> <i>Making good on the trend described in mobile app designer Josh Clark’s An Event Apart talk, “Buttons Are a Hack,” there are almost no buttons to be seen at all. Everything slides, pinches and magically appears in context.</i><p>For the love of God, please don't let this start to be a thing.<p>I watched the video, and the phone seems like hell to use. Wait, do I swipe down or left to call? Up or diagonal to get to my address book? Oh no, I have to pinch. Oh crap, that just took a photo.<p>Buttons provide unambiguous affordance. I'll just leave this here, since it seems like every week new designers forget about it: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance</a>
What an awful, misleading title.<p>A) Apple is innovating the user experience. The author even specifically says that Apple is far ahead in the game, but doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is precisely because of past innovation.
B) It's not even necessarily Apple who have to innovate. There are tons of developers writing libraries for iOS that make UX and user experiences better. Tons of developers meaning more developers than exist for Android.
C) To claim that Android designers are innovating is just such a weak claim. Most Android apps I see are either ports of legit iPhone apps or really awful designs, note that I specifically mention the design.
This is pointless nonsense. What's demonstrated is a special effects video of a reworked Android home screen with a bunch of whizzy mystery-gesture interactions - the exact same kind of interactions that takes the longest for iOS users catch on to. (make a folder, edit homepage, notification center, camera-from-lock screen, caps lock)<p>And it's shipping for a subset of a boutique phone line sometime this summer in Japan only. Next!
Okay, only semi on-topic, but I'm curious. Am I the only one who finds this interface interesting, but unbearably ugly? Mostly, the boxes around icons and the form factor of the phone itself. I usually appreciate them all - iOS, Android 4, QNX and the Lumia 800 - but this is hate at first sight. I can't even explain why.<p>Anyone else? I feel weird, like someone who is about to give Inception a rating of 2 on IMDb.
Innovate is a valueless term.<p>If you've got something basically right, the patience to refine it and the maturity to leave what is correct alone is more important.
There is only 1 kind of innovation a for-profit business needs to worry about: Making a profit.<p>For all those ventures, which often compare themselves to market leaders, it is nothing more than a buzzword.
It all seems very snazzy. Personally I would love to have this UX, but I can't say the same for my parents. The gesture overload would make this UX unusable for them. Guess who is gonna get called then!!
reminds me of <a href="http://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/927/</a><p>one more ui for android :)<p>edit: let google choose a standard , and with any hope it will be a standard for all android.
That title is hilarious. Compare user experiences before iOS and after. But, these guys made a skin so they're the innovators. OK.<p>And, as ever, what would this article be without the inevitable trotting out of the old "fanboy" chestnut. If there were a "tech blogger bingo" card this one would surely be a winner.
For all of the innovation that Android claims to have going for it, is this Feel UX really the best that you can do? Honestly this is barely changed from the default android UI. You repackaged the widgets so they're on their own page which you could already do. You added a shortcut screen which can hold both widgets and apps and contacts which is the same as any regular Android screen and you put the apps on one page like the launcher. Changing the way the lock screen looks with swiping is cool but that's not all that special. That's a jailbreak tweak away from being an iPhone.<p>I've got no problem with Android but when you claim to be innovating over another platform when you aren't, that bugs me.