Mobile Design | Mobiletuts+ iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display) Thanks for you patience on this one. It took a good deal longer to complete given the sheer size and level of detail the retina display has. It wasn’t a simple scale-up from the last file. It was clear as we created it that Apple has spent a lot of time considering how each element should be translated to such a dense resolution. What were single pixel elements are now two or three pixels thick and effects are exaggerated to become visible.
For anyone designing for the retina display (640 x 960) it really is quite a different experience. When you work at 100% everything seems absolutely huge but small details get lost when viewing it on the device. The file is huge, both in file size (62.7MB) and dimension (4074 x 2986). Pay whatcha’ like We’ve always just created this file for ourselves and shared it freely. Download PSD (Retina Display) License: This file may ONLY be used for mocking up iPhone apps. 10 Tips For Android UI Design. This is a guest post by Guenther Beyer, an Android UI and Design expert who recently launched AndroidIcons.com to help developers improve the look and feel of their apps.
These days many developers are jumping on the mobile train for fame and fortune – and they are right in doing so – there isn’t a market growing as quickly. Great, unique ideas are emerging from small teams. Apps are built at work on lunch breaks. Sooner or later every development cycle gets to the point where the app is almost done. 1. Good websites and mobile apps have quite some similarities. At first launch, everybody will have the same three questions on their mind: Where am I?
Try to answer these questions instantly. Gowalla has a beautiful first start experience. 2. Think for a moment about how you really use your mobile device: a developer’s phone is safely sitting in its dock on a plain table, connected to a PC with a large keyboard, probably with full backlight turned on. 3. 4. Waiting is always annoying. 5. 6. App-bits.com | Slick user interface and icon design. 30 Gorgeous iPhone App Interfaces & Icons.
With over 100,000+ apps in the App Store, and the numbers growing fast, it’s much harder to make an impact on iPhone users in the iTunes store. Some mobile designers are spending more time designing high quality looking applications to create buzz and get recognition for their work. Here is a list of 30 apps that are well-designed and worth their purchase from their exceptional design skills and zealous attention to detail. If you love good design, beware – you may end up spending a few dollars if you read on! Pastebot Pastebot is the easiest way to manage your clipboard clippings on your iPhone. Tapbots.com | App Store Link Pastebot Awesome Note Awesome Note goes above and beyond the default notes application on the iPhone. Bridworks.com | App Store Link Awesome Note Convert Convert took other complex converters by storm by under doing the competition and making conversions function simple like a calculator.
Taptaptap.com | App Store Link Convert Air Mouse Pro mobileairmouse.com | App Store Link. Android UI Design Patterns: 5 tips for converting iOS UI to Android. Making your app look like it belongs into an Android phone Many companies are converting their iOS apps to Android nowadays. However, simple one-to-one conversion of the UI might cause problems to the potential users.
I don't believe that inter-platform consistency between an app's different versions is as important than consistency between apps on a single platform. Not many users use multiple different phones at the same time. This post describes five simple rules how an iOS app can be made to fit into the growing Android app crowd. 1. Use top tabs Google recommends that tabs in Android apps placed on top part of the UI instead of the very bottom. On the left: iOS version. 2. All Android devices are required to have a back button and user's have used in using it. Don't do this: 3. Android platform provides icons for most common actions. On the left: Wrong. 4. One of the most powerful features of Android platform is the intent API. On the left: Wrong. 5. Conclusion.