Major 🔑s to iOS Design

They don’t want you to make a great app, so what are we going to do? Make great apps.

Before you fire up Xcode, you have to figure out how the pieces are going to fit together. Come with me on the path to great apps with the major 🔑s to iOS design. In this session we will take a look at how to start well, how to steal like an artist, how to overcome design block, and how to keep improving your skills.

Here is a Medium post with all of the links to the apps, resources, and articles mentioned in the talk: https://medium.com/@tyburg/major-s-to-ios-design-links-28cdf0afee01

Transcript

1. Major s to iOS Design 360|iDev 2016 Tyler Burgett @tyburg
2. Who is this guy? •Lives in Denver •Works at BIT Systems •Does Research and DevOps
5. Do you have to have a “beautiful” app with intuitive UI for it to be successful?
9. Starting well
10. for foodtrucks.
17. Start with real data
18. Real data? •API •From a sensor •Photos from a real device
22. Draw it first
25. Put it on a phone
26. Lots of options •Your favorite cloud service •Sketch mirror •Marvel or POP
28. Don’t reinvent the wheel
34. Know the ingredients
37. –Jim Gaffagin “Is this that hard to follow? It’s all the same!”
38. Bars
 Views
 Controls
48. Now you try
49. What about custom actions?
54. Custom components •Save people from themselves •Add a shortcut for power users •Make your critical path very obvious
55. Stealing like an artist
60. Remember: no one else is solving your problem
61. 5280 Airlines
66. DEN F I T
72. When looking at other apps • What are you building? • What else is being done in that space? • What you would leave behind?
73. Beating Design Block
74. Murder your darlings
75. Look at crazy concepts
80. Make something ugly
82. Leveling up
83. Learn to write
85. Be helpful •“Loading…” can be a missed opportunity •A great time for pro-tips
86. Tell them what they can do •No one wants to “submit a form” •Sweeten the deal
87. Show some personality •Play to your audience •Know when to be serious •A must for chat bot apps
88. Read
89. Currently reading
91. Study the masters
94. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
95. Thank you! @tyburg
96. Questions?