iOS is a mobile phone and tablet operating system built by Apple, Inc. It is a light weight touch screen OS based on the Mac OS UNIX called Darwin.
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How to edit only one list in a split list view?
I'm helping out developing an iPhone app that enables access to a lot of list items of data.
On the start screen, the user can dig into the list items through either predefined category shortcuts or ...
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Which way is better to invite your facebook friends via an IOS/Android app?
I am building a social community via an IOS and Android app, both apps are using "Post to friend wall" to invite friends to use with a direct link for the landing page of the app to download it.
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Is a popover that opens from a tab bar good practice in an iOS app?
I have an iPad tab bar app and I want a popover to open when tapping one of the tabs. Is this good practice or should I avoid it?
For example, the bottom tab bar displays the following items:
my ...
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iPhone button on screen with table view: last row or outside table?
I have a table view that's showing attributes of a record, very much like Edit Info screen in the iOS Contacts app.
Also like that screen, I'd like to show a "Delete Record" button at the bottom.
It ...
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iOS grouped or normal tableview for categories
So I have tableview where I got different categories for huge amount of items. Would it make more sense to put the categories in grouped tableview or in a normal, or does it matter at all?
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iPad UI for selecting and configuring from many available options
I've had this rattling around in my brain for the last couple days, but I can't seem to come up with a smooth UX for this.
I'm building a stock graphing application. Included are around 300ish ...
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Adopting sidebars in iOS apps
It looks like several known apps for iOS (Foursquare, Spotify) now adopt the sidebar that already was present in Facebook app (screenshot is from Spotify for iPhone):
AFAIK, this is not a standard ...
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Migrating a Tab Bar iPhone app to iPad
I have an iPhone app whose overall UI is designed like this:
That is, a tab bar and different app perspectives within each tab item, and you can navigate to different views from within a tab.
I ...
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Is it acceptable/good UX to use ios Segmented Control as a radio control?
I'm an ios developer by profession and was told of by a UX Architect for suggesting the use of the ios Segmented Control as a group of radio buttons.
We have to present a mutually exclusive choice ...
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Map with tappable neighborhoods vs. list of neighborhoods in iPhone app
I'm designing an iPhone app which gives users the option to filter by neighborhoods and I'm considering giving users the option to select neighborhoods from a list as well as by tapping on ...
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Should I hide the tab bar on iOS when I'm creating a new item?
Background
I'm building an application with a tab bar at the bottom showing two different object types - for example, buildings and trucks.
Each of these tabs shows buildings and trucks in separate ...
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iPad UI: 2-Player Multi-touch Decisions Affecting Game Play
I am working on a game project that resulted from a summer game jam session. I had the "brilliant" idea to try and port the game to the iPad and I now find that I have painted myself into a corner so ...
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Is there a standard iPhone way of displaying an actionless confirmation message?
Sometimes it's desirable to display an important confirmation message (e.g. you've successfully registered/sent this form/etc) that doesn't get in the way by requiring a "dimiss" button. Is there a ...
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Organising vehicle categories screen?
Currently working on a taxi app and need to organise the vehicles into categories. The user will need to be able to quickly select their desired vehicle while showing passengers & luggage for each ...
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What's the default rotate symbol for iOs?
What's the default rotate symbol for iOs?
Is it the second icon in this Instagram iPhone app screenshot? It doesn't look like a rotate symbol to me (more like a back or undo button).
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How to request that two out of three fields need to be populated in a mobile search app
I am developing a new iOS app and I need to let the user commit a search where three fields are shown.
a group name (development, marketing etc.)
member name
project name
the search should be ...
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Making clicks meaningful on iPad
As a web designer building a shopping cart for the iPad, I find the lack of down and click states difficult.
What's a good way without raising a confirmation pop up or something terrible and ugly to ...
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Are there some sites that look and feel like an iOS interface?
I have one specific and rather strange question. Have you heard or saw a website that was designed to look like an application for iOS (iPhone, iPad)? Do you think that's a good idea?
Note: this ...
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What UX Changes Needed For New iPhone 5 App Updates? [closed]
I am helping my team to update our iOS app to support retina display and iPhone 5.
I've read little bit of Cocoa Auto Layout, and other pages from developer.apple.com.
But my question is, if I ...
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iOS multi-step form and user input validation
I need to design a form that may consist of 3 or 4 steps, all of them requesting both mandatory and optional data. The overall form contains a lot of data inputs, so I thought it would be better to ...
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iOS multitasking closing is poorly designed? [closed]
I have a question about iOS's multitasking bar, and a design decision in it. If you double tap the homescreen to go into the multitasking ...
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Placement of 'Cancel/Done/Home'-Button on iPhone modal view
I have a modal view in my iPhone app including a navigation bar with two buttons on the root view controller. A a button to dismiss the screen, also not sure which title to use calling it now the ...
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Navigation-back button and/or Cancel button in upper-left corner of iOS data entry screen?
I have an iOS screen that is usually used for data entry but is occasionally used to later view the data that's been entered.
For data entry, it seems like the iOS convention (e.g. stock email app) ...
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Shifting a view into inline-edit mode VS. dedicated edit screen?
I'm developing an iOS app, and I'm conflicted on which is the better UX choice to make. The main screen displays a nicely arranged carousel of objects, with just a few core details. The user can edit ...
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How to list items with variants in an iOS Table View?
I'm looking for an elegant way to show a list of items in a Table View, where most (not all) items will have 2 variants.
