Re: iOS7 Controls
Re: iOS7 Controls
- Subject: Re: iOS7 Controls
- From: Luther Baker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:27:22 -0500
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 17:04 , Luther Baker <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > As alluded to in some of the other posts, some of the others of _us_ that
> > care about usability, readability, dynamic text, full screen views, fewer
> > shadows and performance are finding good times ahead as we embrace the
> > platform and learn how to maximize the toolset - instead of fighting with
> > it. Your mileage may vary.
>
> The new UI is
better overall. I just finished an app completely rewritten using native
components and the final app looks much cleaner, easier to use and more
consistent with the underlying OS.
> The lack of shadows
results in a much cleaner and less cluttered interface. It is also
relatively unheard of and will take several rounds of current old school
designers to get the hang of leveraging in their own applications.
> The thin font weight
looks modern and is generally more appealing to read. I want to open and
use several apps that never got a second glance before ... WEATHER!
> Moving the text for buttons in UITableViewCells from center to
> left-justified deemphasizes their nature as being buttons, further adding
> to confusion.
Buttons in cells? You mean the detailed disclosure "i".... or the Delete
textual button?
I've also found it hard to know that something should be tapped because it
> doesn't *look* like a button.
>
How do you manage to use webpages?
It doesn't the affordance <http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html> that
we're all so very used it ... but that doesn't make it bad.
> iOS 7 is creating a great deal of extra work, especially because now we
> must support two OSes with substantial differences.
Well known right? This can be said about absolutely EVERY major UI upgrade
on any system where anyone wants to be backward compatible.
> Studies have shown that the cognitive load is higher for outlines vs
> filled-in shapes.
> I'm finding performance on my iPad 3rd gen to be much worse on iOS 7 than
> it was in iOS 6. Scrolling is frequently jerky and jumpy. Shadows and
> gradients did not diminish readability or usability, and (as I mentioned)
> frequently enhanced it.
>
Have you optimized your app for iOS7 ... or just deployed it out of the box
from a iOS6 tuned code base? I'm running a pretty beefy app, written for 7
on an old iPhone 4 ... (no parallax effect) that is downright zippy.
I don't know how iOS7 will fare, but it is here - and unlike coding which
can often be judged as very black and white, UI and UX is much less
tangible. This cocoa dev mailing list is a developers list. I find all
these UI UX threads amusing since traditionally, we all know that
developers generally make lousy designers.
Good luck as you pick a course through this, opportunity!
-Luther
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