IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)

http://stam-design-stam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ios-5.html

by kposehn • 15 years ago

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drcode• 15 years ago

bizarre- The columns of the home page on iOS5 are no longer evenly spaced, almost certainly on purpose.

The purpose is probably to make the home screen symmetrical. Moving the two rightmost columns of app icons two pixels to the right achieves this. Note that previously the outer margins were asymmetrical.

jarin• 15 years ago

I'm honestly shocked that Steve let them get away with an asymmetrical home screen.

seabee• 15 years ago

But the home screen can be made symmetrical while maintaining the same distance between icons. So the question is why not do that?

Also as far as the outer margins are concerned, the badge extends the right side of the icon, so having the right margin wider was reasonable.

ricardobeat• 15 years ago

The text-shadow on the chat bubbles bothered me from the start. It breaks the "flat text inside a bubble" perception and turns it into a non-sensical 3D effect. It's as iOS5 is going the way of Aqua, against the flow...

dkasper• 15 years ago

That is a good illustration of the intense attention to detail that I love about Apple products.

gerggerg• 15 years ago

Or the intense attention to detail that you love about Takamasa Matsumoto.

ajays• 15 years ago

I wonder why the blog is in Japanese, but diagrams are in English? Have they been copied from somewhere? Not to detract from the topic, of course, but it bothers me when people lift images and artwork from other places without due credit.

acak• 15 years ago

A couple of blogs (below) give credit to Matsumoto (author of the Japanese blog):

http://obamapacman.com/2011/10/subtle-differences-of-ios-5-v...

http://usersillusions.com/post/11948201269/apple-has-made-so...

And here is a another site discussing the same images without any attribution.

http://www.ipad2iphone5.com/these-ios-5-changes-are-you-cert...

btn• 15 years ago

Note that the locale of iOS in the screenshots is Japanese. The author has done a number of these types of examinations before, usually with parallel Japanese & English captioning.

harisenbon• 15 years ago

Probably because the number of people who can read English greatly outnumbers the number of people who can read Japanese?

It's very common for Japanese to use English labeled slides and diagrams for presentations that they know they will be taking abroad because it is much easier change the language of the explanatory text than it is to edit images to make them English.

zura• 15 years ago

Maybe credit notes are written in Japanese :)

jsz0• 15 years ago

It's always been interesting to me that the pin-stripe texture made it into iOS and has survived almost 5 years. Apple removed all traces of pin-stripes from 10.5 after toning it down for 10.3 and almost completely removing it for 10.4 So by the time iOS6 is released pin-stripes will have existed in iOS longer than it did in OSX.

sp332• 15 years ago

Pinstripes are older than OS X, they were in the very first Macintosh in 1984. http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html

IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)

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