Tapworthy
Designing Great iPhone Apps
by Josh Clark · first published 2010
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…involved? How could we get more kids like you to try hacking on their iPhones? Great work and keep it up! Finally, here's a short bibliography if you are interested in reading more: - http://www.amazon.com/Tapworthy-Designing-Great-iPhone-Apps/... - http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/ - http://designthencode.com/ - Anything by Tufte
on “Show HN: An app for middle school students, made by a middle school student.” ↗As someone who spend a lot of time designing iPhone apps I have to say that I really enjoyed Tapworthy ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449381650 ) I also finally read "Founders at Work", but I'm sure you all read that already.
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books of 2010?” ↗…guide here to extract the embedded ePub from one of their iPhone apps, which retail at $1.99 - $4.99. Scroll down to "Extracting an EPUB Pearl". http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp btw, TapWorthy is well worth the $4.99.
on “O'Reilly $9.99 Exclusive Best of "Ebook Deal of the Day"” ↗…would your time be better used on other parts of the app? I recommend the following resources: 1) Glyphish Pro icon pack - $25, pretty much everyone uses this high quality icon pack in their apps. 2) Tapworthy - Designing great apps - Great book with a lot of case studies and practical advice on grid based design, etc.
on “Ask HN: How do you do graphic design?” ↗…to give you some suggestions. In any case, I just bought your app......happy to help out a fellow HN-er :) Hopefully this will help improve my cocktail-making skills. PS> Check out a book called Tapworthy.
on “It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App” ↗…time. Also don't asume because it was easy the first time it will be the next. XCode gets very confused with multiple provisioning profiles sometimes. Things expire. etc. I read the O'Reilly iOS book and Tapworthy along the way. And an Objective-C book or two; but I don't remember which.
on “How to Learn to Write iOS Apps” ↗