Ondrej Holzman Apple designers' obsession with detail is evident in every new product, and the Watch is no different in the first reviews, they were generally rated positively, but they still have a long way to go. Maximum attention to detail is found not only in the design, but also in the software.
One of the parts that the developers and designers have really played with is the so-called Motion dial, which displays the time and butterflies fly, jellyfish swim, or flowers grow in the background. You wouldn't normally be able to tell, but Apple's design team went to some pretty extreme lengths for these three "pictures."
In his text for Wired he described the creation of individual dials by David Pierce. "We took pictures of everything," Alan Dye, the head of the so-called human interface, told him, i.e. the way the user controls the watch and how it reacts to him.
“The butterflies and flowers for the watch face are all captured in camera,” explains Dye. When the user raises his hand with the Watch on his wrist, the watch face always appears with a different flower and in a different color. It's not CGI, it's photography.
Apple photographed the flowers while they were blooming in stop-motion, and the most demanding one took him 285 hours, during which over 24 pictures were taken.
The designers chose Medusa for the dial purely because they liked it. On the one hand, they visited a giant aquarium with an underwater camera, but in the end they had a tank of water moved into their studio so that they could shoot the jellyfish in slow-motion with a Phantom camera.
Everything was shot in 4K at 300 frames per second, although the resulting footage was scaled down more than ten times for the Watch's resolution. "You don't normally get a chance to see that level of detail," says Dye. "However, it's really important for us to get these details right."
I call that a job well done, it's a shame I can't have a butterfly or a jellyfish like that on the Mac... I hope Apple will continue to stick to nature motifs, even if it ditched the big cats. Well, wouldn't it be great to have a personal tiger on Watch or iOS instead of Siri?
If only they had devoted as much time and effort to other areas as well.
apple is going in the right direction, this is the perfectionism we love. the new emojis are great, I really like them.
and the price is still relatively reasonable. I'm waiting until the new macbook is here, my wife is an interpreter and it will reliably replace her air. we will both buy a watch, sending pictures and so on is brilliant. sending a quick heart during work lunch and letting him know I'm thinking of him is wonderful. Apple products have a soul, so to speak (and for tablets, they are reds without a soul), sw matches hw, it's a ballet of technology.
And at the same time such stupidity that... :-)
Above all, it's incredible how you eat it for them!