mobile
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iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoney
→: iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoneyThe problem: Android devs generally given designs for iPhone. “But that’s just like Android, right?” Rid the world of these iPhoney apps now. Used to be like windows apps on Apple. People still do iOS first, Android is an afterthought. Android users want Android apps. Android users can tell when it’s an iPhone port. Android…
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Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems Problem
→: Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems ProblemEdited notes from a section of my talk at Oredev. I plan on expanding this topic into it’s own talk for 2015. My talk “Distractedly Intimate” evolved out of a blog post I wrote over two years ago now, called “Building things for Humans”. I wrote it after I hit this crossroad, career-wise. Do I move…
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#iOSDevUK – Sally Shepard: Beyond VoiceOver
→: #iOSDevUK – Sally Shepard: Beyond VoiceOverMy notes from Sally Shepard‘s talk on Accessibility at iOSDevUK. It was really good, I thought I knew quite a bit about a11y but actually only VoiceOver really, so I learned a lot. Her slides are here. Passionate about accessibility, accessibility issues in family. Myths: Not that many people. Time consuming. Too complicated. Don’t know how…
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Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS: Part 2
→: Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS: Part 2When I previously wrote about better testing of view controllers on iOS I alluded briefly to the strategy of breaking the ViewController into a ViewController and a Presenter. Again, I won’t go into mocking here, but you need a mocking framework and some understanding of what mocking is for this to make sense. Currently, I’m using OCMock.…
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Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS
→: Better Testing of View Controllers on iOSWhen I started testing iOS apps, which shamefully was not when I started writing iOS apps, I discovered the biggest impediment to thorough testing on iOS was the View Controller, and it’s mix of UI code, and not. Now I’m working on my first independent app (yay!) of course I am writing extensive unit tests. I won’t…
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#iOSDevUK: Hacking Health
→: #iOSDevUK: Hacking HealthMy notes from the talk Emily gave at iOSDevUK. What are health apps? Step counters Fitness trackers Diabetes apps Heart rate monitors Bluetooth enabled medical devices Apple and Google have decided this is where the future is. Gone in. Apple, Healthkit. Google, GFit. Standardized APIs getting information with defined types, centralised storage. Enables gathering data…
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A Little Bit Of Data is a Dangerous Amount
→: A Little Bit Of Data is a Dangerous AmountWhen you have no data, everyone agrees: need more data. When you have a lot of data, what is happening is pretty clear. When you have a little bit of data, people can extrapolate. “It might show X”, “It might show Y”. Often declared without the caveats. Because “we don’t really know” is a much less compelling story,…
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Review: Misfit Wearable
→: Review: Misfit WearableLet me tell you how much I wanted to love the Misfit Shine Wearable (Amazon). It’s so pretty! You don’t have to wear it on your wrist (something that sometimes irritates my skin on the Nike Fuelband, and slightly less so the Jawbone up). The good: It is very pretty. I love the way it…
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#ModevUX Design, Device, Delight
→: #ModevUX Design, Device, DelightDesign to Delight Personalised. Responsive to orientation, tap and gesture. Culturally relevant. Shared context is not just about sharing, about grind between designers and developers, “keeps your friends close and your developers closer”. Sharing context: Early and frequent collaboration. Design considering development. Implement considering user experience. Having trouble? Colocate! Get to point where everyone has a common…