Filip Novotny The look of iOS 7 is starting to take on a dull outline. Several sources directly from Apple have hinted at several details from various applications, but they all agree on one thing: the mobile operating system will be more black, white and flat starting this summer.
These changes come months after Apple made major design changes. After the infamous departure of Scott Forstall, the former VP of iOS, the structure at the top of the company changed significantly. Apple's senior executives no longer divide the field of activity according to individual systems, so Forstall's powers were divided among several of his colleagues. Jony Ive, who until then had only been designing hardware, became the vice president of industrial design, so he is also in charge of the appearance of the software.
Apparently, Ive has not really been idle in his new position. Several sources say that he immediately made several big changes. The upcoming iOS 7 will thus be "black, white and all flat". This means, in particular, a departure from so-called skeuomorphism or the heavy use of textures.
And the textures should be what bothered Ivo the most on iOS so far. According to some Apple employees, Ive openly indulged in textures and skeuomorphic design even at various company meetings. According to him, design with physical metaphors will not stand the test of time.
Another problem, he says, is that different apps use vastly different designs, which can easily confuse users. Just look at the yellow Notes that resemble a block, the blue and white Mail app or the green casino called Game Center. At the same time, Ive finds support in his claims from, among others, Greg Christie, head of the "human interface" department.
As we already are informed, a number of default applications will see major changes. The redesign of the Mail and Calendar apps was the most talked about. Today we already know that both of these apps, and probably all others with them, will get a flat, black-and-white design with no distinctive textures. Each application will then have its own color scheme. The messages will probably be filled in, and the Calendar will be in red - similar to how it is concept a British blogger.
At the same time, the rate of change will vary for individual applications. While Mail probably won't see a big change, apps like the App Store, Newsstand, Safari, Camera or Game Center should be unrecognizable in iOS 7. For example, Weather should undergo a major redesign, as it has recently fallen far behind competitors such as Solar or Yahoo! Weather. It is the latter application that the new Weather could resemble - see koncept a Dutch designer.
Unnecessary textures will also disappear from several apps as expected. The Game Center will lose its green felt, the Kiosk or iBooks will lose its library shelves. The wood should be replaced with a texture reminiscent of the dock known from the OS X Mountain Lion computer system.
In iOS 7, several new and old features will also be added. A standalone app for FaceTime should return; video calling moved to the Phone app on the iPhone some time ago, confusing many unsuspecting users. Apart from that he speculates about supporting the photo network Flickr or the video service Vimeo.
The new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch will be presented in just a few days, on June 10 at the WWDC developer conference. We will inform you about the presented news already during the conference.
"Today we already know that both of these applications and, together with them, probably
everyone else gets a flat, black-and-white design with no distinctive textures.
Each application will then have its own color scheme."
– Where did you get that about the color schemes? :-) I would like to see some relevant source, since you already write that you "Know". In my opinion, these are just pure speculations and conjectures with the exaggerated invention of journalists.
The source is given in the article. The information is said to come from 9to5Mac whistleblowers.
I'm very afraid that it will turn out well because the current iOS has absolutely the most beautiful design that eight has seen so far.
According to the photos, it seems to me that iOS is starting to resemble Android :) and that's sad :)
omg... the photos are of course only illustrative and designed by a fan. None of the pictures that are here show real iOS or real concepts by Apple... Try to clarify it first and think before you start crying nonsense.
Yep, that's what was said about the appearance of the new iPhone last year as well. These are just fan suggestions and in the final, the iPh5 looked real according to one picture. :)
He didn't look like it.
I remember it well. Among those tens/hundreds of images, the current design was also displayed. Of course, no one knew if anything was true at all and there were only theories everywhere.
Misleading information. There is a difference between a concept and a "leak". What you are talking about was not a concept. And these are the concepts.
If you have the possibility to have a calendar on the lock screen without the need for JB, it will be a bit more usable.
It definitely needs a change and I applaud if they go the way the so far "unverified" information sounds. The current visual of icons, meaningless textures, etc. is simply out of place and we need to go back to the minimalist basics of Apple! ... I'm a Mac weaner, etc. ... but recently I saw a Windows mobile .. I think it was a Nokia .. and I really looked ... beautifully clear panels .. everything as flat and clear as possible ... without frills, textures, etc ... Sure, APPLE IS APPLE, but change is simply necessary ... and who remembers the original OS on MACs ... it was a timeless beauty after all ... ;)
I haven't had the Windows Phone 8 phones in my hands yet, but when I take the metro design in Windows 8, it's a disaster... How many times you can't tell what's an action element and what's just a label, it all merges senselessly and merges into one whole...
