What iOS7 should look like

The thing I most dislike about iOS 7 is that it has caused every designer with a blog to write about how much better they could make iOS 7.

Meh. It doesn't seem like an obvious win to me. Especially the notepad.

typical designer. they just look at static mockups and don't think about interactions. okay if you have the 2x2 icon, how will other icons move relative to it when the big icon is moved around?

IMHO this a far, far better design than Apple's. The saturated colors in Apple's design are just too garish. Some of the app and icon designs are really messed up, as the OP notes. (e.g. Notes, Calendar). How did Apple's GameCenter icon even make it past 1st draft. It is just mind-bendingly awful.

Although the configurable-size widgets are a good idea, perhaps the OP could outline how the interface should work when these are moved around (as another commenter suggested).

Those suggested interfaces look very messy and inconsistent.

Most of these are big improvements, mostly because his designs don't ask the user too think too much. They are a modern,but more gradual and evolutionary than Apple's.

His idea of widgets would be great way to bring them to iOS. Just an oversized button with changing text, like a little iPod nano. A simple way to make that work would be to have a little resizer when you click and hold.

I like how in the :( versions the top status bar is all cluttered with low battery, gps, bluetooth, wifi etc. And the :) version is clean & minimal. Subtle persuasion! I don't think the app icons are an improvement, I dislike both. The final redesign, the lock screen, I way prefer the iOS version. The time is hard to read on the redesign.

>This is crucial if Apple wants the OS to continue to look consistent, because there is no way all developers are going to go back and redo the icons for all of their 900 000 apps!

And this is part of the point I think about the huge change here: Old unmaintained apps will look OLD and apps with active teams behind them will not.

I doubt anyone will come out with a mockup that everyone can agree on. That being said, I think there are a few nice decisions in this mockup which I prefer over the current release.

Tired of this bulshit...

I like most of your ideas. Agreed 100% on the icons. You lost me on the reminders screen though, yours looks 100x's worse to my eyes.

The calendar looks a lot better. I also vote up the use of the subtle buttons instead of colorful text buttons of iOS.

Meh, still looks like it took less than an hour to create each of those icons.

Imagine looking at the current IOS 7 interface in the dark. Blindingly bright.

This is so much better than iOS7 that Apple should be embarrassed.