iOS 5 App Development—Interface Designing Part 2

In first part we took some introductory information about the iOS 5 app development and now we will start our main topic here, interface designing.

Good methodology in iOS 5 app development can makes a lots of difference in the quality, speed and creativity. We usually start projects with research phase where we carry a research on the target audience, their actual needs, their problems and how our solution solve their problems. One we define the usability and user experience in the project we enter in to the planning and Wireframming or prototyping phase here we begin thinking about the user interfaces. Before start user interface designing we should have somethings clear in our mind like in which conditions or environment users will use this app, how the app will help them to solve their problems, how app will be integrated in their daily lives.

These all can save a lots of confusions in coding phase so you need to draw a rough design initially and  prepare storyboard defining the screen flows. Now some rough designs of each screen can help you to visualize the matter at point of views of UX. In this design you can list the data related to each screen and collection of some UI bars like status bar which shows the current battery level, connectivity or Wi-Fi, 3G/4G, etc.; reception bars, note of carriers, etc. These are standard information and you will find in each app.

Second one is navigation bar as it gives first hand experience of the app usage it has prominent buttons either on top or at sides and that enables users to go forth and back in page hierarchies. Third thing is toolbar which is mostly laid on the bottom or the screens of the iOS devices. You can find some useful icons on this bar like share, upload, download or delete buttons. Fourth is Tab bar which has again some tools for different functions but it works with tabs as it highlighted when use clicks on the tab icon and that can be used to switching between views. Thus, these UI elements are standard needs in UI designing for iOS 5 app development.