iOS 7.1 Real-time Design Reactions

[mbell]

I would think you'd get a ton of bias by having the options labeled (particularly using words like 'old' and 'new') and always having the options in the same order, 7.1 on the right.

[furyofantares]

I really don't think first impressions from a screenshot viewed on the web is going to be very accurate anyway

[r00fus]

That said, de-biasing it by making it randomly switch sides would likely cause confusion. "Old" vs. "New" could probably be reworded pretty easily though to be more neutral yet still descriptive.

[bobbles]

One thing that concerns me from a 'normal user' point of view is that the new Buy Album button appears right next to the price for the individual song.

For some users it may appear like you are choosing 'buy album' for $1.29

http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/itunes...

[Edd314159]

The only iOS 7.1 option that seems to be losing is the call screen. Of course the old one looks better with the full-screen photo, but how many people have good enough photos of their contacts to make that consistently look good in everyday use?

[r00fus]

It's not just the photo. It's the vastly increased hit area for answering.

I have photos for all the people I'm close to.

[criswell]

I'd much rather my contacts be able to set their own photos for when they call (with the option to override it). It's just not worth the trouble setting photos for each person.

[underyx]

I'm an Android user, so I don't know if this is easily doable on iOS, but I sync the Google+ and Facebook profile pictures of my contacts to their entry in my contact list, which covers around 80-90% of anyone who'd call me.

[clauretano]

I know for sure (because I was testing something where a contact had a weird photo) that on 7.0.6 it did the 'small circle contact photo on incoming call' thing. Was full screen photo only activated for high res photos?

[wpeterson]

Hi,

I'm an engineer building Polar Polls. This is an example of one of our realtime poll results dashboards.

We've built some cool tools for building beautiful, photo polls and the ability to embed them anywhere on the web.

http://polarb.com/

[alphakappa]

This was not a pleasant experience. Half my screen (horizontally) was taken up by a blank UI element, while the actual screenshots were scrunched together on the right. It took me a while to realize that they were two screenshots next to each other.

Others have mentioned the flashing UI elements - if you wanted to show that things were updating in real time, you could've added the highlight to the votes themselves, instead of flashing a big rectangular area.

Also, you are biasing voters by telling them that one is 'old' while the other is 'new'. Show two screenshots (hopefully, larger than the tiny ones you have right now), in some random orders, and let people vote without bias.

[MBCook]

I understand that you want me to know that people are voting right now, but the yellow flashes are incredibly distracting and made trying to view all the poll results very difficult.

[takeda64]

By using cursor key for voting you dramatically decreased usability, for example I no longer can use Platform Key (Win/Command) key + left arrow to go back to previous page.

[villek]

It's nice to see people are actively voting, but I'm way more interested in the data than the too rapidly flashing yellow. Just changing the numbers and flashing the font bold (or some other effect on only the number) when new votes come in should be sufficient to make it clear the number are updated realtime. But I'm no designer so what do I know ;)

[coin]

"Dramatically increase participation and time spent on your sites or apps with Polar."

With pinchzoom disabled, I just want to leave this site. -1

[underyx]

Why are there questions asking if people prefer having [feature] or not having [feature]? And more importantly, why are people voting for the latter one?

[poolpool]

Which proves that history repeats itself. Apple goes overboard with its initial design and pulls back in places with subsequent point releases. Everyone in 5 years forgets that their phone was allegedly unusable!!! for a matter of months.

[r00fus]

Sorry, it's hardly been unusable.

I've had almost zero issues with iOS 7.0 - most of my gripes are my dislike of the new icons and bad discoverability (e.g.: casting a song to airplay /bluetooth speaker), but none of that made the phone unusable. The control center by itself makes iOS7 better than iOS6.

[tonylemesmer]

The flashing is distracting. Quite irritating actually

[vacri]

I like it. It makes the page seem 'alive', though I guess they should add a toggle button to turn it off for those who have trouble with it.

[jscheel]

The tiny avatar is terrible. I want to quickly see who is calling. Facial recognition is the absolute best way for that to happen.

[colmvp]

On top of that it looked beautiful.