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Great iPad Web App Design Article

It is only a matter of time that the iOS and Android universe goes the way of their desktop counter-parts. What do I mean by that, well I foresee more and more interest in developing web-apps that are mobile-friendly and whose content is specifically geared to being consumed via mobile platforms. This will cause a little shake-out for functionality use-cases. Installed apps will be games and utility gadgets, things that have a very specific contextual purpose. Web apps will be more geared towards things like extending a company's brand and a marketing outreach, or apps that would require connectivity anyway to function and don't require local data storage (until HTML 5 gets full implemented).

So look for apps to shake out like this:

Installed Apps:

dictionary.com's dictionary
convert bot
Pocket God

Web Apps:

Facebook
Loopt
NYTimes

This whole diatribe was spurred on by me running across this great iPad web-app design article:

http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/designing-web-apps-for-the-ipad

iPhone Design Resources

After posting the iPad design resources, I thought I'd do the same for the iPhone. So here ya go, some great iPhone design resources and inspiration:

Inspiration:

UI/UX Resources:

Some great iPad Design Resources

I thought I'd let you all in to some great iPad Design UI and UX resources I've come across while researching for our upcoming iPad apps. Some of these are great designer resources and others are simply inspirational.

Resources:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/01/ipad-devsugar-letting-go-of-iphone-visual-design-patterns/

http://www.ipadatelier.com/design-for-ipad.html

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/16/design-tips-for-your-ipad-app/

http://speckyboy.com/2010/04/30/iphone-and-ipad-development-gui-kits-stencils-and-icons/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/sm-network-uxmag/

http://www.neilcowburn.com/2010/01/29/ipad-wireframe-photoshop-template/

http://informationarchitects.jp/ipad-stencil-for-omnigraffle/

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/34-inspiring-ipad-application-websites

Inspiration:

http://www.iospirations.com/

Notable Apps:

Webber
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webers-on-the-grill-for-ipad/id371788565?mt=8

Taska:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taska-for-ipad/id364871363?mt=8

Bills:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bills-for-ipad/id376152794?mt=8

Bloomberg:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bloomberg-for-ipad/id364304764?mt=8

Box.net > (simple clean using a lot of native iPad UI elements) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/box-net/id290853822?mt=8

Weather Bug
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weatherbug-elite-for-ipad/id363235774?mt=8

Accuweather (very nice UI and unique UX): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/accuweather-com-for-the-ipad/id364614303?mt=8

NPR (again, different take on UX): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/npr-for-ipad/id364183644?mt=8

Epicurious (photo-realistic UI):
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicurious-recipes-shopping/id312101965?mt=8

http://gizmodo.com/5507569/gizmodos-essential-ipad-apps

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358494,00.asp

Accepted into Google Ad Sense Beta

Pretty exciting, we've been accepted to participate in Google's Ad Sense Beta program. We are one of only 230 developers (so far) who've been invited to participate. This means we'll be adding an additional revenue source for folks who would like to have an ad driven iPhone app.

iPhone app, "Quick & Easy Quilt Block Tool" hits the "What's Hot!" list!

Happy Day!! One of the iPhone apps we developed for C&T Publishing hit the "What's Hot" list on the iTunes App Store. We are on cloud nine! We woke up, and cruised through the main page of the iTunes App Store, and poof there is was! It seems that crafts really are a big thing right now. Hopefully that will bode well for any future projects we do with them.

Check it out:

Click to Launch iTunes

iPhone App Launch - Robert Lang's Origami Lite launched!

Our free version of Robert Lang's Origami launched and we're super excited to see how it does. We're proud of how it came out, it's definitely a quality iPhone App that should be a lot of fun for folks. It has three great origami figures that'll hopefully get people hooked on origami.

We also had our update of the original Robert Lang Origami iPhone App go live. This app is a big improvement to the overall stability of the original launch. We went through and went over the code with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that we released the highest quality iPhone app.

Website is a constant work-in-progress

We did a little clean-up of the website and continued our effort to improve our SEO effectiveness. It's amazing how such a small change, updating the title, can effect your SEO rankings.

Other news we've submitted our Origami app and lite version to Apple, it should be ready for release sometime next week. We're really excited to see how our new title "Robert Lang's Origami" will be received.

We've got more projects in the hopper, but we're also always actively looking for more interesting iPhone app development projects to take on.

And away we go...

Big party! We've released our new website. The kinks are worked out and the site is looking good. We're excited to hear from you!