bdunagan – design

Posts Tagged design

Posted
3 May 2012 @ 1pm

Writing Retrospect for iOS

At WWDC 2009, Eric Hope talked about crafting the best iPhone apps at his iPhone User Interface Design session (the one where Cultured Code likened public speaking to kryptonite). The first step was coming up with an Application Definition Statement. It should define what your app is and what it isn’t. The statement should include [...]

Posted
4 August 2011 @ 9am

Tagged
design, dollar clock

Design Iterations for Dollar Clock

I shipped Dollar Clock 1.0 more than a year ago as an experiment. I wanted to submit an app to the App Store, and my friend and I came up with tracking how much money meetings waste. To date, the free app has had several thousand downloads on iPhone and iPad, a moderate success for [...]

Posted
25 June 2011 @ 7pm

Tagged
data, design, development

blog.data.visualize()

This blog’s sidebar got a little fancier today: sparklines! Inspired by infosthetics’s google adsense sparklines post, I’ve added a couple interesting streams of data to the sidebar, both from this website and from my iOS App Store apps. Sparklines are an excellent visualization for conveying a large amount of information in a small space. Here’s [...]

Posted
19 June 2011 @ 4pm

Tagged
design, development

Developers: Just Handle It

I’ve talked about thinking like the user. I’ve talked about feeling for the user. But honestly, developers aren’t users. Especially when it comes to their own apps. Developers know exactly how their apps work. They wrote it. They made a hundred decisions that led to their app’s user experience. Why would they encounter problems with [...]

Posted
13 June 2011 @ 12pm

Tagged
design, ideas

Iterating to iCloud

In the week leading up to Apple’s WWDC keynote last Monday, everyone seemed convinced that Apple’s big announcement, iCloud, would be a cloud-based streaming service. (In fact, NPR reported that after the event before amending the article.) But music streaming would be such an odd service from Apple. They make money on hardware. All their [...]

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