In the past iOS hasn't had a totally redesigned, it still needs a lot of visual work and most likely will receive it.
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New Beta's... Are you expecting large visual changes, or subtle?
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In the past iOS hasn't had a totally redesigned, it still needs a lot of visual work and most likely will receive it.
Since 2008 I cannot recall many obvious aesthetic changes in a beta program. I think the design is baked in.
To those who say - "If you haven't seen the WWDC session videos you won't get it!". Stop drinking the cool-aid. How many end users will have seen those videos?
Each year I run through the WWDC session videos and they get me pumped. Not only is the content great but the Apple Devs are generally captivating. This year is different. If you're a dev go check out the "Building User Interfaces for iOS 7" session video. Dear God! The main speaker is so uninspiring, dull, and monotone you will struggle to get through it. Additionally he provides not nuts and bolts detail whatsoever. What has happened at Apple?
iOS 7 is currently a train wreck. When John Gruber starts linking to (genuine) criticism you know you have a problem. The basics are wrong. How can you apply grid based design techniques to an area of one centimetre square? The retarded re-introduction of transparency everywhere - Vista 2.0. It all looks so - dated.
Taste, as opposed to fashion, is an innate quality. Those without taste will watch the WWDC video, swallow the line they are being fed and follow the party line. Those with taste will retain a capacity for independent thought and critical evaluation.
To those who say - "If you haven't seen the WWDC session videos you won't get it!". Stop drinking the cool-aid. How many end users will have seen those videos?
Each year I run through the WWDC session videos and they get me pumped. Not only is the content great but the Apple Devs are generally captivating. This year is different. If you're a dev go check out the "Building User Interfaces for iOS 7" session video. Dear God! The main speaker is so uninspiring, dull, and monotone you will struggle to get through it. Additionally he provides not nuts and bolts detail whatsoever. What has happened at Apple?
iOS 7 is currently a train wreck. When John Gruber starts linking to (genuine) criticism you know you have a problem. The basics are wrong. How can you apply grid based design techniques to an area of one centimetre square? The retarded re-introduction of transparency everywhere - Vista 2.0. It all looks so - dated.
Taste, as opposed to fashion, is an innate quality. Those without taste will watch the WWDC video, swallow the line they are being fed and follow the party line. Those with taste will retain a capacity for independent thought and critical evaluation.
We're not going to see anything radical, but I think we'll see bigger changes than historically - I cannot believe they'll let it ship with not being able to read the audio player control text if you have white background for example, and I think they will have to rethink some of the calendar changes a bit too. I think the feedback that the lockscreen prompts don't work is correct too.
It'll be interesting to see if they change some of the icons based on the outcry.
All bets are off really. I wouldn't be surprised by a lack of radical changes, but by the same token we've never had a beta of a new iOS release that is clearly as unfinished as this one is.
It'll be interesting to see if they change some of the icons based on the outcry.
All bets are off really. I wouldn't be surprised by a lack of radical changes, but by the same token we've never had a beta of a new iOS release that is clearly as unfinished as this one is.
This is what scares me.
Apple is pretty hardheaded, and if they were willing to show off what they did of iOS7 at WWDC, it pretty much means they were happy enough with the way it looks.
If they're happy with the way it looks, chances are not much will change.
And that's thoroughly disappointing.
Also: Grids, and colour schemes are great in principle. It's the execution here that has it lacking even the most basic of design concepts.
Neon colours aside, you do NOT have icons next to each other with totally different light sources. It's just not right! Period.
I don't know if I'd call it a "train wreck". I have seen many people who have it installed and love it. And I happen to love the transparencies, or sort of smoked glass look. Much better than the linen fabric. I don't think it looks dated at all. And in fact, the more I see iOS 7 along side of iOS 6, 6 is the thing that looks horribly dated to me.
It is a common anti-pattern. When OS X was first released Apple went all in with transparency. With each successive version of OS X they've dialled it back (With the notable exception of the transparent menu bar in Leopard, which even then they quickly made optional).
When Microsoft finally got there ***** together with regards to developing a modern display driver architecture they too went all in with transparency with Aero on Vista and Windows 7. Since then they've removed transparency altogether.
A lot of the early Linux desktops also made the same mistake. The over-use of transparency is a prime example of just because you can do something does not necessarily mean you should. I do not understand how blurring content and overlaying it with chrome is in any way "deferential".
All these old, legacy OS's relied on the same tired overuse of transparency - and that is why iOS7 looks dated.
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I think iOS 7 is reaction to design criticism. Possibly over-reaction to design criticism, punishing all iOS users because of a few who inflated valid critique of a few rusticated apps into a full blown attack on Apple's aesthetic.