You're blaming him for wanting Apple to provide that feature? He should instead download a third part weather app with a dodgy app badge workaround solution?
I'm not blaming anybody for wanting Apple to provide that feature. As a matter of fact, I believe that Apple should definitely provide that feature, and that they should have done so a long time ago.
I'm looking at it from a common sense point of view, and since Apple hasn't provided that feature, I was pointing out that there are other options out there. If somebody wishes to spend years waiting on some feature, then be my guest. In the meantime, there are other options.
I call fake. If somebody has access to iOS 7 and wants to leak screenshots, I am sure there are far more interesting aspects to show off than missing gloss effect to existing application icons.
Also, why the ultra blurry picture? The user could have taken a screenshot of the screen directly from the phone itself. How hard is it to press the Power and Home buttons to take a screenshot?
I work in app development and I've heard complaints from clients who don't like the fact that the icons they've designed are not the ones that appear on the store. Designers never like someone modifying their work, even something relatively minor like adding gloss. We always refer their complaints to Apple.
I work in app development and I've heard complaints from clients who don't like the fact that the icons they've designed are not the ones that appear on the store. Designers never like someone modifying their work, even something relatively minor like adding gloss. We always refer their complaints to Apple.
I have a feeling the icon change is not the biggest thing happening for Apple & their iOS. In the market for some new hardware & really looking forward to the next year and a half.
I'm not sure if I'm confident with Apple and Craig Federighi altering iOS's UI a whole lot. Unfortunately, while there's people like us with a brain and who want to know everything there is about the devices we spend money on, at the same time, there's brainless morons out there that can't handle a UI any more sophisticated than the current "grid" setup iOS versions 6 and earlier have displayed because they know nothing about their devices. Apple will likely keep the UI similar to what it is now with a few minor changes. Unfortunately, it's likely Apple will want to keep sporting a UI for the users that don't have a brain; thus, iOS could still look like it's behind today's more sophisticated interfaces like Windows Phone 8 and Android.
I want iOS to drop the glossy look. I believe that is one of the reasons why the phone looks like a toy. I want a more serious, professional looking iPhone, and not something that looks like Fisher- Price made it. The skeuomorphism also plays a roll in this play toy-like look.
The lock screen is ugly--what Apple needs to do is take away the layers and just create a single layered lock screen that has live weather conditions and animations that reflect that in the background with the temperature and the time. The actual number keys used to unlock the phone should/could be a non-transparent version of what the number keys look now, except slightly smaller and without the 3D/boxy effect. The current, "slide to unlock" and quick camera icon could/should be placed on that animation without the additional gloss layer underneath and around it. This would create a beautiful, flat lock screen. In addition to that, users should be able to access the new and improved notification center from the lock screen when a new badge for notifications appear... This way all of the notifications won't fill the screen up.
The UI itself after the phone is unlocked should lose the gloss, lose the notepad looking animations, bookshelves, etc. and should be re-arranged and re-sized so that I can actually see a picture of my girlfriend or other background photo instead of what it looks like now where the Apps just cover the whole page.
I thought "flat" meant stripping away the gloss, shadows, extra colors, etc. Taking away only the gloss layer doesn't do much at all. And with the hype of Ives, this can't be the new look. That would be stupid.
This doesn't look legit to me, either. If the "leaks" are correct, the wood shelves from Newsstand are gone, yet they are present in the photo. And, aside from the loss of the gloss layer, nothing about these icons looks flat.
The icons are way too much like android ones. Too flat and boring. I like the current ones. Just make some useful (like weather) and allow me to delete the stocks app.
Why does the extremely blurry icon grid not line up with the non-blurry status bar at the top, why does the blurry icon grid not fit into or even line up with the iPhone display frame and why does it appear to be printed on blotting paper?
I work in app development and I've heard complaints from clients who don't like the fact that the icons they've designed are not the ones that appear on the store. Designers never like someone modifying their work, even something relatively minor like adding gloss. We always refer their complaints to Apple.
Apparently neither your clients, nor you are aware that you can turn "off" the glossy icon effect with a simple setting change in Xcode. Look it up.
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It wasn't felt though. It was pixels made to imitate felt, and the wood was terribly done. It's time to modernise and think outside the box.
Zing!!
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You're blaming him for wanting Apple to provide that feature? He should instead download a third part weather app with a dodgy app badge workaround solution?
I'm not blaming anybody for wanting Apple to provide that feature. As a matter of fact, I believe that Apple should definitely provide that feature, and that they should have done so a long time ago.
I'm looking at it from a common sense point of view, and since Apple hasn't provided that feature, I was pointing out that there are other options out there. If somebody wishes to spend years waiting on some feature, then be my guest. In the meantime, there are other options.
I call fake. If somebody has access to iOS 7 and wants to leak screenshots, I am sure there are far more interesting aspects to show off than missing gloss effect to existing application icons.
Also, why the ultra blurry picture? The user could have taken a screenshot of the screen directly from the phone itself. How hard is it to press the Power and Home buttons to take a screenshot?
Originally Posted by Negafox
How hard is it to press the Power and Home buttons to take a screenshot?
Pressing Power+Home: Piece of cake.
Sending the created file to ANY off-device service using ANY method of transfer under ANY circumstances: Piece of cake*.
*If you're okay with a 1000% chance of losing your job and probably a criminal trial.
Or you tell Xcode not to add gloss. Either way.
In the market for some new hardware & really looking forward to the next year and a half.
I'm not sure if I'm confident with Apple and Craig Federighi altering iOS's UI a whole lot. Unfortunately, while there's people like us with a brain and who want to know everything there is about the devices we spend money on, at the same time, there's brainless morons out there that can't handle a UI any more sophisticated than the current "grid" setup iOS versions 6 and earlier have displayed because they know nothing about their devices. Apple will likely keep the UI similar to what it is now with a few minor changes. Unfortunately, it's likely Apple will want to keep sporting a UI for the users that don't have a brain; thus, iOS could still look like it's behind today's more sophisticated interfaces like Windows Phone 8 and Android.
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I want iOS to drop the glossy look. I believe that is one of the reasons why the phone looks like a toy. I want a more serious, professional looking iPhone, and not something that looks like Fisher- Price made it. The skeuomorphism also plays a roll in this play toy-like look.
The lock screen is ugly--what Apple needs to do is take away the layers and just create a single layered lock screen that has live weather conditions and animations that reflect that in the background with the temperature and the time. The actual number keys used to unlock the phone should/could be a non-transparent version of what the number keys look now, except slightly smaller and without the 3D/boxy effect. The current, "slide to unlock" and quick camera icon could/should be placed on that animation without the additional gloss layer underneath and around it. This would create a beautiful, flat lock screen. In addition to that, users should be able to access the new and improved notification center from the lock screen when a new badge for notifications appear... This way all of the notifications won't fill the screen up.
The UI itself after the phone is unlocked should lose the gloss, lose the notepad looking animations, bookshelves, etc. and should be re-arranged and re-sized so that I can actually see a picture of my girlfriend or other background photo instead of what it looks like now where the Apps just cover the whole page.
Just a couple of ideas.
Originally Posted by bigmike
I thought "flat" meant stripping away the gloss, shadows, extra colors, etc. Taking away only the gloss layer doesn't do much at all.
Who the heck wants it "flat" in the first place?
…hype…
There's your problem.
lol!
But, I guess we'll see in a week.
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The photographer was using an Android phone.
that only explains the "idiot" part...
Apparently neither your clients, nor you are aware that you can turn "off" the glossy icon effect with a simple setting change in Xcode. Look it up.