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Description
In a world of design embracing flatter, simpler interfaces (even in certain App Store apps), Apple's embrace of a flatter interface in iOS 7 is a welcome change. However, this is its first iteration, and as with every first, it requires constant improvement and refining.

Changes to iOS 7's current Control Centre:

Music player scrubber has been removed. The scrubber isn't needed in an instant and you can tap on the song name/album to go to the Music app and scrub from there.

Divider weight has been reduced to 2 pixels, the same weight as toggle borders above.

The functionality of posting to Facebook or Tweeting has been returned to iOS 7 in Control Centre.

The bottom row of icons has been merged with the toggles at the top, with toggles as circles and shortcuts as rounded rectangles. Icon sizes have been slightly tweaked.

Tweaked spacing between some elements.

Deviated a way to allow the user to know what there are extra toggles when you swipe, the same as the Share controls.

Toggles & Shortcuts are customisable, but only ten can be there at a time: a reasonable compromise. This is a control centre after all, and you don't want to swipe through ten pages just to get to a toggle.

Flashlight toggle is actually formatted as a toggle.

AirDrop & AirPlay buttons have been put back since the original concept.

Read more about my concept on my original post on The Verge Forums .

Acknowledgements:
iOS 7 GUI PSDs from Teehan+Lax , Andreas Hellqvist , and Applidium

COMING SOON
Improving iOS 7 #2: An Uncluttered Status Bar

Description
In a world of design embracing flatter, simpler interfaces (even in certain App Store apps), Apple's embrace of a flatter interface in iOS 7 is a welcome change. However, this is its first iteration, and as with every first, it requires constant improvement and refining.

Changes to iOS 7's current Control Centre:

Music player scrubber has been removed. The scrubber isn't needed in an instant and you can tap on the song name/album to go to the Music app and scrub from there.

Divider weight has been reduced to 2 pixels, the same weight as toggle borders above.

The functionality of posting to Facebook or Tweeting has been returned to iOS 7 in Control Centre.

The bottom row of icons has been merged with the toggles at the top, with toggles as circles and shortcuts as rounded rectangles. Icon sizes have been slightly tweaked.

Tweaked spacing between some elements.

Deviated a way to allow the user to know what there are extra toggles when you swipe, the same as the Share controls.

Toggles & Shortcuts are customisable, but only ten can be there at a time: a reasonable compromise. This is a control centre after all, and you don't want to swipe through ten pages just to get to a toggle.

Flashlight toggle is actually formatted as a toggle.

AirDrop & AirPlay buttons have been put back since the original concept.

Read more about my concept on my original post on The Verge Forums .

Acknowledgements:
iOS 7 GUI PSDs from Teehan+Lax , Andreas Hellqvist , and Applidium

COMING SOON
Improving iOS 7 #2: An Uncluttered Status Bar