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iOS 7 Beta 5 Tidbits: Icon Settings Redesign, New Control Center Options
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When you get rich enough that you can hire Apple to make an UI just for you, then maybe you'll be a happy person. But Apple doesn't make the UI just for you.
There has been no design change. iOS7 is the same ugly piece of crap it has been in every developer preview. People are generally fine with big changes as long as they are for the better. People don't like changes is just a silly explanation by Microsoft officials defending a new Windows usability nightmare. We've heard it with Vista, and Eight. And now it has come to the shores of Apple land.
The slight differences between Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 do not effect the main problems with the underlying usability design concepts or rather misconcepts. In the same way iOS7 can only be tweaked, but never be fixed. You have to throw out the main idea of everything flat and clean. And only apply them, where flatter means better and cleaner means better. And you have to bring back realism and skeuomorphism, where they are needed to better the product. But that would require a completely new UI overhaul from which we are years maybe decades away.
We now (again) life in times of ugly phones and can only hope for our children.
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!
They have someone in charge. They are swapping different things in and out like paint swatches based on ideas from inside and outside the company until they get exactly what they want. If you can't handle that (normal) process for software design, maybe you shouldn't use the beta...
My Finder sidebar icons are all grey. How do I make them coloured?? I'm on Mountain Lion.
There is a simpler way to customize your UI. Just use more customizable OS like Android)
Still translucent with mine. I see this happen sometimes even with previous betas. Try rebooting.
I'm also on Mountain Lion - it's called SideEffects. Not affiliated with their site or their software, but that was driving me crazy too, until I managed to find this little gem =)
Why do so many get so rude and snarky online? I don't understand why the anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people. Would you speak to a stranger in person like this? I'm so tired of how nasty people treat other, and before you excuse it as misreading your tone, how else should that be read?
This. I can't believe the amount of hostility on this thread. I know I should be used to it on MacRumors by now, but my word people.
Its been 5 beta's and still no female Siri for the U.K? Are we not getting it? can someone please tell me? and the arrow (>) for slide to unlock shouldn't it be situated on the right? like this ( Slide to unlock >) instead of in front.
I also thought that the multi-tasking screen would show each application live, as when you go through the multi-tasking apps and browse through you see apps like the camera that show a blank screen. It would be nice to see just a bit of shadows under the text on the homescreen as I can barely read them and especially with the dynamic backgrounds. Another note I would love to see just like a tiny (X) or something to close all apps instead of doing them all.
I also thought that the multi-tasking screen would show each application live, as when you go through the multi-tasking apps and browse through you see apps like the camera that show a blank screen. It would be nice to see just a bit of shadows under the text on the homescreen as I can barely read them and especially with the dynamic backgrounds. Another note I would love to see just like a tiny (X) or something to close all apps instead of doing them all.
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I'm sorry, it must be my fault as the customer for voicing my opinion about design flaws. I didn't realize that I was supposed to be perfectly happy with whatever Apple makes and see no design flaws. Actually read what I wrote instead of taking personal offense that I've seen some design changes that aren't good, thoughtful design that needs to be changed as an improvement rather than a change for changes sake. I'm a customer of Apple's so my opinion is valid and by no means does it require that I become a majority shareholder of theirs to voice that opinion. See the step back they've taken with their new folder UI changes and how it affects both UI design and user experience. Both the folder function and dock blurriness is a step back to me as a customer and maybe you need to quit thinking you and Apple are the only ones that matter when it comes to design. If you like that design, great. Apple is not and never will be perfect or immune from making bad decisions.
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Yeah, it's almost like it was a beta for a product still 3-4 months away or something!
Looks like you have 'Increase Contrast' under Settings > General > Accessibility turned on.
I like Apple's new design and find it adds to a better overall user experience.
I too am an Apple customer who's opinion is valid.
What are we going to do now?
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It's funny android users. They are so happy with their laggy phones, that they spend all day in apple forums??!!
Color is one of three ways the human brain differentiates visual information, aside from movement and shape. No matter what anyone "feels" about it, it's simply much more efficient to have color differentiating differnt buttons/functions/categories.
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!
Put yourself together. A war is a nightmare. A slight change in an icon is not. Don't be an overreacting crying person. But don't worry, most people in this forum have the same behaviour.