This is alive, 3 dimensional, fresh and layered?
^ This makes me feel like I'm in a doctors office waiting room..I'd hate to see what dead and flat looks like to you.
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iOS 7 is lifeless, graphically feels like a step back
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This is alive, 3 dimensional, fresh and layered?
^ This makes me feel like I'm in a doctors office waiting room..I'd hate to see what dead and flat looks like to you.
I linked pics before but something like this concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ESivYZXYqYE
Pretty much the opposite of what we have now, while still maintaining the simplicity.
And, again, maybe fresh, maybe new, maybe "cool", but none of that actually relates to something being good or better or more useful or anything like that. So, something can definitely be fresh, new, even "cool", but still bad in many other meaningful/important respects.
Its not bad but it is definitely not new or innovative. Its the safe route and thats not apple.
Certainly more new and innovative then what apples given us graphically.
All Apple has done is remove all the drop shadows, colors and depth of everything. I don't see how that's innovative; it actually doesn't make sense given the advances in computing power of the phone over the years and the ones to come. All they've done is take apps and make them look like skeletons of their former self.
I'd say the controversy stirred up by the ladylike pastel colors and a few other elements might have been done on purpose since Apple loves headlines. Why they chosen some of the rather garish looking icons is questionable.
Yet there's always good news. In this case it's Apples desire to improve and catch up to Android. By copying and using many Android features, Apples assured of robust public acceptance.
I don't think it's lifeless, just a bit odd looking thus far. With some time to go we'll see what Apple does with it.
Yet there's always good news. In this case it's Apples desire to improve and catch up to Android. By copying and using many Android features, Apples assured of robust public acceptance.
I don't think it's lifeless, just a bit odd looking thus far. With some time to go we'll see what Apple does with it.
All your looking at is icons, thats it. It goes far beyond the icons. It has layers that present a 3d effect. It has multi-function elements. Its still as smooth and useable as before(I know there are bugs its beta). I understand you would have designed different icons. Its an amazing leap forward and its truly different. If you want android or wp8 then go get one. This is the future of iOS and my money is burning a hole in my pocket waiting for the new iphone.
Actually I don't think I've even mentioned icons except the OP where I said the crazy pastel colors were an attempt to cover for the dullness of the OS's graphics. The icons are the least of the problems.
layers that present a 3d effect? What does that even mean? It has "multi-function" elements? Sounds like another Johnny Iveism. Multitasking has been around for years.
When you said drop shadows that implies from the icons. Thats where I got it from. I didn't say multi-tasking I said multi-functioning. Multi-tasking only slows down and introduces lag.
Oh no, while icons don't have drop shadows, neither does anything else. I meant things like text, buttons, navigation, backgrounds etc.
There are also subtle drop shadows behind the buttons, command icons and other UI elements inside apps.
I never said there weren't. iOS 6 and prior is very heavy on icon drop shadows though.
I thnk it's pretty awful. Thin, thin, Windows Phone like fonts with too much white space, weird colors put together in inappropriate ways..I'm not enjoying it at all.
Parts are layered, but IOS7 is certainly not three dimensional (outside of a few effects, which get old fast). Three dimensional is what we had before.
IOS 7 implements a variant of the "milk theme" that Windows and OSX users have used for the past 10-15 years. I know these themes are popular among designers, some of which are bombarded with all sorts of design crap on a daily basis; they gravitate toward simplistic, unencumbered interfaces as a reprieve from work. However, personally, I have never been a fan of these themes / interfaces.
Your talking about icons that looked 3 dimensional. iOS 7 has a base layer then whenever you open something new it slides over the base screen. That is 3 dimensional, not a icon with a shadow. Think of it as a window with a blind and then a curtain. Not a car with a 3d bullet hole sticker on it.
That effect is only on the home screen or when we are moving in and out of apps. Once you are inside an app, I think it looks quite two-dimensional. And inside apps is where I spend at least 90% of my time. So I feel justified in saying that iOS 7 is flat and two-dimensional, no matter how many layered effects the home screen has.
Most modern? Are we looking at the same thing? It looks like something I would have seen in 1995. It's dull.
But it has the capability and new apps and updates to the os have the ability. Its a very genius os and can only get better.
Well, yes, it has great new capabilities, but here we are discussing how it *looks*. Note the thread title -- "graphically feels like a step back."