Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/

by romain_dardour • 13 years ago

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sloppyui.tumblr.com

coldtea9• 13 years ago

This is quite bad -- only a small percentage are genuine examples of sloppu UI.

It seems to be put together by one guy (instead of user submissions like similar sites) and not quite design savvy at that.

Case in point:

1) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61441688489 (this is supposed to show "poor alignment")

2) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439801745 (this is supposed to show "stray dropshadows" -- didn't they guy get the memo that the iOS 7 UI uses them to show a 3D layer hierarchy?)

3) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439835569 (this is supposed to show "poor contrast". Isn't it obvious that the top bar should not be visually striking and distracting?)

4) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61440586435 (... this is considered "sloppy").

5) http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61440527405 (flat information hierarchy -- one of the few genuine sloppy UI examples).

romain_dardour6• 13 years ago

Poster here: Indeed it's just me submitting. But it's open to submissions.

I'm not answering every single case you mention. The examples I posted show how inconsistent the UI is.

Taste is in the eye of the beholder and I didn't mention what I find ugly but what shows a lack of afterthought.

Just one example here to answer, "Poor Contrast" (http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/image/61439835569) On an iOS device, this is not "Subtle" but unreadable.

huhtenberg2• 13 years ago

For what it's worth, I think nearly all your examples are spot on. These are sloppy jobs that I would've personally been ashamed of releasing to the public.

That said, noticing alignment issues and font inconsistencies is not given and a lot of people won't give a damn about them.

janlukacs2• 13 years ago

iOS7 hurts, simply hurts my eyes. After many years I'm forced out of the platform by this UI revamp.

miguelrochefort2• 13 years ago

I'm with you. I think most of the entries are spot on. They're simple details, but when they add up, consciously or not, they leave a bad taste. I just can't use iOS 7.

mc32• 13 years ago

I don't see the same inconsistency on "case". iOS7 seems to use Capitalization for verbs, "actions," whereas it uses lowercase for nouns. "Send" or "Edit" but "return".

sspiff2• 13 years ago

I agree that not all examples are good, but how can you defend the blue text/red caret?

There are also quite a few genuine design errors (Z index of updates available, alignment in the timer, ...) on the site.

webignition• 13 years ago

The blue text with red caret solves a real problem.

It might appear odd in the context in which it appears, that is with the caret at the end of the line, but consider cases where the caret is between letters in a word.

When editing a section of text where you are looking to make a mid-word modification, being able to quickly and easily identify the caret position is important.

If the caret looks even remotely like any of the text being edited you may confuse it for the text or you may find it hard to see where the caret is.

The high text to caret contrast is only one solution to the problem of making the caret easy to find and easy to tell apart from the text itself.

On my stock Android 4.2 device the caret is a mid-grey within black text. On a small screen it is not clear to me with my inadequate eyesight where the caret is from just a glance. When editing mid-word a blue tab-style arrow is applied below the caret as a visual pointer. This sometimes obscures relevant text or controls.

As far as stock Android 4.2 vs iOS is concerned, I'd say that iOS has the superior solution in this case.

Angostura• 13 years ago

but how can you defend the blue text/red caret?

As someone with slightly less than perfect eyesight it's an absolute godsend.

stordoff• 13 years ago

I may be in the minority, but I really like the red/blue difference. I think it looks pretty good, and would be useful to quickly see where the cursor is.

coldtea9• 13 years ago

how can you defend the blue text/red caret?

Great contrast?

Nice bold color pair?

Not losing the caret because it looks like I or 1 or l?

madeofpalk3• 13 years ago

There are a few cases of genuine sloppy UI in iOS 7, but this site does a horrible job of pointing it out.

http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/post/61658685474 This is the most outrageous. Apparently this mid-transistion screenshot demonstrates something poor. What? I have no idea. Is it sloppy in the same way this http://i.imgur.com/e5Vyv5z.jpg is sloppy?

efdee• 13 years ago

Why is the textbox transparent? I haven't seen the actual transition in action, but it certainly looks sloppy this way.

ygra• 13 years ago

Regarding the alignment one, I guess it's about the many seemingly random baselines and horizontal alignment points: http://imgur.com/pDEuLb6

bane2• 13 years ago

The only one you listed that I agree with is stray dropshadows. Everything else is lambastable -- most especially the poor contrast one.

