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I think the illegible text is a pretty serious complaint. A lot of the visual metaphors typically used in nonflat design have real purposes. Kind of silly to th

by jere 13y ago

I think the illegible text is a pretty serious complaint. A lot of the visual metaphors typically used in nonflat design have real purposes. Kind of silly to throw them out because it just so happens you used too many leather textures in previous designs. Text shadow is pretty damn useful. With certain color combinations, it's practically required. http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA2LzEyLzY3L2lvczd2c2lvczYuNWQxZTUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/0ff4a0b9/bb0/ios7-vs-ios6.jpg http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA2LzEyLzY3L2lvczd2c...

plorkyeran 13y ago
The text is often hard to read in screenshots, but I have no trouble whatsoever reading the same text on the actual phone. Oddly enough the combination of having double the resolution and the phone being much closer to my face than my monitor makes a huge difference.
- dingaling 13y ago
  > and the phone being much closer to my face I was curious about this statement, so I've just checked with my old, non-trendy Android phone and the results were: Face to laptop monitor: 66cm Face to smartphone: 55 cm Not too surprising as most people I see using smartphones hold them at near full arm extension.
potatolicious 13y ago
This is a legit complaint. The removal of drop shadows makes designing for iOS harder than before - and Apple does demonstrate poor legibility in some places. I think we're going to end up moving, funnily enough, to something more like Metro. The design language in iOS7 calls for big photos, and lots of text overlaid - IMO the default don't-think-too-hard-about-it solution is going to be slapping semitransparent colored bars down and putting the text on top. Which, honestly, isn't all that different from what you used to do. Rare was the app that put text directly on top of uncontrolled (i.e., non-curated) images. Most text already existed on their own surfaces (instead of complex photographs) to begin with.

by jere 13y ago

plorkyeran 13y ago

The text is often hard to read in screenshots, but I have no trouble whatsoever reading the same text on the actual phone. Oddly enough the combination of having double the resolution and the phone being much closer to my face than my monitor makes a huge difference.

dingaling 13y ago
> and the phone being much closer to my face I was curious about this statement, so I've just checked with my old, non-trendy Android phone and the results were: Face to laptop monitor: 66cm Face to smartphone: 55 cm Not too surprising as most people I see using smartphones hold them at near full arm extension.

potatolicious 13y ago

This is a legit complaint. The removal of drop shadows makes designing for iOS harder than before - and Apple does demonstrate poor legibility in some places. I think we're going to end up moving, funnily enough, to something more like Metro. The design language in iOS7 calls for big photos, and lots of text overlaid - IMO the default don't-think-too-hard-about-it solution is going to be slapping semitransparent colored bars down and putting the text on top. Which, honestly, isn't all that different from what you used to do. Rare was the app that put text directly on top of uncontrolled (i.e., non-curated) images. Most text already existed on their own surfaces (instead of complex photographs) to begin with.