iOS 5 Notification Center Fall Down Transition

[maxrudberg]

Like pointed out in the comments, this concept is available in the form of Flowtation through Cydia.

[SirSupernice]

Flowtation 1.1 is done :D

[HarryPotterFan134]

someone stole the 8th second!

[xmyco]

a tweak called flowtation is available in cydia, that does something extremely similar to this :D

[guyeiny]

That would make a big problem to view notification center when in apps, where today pulling the notification center down first pops out the little handle, and another pull reveals the actual notification center.

This is of course intended to prevent inadvertently pulling the notification center, when all the user was trying is to slay yet another knight in Infinity Blade.

Your implementation would impose a challenge how to design the "double opt" process.

[Dilster3k]

I would love to see iOS 6 adapt from OS X Lion. Since Lion took the Launchpad from the iPhone, why can't the iPhone have Mission Control and the Dashboard?

[mollyconnollly]

Peeking at the top notification is a much better reason than the clashing texture. I hope they don't just change it to something like Radjenovic's new style, but more like this video.

[HumphsPlayPoint]

Did anyone notice that it's 13:37 on the clock?

[TechDude997]

@HumphsPlayPoint So? :)

[AppleBman]

I like it!  You know as much as I love the Notification Centre, its implementation never "felt quite right" to me. But having seen this alternative -- much better!

[honus87]

I don't get it. The linen is the bottom of the screen. Notification is another "screen" pulled down over the usual one, so it has a linen as its bottom too. It is as if you pulled a projection screen down over top of the usual screen.

Seems like a consistent use of linen to me.

[ls600h1]

Rather than the main screen just dropping down to reveal the notification's on top, I think the current drag and release action is better. I do however agree with the main part of the screen moving down as we pull as well, because the same thing happens with the multi-tasking bar (the main screen moves up giving the effect that the linen is below it)

[yangch0p]

I think we’ll have to break the problem down into two portions:

1. the inconsistent usage of linen

2. if the notification center should sit above or below

On the usage of linen, I’d agree that there are inconsistencies, though the designers have made an effort to distinguish the two through lighting.

As for whether it should live above or below the home screen, I’d say above. Multitasking is more an under the hood function like an engine, whilst notifications are above, like a speedometer.

[Symmetriq]

Meh. That's not really any better than the way it works now. And as another commenter pointed out, it won't work on the iPad anyway. Probably why Apple didn't do it this way.

[jsventura]

Honestly, I'd rather see Apple copy Android's notification tray almost completely. I want quick access to settings and some icons in the status bar to let you know, at a glance, what's waiting for you.

Truth is, many iOS 5 users don't even know there IS a notification center.

[samiglesias]

Three points of criticism:

1) While this works well with an iPhone, it doesn't work as well with the iPad, where they would need to devote the entire screen to a notification center with potentially only one notification.

2) It's nice to have notifications come in on top of the content and stay on top of the content. It's consistent and expected, although one could argue that it is possible to have the notifications come in from under.

3) The multi-task/meta-function bar lives in that layer!

[edgefusion]

@samiglesias Responding to your first criticism: not necessarily. The iPads notification centre could slide down like a panel, with the right and left sides of the screen staying motionless but fading into the background like when you open the multitasking tray.

[FloatingOnAZephyr]

I agree this makes sense but it's not the end of the world. That said, it's the cumulative effect of all the little things that makes all the difference. SonicJulez makes a good point about the iPad though. Hadn't thought of that as I don't own one yet.

[SonicJulez]

Your suggestion is more consistent with respect to the use of the dark linen texture, but it wouldn't work on the iPad on which the notification center just takes a small part of the screen. I wouldn't want it to be full screen on the iPad either.

[bobbdobolina]

Your team may LOSE, but your mother is LOOSE.

Also, no such thing as MORE unique. Something is either unique or it is not.

[filipathtc]

The android notification bar is better!

[TheIOSinformer]

This is ugly..

[Capric0rn]

Right now we can only wait and see how Apple is going to work the Notification Center out. I for one hope that they'll that they should make it more like you've portrait in this video.

A few days ago I was thinking the exact same thing of the linen. A solution like this for the Notification Center fits better in the realm of iOS, or even both iOS and Lion. They're using it in Mission Control as well, which kinda looks like the layer of the OS where the OS is managing the Windows and whatnot.

[maxrudberg]

@Capric0rn Yeah, I'd be happy if they made the use of linen more consistent. I'd say either change the transition or change the appearance of the NC.

[Capric0rn]

@maxrudberg Exactly. Oh well, all we can do is wait and see. Btw, I mistyped "windows" in the previous comment with a capital W :P

[dahZeeh]

great!!!! and so non-android...