/rant : iOS7 UI is disturbing the hell out of me

[pjoa09]

What the fuck is up with Apple.

Fucking goddamn piece of shit android looking UI as well now.

I mean where has the line gone that distinguishes a piece of shit and Apple?

Fucking android whores.

The one dependable thing you can buy and expect it to work perfectly is now chasing the look of the buggy retarded android.

I don't know, it's just pissing me off.

Here I am laughing at my brother and dad for buying into some clunky software with hardly any attention to detail and now the iPhone tries to imitate that look.

Why can't they just maintain that skeuomorphic design style rather than buying into this simple look bullshit.

/rant

 

[The Gopher]

HIPSTER ALERT.

 

[Nezaros]

On an Android you can install an entirely different OS and customize every single aspect of the UI.

 

[Architect]

Design and taste are difficult. Comparing the three choices

Android has a pretty poor user interface. The lack of attention to detail runs throughout the interface. For example, when you have a text box shown that cannot be presently edited it still shows a blinking cursor and an insertion point. This throws me off, because I keep thinking that I can edit the text when in fact I cannot. I first have to tap, and then I can edit the text. Another example is lists, oftentimes you can select a list item to bring up a submenu. Unfortunately, whether you can select the list item were not is not shown. This leads to frequent tapping and confusion. There are many other examples, but I'll end with the point that the color scheme and general fit and finish of Android are not particularly well thought out.

Microsoft's Windows 8, what needs to be said about this? Microsoft appears to have absolutely no idea how to do user interfaces. Their color schemes are horrific. After years of trying to do tablets and failing because they tried to put a desktop OS onto a tablet, now (after the success of Apple) they made the same mistake in reverse. They tried to put a tablet interface onto a desktop OS. They just can't seem to get it correct.

Now we've got Apple and all they done is flatten that overly complicated interface. If you ask me they might have overdone it a bit, but not too much so.

Has anybody else noticed how these user interfaces are looking more and more like Star Trek user interfaces?

 

[Cognisant]

Wut? Apple stopped being Apple all of a sudden?

...hold up, you can customise the UI, but they won't let you reprogram it in any way right?

Ahh normality restored.

 

[pjoa09]

Design and taste are difficult. Comparing the three choices

Android has a pretty poor user interface. The lack of attention to detail runs throughout the interface. For example, when you have a text box shown that cannot be presently edited it still shows a blinking cursor and an insertion point. This throws me off, because I keep thinking that I can edit the text when in fact I cannot. I first have to tap, and then I can edit the text. Another example is lists, oftentimes you can select a list item to bring up a submenu. Unfortunately, whether you can select the list item were not is not shown. This leads to frequent tapping and confusion. There are many other examples, but I'll end with the point that the color scheme and general fit and finish of Android are not particularly well thought out.

Microsoft's Windows 8, what needs to be said about this? Microsoft appears to have absolutely no idea how to do user interfaces. Their color schemes are horrific. After years of trying to do tablets and failing because they tried to put a desktop OS onto a tablet, now (after the success of Apple) they made the same mistake in reverse. They tried to put a tablet interface onto a desktop OS. They just can't seem to get it correct.

Now we've got Apple and all they done is flatten that overly complicated interface. If you ask me they might have overdone it a bit, but not too much so.

Has anybody else noticed how these user interfaces are looking more and more like Star Trek user interfaces?

Android has a horrible user interface. Trying to find an application you just downloaded is like trying to find a book in a random stack of books. Shortcuts after shortcuts and a never ending widgets page full of random crap information. It just looks ugly to start with.

The Windows Phone looks pretty though.

I have always found the iOS very simple to use except for a few issues and it was gorgeous to look at. I have always loved Mac OS and iOS icons for the intense detail.

To think about it, could this be all in preparation for the cheap iPhone? I heard they had plans for that once and what better way to abandon the retina display without having the consumers realize it.

 

[vol]

I installed beta of iOS 7 and I like the changes. With iOS 7 Apple took new approach.

When iPhone came and they introduced iPhone OS, everything about touch interface was new so it had to be obvious how to use it from the start. So people needed 'signs' that they know from other places. For example buttons. Everybody know that you click the button, so when application had a button, even when you use the touch device for the first time, you know that you can pres it. That created the best possible UI/UX at the time.

It was 6 years ago, and in that 6 years many things changed. World is overrun by touch devices and everybody know "tricks" how to control it. World is accustomed to swipes, gestures and applications. So now the design doesn't have to use 'signs' from non-touch-technology, like buttons.

Now devices can pretend non-technology world and we know how to translate touch-technology experience to normal world. Flipboard as a magazine or iBook as a book is a great example. We don't need a button "next page", because we know that when we swipe the disply it will act like an actual book.

And all this things lead Apple to conclusion that they can make design that's content driven and driven by typography. That made user experience far greater. Their system don't have to be as easy as it was to understand, because now everybody knows how to use touch devices. Don't get me wrong - it's still simple. It's just got the new edge for power users that want to expand their experience.

And the typography is beautifull. I just don't like the looks of new icons. Some of them are just ugly, but that's just opinion