Re:iOS 7
by mcintyre1994 on Monday June 10, 2013 @05:14PM
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There is Apple marketing material they've made available. It's perfectly valid to make judgements from that in my opinion.
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It's perfectly invalid to make judgements on usability without using it though.
You can absolutely pass valid judgement on quality of usability on sight alone.
If I showed you a picture of a 4 foot wide ship wheel and said I was going to install it in my Mazda Miata - you'd know instantly that it would be unusable, right? How about a screen-shot of a text editor that only shows you one giant character at a time?
Even as we move away from the ridiculous end of the spectrum of examples - you can know how usable something is based on past experience with similar environments.
I'd launch that on Kickstarter.
Those are screenshots of a beta! How categorically can you judge something until you have the final release in front of you?
Re:iOS 7
by furyofantares on Monday June 10, 2013 @06:54PM
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One of the big reasons to put something through a beta is so people will judge it before its final release