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More Details on Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Design: Heavier on Black and White

For all black and white haters:

White actually consists of 7 colors and maybe the rumored sapphire home button actually is a prism button, which would display colors.

Nah, let's be upset with a rumor without seeing anything. Just easier!

No knighthood for IVE!
 
He looks a bit square...

I respect his hardware designs, but software. I really like the look and feel of the iOS 6.X. It's colorful, well, if it's going to be purely black and white even in that example photo of the mock up, geeze, might as well make it cheaper like the kindle readers. That's not conducive to high quality look and feel. I mean, it's already simple to use and the visual cues of the app icons and stuff works well. Point, tap, and play. What more do we need to change the look and feel. Heaven forbid, this almost wants me to move to Android as much as I don't like it, it's colorful and more dynamic. I wouldn't want to upgrade it. And if it's upgraded then down grade to iOS 6.X and hopefully we can still use the cell. Black and white? Really? We are a very artistic people and a lot of cases statistics show that artistic people are free flowing. I like colors. We'll have to see what this turns out to be. I mean after all, Steve's the one that put the iPhone, iPad, etc that we didn't think we wanted or needed and helped us open into a whole new way of using it. So, who knows. Maybe that magic will still be there when they finally get the finished product and we may come to fall in love with it. Who knows. We think we know what we want and find out we didn't know we did. It's happened via Jobs Era. I wonder how Steve would taken this direction.
 
Black & white has always been the most elegant, luxurious, classy and mysterious combination of colours. I'm in.
 
radical change in UI may be determined by radical change in display tech (e-ink hybrid, oled or other)

if it's black&white heavy plus colored parts/events, those colored parts may match with the colors of the new colored cheap iphones (it's a cheap design idea but apple already does it on the latest iPod Nano)
 
Honestly all i ask for is less reliance on the home button... Put a swipe gesture like the notification centre, but upwards from the bottom to close the app and go to the home screen. Add only that and i'll be MORE than happy.
 
Bmelc said:
Also, if you look at the new Yahoo Weather app for example, this could be what they are going with as well. Also look at my post above if you haven't yet with the Prada Android OS.
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Now this is a look I can get behind. I had a theme like that on my old Blackberry about 4 years ago that was similar and I loved it.
 
Bmelc said:
Also, if you look at the new Yahoo Weather app for example, this could be what they are going with as well. Also look at my post above if you haven't yet with the Prada Android OS.
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I like Yahoo's! weather app, very polished with a good balance between information and graphics.

I also like iOS 6's weather map, the subtle changes, gradients, and polish look great although Yahoo! offers more information.
 
spinedoc77 said:
Yeah it does not surprise me that people want graphic changes more than they want actual functionality changes, but that's not me. Apple can leave iOS exactly the way it is currently and it would not bother me, I'd rather see them have more functionality, or how about just letting us change themes/launchers and let us make our own choices how the UI should look.

I don't think iOS looks dated, but functionally it performs dated, there is a huge difference in understanding that nuance. But you put forth an excellent point that I was not aware of, that Ive is not in charge of functionality so hopefully whoever is will be working hard to improve iOS.
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Well I should probably clarify. I'm not suggesting Ive has no involvement in functionality, but Federighi is responsible for the core OS and so far we have zero leaks on changes his teams might be making to iOS. I'm assuming those would all be around functionality.
 
I wonder if anyone has reached the point to where they say "I'm switching to Android!"

friend says "You already have an Android phone..."

"Oh yeah...well I am still switching! I can't take these Apple shenanigans anymore!!! ARGH!!!!! MY HEAD!!!!!!"


Same dude in person: Quiet as a mouse. :p
 
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Bmelc said:
This update is going to be awesome for a few reasons. iOS has been way TOO colorful from day one. I think the external colors should do it justice for people on the new iPods and such. But for iphone users it's a color overload. As a designer myself, colors deserve their purpose but we don't want to over do them like today's examples in phones i.e. windows phone. Here's an example of a phone design I realy like that maybe iPhone is trying to compete against. Black and White just looks classier, it always has in business and for being non distracting to the eye however readable and clear. No one says our apps won't stay the same however if what is said in this post is even half true then I'm amped up! :) Also the panorama pic wallpaper sounds like a great idea.
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I think use of color is fine. But the color scheme in iOS is dated. Part of it has to do with skeumorphism. Design and tastes shift, maybe not year to year, but at least since iOS' release. Some things are trendy when they have a vintage look, but we're talking about a GUI, and it needs to evolve with the times.

Honestly, a lot of people are going to notice, and forget about it. Just as some don't see the point in emphasizing design on iPhone, there will be people who don't see the point of emphasizing design in the UI.

The Phazer said:
Outside of the US, iMessage is just a worse SMS.

The only advantage it would have is for international messaging, since that's the only thing that saves money. Pulling it out of the SMS app allows it to be used for that.
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iMessage's greatest strength is in it's ability to unify messaging across the ecosystem (OS X, iPad, iPod), devices that don't have SMS built into the system, and it succeeds for the most part.

itguy06 said:
Yes, but I've never seen a flat design that looks better than a non flat design. Gmail - nope, iTunes - not really. Flat deisgn screams "We don't care so we whipped this up!". It's not cool, trendy, or modern. Good design needs no constant refreshing. Look at companies that have been around for a long time. Their logos have not changed much in that time periofd. 3 that come to mind:

GM: Still an underlined GM
Ford: Still a scripted Blue Oval
Coca-Cola: Still a red background with a scripted Coca-Cola...
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Don't kid yourself about GM and Ford. Their logos need an overhaul, GM's especially. It has more to do w/ the old fashion mentality at each respective company than good design.
 
skywalkerr69 said:
Great idea! Put a hardware guy on software! Horrible, no new innovations. What a joke.
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Yea, because all of Apples current software guys just completely left and handed all responsibility over to Ive :rolleyes:

When will people realize this, Jony is NOT designing the interface himself. He's simply providing leadership and making the final decisions. Some of you don't realize that Jony actually does have a few human interface patents at Apple, so its not like he's never contributed to this area before.

People complaining it won't feel like Apple. Yes it will, I can bet that much. The same people are designing the UI. Jony Ive is just leading these people now, not Forstall. Do people really think Scott Forstall single handedly designed the entire iOS UI? He just led the team and provided directions for them, even if the team didn't agree with his decisions (as has been rumored). So now they're getting more freedom to do what they've actually been wanting, with Ive I'm sure being much more open to input and probably providing better leadership.

Change is not bad. Especially if its for the better long term. I'd say nobody else at Apple has better taste than Jony. Jony is ultimately going to be the "taste" man at Apple, exactly like Steve Jobs was.
 
all i have to say is FINALLY!

iOS has been stale for years now and Ive knows it. I honestly cannot wait and will reserve judgement until it is actually showcased.
 
Not holding my breathe. If history repeats itself, it will be small changes, nothing groundbreaking or innovative.

I love iOS still but would love some added functionality but I dont think anything spectacular will happen. I would love some widgets, quick text (like BiteSMS for JB iPhone), an improved notification and lock screen and I would be happy.

However, I doubt it will happen and I may just grab an HTC ONE, but I bet if I do, then it will happen and Ill hate myself.,
 
Superken7 said:
It's about damn time iOS got a decent homescreen, and most importantly, let's hope a decent notification system. The old one and the new one are really really awful, especially after trying Android's approach.
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Isn't Apple's current approach basically Android's approach?
 
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