Posts tagged Design
Standard iPhone Element Sizes
Jul 22nd
Great quick reference for Standard iPhone Element Sizes at Jonathan George’s site.
The Best Interface Builder Layout Ever
Jul 7th
This morning I posted a screenshot of my Interface Builder layout on Twitter. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I received enough positive feedback on it that I decided to post it here for generations of future Cocoa developers to find. The layout gets harder to work with the smaller your screen gets, but it works very well on my 24″ display. Another tip for working well with IB: keep it in it’s own space and don’t let other apps invade that space. I find that when I can concentrate just on my IB windows without having to mentally block out background windows it makes my workflow much smoother.
The $300 Million Button
Feb 13th
I am continually amazed how some of the most basic design changes can have profound results.
It’s hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.
I was blown away by the revelation that of the 160,000 people that were requesting lost passwords every day only 25% of those people ever came back to complete their order.
Getting Real: There's Nothing Functional about a Functional Spec
Feb 11th
Some fantastic reality imparted by 37signals.com:
So what should you do in place of a spec? Go with a briefer alternative that moves you toward something real. Write a one page story about what the app needs to do. Use plain language and make it quick. If it takes more than a page to explain it, then it’s too complex. This process shouldn’t take more than one day.
Getting Real: There’s Nothing Functional about a Functional Spec (by 37signals).
