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New iOS 7 Icons for GarageBand and iPhoto Appear, Hinting at Upcoming Redesign
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Steve also told Tim to not think "what would have Steve done." And I like the icons to be honest.
You say that, yet you give no reasons. Let me ask you: What is it you like? The stick figure drawings or the gradients some of which are hot-cold and others cold-hot? Or do you like how the transparent bar on the top of Safari makes it look like somebody scribbled all over it when text shines through?
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iOS was and still is skeuomorphic and there seem to be many misconceptions about that term. Skeuomorphism is more than just a leather background. Many people here actually seem to like change, but not just any kind of change.
It doesn't matter. That's what's great about the people getting all upset. I've been on this forum long enough to know that any type of change, the people will hate it for the first 6 months. Then it will become near and dear to their hearts until it's changed again 2 years down the line. It's a cycle of cynical people who can't enjoy anything until they've been given enough time to warm up to it.
Or because those are different people. Or because they accept the change due to the a lack of alternatives. At some point every criticism, however valid, may fall on deaf ears. Similarly, not everyone has a change aversion, perhaps more a case of bad-design aversion. I for one thing like change and am naturally curious. But the design and colour palette of iOS 7 still makes me cringe.
Yup. You nailed it. Different does not automaticly make things better. It just makes things different.
I could deal with the crap icons, but the big fail for ios 7 is how badly it doesnt work from a usability perspective. The first rule of good design is to make things clear concise and easily understandable. In this regard, iOS 7 fails miserably. Try reading the yellow text on a white background in bright sunlight and see how well it works.
I got somewhat lucky. My iPhone 5 developed an issue and was replaced under warranty. Thankfully, the new one still had iOS 6 on it. But, after ownung every iPhone version since the first one, I also bought a Nexus 4, just to learn how Android works. Between myself, for family and for staff, I've bought somewhere around 20 iPhones in the past 5 years. My current 5 will be the last.
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I don't know how this is possible. I feel like I should hate all of these icons, but no, I love them. Even compared with the old ones, I love these. Damn.
Those two icons are not great, and there is little artistic connection to any of the other new app icons.
I could have done the design and production of those icons--both of them--in about 45 minutes, and been a bit more creative in that timeframe.
I could have done the design and production of those icons--both of them--in about 45 minutes, and been a bit more creative in that timeframe.
I suspect apple is waiting to release two revamped sets and mavericks at the same time
But what I would like to see is some internal tweaking. Make the apps plugin friendly so we can add templates, fonts, brushes, filters, loops, themes etc. They could all still have to go through the store but it would let us make the apps more powerful if we needed them cause, like with autobus and GarageBand, we could add things like endnote and MathType and so on
So the icons have been updated. Wonderful.
Now if only they'd update the iPhoto app itself so it's actually USEFUL. As it currently stands it's ridiculously slow and far less capable than many third party apps I've used.
How about syncing of adjustments with the desktop versions of iPhoto and Aperture? How about better organizational ability? Syncing of projects and albums?
As it currently stands iPhoto on iOS is just a weak image tweaker with a bloated interface. We all know Apple can do SO MUCH better.
Now if only they'd update the iPhoto app itself so it's actually USEFUL. As it currently stands it's ridiculously slow and far less capable than many third party apps I've used.
How about syncing of adjustments with the desktop versions of iPhoto and Aperture? How about better organizational ability? Syncing of projects and albums?
As it currently stands iPhoto on iOS is just a weak image tweaker with a bloated interface. We all know Apple can do SO MUCH better.
Everything looks so washed out and cold now. I was really looking forward to getting my wife a 5c to replace her 3gs, but that turned into a very hard sell once she saw IOS7 and I had a hard time disagreeing.
I don't see how no one has noticed this yet, but Apple already gave a preview of it at WWDC.
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Ive actually made the iPad music player a bit better, it was destroyed way back in iOS5, long before Ive had anything to do with the software. Still not great now but the best music player app on iPad since iOS4.
I see icons as mini logos. They should artistically be instantly recognizable with minimal effort. These examples do the job for me and I rather like them. Of course I am a huge fan of Miami Vice.
