how to design a form on iphone
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To design a form on an iPhone, you can leverage the capabilities of SwiftUI, which provides a modern way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms. While the specific context provided doesn't directly address form design, it does highlight some relevant features and sessions that could be useful:
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SwiftUI Enhancements: The session titled "What’s new in SwiftUI" discusses various new features in SwiftUI that can enhance your app's design, including custom controls and presentation sizing. These features can be useful when designing forms to ensure they are both functional and visually appealing.
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Document-Based Apps: The session "Evolve your document launch experience" provides insights into creating document-based apps, which might include form-like interfaces for data entry. This session covers how to customize the launch experience and add templates, which could be adapted for form design.
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App Intents and User Experience: The session "Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents" emphasizes the importance of user flow and personalization. When designing forms, consider how users will interact with them and how you can make the experience seamless and intuitive.
For more detailed guidance on designing forms specifically, you might want to explore Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, which provide best practices for creating intuitive and accessible user interfaces on iOS.
If you are interested in learning more about any of these topics, you can check out the following sessions from WWDC 2024:
Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI
SwiftUI helps you build great apps on all Apple platforms and is the preferred toolkit for bringing your content into the living room with tvOS 18. Learn how to use SwiftUI to create familiar layouts and controls from TVMLKit, and get tips and best practices.
Design great visionOS apps
Find out how to create compelling spatial computing apps by embracing immersion, designing for eyes and hands, and taking advantage of depth, scale, and space. We’ll share several examples of great visionOS apps and explore how their designers approached creating new experiences for the platform.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Evolve your document launch experience
Make your document-based app stand out, and bring its unique identity into focus with the new document launch experience. Learn how to leverage the new API to customize the first screen people see when they launch your app. Utilize the new system-provided design, and amend it with custom actions, delightful decorative views, and impressive animations.
Extend your app’s controls across the system
Bring your app’s controls to Control Center, the Lock Screen, and beyond. Learn how you can use WidgetKit to extend your app’s controls to the system experience. We’ll cover how you can to build a control, tailor its appearance, and make it configurable.
Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
Learn the principles of the App Intents framework, like intents, entities, and queries, and how you can harness them to expose your app’s most important functionality right where people need it most. Find out how to build deep integration between your app and the many system features built on top of App Intents, including Siri, controls and widgets, Apple Pencil, Shortcuts, the Action button, and more. Get tips on how to build your App Intents integrations efficiently to create the best experiences in every surface while still sharing code and core functionality.
What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.
Design Live Activities for Apple Watch
Starting in watchOS 11, Live Activities from your iOS app will automatically appear in the Smart Stack on a connected Apple Watch. Learn how to optimize the layout of your Live Activity for the wrist, and provide the right level of information and interactivity at the right time.