Tim Green:
To me, there is a distinct movement towards a particular style and I would be very surprised if Apple were ignorant of it. It’s not ‘flat design’ per se and it’s certainly nowhere near the ‘Metro’ levels that people are suggesting they may follow, but it’s a mellowing out of the visual indicators that people need to trigger the idea of a tappable element
A good overview of current design trends in iOS, some thoughts and even a mock-up. A nice way to see where mobile design in general is trending.
“They can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.”
Last time I checked, the lack of Office on iPad was nothing to do with Apple or the device. What a stupid thing to say.
This morning, Apple officially announced that its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco from Monday, June 10 until Friday, June 14th. Tickets …
Please let iOS 7 be great.
Regardless of how big of an improvement the next iPhone is, Apple should just call it the iPhone 6 and give the finger to anyone who questions whether the name fits.
As Siracusa said - release it in many colours and call it the iPhone 6. Big enough differentiator to most people, though bloggers will still trash it.
Everything rides on iOS innovation.
The same is true of design trends. Many — not all, maybe not even most, but many — of the complaints I see about iOS, for example, boil down to it being familiar. It no longer scratches our itch for new. Apple needs to scratch that itch for us eventually or someone else will, but it’s essential that they find something new and better, not merely new and different.
Gruber gets at what I’m talking about.
via Gruber on Branch.
Definitely the most exciting thing coming to the iPhone/iPad, if true. Software is key to getting people really excited about the iPhone this time round.
In my opinion, a major iOS UI update will do more for the perception of the iPhone’s long-term success than the release of an iPhone 5S. I still believe it is the software that people are getting bored of, not the hardware, and yet no one has said this – everyone blames the hardware, but there is still absolutely no competitor out there – not even Samsung – that comes even vaguely close to the manufacturing quality of Apple products.
What will destroy the iPhone’s long-term success over the next 3-5 years is failure to innovate in software, not hardware.
Thorsten Heins, CEO, BlackBerry.
[…] it’s quite clear that Samsung took its design inspiration for Wallet from Apple’s Passbook (even down to the icon that Samsung used).
More delightful and surprising innovation from Samsung. What a great company.
