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iMessage [Concept]

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Nathan20

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Heres a rough image of what i think sending a message from an app other than Messages should look like in iOS.
It would work like photo stream does at the moment where once you click message you then select your recipients and this card will then show to type your message.

Many of you didn't like the green, but i think for messages the header has to be green for the user to identify what they are doing, agreed the shade could be nicer.
As pointed out the iMessage card should be blue (hopefully you like this colour) ;)


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:apple:changed from iMessage to Messages and clarified that this is a concept for sending a message from an app other than Messages e.g. Photos
:apple:Added recipients at bottom
:apple:Added plus icon to add/remove recipients
:apple:Changed colour of iMessage card
:apple:Updated Messages card
 

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Why a green bar? Kinda confusing since iMessage is blue and sms is green.

Also i dont understand this concept. Whats the point?
 
Actually it should be like that for all messages (iMessages and SMS) just like biteSMS. Or like this:

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Frankly, I hate it.

What are the weaknesses you find in the current iMessages interface and what would you do to improve on them? What was the thought process behind your decisions creating this concept?

This concept seems to want to turn iMessages into a short-email sending service where each message is received and opened separately. The current conversation style interface is far more appealing to me.
 
mobilehaathi said:
Frankly, I hate it.

What are the weaknesses you find in the current iMessages interface and what would you do to improve on them? What was the thought process behind your decisions creating this concept?

This concept seems to want to turn iMessages into a short-email sending service where each message is received and opened separately. The current conversation style interface is far more appealing to me.
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This was just supposed to be for when sending a Message from an app other than messages
 
mobilehaathi said:
Oh I see! Not a big fan of the green color scheme or the paperclip graphic...
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You mean the paper clip graphic that is already present in FB and twitter integration?

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For the record, apart from the green bar I like the concept. There should be more UI integration rather than having different interfaces for sharing to social networks, email or messages.
 
put a picture of the contact who sent you the message there instead of the paperclip and get rid of the green color and I think it would be a lot better
 
Nathan20 said:
Heres a rough image of what i think sending a message from an app other than Messages should look like in iOS.
It would work like photo stream does at the moment where once you click message you then select your recipients and this card will then show to type your message.

Many of you didn't like the green, but i think for messages the header has to be green for the user to identify what they are doing, agreed the shade could be nicer.
As pointed out the iMessage card should be blue (hopefully you like this colour) ;)


PS my image editing skills are weak ;)
Edit: changed from iMessage to Messages and clarified that this is a concept for sending a message from an app other than Messages e.g. Photos
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I like the current implementation better. I don't like the green, but also how would you specify who the message being sent to?
 
Nathan20 said:
Heres a rough image of what i think sending a message from an app other than Messages should look like in iOS.
It would work like photo stream does at the moment where once you click message you then select your recipients and this card will then show to type your message.

Many of you didn't like the green, but i think for messages the header has to be green for the user to identify what they are doing, agreed the shade could be nicer.
As pointed out the iMessage card should be blue (hopefully you like this colour) ;)


Edits:
:apple:changed from iMessage to Messages and clarified that this is a concept for sending a message from an app other than Messages e.g. Photos
:apple:Added recipients at bottom
:apple:Added plus icon to add/remove recipients
:apple:Changed colour of iMessage card
:apple:Updated Messages card
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Very cool design!
 
Here is why i think sharing a photo, or link from the photos app or any other app needs to be changed.
I understand the concept above also has redundant space but it provides a fresh clean look and a better use of the space.
 

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Nathan20 said:
Here is why i think sharing a photo, or link from the photos app or any other app needs to be changed.
I understand the concept above also has redundant space but it provides a fresh clean look and a better use of the space.
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Yeah I think it's cool - send it to Apple and see if they adopt any properties of it in later builds. Would be more efficient if we could reply directly to notifications then be in the same app without having to re open it each time.
 
Design as a whole is a mess and unified in iOS 6 compared to other mobile platforms.

Hopefully Jony Ive really is pulling all nighters with his team to work on this for iOS 7.
 
The green doesn't make much sense since iMessage is blue. But I think it would be a good idea if you could SMS and iMessage using that interface, and have the top bar change color depending on if the message is sending as an SMS or iMessage.
 
Jimbo47 said:
The green doesn't make much sense since iMessage is blue. But I think it would be a good idea if you could SMS and iMessage using that interface, and have the top bar change color depending on if the message is sending as an SMS or iMessage.
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That was the idea, and the green is for SMS only hence the title bar saying Messages and for the Blue the title bar saying iMessage.
 
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