Things To Be Aware Of Before You Can Build Your Own User Interface For Iphone Apps

There are several crucial questions you need to get answers for

, before attempting to build iPhone app user interfaces. The user has to find a way to interact or be in contact with the iPhone app; That's what the interface are. Simply put, if you see the screen where the iPhone users get to interact with the iPhone apps, that is the interface. They are, for instance, the screens through which the users of the iPhone apps can enter data (which then can be manipulated in various ways the iPhone apps, to give desired results). If the app is supposed to give a feedback or a result, it displays the said results through the screen.

When building apps, developers sometimes choose to build the interfaces at the beginning. Before getting to building the actual functional aspect of the app, they even build the interfaces first. You may also opt to build the interfaces later on: that is, where you first build the underlying application functionality, and then develop interfaces for users to interact with the application later on. It depends on you how and when you would want to build your interfaces. However, there are bound to be some questions still that you must get the answers for before you can start. The interface design decisions should be influenced by the answers you get to these particular questions.

Before building your user interface, you must first find out who will be using them and you have to ask who, specifically, the eventual users will be. If, for instance, you are building an iPhone app for use by kids, and you are keen on making your app popular with the kids, you may find it ideal to make the interface colorful. In contrast, you would have to be more careful in your color selection if the app is meant to be for business or corporate use. You can hardly convince users that you are a serious corporate app if you use color as though you are dealing with kids. The same principle applies to apps that are aimed for senior citizens. Tone down the colors, minimize the shapes and movements, save them from sensory overload.

Now, It's time to ask the second question. What specific function is the developed iPhone app supposed to serve? The design of the interfaces will be largely determined by the answer to this question. Just make sure that the interfaces will make possible the easier and smoother collection of data and the corresponding feedback of the results as presented by the iPhone app to the users.

The third question you need to get answers for, before attempting build iPhone app user interfaces, is one as to what sort of environment the iPhone apps are meant to be used in. At the most basic level, you will have already figured out that the apps are to be used in a mobile computing environment, using the iOS (which is the operating system powering iPhones). Still, you have to factor in a number of environmental variables. Perhaps it is supposed to be a web application and meant to be used within browsers only. Or it could be that the app is meant to be a stand-alone application. Designing the interface of a web app would require that you take into consideration how compatible it will be to the browser it will operate in. Take note also that there should be perfect synchronicity with the other features of the browser, such as Back, Next, and Refresh or Reload.

by: Jane Pendell

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