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Wow. iOS 7 is a disaster.

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IOS 7 is an iphone OS with an android skin. Everyone has to accept it. But saying it is a disaster is a stretch. I think there would be just as many ppl that would argue that it is refreshing and great etc, that apple is finally updating the IOS to look more like what some of the android and other devices look like. So i guess to each its own.
 
mcdj said:
I don't mind flat. The new icons are fine, whatever. But I do take exception to change for change's sake, which I feel drives a disproportionate share of the decisions made by the iOS7 designers.

Fonts, line drawings, status animations, etc; all pencil thin, and as often as not, illegible. Buttons that don't press, or give any feedback at all. White fonts on white backgrounds. Why? I'm all for updating the look of something, but please don't make design the first priority over usability.

iOS7 looks like it was put together by hipster art students obsessed with the 80s New Wave album covers...and they're art students with 20 year old eyes who can discern a 1 pixel progress bar on a Retina display. I sure can't.

And to think they spent a single minute more on the parallax home screen effect than they did on sytem wide font legibility...amazing. The number of emails on the red badge on the email app looks like a rendering error. It's so thin and barely readable, it looks like a scratch in the glass. This is not progress. This is art school masturbation.

I spent 5 minutes updating apps in the App store on iOS7, staring at the blue progress circles...were they getting thicker as the apps downloaded? Were my eyes playing tricks on me? Should there be ANY question as to what the circle is doing? Should anyone really have to squint to decipher its status? All in the name of a cool "fresh" design? Nonsense.

Is a clean Safari screen so incredibly important to the almighty LOOK of the app, that I should now be required to tap 3 more times than previously to access my bookmarks bar? And if the look is so important, why does the jumbled mix of favicons and disjointed text that my formerly tidy bookmarks bar has become look like an afterthought?

Is it so important to maintain a clean look that the camera app no longer allows you to see the photo you've just taken, without exiting the app and opening the photos app (which has traded traditional simpllicty and quick navigability for an unintuitive, confusing, but oh so "clean" and trendy visual overhaul).

In too many places, buttons and dialogs have been reduced to simple text, sometimes without so much as a box around it. In iOS7, tapping a word is in; visual feedback following that tap is often out. Am I supposed to think that's cool? Edgy? Hip? Maybe it is those things, but one thing I can tell you it's not...useful. Did my tap register? Hmm. Is the app frozen? Hmm. Should I re-tap in a different place or manner? Hmm.

iOS7 has stripped away so many of the visual clues we have grown accustomed to...clues we have become versed in, not just by using touch screen devices from Apple for the past few years, but a visual vocabulary honed in the civilized physical world, over the course of hundreds of years.

The color red means something serious. It has since the dawn of man. A red delete button means business. iOS7 has reduced delete to just a word. A casual word. Delete? No biggie man, go for it. Or not. Your choice. It's cool. Just tap a word!

There's a reason traffic lights aren't just backlit words. There's a reason currency isn't just printed words on white paper. There's a reason UI designers have used fake button press animations since day one.

Up until iOS7, Apple has spoken, and supremely understood, the universal languages of the physical world, and translated them to near perfection in their 2D interfaces. Universal shapes. Universal colors. Visual feedback that confirmed when something could, and denied when it couldn't.

With iOS7, Apple seems to have forgotten what has made Apple Apple; that they understood the physical world better than most anyone, and turned the universal language of the physical world into pure poetry. It's why the iPod was such a hit. It's why the iPhone redefined the mobile phone. It's why every laptop now looks like a MacBook.

iOS7 looks like Android and Windows Metro had sex in a blender, snorted some coke, dropped some acid, lost too much weight, spent all their money on 80s albums, and forgot everything anyone ever knew about user interfaces.

