Why iOS 7's design is bold but flawed
I’m standing at the front of a darkened room full of middle-school girls, telling them about user interface patterns and trying to get them excited about reading Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines.
It’s going better than I’d thought—on the whole, they’re pretty attentive. I guess that’s the kind of girl who signs up for a week-long summer camp about iOS development. Then I arrive at my single slide about the upcoming changes to the platform (they’ll be working in iOS 6 this week, so I don’t want to bombard them with the monumental shift in form that is the iOS 7 beta). Suddenly a hand shoots up.
“Why did they DO that?”
I do my best to answer, but leave thinking I owe them a fuller explanation and more analysis. So here goes:
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