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iOS 7 Beta 5 Tidbits: Icon Settings Redesign, New Control Center Options
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Me to, especially on the lock screen it was a nice visual touch that was also informative.
Not for younger customers (or younger at heart) who live in an age where most of the skeus are so far out of date they're fossils. Reel-to-reel tape players? Felt table tops? Yellow lined paper notes? CDs even? I'm old enough to be a grandfather*, and find all those skeus annoying relics.
Skeuomorphs are fine when they bridge a purely virtual/visual interface to what users are comfortably familiar with. When the bulk of users last saw such things unsold at garage sales, or in their grandfather's basement, it's time to drop 'em.
* - wait, when did that happen?
So... is it possible there will be black and white version of iOS 7 (depending on the color of your device)? It has begun with the boot screen, some guy had a black keyboard on his black iPad Mini. The black version could look similar to this:
Man that looks GREAT.
Nah, it looks fine on my black phone. I mean it would be cool if they gave you the option, but I wouldn't want to be forced to have a mostly black interface just because I bought a black phone.
no offense, but that hideous safari logo with the broad white border looks like a five year old was trying to use photoshop, and failed to remove the white background.
i mean really, what is the meaning of the safari icon? it is a compass. [yeah, a traveller uses it so he does not get lost on the Internet. at least i think so.] but then it is the biggest skeuomorphism itself. mimicking the leather filofax look in ios6 calendar/contacts was too skeuomorph, but not safari's compass icon?
on the other hand you have the real compass app, which is... a compass. with the ios7 design it looks like a military one. which is way cool, i guess.
and the setting icon... man, this is some sort of visual punishment. like one missing front gear from a bicycle.
camera-grab, control center lock screen
it's also worth nothing that sliding-up the camera icon on the lock screen became incredibly difficult with the introduction of Control Center; Beta 5 seems to have crushed that - seemingly removing the trigger for Control Center from the lower-right corner altogether.
it's also worth nothing that sliding-up the camera icon on the lock screen became incredibly difficult with the introduction of Control Center; Beta 5 seems to have crushed that - seemingly removing the trigger for Control Center from the lower-right corner altogether.
What a nightmare!Who the hell knows how iOS 7 will look like now! The design is going in all directions! Isn't there at Apple a single Art Director with the balls to be taking charge in there?? Meanwhile we are left here to suffer the hits and miss of these, sometimes godawful, design ideas. I've had it!
Twitter rules don't allow you to screw with their bird. Can't rotate it, change the colour etc.
They didn't make you do anything. Take responsibility for your own decisions and actions.
Still has that ridiculously blurred background image behind the dock. It's been six years Apple. Six years of the iPhone being out and you've never felt the need to take up a fifth of the screen with a blurry mess. I don't need a visual distinction of the apps being in the dock versus them being not int the dock. I know they're there, I placed them there. With all the talk about minimalism, getting the UI out of the way, and layers being great visually that looks AWFUL. I can't stand it because I don't like a fifth of my screen being blurry, and its bad design. I really wish they'd remove it.
Also, 9 apps shown in a folder at a time STILL? It used to be 12 and that was it. Sure, pages inside a folder is nice but now instead of two taps and I'm in the app I want, it's two taps and a swipe. Again, bad design. Why do this? It makes no sense. They've taken one small step forward, and one pretty large step back. I really like iOS 7, but man there's a couple things that are driving me up the wall. At least performance is pretty good on an iPhone 4. I just wish they'd drop that stupid huge blurry dock background and put 12 apps per page back in folders. The rest is great. Though I would like to change the control center shortcuts, but that's no biggie compared to the other issues I feel are in iOS 7.
Also, 9 apps shown in a folder at a time STILL? It used to be 12 and that was it. Sure, pages inside a folder is nice but now instead of two taps and I'm in the app I want, it's two taps and a swipe. Again, bad design. Why do this? It makes no sense. They've taken one small step forward, and one pretty large step back. I really like iOS 7, but man there's a couple things that are driving me up the wall. At least performance is pretty good on an iPhone 4. I just wish they'd drop that stupid huge blurry dock background and put 12 apps per page back in folders. The rest is great. Though I would like to change the control center shortcuts, but that's no biggie compared to the other issues I feel are in iOS 7.
They might be minimal but they are extremely difficult to distinguish from each other since they are all the same color.
Skeumorphic, bulky graphics that are inconsistent between keyboards, UIMessages, dialog boxes, pickers etc.. are NOT delightful to anyone.
Just an FYI.
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It has always been like that when in bright sunlight. Is it possible you were outside when you noticed that?
So... is it possible there will be black and white version of iOS 7 (depending on the color of your device)? It has begun with the boot screen, some guy had a black keyboard on his black iPad Mini. The black version could look similar to this:
Man, that actually looks great.
They can wait because it's a separate app. They'll update the interface on that later I imagine (though when is anyone's guess).
The level screen in the compass app now turns green after around one second of being level, as opposed to immediately changing.
I'm not sure whether this had been noticed before or if it's new but you can 'Zero' the level at any angle by tapping the screen to measure the difference in angle. There's a new red colour to indicate that this feature is being used. See the attached screenie.
http://f.cl.ly/items/3y0L070d3X3C2g0Q0e1t/photo.PNG
I'm not sure whether this had been noticed before or if it's new but you can 'Zero' the level at any angle by tapping the screen to measure the difference in angle. There's a new red colour to indicate that this feature is being used. See the attached screenie.
http://f.cl.ly/items/3y0L070d3X3C2g0Q0e1t/photo.PNG