{"id":4772,"date":"2010-09-12T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2010-09-12T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T00:14:39","slug":"tapworthy-designing-great-iphone-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/09\/12\/tapworthy-designing-great-iphone-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-4772\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tapworthy-Designing-Great-iPhone-Apps\/dp\/1449381650%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1449381650\">Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003627LG0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Josh-Clark\/e\/B003627LG0\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Josh Clark<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 320 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> O&#8217;Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 18, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1449381650<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1449381653<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to create dynamite iPhone apps, this is the book for you. It won&#8217;t teach you to program &#8211; there are books on using HTML5\/CSS3\/JavaScript or Objective-C for learning to build iPhone apps.\u00c2\u00a0 This book provides the design concepts and rules for good iPhone apps.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins with how to pick a purpose for your app, then into what a small touchscreen means for design, and finishes with controls and navigation.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate a lot of the suggestions in this book &#8211; now that I&#8217;ve had an iPhone for a while I can see that many of the suggestions make sense, from sticking to doing one thing well to noting that the easiest area to &#8216;thumb&#8217; is the bottom left (for righties).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I got this book &#8211; I hope to pick a subject for a web-based iPhone app and plan to use what I&#8217;ve learned here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-4772\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 4772);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-4772\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-4772\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps Author: Josh Clark Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 18, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449381650 ISBN-13: 978-1449381653 If you want to create dynamite iPhone apps, this is the book for you. 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