Know The iPhone/iPod Touch UI
Take note of:
- How do well-designed apps navigate from screen to screen?
- How do they organize information?
- How MUCH information do they present to the user?
- How do they take advantage of the iPhone’s unique characteristics: the accelerometer, swiping features, pinch, expand and rotate functions?
Determine "Who Will Use Your App?"
If it’s a game, maybe they want to beat their high score. Or perhaps they are a first time player – how will their experience differ from someone who is getting a nice case of brain-rot playing your game all day?
If it’s a utility app, and your audience wants to find a coffee shop quickly, what actions will they take within the app to find that coffee shop? Where are they when they’re looking for coffee? Usually in the car! Do present an interface that requires multiple taps, reading and referencing a lot? Probably not! This is how thinking about how real-life intersects design.
Action: Line item out the different types of people who will use your app. You can even name them if you want to make the scenarios you draw out as real as possible.
Sketch Out Your Idea
And by "sketch" I mean literally sketch. Line out a 9-rectangle grid on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and get to sketching!
Ask yourself:
- What information does each screen need to present?
- How can we take the user from point A to point B to point C?
- How should elements on the screen be proportioned or sized in relation to each other (i.e. is this thing even tap-able?)
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