iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011 Rome

1. iOS 5 Tech Talk Kickoff

• State of the art application• Take advantage of the new technologies• Applications that change the industry• Post PC era:

• air play • iCloud

• Cool applications:• enjoying• personality• disruptive apps (innovation that help to create new market and value network)

• have impact• change things• start trends• entertain better• teach better• re-imagine• re-think• inspire

• Localize • Stay hungry:

• Push for excellence• Stop holding back. Move things forward• Work hard. Be creative. Exceed expectations.• Don't settle for the status quo.• Write the next generation of your app on iOS 5.

Alexandru Terente iOS Developer @ Toolani G.m.balexandru.terente@toolani.com

1. iOS 5 Tech Talk Kickoff

Example applications:• Dejay for iPhone • Asphalt 5 • Where's My Water • Jeppesen Aviation iPad • Bobo Explores Light • Golf range finder• The early edition 2 iPad :

• core text• core animation• attention to details

2. iPhone and iPad User Interface Design

• Tell a great story

• What app do?

• Who are the users?

• Where they will use it?

• How the app will feel?

• Look beautiful!

• Define style of your application:

• What components does it have?

• What is the type of the app?

Entertainment Utility

• Utility apps:

• useful

• enable to do something

• new technologies

• efficiency

• In and Out of the app as fast as possible

Alexandru Terente iOS Developer @ Toolani G.m.balexandru.terente@toolani.com

• Reliable

• Fun UI

• Photos and Videos:

• fill the screen

• allow portrait and landscape

• pinch and zoom

• hide controls on top of the screen

• hide iOS status bar

• Reduce visual noise!

• Large data sets:

• readability

• focus on a single line

• remove zig zag effect

• minimum font size 13px

• make navigation easy and intuitive

• line every thing up

• make great visual design

• pay attention to each element

• beautiful on small data

• consistent with typography

• design UI for each device

• Define app style

• Focus on touch experience

• Use gestures:

• allow direct manipulation

• finger tracking

• visual indicators

• use page controls

• Use non integrals rows in table (cut last row)

Alexandru Terente iOS Developer @ Toolani G.m.balexandru.terente@toolani.com

2. iPhone and iPad User Interface Design

• Don't hide functionality

• UI Touch centric

• Make fun experience for user

• Put accent on stars

• Engage users

• Use animations:

• to smooth transition

• make the app feel fast

• load immediately the present progress indicators

• be creative

• focus on animations not on alerts

• Focus:

• on the right thing

• determining what is essential

• response from the users

• Quality:

• look nice then add new features (firs impression counts)

• polish all look and feelings from lunch then add new features

• Prototype and Iterate:

• use easy tools (Keynote)

• test UI on real device

• use photo stream to load images on device

• Great app Icon design:

• must be recognizable

• must be recognizable in folders

Alexandru Terente iOS Developer @ Toolani G.m.balexandru.terente@toolani.com

• Always ask if it is Apple quality?

• polish till feels like Apple product

• Tell a great story!

Example applications:• Björk • Zen Bound 2 • Our Choice • StockTouch

Alexandru Terente iOS Developer @ Toolani G.m.balexandru.terente@toolani.com