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Apple Watch Series 7 design secrets revealed

mercredi 3 novembre 2021, 20:01 , par Mac Daily News
Alan Dye, Apple’s Vice President of Interface Design, and Stan Ng, Vice President of Product Marketing, tell The Independent how they designed Apple Watch Series 7, a smartwatch that “empowers you to do things that really could never have been done before from a watch.”
Apple Watch Series 7
The design of Apple Watch Series 7 is refined with softer, more rounded corners, and the display has a unique refractive edge that makes full-screen watch faces and apps appear to seamlessly connect with the curvature of the case. At just 1.7 mm thin, the narrower borders of Apple Watch Series 7 maximize the screen area of the display while minimally changing the dimensions of the watch itself. Apple Watch Series 7 also features a user interface optimized for the larger display, a new QWERTY keyboard, plus two unique watch faces — Contour and Modular Duo — designed specifically for the new device. Users benefit from the same all-day 18-hour battery life, now complemented by 33 percent faster charging.
Apple Watch Series 7 offers a new QWERTY keyboard that can be tapped or swiped with QuickPath, allowing users to slide a finger to type.
The Independent:

The new Watch has a bigger display than ever, which has consequences for design.
“The size limits the amount of information that, that can be shown and so every single pixel counts,” Ng said. “The re-engineered display on Series 7 is a major technical innovation. Growing the display is such a huge benefit to users, but only if it doesn’t compromise any other part of the experience, such as comfort or aesthetics or battery life or band compatibility.”
So, the design team were faced with questions such as how you maximize screen area without significantly growing the overall case size. “It’s a unique challenge. It required completely re-engineering the display, the front crystal, the internals and the internal enclosure. And these changes resulted in reducing the border from 3mm on Series 6, to just 1.7mm on Series 7.”
The new design saw the case size grow by 1mm, but the display by nearly 20 percent.
“We did this by integrating the touch sensor into the OLED panel allowing the height of the product itself to remain the same,” Ng revealed. “So, to all intents and purposes, we’ve been able to expand the viewable area without significantly growing, to overall case size.”

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