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"Design is not just how something looks; it's about how it works." - Steve Jobs, Sir Jony Ive, Dieter Rams and every other half-decent designer worth a damn
by kunai 13y ago
"Design is not just how something looks; it's about how it works." - Steve Jobs, Sir Jony Ive, Dieter Rams and every other half-decent designer worth a damn
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoI'm not sure if you are offering this as a counterpoint; but "not just" seems to reaffirm the point that how it looks still matters.
- kunai 13y agoI think it looks fine. The icons only need to be proportioned a little better with regards to the grid they used for the designs, and the translucency could be dialed down slightly. Other than that, it looks great. It's amazing how nobody complains about the preschool look of Windows Phone 8, but when iOS icons have a slight disproportion to them, everybody loses their minds.
- pinaceae 13y agoyes, and there is nothing worse than presenting a really great solution to a client and they get hung up on the color of an icon. there are whole blogs devoted to the stupidity of designer's clients - and now this can be witnessed on a global scale. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell http://clientsfromhell.net/ http://clientsfromhell.net/ compare to the typical criticism right now. the safari icon looks terrible - instant fail! man, i hope the iOS team gets shielded from this outbreak of retardation, lest they slit their wrists.
- AtTheLast 13y agoI'm really glad someone mentioned this. I think by getting away from skeuomorphism Apple will be able to really innovate new design concepts and functionality for iOS7 and future iOS versions.