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So very sick of SpringBoard clones within apps...

• jazzychad 15y ago
  that's ok, I was so very sick of the 4/5-button tab bar at the bottom of every twitter client.
  • bignoggins 15y ago
    but the tab bar is within apple's design guidelines. it also makes navigation a whole lot easier because you don't have to go back to the springboard.
    • jazzychad 15y ago
      true, however guidelines are just that. and sometimes rules are meant to be broken.
      • ethank 15y ago
        To this point, there is no better party at breaking the HIG than Apple. Case in point: Garageband for iPad. And likely cases in point: every app they are releasing this fall, which were all made post-Garage Band for iPad.
      • bignoggins 15y ago
        yes but I'd argue apple is right when they say don't make springboard UIs (which they did @ WWDC). Think about it. If a user opens up a program in windows, and he get another UI that looks like windows, he would be very confused.
        • lyime 15y ago
          With Lion, Apple broke their own OSX UI guidelines. Sometimes to innovate you have to break the rules.
          • bignoggins 15y ago
            different tastes I suppose but I've never found springboard type apps visually appealing.
• danilocampos 15y ago
  The latest WWDC featured a session on UI Design that made a very compelling case against building springboard UIs. The cliffs: Users arrange their home screen personally, so they know where to go. They haven't done that with a custom springboard so skimming is inefficient compared to lists or tab bars. Because they describe functionality which is more generic than specific app identity, giving feature icons the same visual weight as app icons is ill-advised, and users must process the icon before the text, which slows things down.