Following up on last week’s post on my disdain for the tab bar controller, I was inspired to provide a few examples of how I would rework some existing applications to remove the tab bar and improve the user experience. I use each of the applications I am planning to highlight on a daily basis. […]
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Die You Damn, Dirty Tab Bar
The iPhone SDK makes it fairly simple to build powerful applications that can be deployed to millions of phones. Actually writing the code for the application isn’t the hard part most of the time, especially if you aren’t straying too far off of the default widget library. Where I found myself having the most issues […]
Make Your Own WWDC Badge Insert
WWDC is coming up and one of the old tricks of the trade is to insert your business card at the bottom of your badge to help further identify you. A visual representation of who you are and who you work for is usually easier to recognize than squinting at the tiny type that is […]
Mac Polish Part 3: Help!
It’s been a few weeks and I am starting to feel like writing about some polish. In our last installment of Mac Polish we discussed what constitutes a good toolbar for a Mac application. In summary: Hire a professional icon designer Use illustrative imagery Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery Today I want to […]
Mac Polish Part 2: Toolbars & Icons
In our last journey down the polishing road, I outlined what Mac polish was: Excellent UI design Drag-and-drop Keyboard access Authentic Apple Help (ie. using Help Viewer) Other little things that are always overlooked (like setting a table cell editable on insertion) I gave a few examples of these with Flying Meat Software’s VoodooPad. I […]
Mac Polish
As I mentioned in the previous post, I posted a reveiew of the digital video management application FrameVault. To sum up the review, I said the application worked as described, but that it had almost no “Mac Polish.” to it. What is Mac Polish? Here’s a few examples: Excellent UI design Drag-and-drop Keyboard access Authentic […]
Hi. I'm Justin Williams and this is my weblog. I am the crew chief of Second Gear, a purveyor of fine Mac and iOS software.
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