Think about handling a phone call on your iPhone. Imagine the process of changing audio sources (switch from your car or AirPods to the speaker or handset, for example). Imagine switching to some other app to look something up while you are on the call, with that call status bar taking up the top of the screen.
Now take a look at this tweet, watch the embedded video:
I love this concept. I believe it is a jailbreak app, not something a third party could ship on mainstream iOS. But there’s a tremendous amount of flexibility being shown here.
Looks horrible! Can you imagine trying to use that with one hand and your thumb while walking down the street?
Apple wouldn’t touch this unless Amelio came back.
What a mess.
‘I have render tools! I’m a UX expert!’
Narrator: He’s not.
Probably overdone, but it does address one of my biggest annoyances with iOS, incoming call handling while unlocked/using the device. It’s essentially a full screen modal alert dialog that completely interrupts whatever you’re doing, it’s annoying enough that I just turned off calls on my iPad entirely. Ideally it’d be kinda how it is on the Mac, just a notification with accept/reject buttons right there.
Lots of small, near-identical buttons crammed in next to each other. No thanks.