Amann: Modern mobile apps and iOS copy Windows Phone's UI design
Andrew Amann · Startup Acquisition Stories with Andrew Amann, CEO at 923 Venture Studio · Nov 22, 2022 · at 26:42
Andrew Amann, CEO of 923 Venture Studio, discusses historical design patterns and mobile app user experience trends.
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“If you look at the mobile app landscape in the last six or seven years, we're all starting to copy windows operating system, their phone and the way they organize the horizontal scrolls. So a lot of things that they introduced to the app world, because they came from scratch, right? In 20, 13, 20, 14. Yeah. A lot of the menu options are actually being copied from that, especially iOS. So it's fun to see that coming back as well. And iOS music is a perfect candidate that looks exactly like the Windows phone music did.”
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