Animating Around the iOS Keyboard

My recent post gave an introduction to iOS animation, showing how to move elements around the screen. This time, I’ll show you how to animate view elements in response to the keyboard appearing and disappearing. We’ll pretend we’re working on a photo-sharing app that has a text field to enter the photo’s description into. Unfortunately, […]

ReactiveCocoa & Complex User Interfaces

ReactiveCocoa is an FRP framework written for Objective-C that makes it easy to observe, compose, and transform values. Recently, I had an opportunity to truly leverage the power of ReactiveCocoa when I found myself facing a complex user interface that took a multitude of inputs from the user. The Problem The UI we were developing […]

Don’t Base Your UI on Your Database Design

Don’t base your user interface design off of your database design. Your users won’t like it. That sounds like a silly, obvious platitude, but I’ve seen these sorts of designs much more often than I expect. When your database has one table for users, one for groups, and one for companies, it’s an easy and […]

UX Lessons from Ford’s MyFord Touch Fiasco

Earlier this summer, it was announced that in response to customer feedback, Ford is bringing back buttons to its MyTouch in-car infotainment system. My response: Well, Duh. I’ve written previously about about my appreciation for Ford’s UI design, featuring my ’01 F150 pickup. Since then, I have traded in my old truck for its younger, […]

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Animating Around the iOS Keyboard

ReactiveCocoa & Complex User Interfaces

Don’t Base Your UI on Your Database Design

UX Lessons from Ford’s MyFord Touch Fiasco