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These are all pretty and nice, but the majority of them are UX regressions. 1. App icons without app names. 2. A keyboard where the button edges are less clea
by brianchu 13y ago
These are all pretty and nice, but the majority of them are UX regressions.
1. App icons without app names.
2. A keyboard where the button edges are less clearly identifiable.
3. An app switcher that takes you completely out of your current app (this one is a little more debatable because there are advantages to showing views of other apps)
4. A fold to unlock that ignores the reason that slide to unlock exists, preventing unintentional unlock (fold to unlock would be sensitive to touch across the entire screen)
The messages and contacts designs look slightly more promising. I think it would be interesting and possibly more usable to have a contacts list with faces in it, but in a list view, not necessarily in a 2d grid.
I like the slide-out menu visual metaphor; it seems to give the side-out pattern some of the affordance that is lacking in the current way that slide-outs are animated.
- supercoder 13y ago3. An app switcher that takes you completely out of your current app (this one is a little more debatable because there are advantages to showing views of other apps) What are the advantages to showing view of other apps ? Other than it looking attractive in mockups. When I'm switching to an app, I almost always know what app I'm trying to get to, it's contents is rarely useful to know when switching to it. So personally I've never found the stack switching thing useful in say Windows 7, it actually makes it more confusing because there's more data to take in. OSX still just keeps it simple with the icons and that seems to work great. Technically it's a very easy thing for Apple to implement (previews that is) but I suspect they have it like they do because it's actually the better solution.
- joshuamerrill 13y agoI would argue that Mission Control—not the Dock—is the equivalent of the iOS multitasking tray. The Dock can show applications that are not running, while the multitasking tray cannot (at least, from the user's POV). When using Mission Control, I personally do find value in seeing what my open applications are doing. Often that's a factor in whether I keep them running. EDIT: I was assuming when you said "...keeps it simple with the icons..." that you were referring to the Dock.
- supercoder 13y agoYeah was just referring to the ⌘ + Tab app switching which in my mind was the equivalent of the iOS multitasing tray. Sure, there is mission control, which I originally was really excited by but in the end dont use cause it's all overload. But yeah, if your someone that values mission control then the app previews would be a good addition, guess was just asking if anyone actually did find it useful to switch apps that way.
- joshuamerrill 13y agoAh yes, I didn't even consider ⌘ + Tab. That's very much like the iOS multitasking tray.
- baddox 13y agoFor quickly multitasking, I find that I can more quickly recognize the last screenshot of an app I was just using than its app icon. I vastly prefer the multitasking design of the jailbreak tweak Auxo. http://www.cultofmac.com/214983/here-are-the-very-best-jailbreak-tweaks-for-the-iphone-5-roundup/ http://www.cultofmac.com/214983/here-are-the-very-best-jailb...