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Image of 'Flat' Redesign From Early iOS 7 Build Reportedly Leaks

iChrist said:
This is a false efficiency that you mention, filled with buzzwords stolen from Apple marketing (you shouldn't plagiarize). Sure you go from lock screen to a sea of app icons. Great.

1) To get a quick view of 3 types of info: weather, new emails, top news. You have to go in and out of 3 apps. How many button presses and data loads is that? Unfortunately, Notification Center is half baked.

2) Folders seems like a band-aid approach to app organization. Not elegant, it uses the old desktop paradigm.

3) "Fast" app switching takes 2 physical button presses and a screen tap.

4) The multitude of icon designs clashes with the physical hardware. Screen after screen of ugly icons is hardly a "minimalistic design focused on the user" :rolleyes:


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You're misinterpreting my words. I'm not saying iOS is perfect. I'm saying the grid, which is essential to the UI of iOS, is perfect. Things could be better though. We're never done.

1) To get a quick view of 3 types of info, you just look at your lock screen and see the push notifications. That's how iOS is designed, to make use of push notifications. Every morning, I see all breaking news, emails and text messages in one glance on my lock screen. Couldn't be more efficient (like literally), just one button press! It does take an extra swipe for the weather widget, that's true.

But tell me, how is this better in any other OS? Widgets don't display all this information at once, it requires a lot of swiping. And don't get me started on the live tiles of Windows Phone, which brings a significant cognitive load to the brain for filtering out the irrelevant tiles from the relevant tiles. Even after you've found the relevant tiles, they still show very little information. Way less than the push notifications on my iOS lock screen.

Grid + push notifications = ultimate combination of simplicity and relevant information.

2) Folders are not elegant but not better elsewhere. I think it's still more elegant in iOS than in Windows Phone or Android.

3) I agree. Since iOS 4 I've been preaching for a touch sensitive home button. Touch to go home, tap to multitask.

4) I don't get your point. We're living in an app based world. Attention should be brought to the apps as much as possible. The grid is one of the reasons iOS is far more popular with developers than Android. Unless you disagree with me about the added value of apps, I think you should put more consideration into the fact that the quality of iOS apps is directly correlated with the famous grid.
 
wt* is this? When i was told it was a complete redesign and it wouldn't be hard for a beginner to pick it up and relearn how to use iOS, i was expecting something that doesn't look exactly the *ing same as the current iOS....
 
These spies are as good with cameras as the analysts are at analyzing.

Then again maybe it's one the reporters of the Chicago sun-times who just finished their iphone photography course.
 
After Tim Cook announces iOS 7 at WWDC:

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Seriously, though, I hope this is a fake. Apple needs to wow it's users. Not just with iOS, but with Macs as well. Taking away the gloss effect isn't 'change.'


TheRainKing said:
I've just received a new leaked image of iOS 7.

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Seems legit. ;)
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That's obviously a fake! :rolleyes:

;)
 
pogoyoyo said:
wt* is this? When i was told it was a complete redesign and it wouldn't be hard for a beginner to pick it up and relearn how to use iOS, i was expecting something that doesn't look exactly the *ing same as the current iOS....
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So when you have a product that has been the best selling product in the market five years in a row, which has been praised for its UI and simplicity for five years in a row, you just change it...

Be realistic and just take a moment to think about what's happening here. It's really simple!

In the Forstall era, there were two approaches vivid at the same time: minimalistic (OS X, some iOS apps) and skeuomorphism (Find My Friends).

Ive has done two things:
1. Ditch the Forstall-designs.
2. Redesign the apps to give them a uniform look and feel.

This does not mean a significant overhaul, it means a complete overhaul. See the difference? Complete means nothing goes untouched, but it doesn't mean that everything that's touched changes 180 degrees. No! Why would Ive want this?

Remember, iOS is loved by millions of users (and critics) for a reason. You don't change that just cause you want something new. You stick with it and polish it. Just like Ive has done with its hardware. Just like Apple has done for years.

Get it in your heads folks, Apple executes iteration! Why? Because they make sure they always start with something that's near perfect. Doing a complete overhaul would only be wise if it sucked in the beginning and Apple products, hardware or software, almost NEVER suck in the beginning. So what do you? You iterate.

Apple is the king of iteration. Get used to it and start appreciating it.
 
MichaelJohnston said:
Oh good. This looks so awesome. People are going to be so much happier, be so much more productive, and have much better access to the info they need when they need it with a graphically flatter OS.

