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Designing the iPhone User Experience: A User-Centered Approach to Sketching and Prototyping iPhone Apps
Given the fiercely competitive state of the iPhone app landscape, it has become increasingly challenging for app designers and developers to differentiate their apps. The days are long gone when it was possible to crank out an app over the weekend and refine it after receiving a few not so flattering user reviews. Users now have choices -- lots of them. If your app is difficult to use or doesn't meet their needs, finding another one is just a tap away.
To illustrate, consider the ever-growing field of Twitter clients. There are hundreds of variations in the App Store but only a handful stand out from the pack (such as Tweetie or Twitterific). For most apps, it boils down to one the user experience. The same is true for countless other categories within the App Store; well-designed apps are more likely to attract and retain users. Of course there are other critical aspects of iPhone app the coding, the marketing, the customer support. All of the elements must come together.
Designing the iPhone User Experience will help you tackle the user experience part of the iPhone challenge. Three key themes will be reinforced throughout the Know thy user, the Design Lifecycle, and Attention to
Mastering these three areas will help set your app apart from the crowd. You may not have an award-winning app over night. But knowing your users, iterative design, and attention to detail are important first steps.
To illustrate, consider the ever-growing field of Twitter clients. There are hundreds of variations in the App Store but only a handful stand out from the pack (such as Tweetie or Twitterific). For most apps, it boils down to one the user experience. The same is true for countless other categories within the App Store; well-designed apps are more likely to attract and retain users. Of course there are other critical aspects of iPhone app the coding, the marketing, the customer support. All of the elements must come together.
Designing the iPhone User Experience will help you tackle the user experience part of the iPhone challenge. Three key themes will be reinforced throughout the Know thy user, the Design Lifecycle, and Attention to
Mastering these three areas will help set your app apart from the crowd. You may not have an award-winning app over night. But knowing your users, iterative design, and attention to detail are important first steps.
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293 pages, Paperback
First published August 12, 2010
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August 17, 2014
While this does focus on device design, the case studies & design process described in this book are of incredible value to any designer. While teaching a User Experience class, I would have loved to make this the course textboook. It's an engaging playbook for designers, has plenty of photos to illustrate the author's methods and ideas, and discusses process in an extremely readable and practical way.
November 25, 2010
Great book, worth the read if you are looking to approach iPhone development in a methodical and systematic way.
February 9, 2014
Love to read real cases and structured contents.
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