Harakiri design

Avoid this in iPhone apps

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1. harakiri design Josef Richter Avoid these repeating flaws. They can kill the app.
2. No dashboards (Android thing)
3. No hints. If you need them, you’re doing it wrong.
4. Don’t misuse standard UI elements. Pagination here shouldn’t mimic tabbar.
5. Refresh buttons usually not needed. Pull-to-refresh has grown to widely understood de-facto standard.
6. Don’t let users configure everything (changing items on tabbar here). It’s your task to make it “right”, so no alibism...
7. App should never start with config.
8. Don’t misuse standard UI. Garbage on navigation bar.
9. Be consistent. Can’t use different fonts and colors on each screen.
10. Use common sense. Utterly stupid date format here. Also invest into quality and consistent iconset.
11. Not reading HIG is rude and arrogant. Everything wrong in this app.
12. Avoid these help pages. If you can’t help yourself, at least avoid having it blurred, unreadable and poorly designed.
13. HIG dribbble.com/tags/iphone p rns.com Read HIG!!! Don’t “invent” miracle UI, until you’ve mastered HIG. Copy existing apps (the good ones).