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Jony Ive Put Apple's Marketing Team in Charge of iOS 7 Icon Design
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why no one talks about ...I AM USING IPHONE SINCE IPHONE 3G
1. Settings & phone dial pad - looks worst and childish as if it was drawn on a paper with a pencil...with some colors.
2. app store - searching a app screen is full of white , can not even see text box to search other than some text.
3. settings app - The text inside settings looks very bad and dull. they should have made it bold atleast...grey color text is not good having white background.
4. I am not happy how the contacts and recent list is....
5. incoming call - the green and dark red colors are dominating even to look at the screen....
it can be flat, but can not be like this...REALLY DONT KNOW HOW SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKING
over all...never expected this from APPLE...marketing team would have drawn everything with a pencil on a paper and that would have been handed over to design team to devlop...and design team used pencil software to create this look and feel
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I just stick to ios 6 forever
1. Settings & phone dial pad - looks worst and childish as if it was drawn on a paper with a pencil...with some colors.
2. app store - searching a app screen is full of white , can not even see text box to search other than some text.
3. settings app - The text inside settings looks very bad and dull. they should have made it bold atleast...grey color text is not good having white background.
4. I am not happy how the contacts and recent list is....
5. incoming call - the green and dark red colors are dominating even to look at the screen....
it can be flat, but can not be like this...REALLY DONT KNOW HOW SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKING
over all...never expected this from APPLE...marketing team would have drawn everything with a pencil on a paper and that would have been handed over to design team to devlop...and design team used pencil software to create this look and feel
..I just stick to ios 6 forever
Firing Scott, Forstall
is a mistake.
Look what they did with the very first iteration since he is removed from the capacity.
Software is the soul of Mac and iOS, it is a mistake to take down Scott.
is a mistake.
Look what they did with the very first iteration since he is removed from the capacity.
Software is the soul of Mac and iOS, it is a mistake to take down Scott.
Horrible icons or not, iOS 7 is still basically the same as it's always been. I was hoping for something a little different, more imaginative than the same old bog standard row of icons.
I'd really like a lock screen that gave me a complete overview of my day, without the need to go into each individual app. I'm not a fan of Windows but I think their dynamic tiles based home screen is a much better system.
I don't think Jony Ive can do both jobs. They should let him focus on what he does best and go find somebody outstanding to take on the role of VP UI Design across both OSX and iOS.
I'd really like a lock screen that gave me a complete overview of my day, without the need to go into each individual app. I'm not a fan of Windows but I think their dynamic tiles based home screen is a much better system.
I don't think Jony Ive can do both jobs. They should let him focus on what he does best and go find somebody outstanding to take on the role of VP UI Design across both OSX and iOS.
Oh thank you Lord Jesus!
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It already does that? The "Today" section of the Notification Center?
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It already does that? The "Today" section of the Notification Center?
I think the icons look good as well. Most of all, I like all the new functionality that iOS7 brings to the table.
All of the white in the new interface is going to look bad with the black iPhone (notice how all of their marketing material shows the white iPhone). It's also going to be a huge eye strain at night.
What they need to do is include a black mode as well, with settings to turn it on during the night (like how the Maps app works) or to keep it on at all times.
What they need to do is include a black mode as well, with settings to turn it on during the night (like how the Maps app works) or to keep it on at all times.
I'm just concerned about those that have been rigorously defending the look of the current iOS7 icons being super amazing uberlicious drops of wonderfulness whilst many of us have been more critical... I mean they'll be so upset if Apple replaces them with something half decent won't they?
I'm just concerned about those that have been rigorously defending the look of the current iOS7 icons being super amazing uberlicious drops of wonderfulness whilst many of us have been more critical... I mean they'll be so upset if Apple replaces them with something half decent won't they?
The colourfulness has been superb, it's not like ALL icons are bad. The safari icon, calendar and settings icons are the ones that suck so hard.
Phone, messages, passbook and many other icons are great.
It's absolutely not the same. I was using something like that 15 years ago on my HP iPaq. Surely they can be more imaginative than that.
Maybe something like a series of tiles that change colour as my day changes. The appointment app could list the number of appointments that day and change to red as my next appointment approaches. I might want to follow the score of a football or cricket match, so one tile would display the current score and update dynamically throughout the game.
I might have a tile that tells me how many of my friends are online or within my locality and when a particular person comes online or gets within a certain range it turns orange to alert me. I might want to follow Apple's share price so one tile would display the current price in real time and update dynamically. So basically you the user decides what tiles are on the home/lock screen and what info they display.
Everybody is complaining about the safari icon, but i think it's the camera and settings icons that are the worst offenders. Wow, seriously how these icons could come from Apple is beyond me. Designed by a six year old with bad taste.
The gradients on the iTunes and App store are pretty bad too.
Newsstand is maybe not that offensive, but still a pretty bad icon.
The gradients on the iTunes and App store are pretty bad too.
Newsstand is maybe not that offensive, but still a pretty bad icon.
The safari icon really really sucks. That's the truth. Settings and camera... those too. Those defo need changing.
The gradient in the iTunes icon needs a little more work, but the gradient in the AppStore icon is just fine.
I mentioned this in another post. I think this is genius and dumb at the same time. Genius, because a new UI was forced on to Apple, and the world. Since the actual designers (allegedly) didn't come up with the look of the OS, they're now forced to adapt to it, rather than slowly evolve it from the previous 6 years of work they had. At the same time this is dumb in that they had such a limited amount of time to do all of this. They did a great job of getting their rough draft out to the public, now let's see them make it the best it can be, in typical Apple fashion. 
Thinking about it, in many way's Ive's approach kind of makes sense.
With retina screens, the difference what makes good on screen design (from an aesthetic rather than usability perspective) and what makes good print design has begun to blur. Good design is now more akin to what you'd do in print. So why not tap into that experience.
I must say that my impression of the icons improved enormously when i saw them in the intended hi res (Vs a low res live stream) Still it feels like a good concept that's still a few iterations away from perfection. So fingers crossed it gets refined during the beta.
With retina screens, the difference what makes good on screen design (from an aesthetic rather than usability perspective) and what makes good print design has begun to blur. Good design is now more akin to what you'd do in print. So why not tap into that experience.
I must say that my impression of the icons improved enormously when i saw them in the intended hi res (Vs a low res live stream) Still it feels like a good concept that's still a few iterations away from perfection. So fingers crossed it gets refined during the beta.
