If simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, then iOS 7 is very, very sophisticated.
At stake is whether the phone is yours or Apple's -- whether your experience of your Apple technology is of core importance to Apple or whether the company's desire to control the user interface and push its own products is more crucial.
Sure, it's Pinterest-ic and Tumblr-y. But if you love images and imagery, the new Flickr displays photos immeasurably better that the previous iteration.
That's a massive change from the original colorful, shiny, semi-transparent iOS development language, which tries hard to make virtual controls and objects look and feel and act like real controls and objects.
Tumblr has completely redesigned the new app, and the best part is the post-anything screen that reinforces Tumblr's reputation as the simplest place to post just about anything.
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Online scrapbooking site Pinterest unveils its new look, including enhanced navigational and discovery features.
Kanzi's new version is bringing a better user interface to tablets, smartphones, and car dashboards.
Tablets, the quantified self movement, big data, new user interface paradigms, and the return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. will help shape the coming year.
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Need more retro in your metro?
I'm guessing most of us didn't have a clue what that was yesterday, but most of us have encountered it and wondered about it in Apple products.
Rightware's tools have been used to create some of the cool user interfaces of the tablet age.
Gnzo is essentially a new, more animated way of displaying and browsing videos, and it's optimized for touchscreens. Instead of square stills, it displays a mosaic of animated videos, each one a 6-second clip from the video behind it.
Mobile payments startup Square, just two weeks after closing more than $200 million in new funding, announced the acquisition of New York design firm 80/20.
Twitter released two new updates this morning, making user profiles much more visual and updating the Twitter experience on mobile with a new photostream widget.
With the S Launcher, Samsung shows that just doesn't know how to quit the Windows start menu.
Who cares about good design or bad design, Ben Huh of the wildly successful Cheezburger network of comedy sites said today at GROW 2012. According to Huh, you don't need great design to have a successful design. "We have one of the worst-looking sites on the planet," Huh admitted.
Pebble, the smartwatch for your smartphone, released an early preview of its user interface on Vimeo today ... including a look behind the scenes at how the massively successful crowdfunding project is building the software.
Of all the confounding changes made in the latest Windows 8 consumer preview, few upset people quite as much as the removal of the Start button.
But what hasn’t been clear is why Microsoft removed the feature, which has been …
