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Okay, maybe that’s an over sensationalist headline, But we’re a website about a portable telephone. This is the nearest we’ll ever get to putting a giant “Free Sex if You Read This” logo on the top of the page.

Joking apart , what would you think would be a good way to design a user-friendly, easy to understand user interface for an app?

Make it familiar, intuitive, and similar to what they’ve used so far? Seems reasonable.

For example, if it’s an app that’s designed to send messages, you might want to make it similar to the interface of the existing messaging app on the iPhone?

Apparently Apple doesn’t agree. The makers of iTweet Reply, one of the new push-enabled Twitter apps, report that their latest update has been rejected for the following reason:

Unfortunately, your application, iTweetReply – Push Twitter Replies and Direct Messages, cannot be added to the App Store because its usage of the standard SMS UI elements may be confusing or misleading to iPhone users. Please redesign your application to look significantly different from the standard  iPhone SMS built-in app.”

So there you have it. And Apple knows everything about design, so they must be right.

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