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iOS 8 & Yosemite - Designed for the hard of sight?

sonicrobby

sonicrobby

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Im curious if anyone else noticed how huge everything is in iOS7/8 along with Yosemite. Why is apple making everything so spaced out. I feel it is a waste of space. I personally would like to see less per item and more items. Some screenshots below comparing iOS6 on my iPhone 5 and iOS7 on the 5S. Im curious if there is a way to change this, but I will explore later in the jailbreak section for that.

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The lack for contrast makes it harder to see, so I don' t think the design was intended for people have poor eye sight.
 
maflynn said:
The lack for contrast makes it harder to see, so I don' t think the design was intended for people have poor eye sight.
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Very true, I wonder then why the spacing then? I assumed it may provide better readability, but I can't really figure out the reasoning. It makes me curious
 
sonicrobby said:
Im curious if anyone else noticed how huge everything is in iOS7/8 along with Yosemite. Why is apple making everything so spaced out. I feel it is a waste of space. I personally would like to see less per item and more items. Some screenshots below comparing iOS6 on my iPhone 5 and iOS7 on the 5S. Im curious if there is a way to change this, but I will explore later in the jailbreak section for that.

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ROCK ON! Exactly why ios 7/8 looks like PURE garbage.
 
It's definitely not for the visually impaired. They have ways to supersize fonts to 36 or even 72pt font or have a lot more voice interaction. UIs mean very little to someone who is legally blind. Apple is very good at working with the blind community to build support from the ground up, but I don't believe that's the basis for the changes in iOS 7 or 8.
 
As a programmer I can tell you that (to me) adding margins for the GUI makes things look better. When I first started working on my app I didn't add any padding or margins and asked some decs for feedback and that was something they criticized. Now is it too much? I would say no, you would say yes. But I will say that since iOS 7 did do away with buttons, adding more space keeps things from looking like they belong together.
 
I have very little vision left in my right eye, and have never had any vision in the other.

No way would I say that these new design choices are any better for me.

But I'm not complaining either.
 
rtomyj said:
As a programmer I can tell you that (to me) adding margins for the GUI makes things look better. When I first started working on my app I didn't add any padding or margins and asked some decs for feedback and that was something they criticized. Now is it too much? I would say no, you would say yes. But I will say that since iOS 7 did do away with buttons, adding more space keeps things from looking like they belong together.
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Good point, I thought the same when I saw iOS 7 the first time. If they do away with shapes, textures and colours, they need empty space to visually separate elements. For small screens like phones and tablets that seems counter productive.
 
notrack said:
Good point, I thought the same when I saw iOS 7 the first time. If they do away with shapes, textures and colours, they need empty space to visually separate elements. For small screens like phones and tablets that seems counter productive.
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True. Although I do like it personally. #
 
Completely agree. I still think iOS 6 design is far better. So much easier to read and interpret the usage of every button.

This new design fails in many ways. People like the new design because the old design has been there too long, not necessarily bad.

I still don't understand why all the sudden people like 2D instead 3D. It's counterintuitive.
 
Apple is now on this kick that information density is somehow bad. More leading and padding is supposedly good and makes everything seem "light and airy". But it mostly just makes users scroll more.

Does FaceTime really need this much space to be read and selected (from Contacts)?

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