Mobile Media

This app makes Apple’s native ios weather app look really sad.  Yahoo’s weather app is absolutely stunning, I honestly can’t stop looking at it.  The landing page consists of gorgeous high res images of NYC pulled dynamically from flickr, with the temperature highs and lows displayed in beautiful type along the bottom.  Scroll down for the forecast clearly laid out with clean outlines, scroll down some more for a detailed view of today’s weather, maps, precipitation, wind pressure as illustrated by moving windmills, and the sun and moon rising and setting times.  Changing locations is super easy, just the push of a button.  In 2 minutes this app already displaced the native ios app on my homescreen and I highly doubt I will ever open the default weather app again.  If you are not already convinced to download this app, the icing on the cake is that it is free. 🙂

• Complete Programming Assignment 3
• Partner up with another classmate and create 2-3 ideas for Project 2 to pitch to the class. Post your ideas to the blog before class. You idea should work for phones and tablets (in the iOS world a ‘universal app’ for iPad and iPhone.) Project 2 will be another UX design project; you won’t be programming it.

Due Aprill 15. Turn in via email.

Assignment2

All office hours will be held on the 12th floor, at or near our classroom. Come by to discuss the assignments or any other questions you have about iOS development.

Please email stanciod@newschool.edu before the session you plan on attending.

Thursday, April 4 from 7pm to 8pm

Wednesday, April 10 from 7pm to 8pm

Beyond: TBD

Due April 8, we will discuss in class April 1.

Assignment1

presentation

cookWhere presentation

 

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User test

During the user test and final feedback interesting comments were made. In the home page the icon that goes to the list had the logo of the app next to it. So the two elements were the button. This proved confusing for the user, he thought they were to separate elements. So I just let the stripes that symbolize the list element.

Also at the end, I just realized that when shopping different items from different stores it will be better to have a pick up and delivery button in each item instead of having it at the end. We might be in a situation where I purchase 5 items from 4 different stores. So I want to have the possibility to select from which I want delivery or pick up. This is something to have into consideration for a further iteration.

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Navigation Map

 

Crusts & Crumbs
Purpose: Buy, sell and trade bread crusts and crumbs.
Target: People who only like bread crusts or crumbs.

michaelkahane.com/amira.pdf

Above is the link to my presentation.

 

Timehop

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timehop/id569077959

 

Timehop is an iPhone app that once you log in with your facebook, twitter, instagram, and/or foursquare creates a time capsule of all your social media since you created it. Every morning you receive a new “time hop” that tells you what you did on that day exactly 1…2…3…4…years ago. This app has been fun in that sometimes I’m reminded of fun memories I had forgotten about and sometimes I’m reminded of how awkward of a high schooler/college freshman I was. The only improvements I wish this app would make would be 1. that it would show you other activity besides just status updates 2. that you could include older social medias for a longer time capsule like Xanga, MySpace, or Livejournal etc. and 3. that it would be available for Android 😉

final version of the app and slides for introduction

pdf version: 4chette, wireframe