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Every Phone Looks Like The iPhone
Before the iPhone came out, phones looked like this: Different shapes and sizes. Flip phones and sliders. Candybars and decks of cards. Lots of hardware buttons. A hundred takes on the D-pad. A small screen (or two). This…
February 12 2011, 10:42am | Comments »
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Kill The Settings, Build Opinionated Software
Your app has too many settings, too many things to tweak. API endpoints? Colors of the rainbow? 100 different fonts and font sizes? Temperature in Kelvin? Switch the app to use Esperanto? Kill the settings, kill them all.…
June 9 2010, 2:54pm | Comments »
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Ten from 2010: App Store Beauties Prettying up our iPhones
Our last roundup included the best designed apps of the year 2009. Well 2010 is almost finishing its first quarter, and we already have a few apps showcasing some amazing work. Time to dig in… Here, File File!…
March 15 2010, 6:08am | Comments »
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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects…
December 30 2009, 1:54pm | Comments »
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For the past two years, the elegant iPhone has housed some of the most poorly designed applications you could imagine. The hype surrounding iPhone has prompted many designers across the globe to try their skills with the…
October 9 2009, 5:57am | Comments »
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Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone
Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to mobile applications as well. In…
September 27 2009, 1:42am | Comments »
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How to Create Your First iPhone Application
What if you had a nickle for every time you heard: "I have the perfect idea for a great application!"? It’s the buzz on the street. The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both…
August 11 2009, 4:46am | Comments »
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iPhone Application UI Design Patterns
Update: Changed the blog entry title to reduce confusion. The iPhone is one big constraint — no keyboard, small screen, few buttons — so designing applications for the iPhone is an exercise in building smart, simple software. Bloated…
July 21 2009, 1:15am | Comments »
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