{"id":21462,"date":"2018-05-08T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21462"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:41:00","slug":"ios-design-inconsistencies-across-apples-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/ios-design-inconsistencies-across-apples-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Design Inconsistencies Across Apple&rsquo;s Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminmayo.co.uk\/ios-11-design-inconsistencies\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/benjaminmayo.co.uk\/ios-11-design-inconsistencies\">\n<p>My gripe is there is no consistency, no structure or logic to this. Apps introduced later sometimes use rounded icons, sometimes not, sometimes create all-new custom glyphs of their own. Incredulously, you could open flagship apps like Messages, Mail and Safari and have no idea Apple was even playing with bold icons as a conceptual change. These apps adopted the iOS 11 large bold navigation bar title formats, but their icons and glyphs have stagnated for more than four years at this point.<\/p>\n<p>All the icons I&rsquo;ve showed you here are from Apple&rsquo;s built-in default apps. I expect them to set the standard for the iOS design language &#8230; but the reality is far from a perfect point. It&rsquo;s scattershot, it&rsquo;s a mess of competing visions. I couldn&rsquo;t say what Apple&rsquo;s human interface team wants the share icon to look like, let alone the structure and experience of iOS apps as a whole. Everything is in disarray.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo: My gripe is there is no consistency, no structure or logic to this. Apps introduced later sometimes use rounded icons, sometimes not, sometimes create all-new custom glyphs of their own. Incredulously, you could open flagship apps like Messages, Mail and Safari and have no idea Apple was even playing with bold icons as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-08T19:41:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"ecc7f0cd-4fa1-4cab-963b-57617859bb4b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-08T19:41:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7MfwzU-hTKuWO1dheFm7Sw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,545,31,1472],"class_list":["post-21462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-graphicdesign","tag-icons","tag-ios","tag-ios-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21463,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21462\/revisions\/21463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}