review: ios 7 design

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In honor of the sometimes nearly unusable iOS 7, today I'm writing in off-white on white, and all normal indicators of key functionality and logical subordination

are

eliminat

ed.

Apple fucked up something previously not fucked up.

Under the hood, I have no complaint, and I'm all for getting rid of the old buttony icons. But usability wise? I find myself constantly straining to differentiate icons that now have meaningless images, to

read wisps

of critical but nearly invisible text. And what turtlenecked idiot thought huge white backgrounds on an LED screen was a good idea? You have to turn the brightness to minimal just to avoid retinal scarring, and then when you launch an app, and believe me, you launch one as soon as possible to get iOS 7 out of your life, you have to turn the brightness back up. But dang, it sure is pretty. If you think this is pretty. ios7.png

Attention Apple designers: please stop masturbating at my expense.