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Jony Ive Pushing for 'Flat Design' in iOS 7 Amid Greater Hardware-Software Design Collaboration

All they need to do is force app developers to have the "Icon already includes gloss effects"
set to YES in xcode.

Makes me cry when I see modern apps still using the default gloss effect.
 
Please - no more digital woodgrain bookshelves, no more green felt gamecenter.
The basic ios interdace is ok--no need to go tiles. If you ever use windows 8--the additional app tiles to the right look like crap--icons are much more visually interesting...unless they are some of apples--like that old youtube icon.
yeesh
 
I'm looking forward to see what apple does but honestly I'd be a little surprised to see a major refresh on an S model phone release year.
 
To give you an idea of what flat could mean, Mountain Lion itself is a trend towards flat.

Think Panther and prior. Now look at how Mac OS X looks. It'll be a trend more towards the current, and less of the bubbli-ness of before.
 
Jobs never gave this to Ive when he was alive - just hope it was not for a reason nobody can see now that he is gone.
 
tevion5 said:
Compared to what exactly? Android? Blackberry? (The latter actually looks like a HTML script, it's actually quite funny)
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At least in Android, you find app settings in the app itself. In iOS, you don't know where app settings are. Sometimes they are in the Settings app, sometimes not. At the very least, Apple should decide once and for all what to do with app settings. It's a huge inconsistency.
 
bozzykid said:
At least in Android, you find app settings in the app itself. In iOS, you don't know where app settings are. Sometimes they are in the Settings app, sometimes not. At the very least, Apple should decide once and for all what to do with app settings. It's a huge inconsistency.
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I agree. While it's not a huge deal I'd rather have one place to find app setting instead the current set up.
 
rowspaxe said:
Please - no more digital woodgrain bookshelves, no more green felt gamecenter.
The basic ios interdace is ok--no need to go tiles. If you ever use windows 8--the additional app tiles to the right look like crap--icons are much more visually interesting...unless they are some of apples--like that old youtube icon.
yeesh
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Apple, we want you to sap all the fun and creativity out.

No more texturing buttons or UI elements. Flat 8bit color palette only.
 
Hurray! Finally some good news about the change within iOS. My gosh that took a while. I am curious what Ive will bring for iOS 7. Don't make all the things just flat though. Try to change it, evolve it, simplify it.

Oh and please fix iTunes sync too. That thing is more complicated than it has ever been these days.
 
i hope Ive tears it all apart and puts it back together. thats the only way we can make real progress. See OS9 to OS10 for ref. Apple needs a new vision like a new step of NextSTEP...STEPafterNext. K? Thx, Ive. Also, I want an iChair. I know you designers like furniture and ****...
 
apollo1444 said:
conservative changes as in a new skin UI?

what about more flexibility and usability something like NCsettings for example? the lockscreen is ancient too
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I have never understood the idea that something is bad just because it is 'old'. There are many old things that we continue to use. For example claw hammers have been used since Roman times and have only had minor changes in all these centuries. If something suits the purpose for which it was designed why should it be changed?
 
Talking about "flat" designs, I wouldn't mind something like this (credit to Mohamed Kerroudj):
 

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APlotdevice said:
Huh? What's so bad about the music app?
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The lack of a colour scheme. (From iOS 6-present).

The headers and footers are the same colour as the content, the highlight colour is now grey, and there's no visual distinction between elements.

If you have ever used the music app on stage (say, for a backing for live music), it's a huge pain. You want to quickly find elements in an easy and natural way – by colour or shape! Both are pretty much non-existent in the new music app.

So essentially: bring back the blue header and the black footer, and bring back the blue highlight colour and I'll be happy.
 
This makes me a bit nervous as Greg Christie doesn't report to Ive so how much can Ive tell him what to do?

That dynamic is changing, according to the people close to the company. The stealth software developers still exist. But now, Apple’s mobile software, or “human interface” team, which has been led by executive Greg Christie, is being briefed about industrial prototypes earlier, these people said. The person described the change as “a thawing.”

Ive, who is well-known for his sleek, iconic hardware designs, now sits in on the human interface team’s regular review sessions to vet new designs, these people said. While he and Christie, known as a blunt talker, have very different styles, the people familiar with the process described the sessions as “pleasant and cordial.”
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a.gomez said:
Jobs never gave this to Ive when he was alive - just hope it was not for a reason nobody can see now that he is gone.
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Agreed, although I'm sure this was a conversation Steve and Tim must've had at one point: "How much more responsibility can Ive handle?" Considering how fundamental good design is to Apple and its products, I'm sure this is something they explored (especially after Steve knew his time was limited).
 
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