There is no denying it. At this point in the championship, we can basically put our hands on the fire and make sure the "IPhone 8" (In other words, whatever name he has, the name is the only part we still don’t know from the back onwards) to have an OLED screen almost its entire front surface, with only a cutout at the top where the various sensors and cameras of the device will be located. If HomePod spoke, it did not.
One issue, however, still hangs in the air. The cutout on the screen is a paradigm that iOS has never had to deal with until today, the system was really used to living only on perfectly rectangular screens, without any interruptions. How, then, would Apple deal with this element in a way that does not detract from the particular design of its most widely used system globally?
Well, the official answer to this question will only be answered in September (unless HomePod opens its mouth again), but thanks to the designer Max Rudberg, we already have some good possibilities or, more precisely, three. Here they are:
left, we have an example of iOS just like today, confined to the four-sided screen. Beside, three scenarios imagined by the designer; In the back, Rudberg imagines that the upper steel bar of the system would move to the bottom, where probably the button of Incio virtual idea, incidentally, previously ventilated by another designer, Allen Pike. an interesting solution, even though I think the bottom portion of the screen would be somewhat underutilized with this interface.
The big thing here, however, is the treatment given to the upper section of the canvas (more visible in the second image). As is well known, one of the benefits of OLED technology is to turn pixels off completely when displaying black, which means that the panel basically merges with the black border around it; therefore, it was believed that Apple would implement a dark top bar that would “hide” the cutout, as we see in the last two images.
These two possibilities, however, pose questions: the second creates a visually unpleasant "forehead" in the visual, since the bottom part would be completely filled with colors and would, in fact, look like a canvas. To solve this problem, the third (last) scenario would also make the lower portion totally dark, balancing the look, but on the other hand losing all the benefit of the end-to-end screen in the way, the last image resembles much to existing iPhones.
So Rudberg also thought of the first possibility, where Apple would “open” the clipping and proudly display it on the interface. In fact, the idea does not have the imbalance of the second possibility and brings out the novelty factor, present in the third. But is this the ideal solution? The discussion is up to you, and with an extra question about a crucial detail that the designer seems to have forgotten: where the hell is the clock on this blessed phone?
via MacStories
