IOS design: a case study | Hacker News Reader

IOS design: a case study

slideshare.net

153 pointsWolfr21 comments

A little off-topic, but HN gets so many slideshows posted so I have to ask this: Why don't any of these slide sharing services have a decent "all on one page" option, or a powerpoint-style outline view? (this one has some SEO-text of all the slides at the bottom, but it's not very readable) I really hate clicking next-next-next through individual slides that are pointless when you don't have a presenter talking.

The SEO text is auto generated by Slideshare. Download the PDF and things should be easier to skim. I try to make my presentations make sense online by using "sticky notes". But you certainly have a point.

BTW, thanks a lot for the sticky notes - I was fearing another very carefully designed presentation with few words that works for the actual audience, but not an individual reader. If not as a video recording of the presentation (- Google bought this amazing startup that allowed embeds of the presentation slides and video synced up in adjacent windows), this is how all presentations should be posted.

I think it depends on individual preferences. I don't have any problems with slides. In fact i loved all your slides. It has actually inspired me to make my own slides. Its a good break from reading regular blog posts.

I think its nice of you to make a pdf available as well. This way everyone should be happy.

I question whether it makes sense to implement custom UI with transparent PNGs like the slideshow describes. It's pretty tough to get it exactly right, and that approach leads to a lot of interfaces that look a bit off.

On iOS, with some drawing code you can build custom table cells that are more flexible, are easy to reuse and look exactly right.

(Kudos to the author by the way -- the design methodology in this presentation looks really good).

I think that's why the author stressed to think long and hard before you try customizing - it's really hard to do it right. Even with custom drawing code it's not much easier IMO.

This is really fantastic. I've passed it along to the all the designers I work with, and will certainly be using some of the resources you reference.

A very small suggestion - when you mention various design resources it would be great to just put parenthetically whether they are free or not. For those of us who are not professionals but like to play around it would save a number of clicks. Thanks for the great presentation, and I love the sticky note format!

Most of the resources mentioned are free, somebody on Twitter suggested I make a blog post about all the resources since that is an easier format, keep an eye on the blog. (wolfslittlestore.be/journal)

See http://wolfslittlestore.be/2012/03/28/ios-design-resources/

Thanks for sharing..I went through all 110 slides, even though I started out meaning to see only the first few.

Thanks for all the killer links in here - I got a bunch of useful tools (rotated iPhone image template) that I didn't know about out of it.

Didn't open on my iPhone. :( O, the irony!

I thought Slideshare switched all their presentations to HTML from Flash... apparently not.

I tried to view this in Safari (with no Flash installed) using the default user agent and iPad user agent and neither worked. :(

Here is the direct PDF download link for the people who don't want to have Flash on their machine: http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/ios-design-a-case-study/down...

Most of my presentations work on the iPhone, this one is 1920x1080 ("HD"), that might have something to do with it.

I will recommend this to everyone I know that works with iOS in some capacity. What a great resource! Thanks!

Thanks for this presentation. I passed it along to our team's designer. Definitely provided clarity for us on how to go from design to development. For example, we weren't sure if it would be best to use images for the backgrounds of tableview cells and buttons or to use iOS coloring.

This presentation delivers some insights on the whole process of creating an iPhone app from scratch to finish.

Thanks for sharing, this, it's incredibly helpful for the design challenged developer like me.

Is that just me or Svbtle looks a lot like Wolfr's website?

Don't be so Obtvse. ;)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com