Applications. Apple. iOS and Android Design Guidelines Cheat Sheet | Kinvey Mobile Backend as a Service. iOS 7 Human Interface Guidelines. User Interface. Design. 10 things designers need to know about iOS 7 | Apple. Apple has long been criticised for the slightly haphazard approach it's taken to the user interface design of its apps, and the iOS platform in general. Some apps have featured heavily skeuomorphic design, while others have been purely functional with little or no design flourish. Yesterday, though, that all changed. At its annual developers conference, WWDC, Apple introduced an all-new design language for iOS 7, eschewing the pseudo-3D patent-leather, wood and felt in favour of a clean approach that’s typography-led and heavily (although not exclusively) influenced by flat design.
This shift in approach is a game changer to designers responsible for crafting iOS app interfaces. We’ve scoured Apple’s Transition Guide and picked out the 10 most important considerations for designers. Read all our app design-related articles here 01. One of the most important changes in iOS 7 for interface designers is the introduction of transparency and translucency. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. The iOS 7 Design Cheat Sheet - Ivo Mynttinen / User Interface Designer. Designing Great Apps. UIKit User Interface Catalog: About Views. Views are the building blocks for constructing your user interface.
Rather than using one view to present your content, you are more likely to use several views, ranging from simple buttons and text labels to more complex views such as table views, picker views, and scroll views. Each view represents a particular portion of your user interface and is generally optimized for a specific type of content. By building view upon view, you get a view hierarchy. Purpose. Views allow users to: Experience app content Navigate within an app Implementation. Configuration. Content of Views All views in UIKit are subclasses of the base class UIView. Use the Mode (contentMode) field to specify how a view lays out its content when its bounds change. The Tag (tag) field serves as an integer that you can use to identify view objects in your app. Behavior of Views Views have a number of properties related to drawing behavior: The Opaque (opaque) checkbox tells the drawing system how it should treat the view.
iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Designing for iOS 7.