To Hope Beyond Hope: iOS 7 Concepts Jony Ive Should Definitely Draw Inspiration From
Flat and very, very colorful is Apple’s new approach to iOS. Reactions are partly flat, partly very colorful, too. “Love it or leave it” seems to be the only option. Yet, iOS 7 is only a beta version, nothing needs to be carved in stone by now, Jony. We have collected numerous different concepts to show you and our readers, how iOS could turn out to become. Some are somewhat resemblant, some are totally different, but all are – much more beautiful! Please, draw some inspiration from these creations, if only a little…
iPhone Flat UI Concept
Designer: Anton Kovalev
Why it is better: Flat, but with a lot more subtle color set
iOS 7 Concept design
Designer: Denes Farkas
Why it is better: More clean, more minimal, reduced to only a few colors
IOS 7 Lockscreen Concept
Designer: Alexis Jossart
Why it is better: Though only the lock screen, this concept shows a more subtle design language
iOS 7 icons
Designer: Sameer Ahmed
Why it is better: Taken the beta and remixed it for the better
iOS 7: Just a concept
Designer: Peyman Eskandari
Description: Circular login screen
iOS 7 Concept
Designer: Luca Abelardo
Why it is better: Had we not hoped for a radically redesigned home screen?
Flat iPhone Concept
Designer: André Wyatt
Why it is better: Flat, minimal, beautiful
Icons iOS Flat design
Designer: Mohamed Kerroudj
Why it is better: A more glossy style of flat design
Flat iOS icons concept
Designer: Tom Arrowsmith
Why it is better: Minimal design with 3D elements
IOS7 Concept MCASE
Designer: Alexis Jossart
Why it is better: More flat, subtle gradients
Stunning concept of iOS 7
Designer: Simply Zesty
Why it is better: Widgets, lockscreen – flat, gradients
Weather App Minimal Concept
Designer: Sanja Veljanoska
Concept: A minimalistic Weather app
iOS 7 – Concept
Designer: Mads Bengtsson
Why it is better: Rounded, textured, with social media components
Interactive iPhone 5S & iOS7 Concept
Designer: recombu
Concept: Interactive iOS demo
iOS 7 Concept
Designer: Moin Ahmad
Concept: 2D with a slight 3D touch
iOS 7: Redesigned Icons Free
Designer: Tim Degner
iOS 7 Mockup
Designer: Sam Waterbury
Concept: 3D with resemblances to Windows
iOS 7 concept
Designer: Apfelpage
Why it is better: Mixes the former iOS concepts with the new influences, adds minimal extensions
Re-imagining iOS
Designer: Tom Arrowsmith
Concept: A more traditional approach
Baidu voice assistant concept design
Designer: Sky
Concept: Voice assistant with 2D feeling
One More Thing…
If you still think, Jony Ive’s concept for iOS 7 fits like a glove, head on over to this Tumblr entitled Jony Ive Redesigns Things. I guess this makes things clearer…
(dpe)
Actually, I prefer Ive’s design over most of these, even though I do have some issues with his design. I like previous music app better than the one on iOS7 (mainly in a landscape mode) and I don’t like some of the icons on iOS7 (safari, newsstand, settings).
From these designs I particularly like and would love to be incorporated into iOS7 are the camera app design (by Denes), Icons (by Sameer) and Multitasking (by Tom). I also like some icons from Alexis concept, but as I said, I pretty much like what Ive has done with the home screen.
Nice post
I find it completely bizarre that iOS 7 is refered to by so many designers as *flat.*
If you’ve held an iPhone running this, the last thing you’d call it is a flat design. Even beyond the obvious parallax elements of the OS, the various elements of the system feel very layered and dimensional.
Most of these concepts are not great either. What Apple could do to solve ALL of these issues of people hating their interface or just the icons and also saving hundreds of hours of work in the process, is to add theme capability to iOS. As shown above, there are more than a few designers willing to give up hours out of their lives to create icons and interface elements for the iPhone.
I miss the old days of Mac OS, where you could edit the actual interface or use fantastic utilities like Kaleidoscope to change the entire look of the system. The really need to do this for iPhone.
Apple is about innovation. How about starting by NOT copying the already trendy and overuse “flat” look. Invent Apple! Break the mold! That’s what Jobs was all about.
When did adding dimension with gradients and drop shadows become “flat”? Doesn’t flat imply little-to-no dimension?
Yeah, iOS preview is already out. And the icons are flat. just look at it at apple’s site. (I almost prefer the original design that that one). It actually sound official, if you go to developer.apple.com.
Seriously, this is why people actually study graphic design for years and perfect their vision and techniques for even more. Ive is a great industrial designer, but that doesn’t mean he can do graphic design. In most cases good industrial designers are pretty bad graphic designers and vise versa. The case with Ive is no different. People think that if they studied design or design related field, they can create a logo or an icon. As the matter of fact they can’t. Simple as that.
Note: I’m not a designer, I’m a developer, but I’m pissed at the current state of devaluation of craftsmanship and status of graphic designers, emphasized even further by this interface redesign fiasco.