ios7 - the good the bad & the changes

iOS7The good, the bad & the changes

Chrissy Welsh Lead UX - Backbase@chrissywelsh

iOS7The good, the bad & the changes

Chrissy Welsh Lead UX - Backbase@chrissywelsh

What we will cover• Bugs to watch out for

• Design decisions for native apps & websites + their workarounds

• Gestures

• The new look and feel

• New & removed features

Bugs to watch out for...

• Web SQL permissions to increase the default 5MB of space for an app to the previously permitted 50MB limit no longer work correctly, and require a workaround.

• “Save to Home Screen” apps are basically broken. Once more than four apps are saved to home screen, the save slots are recycled and sometimes duplicated, and the phone has to be rebooted in order to clear itself.

• If your app uses AppCache and you are managing state via hash or other mechanisms, the history object will never update, disabling history.back.

Design decisions: Tints

Feature: Tints are selected based on the primary background colour

Workaround: Select your background colours carefully

Design decisions: Navigation

Feature: Bottom navigation is problematic, in this design it’s disabled because of the new iOS7 Safari toolbar.

Workaround: 2 user taps will activate the menu again - or rethink the UX & navigation.

Design decisions: URL barFeature: No way to hide the URL bar with javascript, no full screen mode. Problem if your app relies on absolute positioning.

Workaround: Swiping up will reset to full screen, or asking user to add app to homescreen

Design decisions: Page titles

Feature: Safari now ignores page <title>

Workaround: It will show the URL, so make sure it makes sense.

Design decisions: HTML5

Issue: Animating SVG with Javascript is a bit hit or miss with your performance.

Workaround: Look at your interactive elements and slim them down if possible.

Gestures: Up-swipeFeature: iOS7 now has a control center visible on a bottom up swipe.

Workaround: Be careful with your app or site to suggest an upwards swipe gesture to the user.

Gestures: left/right-swipe

Feature: Right and left swipe gestures within about 10 percent of display edge are always grabbed by iOS and treated as a forward/back request, and not passed to the browser.

Workaround: None

The new look & feel

Feature: The new OS icons are 5% bigger in 7.0 that 6.0

Workaround: Update those bad boys

Removed features: Datetime

Issue: doesn’t support the datetime input type anymore and it will fallback to text.

New feature: Sticky position

Feature: Sticky position is a new experimental feature that allow us to fix an element to the viewport but only when it’s off the visible area (usually after a scrolling action)

New features: Multitasking

Issues: When running a homescreen app the system will use a while image.

Workaround: None

New features: Dynamic behaviour

Feature: Dynamic behaviors offer a way to improve the user experience of your app by incorporating real-world behavior and characteristics, such as gravity, into your app’s animations.

New features: Speech synthesis

Feature: Speech Synthesis api allows mobile safari to speak.

New features: Custom transitions

Feature: Allows you to set up the screen changes in the UI the way you want it.

New features: Smile detection

Feature: If you have a camera app - or use the camera there are some playful things you can do.

New features: Image filtersFeature: There are now image filters available as part of the OS.• CILinearToSRGBToneCurve

• CIPhotoEffectChrome

• CIPhotoEffectFade

• CIPhotoEffectInstant

• CIPhotoEffectMono

• CIPhotoEffectNoir

• CIPhotoEffectProcess

• CIPhotoEffectTonal

• CIPhotoEffectTransfer

• CISRGBToneCurveToLinear

• CIVignetteEffect

New features: Motion effects (parallax)

Feature: Phone titling to see more background, or provide direction in games.

New features: QR code generator

Feature: For all your QR Code needs. Available as part of the OS.

New feature: Touch iD

Feature: Touch iD as identification - not available for websites/apps ... yet.

New feature: Touch iD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFW6Va1m5k

*Just remember to test all those cool new features!

What we covered

• Bugs to watch out for

• Design decisions for native apps & websites + their workarounds

• Gestures

• The new look and feel

• New & removed features

Question Timeios7 samples: github.com/shu223/iOS7-Sampler

Chrissy Welsh Lead UX - Backbase@chrissywelsh