Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

With Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference just a month a way, rumours continue to surface that iOS 7 could see a major UI overhaul. Word on the street is that Jony Ive and his team at Apple are going for a very “flat” look. Since then, many designers have put together some interesting mockups and concepts together speculating on how a flat iOS 7 might look. Some are a bit radical, others seem more realistic. Here are a few of our favourites.

Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

The first is a possibly one of the more dramatic changes we’ve seen. In this design, Dámaso Benítez elects to go with three icons per row, rather than the current four. If we’re being honest, we think this is very unlikely. With that being said, the design aesthetic has a nice playfulness to it.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Kyle Adams offers his version of a “minimal and flat UI” for the lockscreen. Compared to the current lockscreen, not much has change functionally, but a lot of the UI chrome found in iOS 6 is gone. Clean.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Jesse Head re-imagines the app switcher allowing users to see more information. Rather than just seeing an icon, his concept introduces previews that allow users to see what they were doing in that app last. He’s even put together a video showing the concept in action.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Alex Iv puts together something that we think is more realistic by simply de-chroming iOS. Though he takes away the text labels, it still retains a fresh, clean look without changing much of iOS.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Pieter Goris offers his take on the Messages app by stripping out the messaging bubbles we’ve all come to know with both Mac OS and iOS. He also replaces they keyboard with a darker, more subtle look. Very clean.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Anton Kovalev‘s mockup looks very much like a flatted iOS 6 without any gloss. Some of the icons have a slight drop shadow giving them a bit of depth too.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

This rendition by John Menard remind us of Windows Phone and looks very much like Dámaso Benítez‘s concept above but with sharp corners. The big, bright boxes offer a different approach that’s not very iOS-like. Probably the most radical concept we’ve seen.


Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

Finally, this concept by Manu Gamero, which is also remisant of Alex Iv‘s, takes a lot of the current iOS look and feel and removes the glitter. It actually looks similar to what we saw on the WWDC invitation with the brighter colours.

All in all, we’ll have to wait a month to find out what Apple has in store for the next version of iOS. If the rumours are true, it should be pretty exciting.

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