Ondrej Holzman If you're on iOS, you might not even think of it. Especially if you don't have a comparison with, say, watchOS or other operating systems. However, graphic artist Max Rudberg drew attention to the interesting fact that iOS is too "stiff" in places.
"When iOS 10 was introduced, I was hoping it would borrow a lot more from watchOS because it does a great job of providing animated feedback when clicking buttons and other elements," explains Rudberg and adds several specific cases.
In watchOS, it is common for the buttons to often provide a plastic animation that feels very natural when controlled by a finger. Android also has, for example, the "blurring" of the buttons as part of the material design.
As a contrast to iOS, Rudberg mentions buttons in Apple Maps that only respond with color. “Perhaps pressing could even show the shape of the button? It's like it's flush with the surface, but if you press your finger it would push down and turn gray temporarily," suggests Rudberg.
Since Apple doesn't deploy similar elements in iOS yet, they don't appear as much in third-party apps either. However, developers have the option to use such buttons, as evidenced by, for example, selecting a filter in Instagram or buttons on the bottom control bar in Spotify. And how good for Rudberg's text he pointed out Federico Viticci of Mac Stories, the new Play button in Apple Music already has a similar behavior.
Rudberg's proposal is certainly good, and it will be interesting to see if Apple is preparing similar news for iOS 11, for example. However, it would definitely go hand in hand with the improved haptic response in iPhones 7. It makes iPhone and iOS much more alive and more plastic buttons would help it even more.
Let them go back to the design of iOS 6 - there were the most beautiful buttons.
Apple has overhauled both macOS and iOS three times over the past two years. It led to nothing but confusion, higher HW requirements and an unstable system. If they'd rather solve crashes and errors that didn't happen before iOS7 and Mavericks. They are already like MS, whose development is stuck on randomly moving the Start button, instead of solving what really bothers the user.
Personally, I would prefer if, instead of bullshit like button animation, they would rather ensure that AirDrop or hotspot works as they advertise.
After all, Apple doesn't have the time and resources to solve such things... After all, they have to add new and new emoticons to each new system update...
It's probably a question outside of this discussion, but when dictating text (e.g. in SMS) that is activated using the microphone icon next to the spacebar on the left, can the sound of this icon be turned off? Whenever I press it, it activates a loud sound and neither I nor any of my colleagues know how to turn it off. Thanks.
This is an iphone 5S