system in the layout, but that doesn't seem to work when they are applied to the screen. I guess they sticked too much to that theoretical system and ended up with some random shapes.
None of them is an improvement for me. The only one I find ok is Passbook. It's actually really good.
Why aren't the others done that way? Why that ugly white border and super thin lines for Safari? Same for Reminders, bold colour dots and then hairlines? Settings, trying to be gears in the worst possible way. Neither realistic nor a pictogram, but really ugly and frightening.
They don't express what I expect of and consider an Apple product as, which is high quality.
They look cheap and like they weren't important. They are advertised as with great attention to detail but I can't see or feel that. It's just circles splattered with rendom fancy gradients. Some people don't care about that, but I do.
There might be a grid or system in the layout, but that doesn't seem to work when they are applied to the screen. I guess they sticked too much to that theoretical system and ended up with some random shapes.
None of them is an improvement for me. The only one I find ok is Passbook. It's actually really good.
Why aren't the others done that way? Why that ugly white border and super thin lines for Safari? Same for Reminders, bold colour dots and then hairlines? Settings, trying to be gears in the worst possible way. Neither realistic nor a pictogram, but really ugly and frightening.
They don't express what I expect of and consider an Apple product as, which is high quality.
I've come to like them all, what I do find staggering is how old and jaded the present iOS 6 ones appear now.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually like the calander app - it's the cleanest. The others I'm just 'meh' about. I don't hate them, I've gotten quite use to them and they all look like they belong together. But I do hate the bright colors (which is probably why I like the calander app the most). When I think of "flatter," that is what I think of. Throw in Voice Memo and Stocks too, clean and simple (I guess I like the black and white). Compass is a close second, but feel its too complicated (could be more like Safari, only black and white - it is an actual compass after all).
In general I don't like them because they are flat. Flat icons don't strike me as being more futuristic than the present icons.
I also don't like the prevalence of pink tones. When looking at some of the screenshots they actually hurt my eyes.
Overall, they look too "girly". That combined with the white phone in most of their promotions, makes me think Apple is going after the female demographic this go round.
I also don't like the prevalence of pink tones. When looking at some of the screenshots they actually hurt my eyes.
Overall, they look too "girly". That combined with the white phone in most of their promotions, makes me think Apple is going after the female demographic this go round.
I don't think you can point to a single icon as such and say this is it. I think for me, it just seems odd that they have worked so hard for a refresh to the os. And when they unveil it, you get this that's it?!? Feeling, as if to say this is the best you can do?!? (And I am not talking about functionality, but strictly the aesthetics of the iOS)
My thoughts on the new icons are; they're only icons, the functionality of the applications behind the icons are far more what interest me.
With a few exceptions, I don't think the icons are nearly as bad as some are making them out to be. Most of them are nice, but a few need to be changed:
Notes and Reminders - reduce the length of the horizontal lines so that they don't go all the way to the edge.
App Store and iTunes Store - Reduce the size of the circle a little bit.
Game Center - Remove the gloss for consistency.
Settings, Camera and Safari - These 3 need complete redesigns.
Basically, 3 app icons are terrible, 5 need some slight tweaking, and the rest are fine.
Notes and Reminders - reduce the length of the horizontal lines so that they don't go all the way to the edge.
App Store and iTunes Store - Reduce the size of the circle a little bit.
Game Center - Remove the gloss for consistency.
Settings, Camera and Safari - These 3 need complete redesigns.
Basically, 3 app icons are terrible, 5 need some slight tweaking, and the rest are fine.
apple said they're redesigning the icons but i dont think that change made it to beta 2 as they look the same as beta 1. i do still prefer the ios 6 icons but the current ones in ios 7 as of now arent /THAT/ bad.. i adjusted to them fairly fast within 10 mins of using ios 7 before i reverted back to 6.1.4 for other reasons.
I love them all, they are huge improvement on iOS 6 icons, but 2 of my favourites are Safari and Settings.
- Calendar-----text too thin, old icon was more clear with a quick glance, it stood out.
- Safari--------use old icon just flatten it out, the white looks odd.
- Settings------great if it was bicycle app, why not use the apple tv settings icon?
- Stocks-------too dark, looks out of place, dark blue was better, but no big deal.
- Notes--------should have stuck with the yellow/brown.
- Game Center--balls? really? I may have hated the felt, but boy it looked like games.
I can live with the flat, but I did like the detailed icons better.
Only these I liked better than the old icons
Contacts
Photos
Clock
Passbook
It's Apple I know, but why not give us a choice, maybe 2 themes, like flat and detailed, and allow us to choose a few things like buttons or no buttons, after all they allow us to change wallpaper. Themes would give you more happy users and it's not hard to do.
Just wait until they change the mac icons to match...oh boy.
Yes, that would look nice. It's always seemed to me, though, that the Messages icon should be flipped around. In the app the ellipsis is always on the left side of the screen, not the right.
Tighten up the gradients, drop the gloss and shadows and you'd be onto an instant winner.
Reminders looks like ass with mismatched garish colors. Calendar app font is way too thin. Multiple colors on contacts are ugly. The bright yellow on top of notepad is too bright with too much white. The red music icon looks awful. The whole damn thing looks way too much like Windows mobile with too thin a font, too much white space, too small an icon target within apps like the dialer. Garish colors that seem to have no relation to each other. The whole thing looks terrible. I've should stick to designing hardware because this is a mess. It's also a reminder that if you don't like something Apple does you are stuck with it.
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This is massive change with no rhyme or reason other than change for changes sake that also reduces UI functionality. If I wanted a Windows Mobile phone I would buy one.
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This is massive change with no rhyme or reason other than change for changes sake that also reduces UI functionality. If I wanted a Windows Mobile phone I would buy one.
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