iPhone

Styling a Site for the iPhone

January 5th, 2010  |  Published in Design, iPhone

Apple’s iPhone App Review process leaves many of us stuck between a rock and a hard place. What can we do to more effectively push out content without having to deal with Apple? A month’s wait for approval for App submissions and updates isn’t unheard of.

Gruber has discussed the idea that we move in the direction of web apps. This can be a great solution, if you’re an online news site, and don’t need advanced device feedback or complex interaction. This is what we did for the ABA Journal mobile site, and it’s working well enough. Read the rest of this entry »

Design evolution of an interface

August 25th, 2009  |  Published in Design, iPhone

TapTapTap released “Convert” for iPhone a while back. While I’m a fan of ConvertBot, this one is awesome, too. Check out the incredible overview of the UI design/revision process on it.

Also see their perspective on the app design process. I’m thinking I should follow that approach a bit more closely.

Touchlytics is out!

June 3rd, 2009  |  Published in Random, iPhone

Finally got it finished! Check out http://www.touchlyticsapp.com for more.

No Reviews from 3.0

May 8th, 2009  |  Published in Apple, Rants, iPhone

Neven Morgan mentions something that I’ve been frustrated about: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/105182933/no-reviews-from-betas Read the rest of this entry »

Raising the Bar

April 13th, 2009  |  Published in Rants, iPhone

The quality of many apps on the AppStore suck. There, I said it. Read the rest of this entry »

Touchlytics

February 20th, 2009  |  Published in Random, iPhone

I’m still churning away on it, but you can check out my latest project: Touchlytics.

More to come.

AddressBook data validation

January 24th, 2009  |  Published in iPhone

I’ve been battling an issue with some code I wrote: an odd bug where the client’s iPhone wouldn’t display all of the contacts on their device when they were testing it.

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Weightbot for iPhone

December 5th, 2008  |  Published in iPhone

This is an amazing app for design inspiration on an iPhone app. Most designers and programmers aren’t skilled with UX work, so I usually try to steer clients towards using standard controls if they aren’t skilled designers. But this app just made my jaw drop: http://tapbots.com/weightbot. I’m looking forward to seeing what else they come up with.

iPhone printable paper prototypes

September 24th, 2008  |  Published in iPhone

I’ve made this very useful tool, and wanted to share it with others out there (I think it was Craig Hockenberry who had made a similar one at some point, but I can’t find the link, so I made my own):

iPhone printable Paper prototype template (56 kb, PDF)

Print as many as you want, but please give me credit if you link/repost, and keep my logo on there. I’ll improve it with other cutouts when I get the chance. There’s no status bar or other items, in case you want to draw a fullscreen game or something. Make sure you print it at 100% size, to get the actual size of the iPhone screen.

Let me know what you come up with. :)