devx• 13 years ago

Most things about iOS7 seem inconsistent, and like they were rushed - which they were. I mean Johny Ive was head of UI for like 9 months only, and had to change everything in iOS in that period. These changes should've arrived in iOS8 in order to be well thought out and mature enough, but for some reason they decided to push them to iOS7.

untog• 13 years ago

If they removed the new design, iOS7 would be a really underwhelming release for users. The background downloading would clearly be the banner feature.. but aside from that?

pietro• 13 years ago

They would have had time to improve existing apps and work out existing inconsistencies. iOS 6 was far from perfect, and there was plenty of room for improvement without a complete redesign.

cageface• 13 years ago

Personally I would much rather they just removed some of the gradients and textures and instead focused on improving things like inter-app sharing, notifications, the keyboard, widgets/live tiles etc.

riffraff• 13 years ago

and had to change everything in iOS in that period.

I may be confused by wording here, sorry: which one does "had to" mean:

* there was some external force pushing him (I'm thinking CEO rather than bloggers' complaints)

* he couldn't resist the urge

It somehow feels like the latter is what really happened, but I do not have any sources for that, and would be happy to know.

leoc• 13 years ago

I certainly don't know: it could well be people rushing to get their musk on iOS after the Forstall ouster, but http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/apple-loses-china-s... could have something to do with it too. Maybe after that kind of bad news Apple decided it needed to get its new China-oriented iPhone out quickly to stop the bleeding, at the cost of time to dink alignments and overlaps?

threeseed• 13 years ago

He didn't have to change anything. He wanted to.

And when you see the iPhone 5C with iOS 7 it's pretty clear why.

myko• 13 years ago

I don't get it, why?

hcarvalhoalves• 13 years ago

I mean Johny Ive was head of UI for like 9 months only, and had to change everything in iOS in that period.

This is the real issue.

There are few "complete redesign" success cases, but somehow Apple thought they would pull it in a matter of months.

gfodor5• 13 years ago

So far it sounds like they did. The main criticisms of iOS 7 are, as usual with new Apple products, from the edges of the digerati. I'll see what my wife says when she gets it on her new 5S.

tzaman• 13 years ago

So what - if I didn't visit the link, I wouldn't even know about these "sloppy" features.

Done is better than perfect.

hahainternet2• 13 years ago

Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out.

Seems they're losing that attribute without gaining the others.

coldtea9• 13 years ago

Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out.

Actually you only lose features you wouldn't want in the first place and would drag the whole thing down (less battery life, bulkier, etc). Not having FM radio for example is like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs.

As for "incredibly well polished and thought out" it still is. For one, there's much more to a mobile OS than graphic design. How it works and feels is much more important than how it looks ("design is how it works").

Second, most of those are some guy's pet peeves, not genuine problems. If he cannot understand why a red carret matches blue text, that doesn't make it into a genuine problem. Same if he didn't get the memo that drop shadows are used to add a depth to the UI layers and thinks they are stray leftovers.

huhtenberg2• 13 years ago

Done is beter than perfect

Apple's new MO it seems.

romain_dardour6• 13 years ago

two t's are better than one :)

crb• 13 years ago

I'd love to see a similar set of "'iOS 7-updated' apps running on iOS 6 or earlier."

Before I upgraded yesterday, there were a couple of apps I saw (I think it was Shazam) where they must have emulated the iOS 7 feel, rather than using system-native widgets, so the result was a "business in front, party in the back" mishmash of UI on the same screen.

dasil003• 13 years ago

Although I'm a perfectionist and I believe a lot of these issues should be addressed, the tumblr itself bothers me. It's the logical culmination of Fail culture where hipsters in armchairs laugh at the inadequacy of everything while producing nothing. All these things could have been constructive criticism in another context, but here they just serve to further someone's twitchy compulsion to be entertained for another 5 seconds on the internet.

