When Artsy released a mobile app we had to re-think how we could translate an ever changing web experience into something small and beautiful. We built it with a tight time-frame, a small team and a collection of ever changing specs and iOS betas. Orta discuses the ways that they dealt with the aftermath of 3 months sprinting, and 2 months cleanup before another release could happen. How we built the mobile Artsy website simultaneously so that there was always a backup. And finally where the app is now, and how both visually and architecturally the app is changing to slowly become as elegant as the works presented inside it.

1. Getting Eigen Out
April 28, 2014 | Orta Therox
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2. The Objective-C Dependency Manager

3. WWDC iOS7

4. What is Artsy?
The start-up Art.sy aims to
do for visual art what
Pandora did for music:
become a source of discovery,
pleasure and education.”
“

5. Bright/Vivid
Human figure
Black & White
Patterns
Highly Detailed
Monochromatic
Flatness
Landscape

10. 4 types of mobile experience
• I know what I'm looking for

11. 4 types of mobile experience
• I've got free time, entertain me

12. 4 types of mobile experience
• I've got a rough idea what I'm looking for

13. 4 types of mobile experience
• I want to get alerts about things happening

14. Hybrid Application
• Don’t try to be everything

15. Process

16. Release Process
Regular Daily Betas
External QA Team

19. Things we learned

20. View Controllers
One controller to show
artworks
Many layouts

21. Reveal

22. Social Media Login First

23. CocoaPods

24. In App Routing

26. Dev Mode View Controllers
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27. Dev Mode View Controllers

28. Debug Menu
Easy access to build settings
Lab settings for development
tests
Offline mode

29. Debug Menu
Easy access to build settings
Lab settings for development
tests
Offline mode

30. Post Release

31. ASCII

32. ORStackView

33. ORStackView

34. Caption Text
LOTS OF STACKVIEWS

35. Testing

36. Books

37. Continuous Integration

38. Tests
target 'Artsy Tests', :exclusive => true do
pod 'Specta', '~> 0.2.1'
pod 'Expecta', '~> 0.2.3'
pod 'OCMock', '~> 2.2.2'
pod 'OHHTTPStubs', '~> 3.0.4’
!
pod 'FBSnapshotTestCase', '1.1'
pod 'EXPMatchers+FBSnapshotTest', :head
pod 'XCTest+OHHTTPStubSuiteCleanUp'
end

39. View Controller Tests

40. View Controller Tests

41. View Controller Tests for Non-Trivial Interactions

42. THANKS
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43. Q&A
Design / Release / Lessons / Post Release / Testing / Sneaky CocoaPods Questions
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