If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it
Clear, Rise and Solar are three examples of a trend of “gesture driven” apps with a flat UI. These are novelty apps for people lusting for the very latest in app design. Besides using a more flat UI style, which is a topic for a different discussion, all apps contain non-standard interactions. This means users don’t know how to use them beforehand, and all start with a multi-step UI walkthrough before you get to use the app. (more…)
Design Mistakes We Made in Our iPhone App
Getting things wrong is inevitable when designing a complex user experience like a mobile app. That’s especially true when you’ve never done it before. As logical as your wireframes may seem, or as beautiful as your mock-ups may look, some of your designs are going to fail when you put them in front of customers. (more…)
8 Ways To Design A Beautiful, Useful App, From The Co-Founder Of Instagram
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger recently spoke at a 500Startups event. He shared eight ways to design a beautiful, functional app. Here are his tips via The Next Web's Ken Yeung, who was there taking notes... (more…)
Report: Over 1 Million Apps Have Been Submitted to iOS App Store
Mobile app development hit a major milestone today when Apple accepted its one-millionth — yes, one-millionth — app for sale in the App Store, further underscoring Cupertino’s lead in the apps space. Yes, the number of apps accepted differs from the number of apps available in the App Store, since not every application can stick it out over the long haul. (more…)
28 Examples of iPhone App User Interfaces
Attractive and interactive user interface designs are all the rage for smartphone, tablet and other tech savvy device users, therefore the appearance of an application is of utmost importance when it comes to how popular it is going to be. The more well designed, interactive and simple to use an app’s user interface design is, (more…)
Mobile app development: 94% of software developers bet on HTML5 winning
A few months ago when Facebook admitted defeat and went native with its iOS app, some thought it was a death-knell for HTML5. But most of the 4,034 developers in a recent survey disagree — vehemently. (more…)
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