Oh wait. It won't do crap for any of those things. Yay.
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This is awesome! :D
 
I really hope they can that awful photo app design. It's such an eye sore in my opinion. I would have to say this is fake as well.
 
TC03 said:
So when you have a product that has been the best selling product in the market five years in a row, which has been praised for its UI and simplicity for five years in a row, you just change it...

Be realistic and just take a moment to think about what's happening here. It's really simple!

In the Forstall era, there were two approaches vivid at the same time: minimalistic (OS X, some iOS apps) and skeuomorphism (Find My Friends).

Ive has done two things:
1. Ditch the Forstall-designs.
2. Redesign the apps to give them a uniform look and feel.

This does not mean a significant overhaul, it means a complete overhaul. See the difference? Complete means nothing goes untouched, but it doesn't mean that everything that's touched changes 180 degrees. No! Why would Ive want this?

Remember, iOS is loved by millions of users (and critics) for a reason. You don't change that just cause you want something new. You stick with it and polish it. Just like Ive has done with its hardware. Just like Apple has done for years.

Get it in your heads folks, Apple executes iteration! Why? Because they make sure they always start with something that's near perfect. Doing a complete overhaul would only be wise if it sucked in the beginning and Apple products, hardware or software, almost NEVER suck in the beginning. So what do you? You iterate.

Apple is the king of iteration. Get used to it and start appreciating it.
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You are wrong.
The very well educated analysis is very good when it come to hardware, or Mac operating system. Completely wrong when it come to phones. Phones today are fashion, they change fast! GUI, hardware, software and look change.
Look on the competition, android phone look futuristic, their ui is very interesting and change in some way every iteration. You can not leave the GUI as is from the year 2007 in the phone biz, you just can't.
Every apple iPhone user will tell you that the current iOS look old, old old.
It doesn't belong to 2013.
 
Tomorrow we will get another article saying these images are fake and to disregard everything.
 
I think I've worked it out, someone on an iPhone is taking a photo of the "new icons" whilst another device takes a photo of that... err
 
TC03 said:
Grid + push notifications = ultimate combination of simplicity and relevant information.
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At the minimum the weather app's icon should show the current temperature for my GPS location, without having to launch it.

Folders were a good feature when people had 20 apps, but now that we have 1000s, it's useless. Especially with the limitation of 9 items per folder or so. Most people have 15 Games folders, how's that productive?

The grid is still great for the top 15-20 most frequently used apps, but I think tagging is the right way of finding your stuff. And hierarchical tagging is crucial, such as Photo/Camera/Artsy, or Games/Platformer/Endless Runner, or Productivity/Calculator.
 
Sorry if its been said already but it's not taken with a poor quality camera it's just an Instagram filter!
 
Overg said:
You are wrong.
The very well educated analysis is very good when it come to hardware, or Mac operating system. Completely wrong when it come to phones. Phones today are fashion, they change fast! GUI, hardware, software and look change.
Look on the competition, android phone look futuristic, their ui is very interesting and change in some way every iteration. You can not leave the GUI as is from the year 2007 in the phone biz, you just can't.
Every apple iPhone user will tell you that the current iOS look old, old old.
It doesn't belong to 2013.
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iOS has changed slightly every year. It's not the same as it was.

Not every iPhone user will tell me that it will look old. Almost every iPhone user know tells me they love iOS the way it is.
 
cppguy said:
At the minimum the weather app's icon should show the current temperature for my GPS location, without having to launch it.

Folders were a good feature when people had 20 apps, but now that we have 1000s, it's useless. Especially with the limitation of 9 items per folder or so. Most people have 15 Games folders, how's that productive?

The grid is still great for the top 15-20 most frequently used apps, but I think tagging is the right way of finding your stuff. And hierarchical tagging is crucial, such as Photo/Camera/Artsy, or Games/Platformer/Endless Runner, or Productivity/Calculator.
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I agree with you that it's not ideal, but remember that every solution you come up with may be frustrating or useless for other users. Solutions for better navigation should simple and elegant so that most people benefit from it. Untill now, such a solution has not been found.
 
AlabamaSlammer said:
I'm waiting until after WWDC to do this but I might have to list my iPhone 5 on Amazon. The galaxy s4 might be in my near future. Just have to wait and see what key changes ios7 brings. Plus like many other I already have the "flat" design

just my opinion
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Wow that really looks like ****. Sorry.
 
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