{"id":2163,"date":"2011-12-09T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2011-12-09T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T12:18:11","slug":"twitter-redesigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/twitter-redesigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter redesigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" title=\"Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> got overhauled. I am not talking about some small, tiny redesign tweak; it got completely reworked from ground up. The overhaul also includes replacement terminology for old words. There are no more &#8220;mentions&#8221;, they are now called &#8220;Connect&#8221;. Hash tags are now called &#8220;Discover&#8221;. Many new things are introduced, and I will not comment on validity of those ideas. It is Twitter&#8217;s political decision to change terminology and how they present themselves to the world.<\/p>\n<p>What I will comment on is the new iOS App.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s horrible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot of the regular timeline view.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/twitter-home.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What you can notice immediately is the border around content. That border might even look OK while you are looking at the screenshot as a pure image. When you put this screenshot into the realistic environment &#8211; on the iPhone &#8211; you get this:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/twitter-on-iphone.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you can instantly see double border. One is the software drawn border in the App, and another is hardware border, so called end-of-the-screen. Seriously, there is no need to draw vertical border when the device itself creates the border. It all just looks messy and sloppy. <\/p>\n<p>Here is just a quick fix of removing the border. I have not even re-positioned the elements to take advantage of extra space gained by this (about 20 pixels on each site). It looks much simpler and less visually cluttered.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/twitter-on-iphone2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole Twitter for iOS App is plagued with this additional vertical border between content and edge of the screen. Why? Noone knows. But this is relevant:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/curtis.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/tweetbot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, just to say it again:<br \/>\n<strong>Dear iOS Apps designers. The device itself is a border. Consider that when designing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Twitter got overhauled. I am not talking about some small, tiny redesign tweak; it got completely reworked from ground up. The overhaul also includes replacement terminology for old words. There are no more &#8220;mentions&#8221;, they are now called &#8220;Connect&#8221;. Hash tags are now called &#8220;Discover&#8221;. Many new things are introduced, and I will not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}