Monday 26 October 2009

User Interface Design - completed

The UI Design is finally completed after much delay.

The reasons for the delay are numerous but mostly down to using Interface Builder in designing only the UI and not in the implementation of the project. This resulted in specific elements not responding to cosmetic changes within Interface Builder and therefore not suitable for UI Design.

I then had to mockup my design which meant further delay to having to find similar elements in mockup form similar to those within Interface Builder.

During the mockup design I had a thought of where to display the configurable parts of the application which I primarily had within the application itself but which I thought would be more suitably located within Apple's own 'Settings' application on the iPhone device as there are very few preferences that can be changed by the end-user.

Due to the change in the location of the Options screen there was also limited use in including a tab bar at the bottom of the three Options, Help and About screens to navigate to each of those pages easily. Therefore the mockup designs for the remaining two pages needed to be altered to reflect this design update.

These changes and the additional time to annotate the new design contributed to the delay of the User Interface Design.

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