Personally, I'm afraid of this change, I like the design, I adore the textures, and if they leave the design as it is for another five years, I wouldn't mind at all...
Noooo .. to compare "Vidle" on sandpapers with telephones ... mnooo .... that's probably not possible :))) You see, and I, as a MAC user from the 90s .. when the OS design was amazingly austere, not overloaded with textures, unlike the rustic Windows, I'm calling for this return ... I'm tired of those little overpaid icons ... but I don't want a copy other systems, but I want something NEW, REVOLUTIONARY from Apple again... simple and functional for users... I really don't want to get stuck on some overpaid icons and over-textured applications... and thanks to Apple for understanding... I want the good old OS (iOS) back just to in 2013 ... I really recommend picking up the Nokia and then my iPhone ... I'm exaggerating a bit, but I had a little feeling that I was behind the monkeys for 100 years ... exaggerated, but there was a slight feeling like that and that's what I want ... But just my opinion :)
correction: and I don't want that :)
So far, I feel that hiring Jony Ivo for this position was another Apple mistake. They will not come with any evolution again, only with a revolution, which will actually be about nothing and the steep fall will continue. Damage. I liked Apple, but unfortunately...
Stando steep
Well, I don't know, but if you come across y or i, it's correct.
They were steep.
:-)))
So if instead of EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION will pass, then maybe only good, right??? :))) I want something revolutionary... and only APPLE can do this! Dot! :)
I personally like the modern design. Even skeuomorphism was what was so attractive about apple. It's definitely nice when things resemble the real thing. The wooden shelves in ibooks and the kiosk are great.
So at best I will not upgrade the ios and then I will either get used to it or go elsewhere.
I won't lose anything :-)
It sounds absolutely fantastic. This is exactly what I expected and at the same time wish for. I'm really looking forward to WWDC. I'll take the new iOS and the plastic version of the iPhone 5 (cheaper) right away :D
Great, except for the calendar. Writing out events legibly under it is just as cliché as those silly textures. It needs big boxes for the individual days and lorem ipsum in them, otherwise it won't be the same.
I don't know what to think. I really like some of the skeuomorphistic elements in iOS6, but then again, I also really like minimalism.
God forbid it's an ugly Windows Phone, but it's not a design for nothing, Sir...right?
I believe that all these reports will be more or less confirmed on June 10. People should finally understand that skeumorphing is a completely off road, a dead end. First of all, it is completely unnecessary, because if the designers who take care of the interface and controls are capable, they can make a completely graphically flat user interface, in which you know what is an active element and what is just a label, etc., without using, for example, shadows ( I notice this not only in ios or other operating systems, but also in graphic or web design in general). I see Skeumorphing as an amateur way to distinguish these elements from each other, and its use is only a crutch for people who simply cannot create a usable and clear user interface. Another reason why skeumorphing is dead in UI is the performance requirement, where flat graphic elements will simply always require less performance than those overpaid with transitions, shadows and textures. The design of Apple's external hardware never went hand in hand with the design of their user interfaces (of course I don't remember the beginning), I never understood it and maybe in a while I won't even need to understand it. Skeumorphing just drives me insane. And on the other hand, when there is a change in the interface from Apple, some Apple fanboys will be furious, but most will take it well and I will be happy for it, because people, whether I want to or not, I will have to slowly understand that skeumorphing in operating systems it is worthless. I'm curious how it will all turn out, and I'm rooting for Apple in this, because it has the opportunity to finally educate a lot of people to some aesthetic feeling and show them that even without shiny icons and fancy textures it can be done beautifully...
And some people like skeuomorphism. With the sentence "Skeumorphing vnimam ako amatersky sposob (blah blah)" you declare that you know nothing about proper skeuomorphism.
I know a lot about proper skeumorphing, if you mean the high-quality one, I myself owned an ipad and some applications had a beautifully refined UI, but it was just on the borderline, it wasn't overpaid like IOS. When I wrote that it's an "amateur way", I didn't mean that it's amateur in the sense that the designer doesn't have the skills to create a beautiful realistic icon in photoshop, but that UI designers don't know how to design a UI from a functional point of view so that it works even without all those useless things (as I wrote above)... there is a difference between "proper" and proper skeumorhing. you have to realize that everything is moving forward and the future belongs to flat design. designmodo.com/flat-design-principles/ (why, I deduced that above)
I can say the same about fat design. To replace skeuomorphism with flat is beating a wedge with a wedge.