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Here’s what I hate about that piece and some of Ive’s comments about iOS 7.

In iOS 6, you open a folder on the home screen, and linen is something you see underneath. You pull down Notification Center, and linen is something you see over. It’s both over and under. Hardware doesn’t work like that, but software can, because software can show you anything, conceptual logic be damned.

So linen underneath and linen over is an illogical thing? We can’t use the same material for the top that we used underneath? Gee how did the iPhone 4 ever came into being. iPhone 4 must have been so illogical to people because you can’t have two pieces of glass.

How about in iOS 7, you slide the notification center down and there’s a translucent NC panel now launch siri and it too has a translucent panel. Isn’t that illogical?

Also adding same limitations of hardware to software is a good design choice is it? We good thing Apple didn’t do it for the reel to reel in podcasts.

There’s a sense of place, depth, and spatiality in iOS 7 that makes it feel like hardware. A real thing, not pixels rendered on glass.

This comes straight from Apple’s video, but He admits above that iOS 6 had the same layer system. So iOS 6 also used the z axis. In fact iOS 4 had the same sense of place, depth and speciality that Ive and Gruber talk about. But linen is bad and translucent-panel-that-looks-like-frosted-glass-but-it-isn’t because Apple doesn’t call it that is good. got it.

Less flashy, less bling, more subtle,
Neon colors, translucent panels?

The result shows that in some ways Apple’s software design has gotten better, because it was Jobs (and Forstall) who had a penchant for exuberant textures and gimmickry.

Everyone talks about how iOS was old because it had Web 2.0 gloss, rich textures, how about Welcome to Windows Vista glass panels? Oh right glass provides a “sense of place and order”.

6 days ago on iOS 7: Good Artist Copy, Great Artist Steal 1 reply

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Some of it is to be honest.

6 days ago on iOS 7: Good Artist Copy, Great Artist Steal

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Just because they are using the same font you think iOS 7 “screams sailfish” to you?

6 days ago on Am I the only one to think iOS 7 looks a bit like Sailfish OS ? 3 recommends

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Yesterday, Apple pundit and developer John Gruber wrote about Jony Ive seeing the design of software as an extension of the hardware and making them both harmonious.

I hated that piece by Gruber. There’s so much Apple marketing BS in it.

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It didn’t hit the power button but I guess the screen turned on in my pocket when I got a notification, that’s when it unlocked. I realized that when I heard the unlock sound through my headphones. If you try it to unlock the phone you will find that now your finger just has to travel half way across the screen to unlock.

Two things are happening more area for accidental touches and less travel required to unlock.

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Lets just hope they clean up some of the other mess and reduce their reliance on ultra thin font. I kinda like current passbook icon. New mail icon is slightly better, reminders looks like a definite improvement. Weather icon should be great if it live. I really hope they do something about that Game Center icon what the hell is it? Why does it have 4 bubbles?

6 days ago on The design process of iOS7, a work in progress

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No it wasn’t Google’s implementation didn’t work in full screen, the UI was completely in line with Apple’s design paradigm of the time. iOS implementation also had a better lock screen implementation. So lets not go there.

6 days ago on The Verge's WWDC coverage and "analysis".

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Well, this is a good news, supposedly some of the design was outsourced to the marketing team not the usual design guys. So there’s hope that some of my complaints would be answered however I doubt they would remove Windows Aero from iOS.

http://www.cultofmac.com/231674/apples-designers-werent-in-charge-of-ios-7-icons-overall-design-still-a-work-in-progress/

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And Ive made these.

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I am playing with it and some of the design choices feel like they were made purely for the looks. That’s my criticism. I have also found an issue with the lock screen, since you can now swipe anywhere on the screen to unlock it is much more likely to unlock accidentally in pocket it happened 3 times just this morning when I was walking. Better design?

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Better way? I’m not so sure text over transparent background is always a mess. Also it just shows highly blurred colors so I’m not sure how that’s helpful than not having those blurred colors. Consistent so was linen, logical so was linen. Expandable maybe.

