[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Human Interface Guidelines

[Alexander Baxevanis]

One thing that strikes me about these guidelines is that they don't seem
future-proof at all. They contain things such as:

"The size of the area behind the rounded rectangles is 320 pixels wide and
356 pixels high and its background fill color is R = 197, G = 204, B = 211."

Does Apple never anticipate to change their screen resolution or colour
scheme?

I don't have anything against web-applications on the iPhone per se. But if
Apple would like to help people make good web apps, shouldn't they maintain
and publish some web UI library that could be adaptable to their future
phones? Hardcoded pixel-based layouts is so 90s :)

Alex

On 10/1/07, Jeff Stevenson <jeff.a.stevenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought I'd bring this to the attention of the group, in case you
> haven't
> already seen it. Apple has published an iPhone Human Interface Guidelines
> document. You can see it here:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneHIG/
>
> I only skimmed through it, but I didn't see too much that was
> groundbreaking. At the very least, if you're an iPhone web designer, it
> will
> probably save you many hours of trial and error.
>
> Let me recommend, though, that you skip to this section:
> iPhone HIG > Metrics, Layout Guidelines, and Tips > Be Aware of Default
> Control Styles
>
> You'll find a page that describes a "multiple select element". It looks
> like
> a drop-down list, except I guess you can select more than one option. I
> haven't used an iPhone long enough to encounter one of these in the wild,
> but it seems pretty cool. In some cases, it could save a ton of space by
> replacing a long list of checkboxes. Can anyone who has used this widget
> before comment on its usefulness?
>
> Jeff Stevenson
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