Yes I'm getting surly in my old age.

lechevalierd3on• 13 years ago

Well we don't say Parisien are unpleasant persons for no reason.

lewispollard• 13 years ago

Not everyone can offer constructive feedback, but most people can have the problems brought to their attention and understand them. Even if you had constructive criticism, how exactly would you go about alerting a developer at Apple?

romain_dardour6• 13 years ago

My point exactly. We love all things Apple, and I want to see those fixed.

marrs2• 13 years ago

Surely this is constructive. There is nothing there that cannot be acted upon. Any dev could treat these as a collection of bug reports.

janlukacs2• 13 years ago

here's the thing though, If google would have released an UI as bad as this (just my oppinion as an iphone user) all the tech press and the hardcore apple fanboys would have trashed it online and offline for months. Who will be the role model from now on for "near perfection", "attention to detail"? Just look at this: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/hon.jpg?... and tell me how you feel about it :)

marrs2• 13 years ago

You're upset that the cover is obscuring the word "iPhone"? Or is "hon" a euphemism for something and I'm not getting it?

ianstallings• 13 years ago

This reminds me of US political fanboys - "well if GWB had done this", "well if Obama had done that".

I don't care what fanboys say or do online, on any side. I'm here to build good software. If someone has some constructive criticism, let me know.

coldtea9• 13 years ago

here's the thing though, If google would have released an UI as bad as this (just my oppinion as an iphone user) all the tech press and the hardcore apple fanboys would have trashed it online and offline for months.

Google HAS produced a UI as bad as this. Actually worse. The Android UI, up until 4 was amateur hour. And still is not up there yet.

It's just held in much less scrutiny compared to Apple, because nobody expects much better.

pbreit• 13 years ago

I think it's the opposite: things in the Android world are far, far worse and get very little criticism. Expectations are different.

cdash• 13 years ago

As opposed to hipsters in armchairs proclaiming every release the greatest thing since sliced bread.

jcutrell3• 13 years ago

I think the visual explanation here offers credence to the criticism. This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique.

The worse thing would be if people blindly said things like "iOS7 is just not intuitive" and went on to drink their PBR and evangelize about Phonebloks - instead, these are real examples of why iOS7 could be better.

At the very least, this thread is instructive for learning designers. I know as a younger programmer and designer, when someone said that "JavaScript has the weirdest quirks", it was useless unless someone showed me the quirks. Along came Douglas Crockford's Good Parts, which, while critical of the bad parts, was very instructive. I think this can function in similar ways.

It's not just "Fail" culture rearing its stupid head - the tone is far from embarrassing to Apple, and instead is generally descriptive of legitimate design failures.

roc2• 13 years ago

The number of obvious bugs [1] included lends a lot of weight to the impression of it being more about sniping than criticism.

[1] z-index, text overlap, mixed states, etc. These are not questionable design choices. They're bugs. And lumping them in only detracts from the site and the many legit design gripes (problems of focus, alignment, contrast, usability, etc.)

awj3• 13 years ago

I'm with 'roc' on this one. Including a bunch of obvious bugs tells me that you either a) can't distinguish between design and implementation or b) are more interested in shitting on other people's work than saying anything useful.

This is fail culture masquerading as design critique, and it isn't even doing that well.

r00fus• 13 years ago

This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique.

Critique that doesn't actually tell what's wrong ... isn't.

Let's talk about the z-index issue with the AppStore icon. How is this reproduced? I have never seen that. How do I know it's not shopped?

All it says is "z-index". Not useful. Not really a critique to me, it's just too terse.

ahunt09• 13 years ago

I think that it's more complicated than just criticism of a less than perfect UI. I think it's an expression of the Apple community's concern that without Steve Jobs, Apple will no longer be able to produce the highly polished products that the community has come to expect.

madeofpalk3• 13 years ago

Apple community's concern that without Steve Jobs[...]

The Apple community isn't concerned about a lack of Jobs, it's a portion of the non-Apple, Tech community that likes to shout this one out.

ynniv• 13 years ago

Criticizing Apple for poor design is like criticizing IBM for being unreliable: rather important because that's why people chose them in the first place. I'm still hoping that iOS 7 is an elaborate prank, and will be replaced by something worthy of Apple before the majority upgrades.

mcphilip• 13 years ago

That's a super cynical way to interpret this. I found the tumblr useful in aiding me in my decision whether to immediately upgrade to iOS 7 or not.

slantyyz5• 13 years ago

Putting the "meh" UI esthetic aside, I didn't want to upgrade because my iPhone 4 had become a pig under 6, and 7 performs a hair worse than 6 in terms of speed and battery life.

There are, however, some valid reasons to upgrade in spite of iOS 7's drawbacks (don't get me started on how the new lock screen keypad makes it harder for me to unlock my phone with just my thumb).

* Call blocking has "finally" (gruber's favorite line lately) been implemented properly -- if you are one of those people who are increasingly getting more telemarketer calls on your cell number, this is a huge deal.

