5 Things to Know When Designing for iOS
Based on our experience creating great iOS apps, we've come up with a list of 5 things we believe designers should keep in mind while conceptualizing interfaces for iOS. While the focus of this article is only on iOS apps, much of the advice here translates directly to other mobile platforms.
Sustainable Digital Ecosystems
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this Ted Talk by Dan Barber I saw a while ago about a sustainable fish farm. It’s called Veta La Palma, an aquaculture farm located in Spain.
iOS 6 GUI PSD (iPhone 5)
Of all the iOS GUI Photoshop documents we've created over the past 4 or 5 years the one for the iPhone is by far the most popular. We take these things pretty seriously because we use them on a daily basis ourselves.
Designing With Code
With an increasingly complex array of platforms and screen resolutions, it's time to embrace the creative capabilities of HTML5 + CSS3 and make development part of the design process. While I've spent most of my days in the creative department, I actually started my career as a developer.
Designing (and converting) for multiple mobile densities
With Apple leading the movement, phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop displays are rapidly increasing in resolution. This is wonderful for everyday mobile users, as the quality of their device screens become sharper and allow them to better experience the finer details of an application.
iPad GUI PSD (Retina Display)
In 2008 we released our first iOS PSD. We continue to do it, not only because we find useful, but because we think a lot of other designers do too.
Readability + iPad Retina
Here are some pics of Readability on the iPad 2 (left) and the "new" iPad (right). You can see how well the new screens render Hoefler & Frere-Jones amazing fonts.
Readability for iOS
A few months back we talked about our partnership with Readability. Today, we're pleased to announce that the native apps are available on iOS.
Going down the right Path
We don't often write about products that we didn't work on, but I came across Path last night and felt it was worth talking about. Path has been around since November of last year.
iOS 5 GUI PSD (iPhone 4S)
Every time we create one of these files we notice just how much has changed. I'm not talking about the obvious stuff like iCloud, Siri or Notifications.
Android 2.3.4 GUI PSD (High-Density)
Yes, we <3 Android, too! One of the challenges of an ever-changing digital channel, is that we find ourselves spending more and more time designing for various platforms and form factors.
Designing Faster with a Baseline Grid
Lately, grids have become the ultimate obsession of designers and design writers. Hundreds — not to say thousands — of articles, tutorials, books and websites solely dedicated to grids and their application in (web)design have been published in the last few years.