Q: Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

Parfumeur wrote:

 

When the zoom occurs, the eye is fixed in the center of the screen, and does not

move it's focus, the eyebal is stationary (no muscle action on the eyeball or

refocus of eye's lens).  Thus no muscular activity.

Why would you be looking elsewhere than near to where you're tapping??

Thats b/c they have a hardware guy, Ive doing the software. We see the results.

Oh believe me I've already heard the worshipers save Ive is a UI/UX god.

The closer you are to an object, the more the eye will move to track.  The phone is at an arm's lenght.

Hold the phone 4-5 ft away, and maybe the issue will not appear, albeit, you now have a visual accuity issue.  Eye strain, trying to read and stay focused.... and not focus on the any background motion beyond the iPhone target.

Only if I had 4ft-5ft arms then I would definitely be playing against the greats...Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and then I would just throw the phone into the Atlantic with my 10ft wingspan haha

> looking elsewhere than near to where you're tapping??

THAT IS THE ISSUE.  You are indeed looking where you are tapping (say a corner), and now you have to move the eye to recenter to the new location.  It's just not the application only, it's the eye that strains to follow to the new location.

Now, did you notice, they changed the direction of "slide to unlock"?  We in the Western world read from left to right, and we flip pages going from right to left.  Apple has converted to the Middle Eastern reading method.  We also now have trash.  We delete data, some others have trash.  Any direction here.  Think carefully  

IDoes this eye twitch theory (sounds good to me) tie into the thinner fonts that 7 uses? With the prvious designs, words (and arrows on the homecreen, etc) were thicker, so the eye might be able to focus on it more readily?

I don't like some of the design conceits of 7 - they seem to just be a conscious shift asway from the previous design rather than "inspired" - but I can learn to deal with them. But this nausea thing is unacceptable.

Yes, 100% agree. Similar to what I explained to Apple when I reported feedback.

Parfumeur wrote:

THAT IS THE ISSUE.  You are indeed looking where you are tapping (say a corner), and now you have to move the eye to recenter to the new location.  It's just not the application only, it's the eye that strains to follow to the new location.

Eh? Do you have any idea how many eye movements we are making all the time? In fact, if we don't make any eye movements for a while, we'd go blind because of pigment depletion.

Anyway, I'm not sure to what new location you think one has to recentre to/on because of the new style zoom, but it's not the eye movements per se that make people sick. It can be a combination of eye movement together with certain types of visual information, but I think that what most people will do launching apps they know is to direct their gaze to where they'll find the 1st bit of information they're looking for - and that shouldn't have changed (much) just because of the OS redesign.

> Does this eye twitch theory (sounds good to me) tie into the thinner fonts that 7 uses?

Not really.  One is a tracking and focus issue, the other is that terminal ends (the tips of the letter) even though even, are rendered visually as getting smaller.

This is why newspapers use serifs, or fonts where the tips broaden.  Simple, and known by the Greeks and Chinese.  One may be artistic, but not serrifed fonts are tiring to the eye, and may put you to sleep (a wild guess on my part, as I fall asleep easily when I try to read for long periods fonts that are linear in their strokes.

This is why newspapers use serifs, or fonts where the tips broaden.  Simple, and known by the Greeks and Chinese.  One may be artistic and use linear fonts, but not serifed fonts are tiring to the eye, and may put you to sleep (a wild guess on my part, as I fall asleep easily when I try to read for long periods fonts that are linear in their strokes, e.g. Helvetic).

Helvetica is great for signs, briefs, CV, and distant reading, but not for close up, unless trying to make an impact.   The font I'm using now, the pica too close for easy reading, and the serifs a tad too pronounced, if spaced correctly for the reading distance, then it would be easier to read then the above Helvetica. Using a thin Helvetica and a wrong color combination, the text if too long, will become unreadable due to chromatic aberation.

Jobs knew it. Many people know it.

Seemingly, Jony Ives does not know it.

This is a disaster of epic proportions. It forbodes bad things as there is now proof that style+substance have left the building.

We have a cure! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Y9ADSHXMw#t=36

Yes, it's a joke, but the more people hear about the problem the better.

René, I'll defer to your expertise.

Yes, We need an option to turn off these app navigation animations.

Thanks

Actually, we need an option to turn off iOS 7 alltogether.

I am starting to think that in some ways Apple is being worse that Microsoft. Or less mature ?

Microsoft over the years got used to releasing authentic POS.

So they learned that when they do so, they need to allow people to revert to other versions of their software.

When they released Vista you still had the option to stay or even revert to a trusted XP.

Same with Windows 8 and 7.

Apple is also releasing a POS with iOS 7.0 but then they leave us with no option to revert to a good OS.

I guess thus us because that is fairly new to them. I can think of Apple Maps as a precedent but that's about it. (Before Jobs was there and it seems that quality control may have been more strict.)

So they still are infatuated and think that the way forward is just to shove their garbage software down our throats.