* Safari runs faster on iOS7 than iOS6. 90% of what I do is browsing, so this can be a tradeoff that is well worth making.

MartinCron• 13 years ago

You're not getting surly, you're being empathetic. It's a good thing to rebel against the cheap comedy that is Fail culture.

wehadfun• 13 years ago

It probably took hours to create this tumblr and the author did not get paid. I think this tumblr is fantastic. We need more people like this. Ready to call out crap.

sxcurry• 13 years ago

Crap? Really? I upgraded yesterday and think it's amazingly good, in spite of a few minor issues. Do you have any concept of what it took to imagine, develop, implement, test, and distribute something like this to 100 million devices?

Crap, really?

awj3• 13 years ago

We need more people like this. Ready to call out crap.

We already have plenty of people ready to call out crap. Half the discussions on this site devolve into someone arguing about perceived flaws in something.

What we actually need is people pushing up the level of discourse. A stream of pictures and pithy sarcasm isn't useful until someone else comes along and responds to it. The world needs more thoughtful analysis and advancement, we probably have enough tumblrs full of snarky images.

chrislomax• 13 years ago

Another one, if you go to the timer app from the slide up control center, the "pause" is 2 pixels out of being centered. You can just about tell with the naked eye but if you open it in photoshop it's 2 pixels out.

It's not a big deal but I thought Apple would be well on top of stuff like this

mvkel• 13 years ago

Great examples. I hope you're sending these to Apple!

One I noticed is a very slight difference in weight between the carrier text and the data status.

It's so slight, almost the difference between "sharp" and "strong" in Photoshop.

Also, people, easy on the "way to criticize but not offer any constructive criticism!" OP is effectively filing a ton of bug reports, which is a good thing.

da_n• 13 years ago

Good collection. iOS7 is an obvious improvement over previous iOS versions (perhaps with the exception of the icons) and has done a good job of bringing iOS up to date visually. Worth remembering that there are a lot of inconsistencies in Android, a good article is here:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/18/ux-things-i-hate-abo...

Don't get me wrong, I much, much prefer Android and can't ever see myself moving back to iOS, but always good to measure things in balance, nothing is perfect.

leokun• 13 years ago

I'm the same way. I love Android, and will probably never move back to iOS, but after having seen an actual phone with iOS 7 all my scepticism about the new UI disappeared. It's a very beautiful UI. I was right there though laughing at the ugly icons (which I still think are ugly) thinking iOS 7 was a disaster until I actually looked at a phone and swiped around.

It's weird. The iPhone 5s seems to be without a doubt the overall best phone out there. The low light camera, the processor, all that stuff blows me away, but yet I don't want one. I think the iPhone is like a really fancy and nice race car, that I can do nothing but admire, but all I want is a truck. Android is my truck.

bdcravens2• 13 years ago

I'm sure you won't have to wait too long for those hardware improvements to come to the Android platform. The rapid iteration of the Android platform means that hardware advantages are generally short-lived.

methodin• 13 years ago

I'd like to see an update to that article.

nnnnni2• 13 years ago

See, this is really frustrating...

I mentioned this SAME STUFF (specifically the horrible lack of contrast) months ago just to be met with downvotes and handwaving dismissal.

NOW people agree. Better late than never, I guess.

yardie• 13 years ago

The username is fitting.

miguelrochefort2• 13 years ago

I know that feel. My story is pretty much the same.

The most frustrating part is that Apple fanboys now justify their love for iOS 7 using the exact same arguments they used to dismiss Windows Phone.

noamsml• 13 years ago

But months ago these were quirks in a beta release. iOS7 is now released software, and it's expected to have matured.

nnnnni2• 13 years ago

The problem is that it looked like a very poor design decision rather than a beta version quirk even back then...

chockablock• 13 years ago

the sooner you stop caring about the up/downvotes of strangers on the Internet, the happier you will be.

idProQuo• 13 years ago

I didn't buy the "Go easy! It's still only beta!" stuff. The changes that happen in beta are along the lines of "Apps no longer crash while activating the radio while audio is playing." not "Complete icon redesign".