If I lay the items out as is (with A and B represented by icons):
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Where should a UIButton be to add cells to a tableView?
I have a limited amount of space in a new options menu I designed (much like a combination of twitter's scrollViewTexturedBackGround colored table, with notification center's custom headers, and ...
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Are there any examples of well designed applications on iPad with 3 column layouts?
I'm designing an iPad application and had an interest in a 3 column interface with 3 tableviews across the screen horizontally and I was wondering if this interface has been done anywhere well.
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Navigation bar and buttons considerations for iOS
I have some questions regarding navigation bars and their usage in iOS apps, both from the point of view of UX and Apple´s submission and human interface guidelines:
1) Since the iOS Human Interface ...
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iOS and UITableViewCell: best practices when requesting user input as a form
Firstly, I'd like to make a general question regarding table view cells' customization: are there any restrictions about the controls they can cointain, and/or its number? I read in iOS HIG iOS Human ...
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iOS 'Append' Symbol/Icon [closed]
I am working on a calculator app for iOS. I would like to know what an acceptable 'Append' symbol / Icon would be - would it be a downward pointing arrow? A curved arrow?
Anything helps,
Erway ...
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Multiple selection in an iOS picker view
The iOS SDK doesn't have a multiple selection picker view. However Safari's picker view allows multiple selection. Fortunately ALPickerView was created to allow multiple selection in a picker view. Is ...
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How to display points of interest, waypoints, trails and maps?
I am redesigning a screen in my iPhone app, Gaia GPS, that displays details about points of interest, as well as user-created waypoints, trails, and maps.
I have come up with a new mockup:
What is ...
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how to subtly indicate that an address is “mappable” in a mobile app?
We're building an iPhone app for delivery drivers. Each driver has a route of about 50 locations, 10-15 of which get scheduled for each day's deliveries, depending on which location needs restocking. ...
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How can I design a UI for iOS with a diamond shaped drill down interface?
I have a basic drill down interface for iOS devices.
A -> B -> C -> D
The problem is that the following interface would work equally well:
A -> C -> B -> D
What I need is some kind of diamond ...
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Large list with editable items in Android/IOS
I have a scenario where there are around 50 - 100 items in a list.
Each list item has 6 editable fields (Boolean, Boolean, Dropdown, Integer , Float, Float).
How can I display such a list in ...
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Differences between iOS GUI and Mac OS X GUI
I am trying to wrap my head around the design considerations one needs to take into consideration as one develops an application for both the desktop and iOS. What seems clear is that the design ...
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Porting iOS to Android
I'm not really a designer/UX expert, however I have been developing on Android for some time now and I always try to stick to the look and feel of the standard (ICS) look and feel (with some degree of ...
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Use of tab bar and navigation bar in iPhone app
I'm developing an app that provides information about companies. I would like to have tab bar buttons for "Favorites" view and "Search" view. I also need tools for actions, for example in the ...
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OmniGraffle Stencils Recourses [closed]
Does anybody use stencils for OmniGraffle for wireframe design?
Any good sources where could I find some?
I found
http://graffletopia.com
http://stenzils.com
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What is a dynamic alternative to UITableView? [closed]
Ok, so I have a normal viewController that has a UIScrollView in it that gives details about distilleries. What I wanted to do was have a list of spirits that are distilled at the distillery that they ...
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Should I put an alert view notifying the user of a successful wall post with the Facebook SDK in iPhone?
I am currently developing an iPhone app that connects to Facebook trough its SDK. One of the main functionalities is the option to share a post with a news story from the feed.
So basically I show ...
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Validating wizard-style form
I have a long sign up form with 16 fields. I've split that form into 3 steps by data category. User navigates through steps by pressing Back/Forward buttons.
How should I approach the field ...
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Android/iOS: Homescreen [closed]
I have noticed more and more mobile apps are removing their home screen, especially iOS apps. What do you think of this?
Personally I think sometimes an app's home screen is redundant, just a pretty ...
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Differences between iOS and Android GUIs [closed]
People sometimes ask me why I chose to buy an iPhone instead of an Android. I always reply the same thing: iPhones (and Apple devices in general) are more user friendly, in my opinion, than Androids. ...
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What's the proper iOS UI for switching between 2 views?
There two different screens, Live and Leaderboard, and I need to switch between them.
Is there any sort of iOS standard for handling the UI for that?
Right now I've just got a button at the top ...
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wizard pattern on iOS - should I use navigation controller?
I am building an app where user can send a message to his contacts. User must be able to set some settings on this message (like color, font size,...). I was thinking of using 3 screens:
enters the ...
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Optimizing the selection process [closed]
I am developing a mobile application in which the user selects the fields that s/he wants to enter information into. At the moment, I have two screens - one for selecting the fields and other for ...
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Does Apple recommend a minimum table view height?
I know Apple has certain minimum sizes for things like font no smaller than 13pt. I was wondering if they had a spec (maybe in their HIG) for minimum table view height. I have a design with a short ...
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Best ios alternative for an html select box?
An app I'm working on requires the user to enter their address which is then stored on a 3rd party system. The 3rd party has a predefined list of countries and states so when I send off the address I ...
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Remove or keep Clear control in mandatory input-field? (iPhone)
I've had a little discussion with one of my co-workers regarding how to handle the Clear all -button in a mandatory input-field on the iPhone. The field holds the account email address and is present ...