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Yes but you slide NC over your content you now its above your content on the iPad you can even see your content underneath. Even siri before you say anything appears underneath your content. After you say the command it pushes your content up so you still know the top layer of the UI is gone and you are looking at the bottom layer.

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That’s a bit of fan boyish thing to say but who am I to judge?

However you understood my point, instead of previous linen we now have glass. Yet some Apple Pundits are comparing this new UI to the transition between Classic Mac OS and OS X. Which it isn’t its just a new theme. And in many ways less functional than the previous version.

As you know by now I’m not a fan of translucency, everyone cried when Apple added translucent menu bar in OS X Leopard so much that Apple had to make it an option yet, translucency in iOS is being hailed. Swipe to delete in a lot of system apps is broken, no swipe to delete in notes, no swipe to delete in reminders. A lot of animations are now gone; delete a note it just goes away, delete a photo it just disapears.

One of the objectives of the original OS X was that it was supposed to be dynamic. When you minimized the windows shrunk, when the window was too small the open/save panel would grow out of the window, if it didn’t have space it would move the window a bit and move back in place when done. In many ways iOS is now less dynamic than before. Comparing this to OS X transition is just plain wrong.

Sorry to go on a rant but the tl:dr is that this is just a new theme and nothing more. That’s the root of my disappointment with iOS 7

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Lets talk about your claim of copying ideas. Apple has always copied ideas, dashboard?, iPhone?, iPad? There is nothing wrong with copying ideas as long as you implement them in your way. Apple has always done that (except iOS 7 I admit).

As for Apple suing, Apple hasn’t sued anyone because people were copying ideas, people were copying implementations. There’s a big difference.

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I’m not talking about right or wrong I’m saying its not new iOS has had this since iOS 4. See my reply below.

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Yes but my question is how is it any different? Previously when you activated siri it would raise wherever you were up there was a drop shadow under the top layer and it would slide up. Same with folders tap a folder and your homescreen would split revealing what was underneath. Notification center would drop down over your content in the same way it does today. What I’m saying is that’s not a new idea in any way. That’s just Apple’s marketing shtick. And the Apple press is dumbly echoing it.

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Don’t over think it. iOS 7 was a rushed release they need some polishing touches.

7 days ago on Ugly icons could be strategic

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I’m not talking about the functionality here I’m talking about pure UI. Jony Ive said in the video that this new transparency provides a sense of place and everyone in the Apple press echoed it. I just want to know how is this any different than old method. It’s just a different look.

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I don’t think Apple would want to move away from rounded corners its become a defining feature of iOS. iOS has the rounded cornered icons, windows phone has squared icons. Those rounded corners are iOS identity if you will.

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I have an honest question to all new iOS 7 design defenders. Isn’t this, Siri, notification center a graphical representation of frosted glass (regardless of what Apple calls it)?

How is it different then in concept to the previous linen? Try to understand my broader point don’t tell me one is a glass and one is a fabric. For all the talk from Ive (and Apple press that echoed him) about how this provide a sense of place, how is this better than the previous version? Even previously when the notification center was overlaid on your content, you knew that there’s this layer on top and I have my content below it. How is this new system any different?

Doesn’t this then just become a theme? A coat of paint because people wanted it not because it provides better functionality?

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Stock fell a year after his death. It’s actually up since he stepped down as a CEO.

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I don’t under why they changed the old camera icon it wasn’t all that bad. Certainly better than this clipart.

8 days ago on Some kid redesigned the iOS 7 home screen icons and made them look great! 2 recommends

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True. Apple should hire this kid lol

8 days ago on Some kid redesigned the iOS 7 home screen icons and made them look great! 1 reply 11 recommends

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Much better and I agree one of the sliders could be eliminated. Either the brightness or volume which has hardware buttons anyway.

8 days ago on iOS7: What control centre could(/should?) look like