Thread: Do You Prefer iOS 7 Looks Over Previous iOS Versions?
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Old 09-27-2013, 02:34 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I don't think he is talking about the "flat" UI but the typography...
If you replace visually obvious buttons with text that does not make it obvious if it is "tappable" or not, then it's very much also an issue of the flat fad. Naturally, the issue gets even more complicated when that text employs ultra-thin, light-coloured fonts on light backgrounds.

I think iOS 7 is imitating / looks more like Windows 8 than Android. Android 4.3 looks more like iOS 6 than iOS 7 does. Although I'm hearing rumours that the flat virus might also infect Android 4.4 KitKat!

When it's a fad, it's a fad. I'm afraid this is, for 2013, a very old-fashioned approach to software design: imposing one's own (Jony Ive's) personal visual preferences on all iOS 7 users. There should have been an easy button in iOS 7 settings that would have reverted the user to iOS 6-style looks while preserving all newly added iOS 7 functionality (not that there is much to speak of).
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