Monday, August 30, 2010

In class notes - Final Project App notes

http://www.supercook.com/

Productivity
Utility
Immersive

+Views content regions:
View Types: 
-Status bar (a descreet bar that shows you stats about the device like battery, wifi connection strength)
if you make it disappear then you need to make a way to bring it back




-Navigation Bar - title




kinda like bread crumbs but backwards
 try not to have too many controls so that you loose your title
When designing try not to go deep but make more of a flat heirarchy

-Tool/Tab


shows the tasks at the bottom, what you can do these photos


tasks


this is when you have more to show then what will fit

so if you hit "more" than this is what you would see



Controls - graphic objects

Alerts
Modal Views


Action Sheets - make sure to make negative or undo actions red
action-sheet




When you are in ordinary content display mode your content is usually expressed in lists and tables:
simple list
section list
showing some icons
table view


The number of screens
(web pages are designed hierarchically as opposed to mobile apps)





more images



320 X 480

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For target audiance /profile
 (identified by google)
1. Casual Surfer
2. Repeat Visitor
3. Urgetn, Now!  (like when you are shopping an you immediately need a certain product or store app)


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Check out  :  http://mobiforge.com/emulators/page/mobile-emulators
emulators for how it will look in a certain phone

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free icon generator sites:
http://www.dingbatpages.com/

http://iconpot.com/
http://www.famfamfam.com/
**** free icon sets for mobile development:
http://speckyboy.com/
here  ----  http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/08/14-free-mobile-app-development-icon-sets/

 READ this: article

 different types of interfaces : article from smashing mag

1 comment:

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