guidnesline for ios app design
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For guidelines on iOS app design, you can refer to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, which are a comprehensive resource for best practices in app design across all Apple platforms. These guidelines are continuously updated to reflect the latest design trends and user interface components.
If you're interested in specific design principles for different Apple platforms, here are some relevant sessions from WWDC 2024:
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Design great visionOS apps: This session discusses the design principles for visionOS apps, emphasizing the importance of using windows to contain UI elements and ensuring a cohesive user experience. You can explore more about this in the Comfortable chapter.
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Design advanced games for Apple platforms: This session covers designing adaptable UI for games across Apple devices, focusing on safe areas and full-screen experiences. You can learn more about designing for different devices in the Design for the device chapter.
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Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI: This session provides insights into creating familiar UI components like lockups and shelves using SwiftUI, which can be applied to iOS app design as well. The Lockups chapter is particularly relevant for understanding how to design interactive elements.
These sessions provide valuable insights into designing apps that are not only visually appealing but also intuitive and user-friendly across different Apple platforms.
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.
Design advanced games for Apple platforms
Learn how to adapt your high-end game so it feels at home on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. We’ll go over how to make your game look stunning on different displays, tailor your input and controls to be intuitive on each device, and take advantage of Apple technologies that deliver great player experiences.
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.
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.
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.