It doesn’t all must look the identical.
I’m positive I’m not the one particular person mildly pissed off by apps the place it’s immediately apparent that the Android app appears to be like an identical to the iOS one at the price of platform match on each platforms¹. That subject has been mentioned to loss of life, and I’m not going to go there, however David Smith’s put up on a watchOS design conundrum this week made me think about one thing extra delicate.
You must learn the entire put up, however the gist is that he ended up tweaking the positioning and spacing of how a UI aspect appeared for each completely different watch measurement. It’s a wonderful demonstration of meticulous consideration to element. In isolation, every little thing seems to be in simply the fitting place in each screenshot, and due to that, an untrained eye could not even see variations. In actuality, there are fairly important particulars that change on every machine.
You most likely gained’t need to go to this degree of customisation fairly often, however It’s price remembering that consistency is barely vital for issues the identical particular person will see frequently. With David’s watch designs, each particular person (other than David) is barely ever going to see one model of that rounded rectangle and can by no means know that different variations exist, and that’s price making an allowance for subsequent time you’re attempting to make an app format work throughout a spread of machine sizes.
¹ There are a lot of fine causes to make a cross-platform app, and it’s the proper selection in lots of instances. I additionally perceive that cross-platform design is usually a consequence of that call. However I do discover it.
Dave Verwer 
