iOS 7’s influence is already extending beyond the bezels of your iPhone or iPad. A new update to Tumblr’s dashboard has been flattened and cleaned up to the extent that it would look at home on your iPad’s screen. And this is the regular site, remember, not an iOS-specific one.
One look at the redesign tells you everything about its inspiration, but it’s not that surprising as Tumblr is pretty forward thinking. But I’ll bet that you’ll start to see changes in the physical world pretty soon too. When I take a walk down the high street, the advertising billboards are covered with stuff that already looks dated to my iOS 7-accustomed eyes. And if I see a store with a photorealistic logo I even laugh to myself about how quaint it looks.
If you’d told me an OS redesign for a cellphone could have such an impact (and I’ll bet you $1 it will) then I would have scoffed (probably in an annoyingly smug manner). Now it seems just a matter of time until everything is flat, transparent and full of color. Maybe The Suits will finally stop using drop shadows in their PowerPoints?
Source: Tumblr
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3 responses to “Tumblr Updates Dashboard With iOS 7-Like Makeover”
Tumblr has looked like this for several months..
I was just going to say the same thing. Mine has looked like that for ages
This is incredible. Flat design has been the domain of the web for ages! Now Apple introduces a ‘flatter’ iOS and suddenly a redesign by Tumbler is supposed to be inspired by it! Does the author actually believe what he is saying? Is there any proof of this?
Of course, with a simplistic design as iOS 7 there is not much room for detailed artwork. It’s the bottleneck of flat design, it does not go well with… pretty much anything that is not flat. That doesn’t mean that detailed artwork is ‘quaint’, it is just different design. It really bothers me that some people perceive Apple as the hallmark of good design. That’s arguable at best.