I sometimes think we underestimate just how good the original iPhone icons were.
Not because they were technically complicated. Quite the opposite. They were small, instantly recognisable pieces of design that somehow managed to give an entire operating system a personality.
This was the golden age of skeuomorphism — when digital things were deliberately made to resemble things from the physical world.
And Apple was exceptionally good at it.
(more…)Yesterday, Twitter user @MajicDave, better know as David Frampton of Majic Jungle Software posted a concept image to his Flickr, of how he thought Apple should handle iPhone app icons on the iPad. Today, he woke to the image having been viewed over 26,000 times. (more…)
For those of you who don’t know this already, as well as having the privilege of writing iPhone application reviews for some majorly trafficked iPhone focused blogs around the world, I also design the interfaces for most of these applications, too.
Over at my design studio (and behind the scenes), I work full-time as a freelance graphic designer, working exclusively on iPhone Interface Design for apps which are already on the store, and some which have yet to hit the store .. (more…)
We all know the iPhone is seen as a status symbol, or a highly desirable object, but in a recent growing trend, style might just be swaying the deciding factor of application purchases by App Store users.
In a quite controversial trend, It seems users may be looking at the one thing which hits you first, when buying any application from the store – it’s icon. With recent threads popping up on numerous message boards over the internet, App Store users seem increasingly more conscious of how the application icon will look on their home screens, without actually weighing up the functionality of the application, first …