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- mg330
I don't mind it, and most of it is pretty nice, but I'm definitely met with that wonder of what Steve Jobs would say about it. His control over design direction was obvious: if something didn't measure up, it wasn't going forward. I can think of numerous things in ios7 that he would have never allowed. Everything up till now was HIS vision, executed by experts that knew how to cater to and pull off that vision
But he's not there anymore, and I think we're seeing the outcome of design by committee at Apple, where the results are sort of unified, but also produced a lot of quirks and errors that we've all noticed and talked about.
Take Safari for instance: the window switching doesn't match anything found anywhere else in the OS. The text at the top of each page is odd because it's skewed. Why not follow the same pattern that's applied to viewing recent apps with a left-to-right flat scrolling feature, which is basically how it previously worked? The Safari "tabs" are the most baffling thing to me. It's awkward, inconsistent, and doesn't solve a problem. The old way was fine.
It really makes me wonder how these big tech companies actually test anything, and why UX decisions are made as they are. I think ios7 suffers from a lot of good ideas that don't improve anything actually.
It makes me think of the new YouTube app, the way you have to swipe a video down to the bottom right corner, then across to close it. Why? Why that combination of hard-to-notice-at-first gestures? Was this tested with actual people? What was wrong with a back button to close a video?
So many tech companies are updating sites and apps at such a rapid pace these days; I think actual meaningful innovation and updating something because it seems like a good idea is really starting to blur together now.
Again, I don't hate ios7. I'm fine with it, I like a lot of things, the things I don't I'll get used to. But from a design perspective, I go back to what I said above about design by committee. Ivy is supposed to be this design god... If that's the case, who allowed yellow links on white background in notepad? Who thought white text on neon green was a good idea for text messages? These are things I just can't imagine an entire company letting go through; there had to have been enough detractors to say "woah, the contrast here is terrible," or something like that.
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- Woah, slow down David Foster Wallace. :)nikdaum
- totally agree about that youtube thing - totally pointless and irritating.fadein11
- I think you have hit the nail on the head. Apple attained near perfection in the past because of Jobs insane personality.fadein11
- I think your design crit is spot onmonospaced
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- Thanks guys! And yet it's still so hard to get a UX design job. :(mg33
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