“Greg has been planning to retire later this year after nearly 20 years at Apple,” said a company spokesman. “He has made vital contributions to Apple products across the board, and built a world-class human interface team which has worked closely with Jony for many years.”
Apple confirms VP Greg Christie’s retirement
So 9-to-5 found a true fact, but sensationalized it? Stunning.
Oh oh!
Since iOS 7 I´m very scared about the quality of the UI. If one “likes” it aesthetically or not is a question of personal taste (iOS 7 meets not mine – Im really sad of the vanish of the aesthetics of iOS 6 and I´m not talkin´ of stitched leather).
But what I experience is a decline of usability and intuitiveness.
I understand the intention to create a more “clean” and stylish layout. But what would tempt me in the layout of a stylish printmagazine, seems often not work as a UI. Some screens are looking chaotic and kind of bloodless at a time. And what I really hate is that cold somekind of “windows”-blue words instead of the once beautiful buttons, which could be immediately recognized as such.
Well, .. I´m really afraid of what will happen to my beloved mac. I like the style of the mac-UI. It´s perfect! So please, please Apple-guys, don´t screw it. Take you energy and put it in functionality, like great mail encryption or a sophisticated voice commanded OS. iTunes store with pinch to zoom content would be nice. Tags (like in iPhoto and newly in Finder) for songs in iTunes I wished for years.
Thanks!
Where usability and intuitiveness means “I learned how the previous version worked already.”
New users seem to have far less trouble with iOS 7 than they did with iOS 6.
Buttons aren’t by default “more intuitive.” I’ll give you an example where iOS 7 has made something much more obvious.
In iOS 6, there was a button in the wireless settings next to the network names, the button was a circle with an arrow on it, that allowed you to get more detail about the network. Other items in settings also have an arrow pointing to the right indicating if you select it you will move further in the hierarchy. This button in wireless settings was similar, but it was an actual button and not just an arrow. Many people I know did not even know about this button, that actually tapping this button instead of tapping the item in list view brought you to a different destination. Well, in iOS 7 because of the tinted button design theme, this button now has a tint color, and also much more appropriately is an “i” button which is more consistent throughout the OS as the “info” button. Suddenly many people I know found this and thought it was a new feature.
That’s a very long winded and confusing explanation, I know, but I don’t know how else to explain it. I think the design in iOS 7 is equally as intuitive as 6, and in some ways dramatically improved. I just think some people are almost allergic to change, and try to convince themselves that the change is bad.
my mom is a new-to-iOS user on 7. she runs into the same confusion — not realizing blue text is actionable, because shes not groking the connection between blue text and blue hyperlinks on the web.
heres another anecdote – i feel that blue “info” image in iOS 7’s wifi screen is not a button at all, but an icon. a tapable icon that brings up more details. it’s the same one if you go to your Favorites. however, in both cases, i feel it’s sub-part to the previous “right caret” arrow marker, because it doesnt indicate directional flow — iOS flows new screens in from the right side, moving to the left. the right-caret arrows indicated this. the blue “info” icons do not. thus it always takes me a moment to realize they are tabable, and not merely static status icons.
My mom figured that out immediately, and has less problems than she used to. Perhaps if the first run setup mentioned this it’d help things.