Jony Ive's major iOS 7 redesign: 'Black and white and flat all over'?

A game-changing Apple overhaul will eschew skeumorphic interfaces, 9to5Mac reports

A concept design, created by Simply Zest, of the imagined changes to the iOS operating system.
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Apple's coming mobile platform update, which has more or less gone unchanged since Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, will be "black, white, and flat all over," reports Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac, citing insiders who asked not to be identified. The overhaul will be led by chief designer Jony Ive, whose signature industrial aesthetic is responsible for today's brushed aluminum Macs and iPhones.

iOS 7 will reportedly drop many of the heavily textured renderings visible in its user interface elements in favor of something more straightforward. The green poker tablet in the Game Center? That's allegedly out. The yellow legal notepad in the Notes app? That'll get a "flat white" look, too. Here's 9to5Mac's Gurman:

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Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.