I think I speak on behalf of many people when I say that the voice memos and Safari icon in iOS 7 Beta are ****!!! lol
I'm sure Apple will improve them
I'm sure Apple will improve them
scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes. (lie detector blows up)
Forstall wasn't all bad. I think that old-school look really sold the devices. The theme is nice a contrast to the sterilized techy crap today. Its like you had an little bit of home in your hands.
I think the absence of a stock app shows just how much of a work in progress iOS 7 is.
they need to combine
The stocks app, is not "Absent"..... it is in the release.
Jony Ive is an industrial designer. He doesn't have any experience or expertise doing the visual design of software, and he clearly needs better advisors and collaborators to work with.
I understand that he's enamored with the "honesty" of designing software that eschews emulating real world materials and objects. That might explain why "voice memos" has abandoned the metaphor of an old microphone in favor of a sound wave.
But the current direction is an inconsistent mess. The camera icon has changed to use something that looks like an SLR camera. Why not use a shutter or something more symbolic? Notes icon looks like a real notepad. Settings is an old gear, which is ironically the opposite of anything digital. Videos is still the old clapboard. Mail still uses an envelope. But photos uses a more abstract "flower". Game center is the worst of all -- an unintelligibly abstract metaphor of overlapping circles rendered as if they are real world objects, with glossy highlights.
Interactive elements are spectacularly inconsistent. Buttons have been largely abandoned, replaced with colored text. But sometimes we still get buttons. Sometimes they have square corners and sometimes they have rounded corners. Sometimes they are filled in, and sometimes they are just outlines. Sometimes they are circular. They are almost always flat. Except for the on/off switches which still look like an actual switch.
I mean, WTF. There is zero vision here.
I've actually been meaning to start a thread about Apple's design direction. I've been on Mac's hardcore the OS 9/Mac OS X transition and thus far it feels as if they have completely lost their way in design/functionality balance. Apple at one time where well ahead of others in this area (i suspect due in no small part to Job's intuition) but now its as if they are just down right wandering in the desert lost.
Apple kicked up this insanity with the removal of color throughout OS X apps and dialog boxes.