They don’t want you to make a great app, so what are we going to do? Make great apps. Before you fire up Xcode, you have to figure out how the pieces are going to fit together. Come with me on the path to great apps with the major s to iOS design. In this session we will take a look at how to start well, how to steal like an artist, how to overcome design block, and how to keep improving your skills.

1. Major 🔑s to iOS Design
360|iDev 2016
Tyler Burgett
@tyburg

2. Who is this guy?
•Lives in Denver
•Works at BIT Systems
•Does Research and DevOps

3. 😞😏

5. Do you have to have a “beautiful” app
with intuitive UI for it to be successful?

9. Starting well

10. for foodtrucks.

16. 😕

17. 🔑 Start with real data

18. Real data?
•API
•From a sensor
•Photos from a real device

22. 🔑 Draw it first

25. 🔑 Put it on a phone

26. Lots of options
•Your favorite cloud service
•Sketch mirror
•Marvel or POP

28. 🔑 Don’t reinvent the wheel

34. 🔑 Know the ingredients

37. –Jim Gaffagin
“Is this that hard to follow?
It’s all the same!”

38. Bars
Views
Controls

48. Now you try

49. What about custom actions?

54. Custom components
•Save people from themselves
•Add a shortcut for power users
•Make your critical path very obvious

55. Stealing like an artist

60. 🔑 Remember: no one else is solving
your problem

61. 5280 Airlines

66. DEN
F I T

72. When looking at other apps
• What are you building?
• What else is being done in that space?
• What you would leave behind?

73. Beating Design Block

74. 🔑 Murder your darlings

75. 🔑 Look at crazy concepts

80. 🔑 Make something ugly

82. Leveling up

83. 🔑 Learn to write

85. Be helpful
•“Loading…” can
be a missed
opportunity
•A great time for
pro-tips

86. Tell them what they can do
•No one wants to
“submit a form”
•Sweeten the deal

87. Show some personality
•Play to your audience
•Know when to be serious
•A must for chat bot apps

88. 🔑 Read

89. Currently reading

91. 🔑 Study the masters

94. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

95. Thank you!
@tyburg

96. Questions?