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iPhone app requests - this time with screenshots

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Aug 16th, 2007



Everyone and their mother has requests for iPhone apps - heck, I had eight of them. But not everyone goes the extra mile like Phillip Ryu has to create detailed screenshots of how their apps should look (Update: Phill contacted me to clear up that Josh Pyles created the screenshots in collaboration). In addition to the screenshots, most of Phill's requests in 5 iPhone Apps I'd Like To See From Apple are also unique from similar posts I've seen across the blogosphere - he's asking for things like an Archive.org/Ebook reader, the iTunes Store for iPhone (of course, but a nice mockup nonetheless), a sketching app (Skitch for iPhone anyone?), a VoIP app and iMovie for iPhone that could offer basic editing and sharing with .Mac, YouTube and Mail. It's an interesting list of requests with pretty pictures that do a great job of mocking up the apps with the iPhone's new UI paradigms in full force. No tiny menus or tool palettes here; just large buttons, lists with large text and toolbars lining the bottom of each app. Here's hoping that the signs pointing towards true iPhone app development arriving with Leopard in October are more than empty speculation.

Tags: apps, iPhone, mockups, requests, screenshots

Filed under: iLife, Software, Blogs

Should Apple have used Cover Flow in iPhoto '08?

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Aug 15th, 2007



TUAW reader o!ivier has posted a mockup to his Flickr account of how he believes the iPhoto '08 Events UI should have been designed. Seeing it as a more natural evolution of what Apple is doing with Mac OS X and their apps (iTunes, Finder in Leopard, etc.), o!ivier believes Apple should have built in Cover Flow for browsing events instead of the new 'skimming' UI, where users run their mouse over resizable thumbnails to see all the photos contained in the event scroll by. Instead, this Cover Flow mockup proposes the idea of scrolling left and right through Events just like you scroll through albums in iTunes. Clicking an event produces thumbnails of all the images laid out in the area below, which can then be resized independently from the Cover Flow area.

I rarely prefer design mockups like this over what Apple produces, but I have to admit: I think Apple dropped the ball here. O!ivier's mockup looks far more useful, as you can browse through Events and view resizable thumbnails of all the photos they contain without leaving the Events UI. Don't get me wrong, skimming is cute, but Cover Flow + iPhoto looks like it would look just as slick but provide a far more useful working environment.

Who knows - Maybe Apple just wants to wait for users to get used to Cover Flow in Leopard's Finder. After all, they need to give us at least a few reasons to upgrade to iLife '09, right?

Tags: Cover Flow, CoverFlow, iPhoto, iPhoto 08, Iphoto08, mockups, UI, user interface, UserInterface

Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, iPhone

Fake iPhone unboxing

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Jan 16th, 2007

Okay. This is humor and we all know that humor is not universal. So if you don't find this site as funny as I did, well, that's kind of the breaks. I think this fake unboxing site is hilarious and I loved how they put in all the standard unboxing shots that you'd expect. There's the whole story, starting off with the Amazon two-day delivery, the comparison shots between the iPhone, the quarter, and the SK3. There's even the ceremonial tossing of the now-useless cellphone competitors. They don't even try to hide the tape holding together the iPhone mockup. Brilliant stuff. Absolutely brilliant.

Thanks Stefan.

Tags: fake, iphone, mockups

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