Physics, and Other Meaningless Tweaks Your Users Will Love!*

This talk covers the use of physics and similar real world effects in your applications to make them, well more physical. Despite Apple's push towards ugly design, your users still like their apps to work the way the real world works and I think deep down inside Apple knows this. There is a slew of great APIs which are rarely used to make your App a lot more real feeling. This session talks about these APIs and other options you have from both a design and developer perspective.

*User love is not guaranteed.


demo code available at: https://github.com/McJones/DevWorld2015Flick

Transcript

1. /dev/world Physics, and Other Meaningless Tweaks Your Users Will Love! Tim Nugent lonely.coffee Aug 31-Sep 1, 2015
2. Physics, and Other Meaningless Tweaks Your Users Will Love!*
3. Physics, and Other Meaningless Tweaks Your Users Will Love!* *User Love Not Guaranteed
4. Who am I?
5. PhD Student
8. Dev (mostly iOS) work
9. old school /dev/world/ guy
10. so remember < iOS 7?
11. skeuomorphs
14. Those are not skeuomorphs
18. faux leather vs the void
19. people hated it
20. but skeuomorphic UIs are better
21. why did apple change?
22. no idea…
23. people wanted bad UI
24. Apple did over do the faux- leather
25. Flat UI is easier to make an okish and similar UI
26. nonetheless we get crappy flat design
27. and crappy apps
28. not everyone sticks with this
29. Playful Interaction
30. what is playful interaction?
31. making your UI fun
32. gamification != playful
33. games have rules UI does not
34. most playful interactions are game inspired though
35. playful interaction can also work in games
36. playful interaction can make non-games feel like a game
38. Physics-based elements
40. Tiny animations
42. So many tiny moments
45. Jokes and Trivia
47. Swarm is the exception though
48. Most app UIs are still crap
49. Deep down inside I think Apple wants less crappy apps
50. Thats why they gave us a few cool tools to fix this
51. UIKit Dynamics
52. you start with dynamic items
53. UIDynamicItem = UIView
54. use behaviours to represent physical properties
55. you add items to the behaviours
56. you add behaviours to the UIDynamicAnimator
57. it takes care of the rest
59. Thanks! @The_McJones