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iPhone App Design: When and How to Use Alerts

By joshclark : 22 October 2010 - 10:43 AM
An alert is an app's emergency brake. It's the blue box that pops up in the middle of the screen, stops the action, and makes an announcement. Like a modal view or action sheet, an a...
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iPhone App Design: When an Awkward Interface Makes Sense

By joshclark : 08 October 2010 - 03:16 PM
Awkward isn't always bad. The ease and sensitivity of touchscreen interfaces can also work against you. When it's too easy to trigger an action, mishaps ensue. Unlocked phones fire off surpris...
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Using Interface Metaphors to Improve Your iPhone App Design

By joshclark : 27 September 2010 - 01:37 PM
Just as spoken metaphors provide expressive shortcuts in language (your husband is a peach, my computer is a dog, our boss is a monster), graphical interfaces use visual metaphors to quickly explain t...
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Mobile Site Design Best Practices

By Maximiliano Firtman : 30 August 2010 - 03:22 PM
When you are creating a mobile version of an existing desktop website, you need to understand that you are mobilizing the website, not minimizing it. Minimizing (or miniaturizing) a desktop website si...
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How to Include Search in Your iPhone App Design

By joshclark : 30 August 2010 - 10:30 AM
The final ribbon of standard interface chrome is the seek-and-you-shall-find search bar. If your app manages or accesses big collections of info, your audience will clamor for a way to search it. The ...
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How to Denote Site Navigation with HTML5

By chco : 14 August 2010 - 05:45 PM
The following excerpt from HTML5: Up and Running is a brief look at adjusting web navigation with HTML5 to better use its new capabilities.One of the most important parts of any website is the navigat...
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The Importance of Storyboarding Your iPhone App

By joshclark : 13 August 2010 - 10:16 AM
Before you build, diagram your app's flow of screens, like a movie director preparing storyboard sketches for every scene of a shoot. Make sure that you have clean, untangled lines through your hi...
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How to Make Use of the Tab Bar in Your iPhone App

By joshclark : 09 August 2010 - 01:56 PM
The tab bar is a dock of buttons anchored at screen bottom, giving your audience a menu of options to choose from. The result is a tidily categorized app, with its primary features explicitly listed a...
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Navigation Tips for Your Mobile Website

By Maximiliano Firtman : 02 August 2010 - 02:14 PM
When creating your mobile web concept, before you do any coding you should define what will be in the navigation tree for the user. To do that, you need to understand what services and information wil...
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Designing iPhone Apps: The Rule of Thumb

By joshclark : 23 July 2010 - 11:48 AM
Thumbs are marvelous. It's our thumbs, along with our affection for celebrity gossip, that separate us from the beasts, but they do have limited range and flexibility. While a thumb can manage to ...
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Topics: ui

iPhone App Design: When and How to Use Alerts

iPhone App Design: When an Awkward Interface Makes Sense

Using Interface Metaphors to Improve Your iPhone App Design

Mobile Site Design Best Practices

How to Include Search in Your iPhone App Design

How to Denote Site Navigation with HTML5

The Importance of Storyboarding Your iPhone App

How to Make Use of the Tab Bar in Your iPhone App

Navigation Tips for Your Mobile Website

Designing iPhone Apps: The Rule of Thumb