Stanford CS193P - Designing for iPad
- 1. Designing for iPad Evan Doll
- 2. Who am I? • Evan Doll • Former Apple employee • 3 years on iPhone • Co-taught CS193P
- 3. Who am I? • Not an Apple employee • Waiting in line outside the Apple Store just like you
- 4. Today • How iPad changes everything • Where does it fit? • Designing great apps
- 5. Remember I am not an Apple employee!
- 6. First Things First • I don’t know any iPad secrets • No SDK discussion today
- 9. “Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.” - Alan Kay http://bit.ly/dAXgsQ
- 10. News Flash: Computers are still too complicated
- 11. Those who design & build computers are most likely to forget this
- 13. Hackers Bloggers Tech columnists You
- 14. Keep this in mind when evaluating new technology
- 15. What’s wrong with the status quo?
- 16. Files
- 17. “On Mac OS X, the /System/Library/ folder... contains over 90,000 items, not one of which a typical user should ever need to see or touch.” - John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/the_tablet
- 18. My mom has ~100 files on her desktop
- 19. Mouse
- 20. Geeks still argue about 1-button vs. 2-button mice
- 22. The mouse is a bug, not a feature
- 23. Your Stanford C.S. Degree
- 24. To your family, this still means “tech support”
- 25. Not just a generation gap
- 26. Opportunity to fundamentally rethink computing
- 27. Where does it fit?
- 29. While driving At a restaurant During the opera
- 30. While driving At a restaurant During the opera
- 35. Laptops and iPhones are often antisocial
- 36. iPad is more inviting and shareable
- 43. Multiple Touches
- 44. Room for two (or more) hands
- 47. (My) Three Rules
- 48. 1. It’s not an iPhone 2. Don’t break the flow 3. Make it feel real
- 49. 1. It’s not an iPhone
- 50. “It’s just a big iPod touch!” - Someone on the Internet
- 51. Hardware? Maybe. Software? NO!
- 52. Don’t just recompile your iPhone app
- 53. Apps that do this will not be well-received
- 54. 2. Don’t break the flow
- 55. “One view onscreen” no longer the only way
- 58. Use split views
- 60. Don’t abuse it
- 61. Use popovers for modal content
- 63. Full-screen transitions can be disorienting on a large display
- 64. 3. Make it feel real
- 68. Postage Classics ConvertBot
- 71. Animations!
- 72. Not just eye candy
- 73. Help user to build a mental map of your app
- 75. Read the Human Interface Guidelines
- 76. Work with a great designer
- 77. 4x the pixels = 4x the ugly
- 78. Performance is a BIG DEAL
- 79. Test on a real iPad for performance and usability
- 80. Build a paper iPad http://mashable.com/2010/02/08/paper-ipad/
- 81. Reading List • http://flyosity.com/ipad/the-ipad- is-for-everyone-but-us.php • http://joehewitt.com/post/ipad/ • http://www.tomloverro.com/ 2010/02/06/ipad-analysis- history-repeats-itself/
- 82. In summary...
- 83. New platforms don’t come along often
- 84. We are living in exciting times
- 85. The possibilities are endless
- 86. Go forth & develop!