Restoring now.
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This post is amazing. I'm going to forward this to apple.
 
falconeight said:
laughed pretty loud.
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Yes yes we get it. You have repeated over and over ad nauseum that you love ios7 and anyone who doesn't is a blind idiot. There's someone like you in every thread that remotely denigrates Apple. What exactly is your agenda? You've made your opinion far more clear than anyone else in this thread so maybe it's time to move on?
 
mcdj said:
Yes yes we get it. You have repeated over and over ad nauseum that you love ios7 and anyone who doesn't is a blind idiot. There's someone like you in every thread that remotely denigrates Apple. What exactly is your agenda? You've made your opinion far more clear than anyone else in this thread so maybe it's time to move on?
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I never called anyone a blind idiot. Why are you focusing on me(someone you don't know) and not your argument. Yes it is time to move on.
 
musio said:
Oh, another 'not' joke! Very funny for grown up 11 year olds!









Not.
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I am not trying to be "grown up" - I am already grown up (or at least I hope I am, at 38 years old :D). If you are equating age to being serious, there is no mathematic equation or rule for that.
 
falconeight said:
Ya that was my best. Unless you bring up some nonsense about android running like butter, then I have plenty.
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Project butter? More like "Project margerine" - attempts to do the same thing as butter, but way cheaper and is nowhere NEAR as nice.

Project clutter? - they've already been there.


How about... Project "let's wake up, sack the guys who are in charge of Android UI `design` and hire some PROPER UX engineers"

Sounds long winded, but much needed.
 
typeface said:
Project butter? More like "Project margerine" - attempts to do the same thing as butter, but way cheaper and is nowhere NEAR as nice.

Project clutter? - they've already been there.


How about... Project "let's wake up, sack the guys who are in charge of Android UI `design` and hire some PROPER UX engineers"

Sounds long winded, but much needed.
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Yeah, Android is so bad almost every "new feature", right down to the parallax, and style is just a bad copy of what Android has had for some time now. Good thing Apple is the idea leader in this space. :rolleyes:
 
typeface said:
Project butter? More like "Project margerine" - attempts to do the same thing as butter, but way cheaper and is nowhere NEAR as nice.

Project clutter? - they've already been there.


How about... Project "let's wake up, sack the guys who are in charge of Android UI `design` and hire some PROPER UX engineers"

Sounds long winded, but much needed.
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What clutter? Having 3 clocks, ram checker, battery checker, flex capacitor, and a moon tracker on the front screen is totally necessary.
 
TennisandMusic said:
Yeah, Android is so bad almost every "new feature", right down to the parallax, and style is just a bad copy of what Android has had for some time now. Good thing Apple is the idea leader in this space. :rolleyes:
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You must want an internetz "fight"? :p

No wayyy! :)

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falconeight said:
What clutter? Having 3 clocks, ram checker, battery checker, flex capacitor, and a moon tracker on the front screen is totally necessary.
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You seem to have forgotten a task killer... because Android multi-tasking is "superior", and so needs it.
 
TennisandMusic said:
Yeah, Android is so bad almost every "new feature", right down to the parallax, and style is just a bad copy of what Android has had for some time now. Good thing Apple is the idea leader in this space. :rolleyes:
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Just saying. One of these was released first.
 

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typeface said:
You must want an internetz "fight"? :p

No wayyy! :)

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You seem to have forgotten a task killer... because Android multi-tasking is "superior", and so needs it.
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Ya the task killer. Handy for killing tasks that start right back up when I close it.
 
falconeight said:
Ya the task killer. Handy for killing tasks that start right back up when I close it.
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Hmmm, then in my vast repository of nerdiness... my solution for you is:

1/ Open task killer app (whichever of the 1,198 ones you chose)

2/ Find the task killer app process, and kill it



Yay! I just earned myself 1,000 green robot points :p
 
falconeight said:
Just saying. One of these was released first.
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So that's 2007. Fine. Icon grids are decades old. Certainly nothing new. Kinda hard to copy a copy and claim the second copy is a copy of the original copy of something else. Go look at Windows Mobile, Palm, and of course desktop computers, blah blah blah.

In 2013 Android is leading the way, for better or worse, and Apple can't even play catch up. The parallax thing in their promo video is so embarrassing. They make it look like it's some profound new user interface idea, and it's just a cheap accelerometer trick, one that was on Android last year for anyone that wanted it.

Don't you realize that the fact you defend them so much, and buy into their (essentially) lies means you're just falling prey to their expert marketing? None of the stuff they presented was new. And it looks better on Android 4.2 anyway.
 
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