However, some of these (Z-Index? What?) should've absolutely been fixed before GM.

tharshan09• 13 years ago

why is he referring to web terms? Or does it just happen to be common terminology across design?

romain_dardour6• 13 years ago

To clarify things, we just posted this on the web site:

We love Apple. We think this is the best way to point out what's not up to their standards so they can fix it. It's all about intellectual honesty, not trolling.

whizzkid• 13 years ago

Isn't Apple hiring the best/smartest/creative developers?

How are these small/annoying issues are passing the test cases?

Don't they have the same development cycle as they had while developing the first Iphone which was a huge thing at the time.

coldtea9• 13 years ago

How are these small/annoying issues are passing the test cases?

Most of those are neither sloppy nor issues. The blog does a bad job of mixing a few real issues with a lot of stuff he just doesn't like personally.

jpea• 13 years ago

It's perhaps because they pushed a whole UI redesign out in the matter of a few months. And it's multilingual. And it cannot take into account 3rd-party apps and their inconsistent designs.

vicbrooker• 13 years ago

Personally I think that it's a bit misleading to lump bugs and questionable design choices under the same 'sloppy' banner.

Good quality criticism regarding choices developers and designers have made have lead to some of the best debate and discussion I've seen on HN. Conversations that focus on criticizing execution (for example the UI bugs in the tumblr) have been some of the worst.

As a developer I would get huge value out of having a nuanced discussion about the pros and cons of iOS 7's language, particular as we begin (or have begun) redesigning our apps - hopefully that is something this tumblr can evolve into eventually.

gurumeditation2• 13 years ago

Would they have preferred the metal and glass meets billiard room look of iOS6?

gurkendoktor• 13 years ago

The major built-in apps in iOS 6 are just as 'boring' as the major OS X apps are. Safari, Music, Mail, Photos, Camera, Settings, Contacts, Messages - light grey chrome around content.

The average iOS 6 app did not look like Game Center or Find My Friends (which was not even built-in). But I guess that's how it will be remembered now. =/

ps4fanboy• 13 years ago

"Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right." - Steve Jobs

nextstep• 13 years ago

The "no return key in the twitter compose view" is intentional. That is a keyboard style option, and Twitter it using it to discourage users entering return characters in tweets. This is not even Apple's app.

A lot of these "sloppy UI" examples are in non-Apple apps, intentional, or otherwise misleading from the screenshot.

romain_dardour6• 13 years ago

Newlines are supported on twitter in 3rd party apps, but not in the twitter card nor twitter app indeed.

Also, the blog is not called "Apple Sloppy UIs", but "Sloppy UIs". That still qualifies.

awj3• 13 years ago

Also, the blog is not called "Apple Sloppy UIs", but "Sloppy UIs". That still qualifies.

Tagline to the blog: "We love Apple. We think this is the best way to point out what's not up to their standards so they can fix it." (emphasis mine)

Do they expect Apple to fix the UI of other people's apps?

bane2• 13 years ago

Most of these are pretty good points, some are just taste differences. In a different world, if these things were fixed, they'd belong on a "Subtle UI Greatness" tumblr.

thiagoperes• 13 years ago

I'm really disappointed that Apple released the GM version of iOS 7 as final. So many bugs and glitches.

potatolicious• 13 years ago

I hear that. There is still one huge, gaping bug where UITextViews do not scroll if you type past their bounds. Seriously, Apple released that.

Oletros5• 13 years ago

Wll, GM version IS the final version :P

happywolf• 13 years ago

I agree with some of the reviews here: nothing is perfect, and I do think most of these are bugs. For example, the issue on facebook settings doesn't show up on my i5. Get a life, or show me what kind of non-sloppy you are able to produce.

ttflee• 13 years ago

How many of these failures are due to insufficient testing on i18n?

IMHO, using texts to replace icon based buttons is clever to simplify the working of screen resolution adaption, however, it does increase the possibility of inconsistency between different locales. I still remember NYTimes.app for iPad displayed ugly aligned date texts which is just too long to fit into the space left for them, only in Chinese locales, which they do not officially support, and I doubt that they really did testing on it.

nvk• 13 years ago

Poll: Changing to Android after iOS7 Update? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412046

antonpug• 13 years ago

Half of these are from Beta versions and do no longer occur... But nice catches, there are definitely somethings that could be improved, but others are just up to personal preference and interpretation.

nicholassmith• 13 years ago

Some I definitely agree with (mixed font casing), some I don't, and some are plain bugs which are annoying but not a question of sloppy UI. There's a lot slipped through that it's slightly inconsistent, but there was plenty of inconsistent design through iOS1-6 as well and with OS X.x in it's various releases.

