ITT 2014 - Orta Therox- Mobile and the Art world

When Artsy released a mobile app we had to re-think how we could translate an ever changing web experience into something small and beautiful. We built it with a tight time-frame, a small team and a collection of ever changing specs and iOS betas. Orta discuses the ways that they dealt with the aftermath of 3 months sprinting, and 2 months cleanup before another release could happen. How we built the mobile Artsy website simultaneously so that there was always a backup. And finally where the app is now, and how both visually and architecturally the app is changing to slowly become as elegant as the works presented inside it.

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1. Getting Eigen Out April 28, 2014 | Orta Therox @orta
2. The Objective-C Dependency Manager
3. WWDC iOS7
4. What is Artsy? The start-up Art.sy aims to do for visual art what Pandora did for music: become a source of discovery, pleasure and education.” “
5. Bright/Vivid Human figure Black & White Patterns Highly Detailed Monochromatic Flatness Landscape
10. 4 types of mobile experience • I know what I'm looking for
11. 4 types of mobile experience • I've got free time, entertain me
12. 4 types of mobile experience • I've got a rough idea what I'm looking for
13. 4 types of mobile experience • I want to get alerts about things happening
14. Hybrid Application • Don’t try to be everything
15. Process
16. Release Process Regular Daily Betas External QA Team
19. Things we learned
20. View Controllers One controller to show artworks Many layouts
21. Reveal
22. Social Media Login First
23. CocoaPods
24. In App Routing
26. Dev Mode View Controllers Caption Text
27. Dev Mode View Controllers
28. Debug Menu Easy access to build settings Lab settings for development tests Offline mode
29. Debug Menu Easy access to build settings Lab settings for development tests Offline mode
30. Post Release
31. ASCII
32. ORStackView
33. ORStackView
34. Caption Text LOTS OF STACKVIEWS
35. Testing
36. Books
37. Continuous Integration
38. Tests target 'Artsy Tests', :exclusive => true do pod 'Specta', '~> 0.2.1' pod 'Expecta', '~> 0.2.3' pod 'OCMock', '~> 2.2.2' pod 'OHHTTPStubs', '~> 3.0.4’ ! pod 'FBSnapshotTestCase', '1.1' pod 'EXPMatchers+FBSnapshotTest', :head pod 'XCTest+OHHTTPStubSuiteCleanUp' end
39. View Controller Tests
40. View Controller Tests
41. View Controller Tests for Non-Trivial Interactions
42. THANKS @orta
43. Q&A Design / Release / Lessons / Post Release / Testing / Sneaky CocoaPods Questions @orta