Learn Design for iOS Development

✍ Scribed by Sian Morson (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn Design for iOS Development is for you if you're an iOS developer and you want to design your own apps to look great and be in tune with the latest Apple guidelines. You'll learn how to design your apps to work with the exciting new iOS 7 look and feel, which your users expect within their latest apps.

Learn Design for iOS Development guides you through the design processes that you can apply to design your own apps brilliantly. We'll start at the idea stages of your apps, and you'll see how you can analyze and apply the right design patterns for every app you are coding, use wireframing tools to take your ideas forward, and use Photoshop to create the visual assets you want to look great in your app.

You'll understand why Apple have made the decisions they've made with the new iOS 7 interface and new HIG guidelines, and from that insight you'll be able to vision and create your own apps, on iPhones and iPads, that work perfectly within the new iOS 7 interface.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
So You’ve Got an Idea for an iPhone App, Now What?....Pages 1-8
iOS: What You Need to Know....Pages 9-28
iOS 7 and Flat Design....Pages 29-38
Getting to Know the User Interface of the iPhone and iPad Design Considerations....Pages 39-54
Mobile Design Patterns....Pages 55-67
Using Wireframes to Design Your App....Pages 69-84
Designing Your Visual Assets with Adobe Photoshop....Pages 85-102
Creating Your App Icon and Additional Graphics for the App Store....Pages 103-112
Finalizing Your Assets for App Development....Pages 113-125
Design Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid....Pages 127-132
Back Matter....Pages 133-136

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction