‘Notch’ crazy, iPhone X mad 📱🤡
What designers think of iPhone X
The iPhone X was released, but ‘The Notch’ stole the show! That little Notch thing on the top of the iPhone caused a lot of debate. If you missed it, we’ve gathered some of the best reactions and ideas from all over the web to get you up to speed. Check it out:
1. Rahul starts by asking what the duck ‘The Notch’ is:
2. Vojta Stavik found a great fix for it:
2.1 Pablo Stanley has another solution for the notch [18.09.17 update]
3. Zev Eisenberg imagines it on the other side:
4. Then we saw some useful stuff on Dribbble, here’s some templates:
5. Next, MaterialUp gave us a massive list of templates 🔥:
6. Then Marvel joined (iPhone X frame coming soon):
7. Then there was the iPhone X Mask for Sketch by Matt D. Smith
Matt made a custom vector mask from scratch for a notch mask overlay:
8. .. and ‘Navbar Styles iPhone x’ by Virgil Pana
Virgil experiments with filled vs alpha transparency navbar styles for the notch:
9. Then More fun! Grisha Uglanov called it an ‘Earsbar’:
Let’s end with some articles. These aren’t so much ‘Notch’
10. Maciej Lipiec suggests the Notch is all about branding”
The article ends with this brilliant illustration:
11. Yazin Akkawi writes a letter to Apple
This one isn’t so much ‘Notch’ based, but a great short read about the direction Apple are going:
Designing for the Notch Phone X
Getting more serious now, here are a few really insightful articles about designing for the Notch:
By Designlab:
By NIELS:
By Queble Solutions:
By Thiruvenkadam:
By Stephen Radford:
By Chris Coyier [18.09.2017 update]:
By Zakary Kinnaird:
Last but not least, here’s Apple’s own article for your reference:
But wait there’s more !
What if there is no Notch problem, and we’re all just holding the xPhone wrong? [18.09.2017 update]
via Paper Sizes:
Hiding scrollbar?? via Ben Packard
Thanks for reading, that’s all we got time for— hope you had fun reading this 🤡, and be sure to sign up for more:
