Owen Smith wrote: > I've pretty much stopped updating any apps. Most are now doing a new iOS > 7 styled UI, and in the process making the text too small for me to > read. > I've noticed that, too. Well, iPeng is making the text bigger :) Actually quite a lot bigger for some of the text. I believe nothing got smaller than in the previous versions of iPeng. It does use lighter typefaces, too, though.
Have a look at the screen shots here http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2013/12/11/introducing-ipeng-7/ to compare. > What is it with iOS 7 apps and text so small only teenagers with perfect > vision can read it? I dread to think what happens on iPad Mini, it's bad > enough on a full sized iPad 3. Yes, there's a number of design features on iOS 7 I'm pretty critical about, too. I think the main driver is a "function-follows-form"-attitude with designers these days. A lot of users and designers are calling for "clean" and "uncluttered" designs and what that seems to mean to most of them is to place a lot of whitespace around control elements. Now, is you still also want to display a little content along with all your cool whitespace the easiest way is to make the font smaller. You didn't do that on low-resolution screens because on a low-res screen a small font just renders ugly but now with these nice retina displays... And medium-light grey on white background looks just soo cool and uncluttered at small font sizes.... You can win design prices with that! >From what I hear from "real" users vs. developers in the iOS (or mobile in general, Android is pretty much the same and Windows Phone, after all, is what started it all) seems to be quite a disconnect between what designers and developers like and what users like. Almost all devs and especially designers seem to love iOS 7's design (myself not being a exception). That is probably because as a developer you look at a lot of user interfaces, you learn about design principles and how the UI is supposed to work and things like that. So a lot of things are obvious to a developer which are actually not so obvious to actual users. The frameless buttons are a good example, they are confusing the hell out of a lot of users but hey, they really look cool. One thing that also might play a role is that after 6 years of gradients and skeumorphism people working a lot with this probably could no longer stand the old design, at least that was the case for me. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100515 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
