From a design perspective, I sort of knew what route I was going to go down with this application. I wanted to draw attention to interface components using colour and push back the rest of the interface using grey tones. Adobe’s new CS6 suite and Ableton Live are classic examples of this.
I downloaded the Apple Human Interface Guidelines today – which is a hefty 300-odd page document that can be downloaded as a pdf. This is very worth having and made a great resource for the designing of my Cyclo audio application.
I found a great Touch Gesture Reference Guide by Luke Wroblewski today. It’s available over at lukew.com. It is a fantastic resource that also includes Omnigraffle, Visio and EPS stencils.
This app has gained a lot of positive feedback over the last 2 years – particularly with the UI crowd. I went ahead & purchased this today & I have to say it has some very useful features – multiple artboards / canvases is incredibly potent for mocking up different states of an interface.
When testing on iPad, I found another quirk with the SlidesJS slider. SlidesJS has built-in swipe functionality (which was primarily the reason I went with it) – this means that on iOS devices, when a user views a gallery, they can “swipe” to the next image, video or whatever is in the slider. When checking this, I found that certain “swipes” result in a blank screen. It appears to be completely random at this point – in other words, it does not seem to matter which page or slider I’m interacting with.
I was checking the Shackadelic site on mobile devices this morning & noticed that on my iOS7 devices, the submit button I created kept showing up with a default grey gradient. I just couldn’t get my head around this.