Design over a large product like iOS or OS X is hard, it takes time to get all the edges smoothed down and given that iOS 7 is probably the result of a year to two years of work it's not a surprised it's rough. If it's a bug (or a UI niggle) report it to Apple, they may or may not be listening but it's a better solution to highlight it with them directly, as well as on Tumblr.

joeld42• 13 years ago

If these are the worst things that people can find to complain about in iOS7, then Apple should feel pretty proud of themselves.

electic• 13 years ago

The whole iOS7 UI is not intuitive at all. Look, I love flat UI but when I became and engineer and founder, started talking to customers, I realized that customers are simply not as aware as the people that designed and made software. They don't know what to click, they sometimes don't even know they can click something, and they often get lost. When you go to a Microsoft store and see people playing with Windows 8, you see this and it really hits you. People are lost, randomly clicking on text thinking it is a button. While Windows 8 and iOS7 look good in many ways, I think this release is a step backwards for people who might not be very tech savvy.

rimantas• 13 years ago

Yeah, remember when noone could use the webe, because links were not in the form of buttons?

reddit_clone• 13 years ago

I agree.

It is worse in touch devices. At least in a desktop webapp you have the option of waving your mouse cursor over suspect areas and can get some kind of feedback (a balloon text or some change in the status bar etc.) On a touch device, you won't know until you touch!

bdcravens2• 13 years ago

My only issue is that this is an OS that's been in beta for a few months, and yeah, the betas were pretty horrible in some ways. The OS has been live to the public for a day. How do I know what version these screenshots came from?

hemancuso• 13 years ago

From what I hear nothing has helped improve Apple's autocorrect more than http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/

I must imagine that this tumblr is already being poured over in Cupertino and radar's are being filed in right now. This tumblr is a good thing.

lostlogin3• 13 years ago

That site is hilarious. What blows my mind is how autocorrect so often defaults to lewd and totally inappropriate statements. It's like it's trying to cause amusement.

efnx2• 13 years ago

Many of the problems with consistency (capitalization, placement, return key on keyboard, etc) seem to be in specific apps. In those cases it's the designers and programmers of the company that make the app that are at fault. It's important to be familiar enough with the iOS SDK that you know which bugs are OS territory and which ones are app territory. I'm not trying to dis their eye for bugs, I'm just trying to shrink the surface bugs live on.

warfangle3• 13 years ago

So, the same thing apple fanboys have been railing against android about for years?

efnx2• 13 years ago

Maybe? I don't tend to read about iOS vs Android often. I'd say that's a problem for any company that maintains an app store. I'm sure those inconsistencies exist on iOS6 as well :(

alecsmart1• 13 years ago

I don't understand how changing the design adds to functionality. Instead of giving a new half baked look, Apple could have concentrated on adding features to its existing look. Flat design is good but like most things its just a phase. Why not add background downloading etc. to the current design. From design point if view iOS 6 is fairly good and very consistent.

gfodor5• 13 years ago

Uh, they did. They added a whole bunch of new features, actually.

rjohnk• 13 years ago

What will probably happen is a quick 7.1 release to fix most small alignment bugs, and then iOS 8 will refine everything. I'm guessing iOS 9 will be the polished version of this UI design. Not making excuses, just postulating what might happen.

Felix21• 13 years ago

And they said we wont miss scott forstall who would surely not let anything like this out of apple.

But what do I know.

37prime• 13 years ago

Some of them are bugs found in the beta releases of iOS 7.

I am assuming that the “sloppy UIs” are from the general release.

There were tons of changes from beta 1 to the GM and there are still some UI bugs, but they are not showstoppers.

mikeleeorg• 13 years ago

Anyone know how many UI bugs were reported or seen with previous iOS versions? I'm just wondering if this is a usual part of each major iOS rollout, or a unique instance.

dgesang• 13 years ago

We love Apple.

Stopped reading there ...

aaronbrethorst• 13 years ago

Without Apple Radar numbers next to each and every one of these pictures, this is just unnecessary, mean-spirited trolling. "Hey, look, iOS 7 has bugs! LOLOLOL."

enscr• 13 years ago

The most tangential looking OS ever. Maybe iOS 7s would fix it.

_random_• 13 years ago

Hire more/better designers? No-no! Let's put money in the hedge fund instead.

Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs

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