Ask HN: iPad developers, are you lacking a designer?

Post by loewenskind » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 2:44 PM UTC

VomisaCaasi wrote: post #9

loewenskind wrote: post #6

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I'm getting the impression you haven't spent any time doing prototypes on this yet. Are you familiar with Xcode/Interface Builder/etc.? I've been procrastinating for a couple of weeks now because I'm not happy with the visual design of the iPad app I'm working on. I'm no designer and would love to just pay someone to do this part, but if you're going to be learning this for the first time it will probably take you lo…

As a matter of fact, I am at this point unfamiliar with any of these tools you mentioned above so your impression was correct. I'm pretty green in this field (other than the fact I've been bashing at design of various iPad's apps for quite some time now). If you are in a great hurry, then I don't think it's worth wasting your time. We could always arrange it so that you keep working your designs, but give me concrete…

Post by escoz » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

Post by VomisaCaasi » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 3:23 PM UTC

escoz wrote: post #13

Do you actually have any iPhone/ipad app prototypes you've worked on to show off what you can do? Designing for mobile devices is really different from media or websites. As somebody else already said, if I'm gonna spend money to bring somebody to work with me, I'll need to know the person is first of all capable of doing something slightly better than I can (and I can't do any design). You don't need to create a new…

Post by zaveri » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

Post by loewenskind » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 1:20 PM UTC

VomisaCaasi wrote: post #14

loewenskind wrote: post #11

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Ok. I've never hired a designer before so I don't know much about how this sort of thing might be done on iPad (or in general for that matter) myself. I'm still not clear on what your work flow would be. Would you be making a sort of "prototype" in tools that you know that I have to then translate to the actual GUI or would you be working inside the Mac Xcode environment making the GUI files themselves that I can the…

When designing web, I usually start with simple pen and paper for conceptualizing, then move on to Photoshop, and eventually to HTML/CSS or Flash. In iPad design, however, I would be willing to learn the builder to the point where I can use the paper/photoshop concepts and hence produce satisfying design. I'm not sure about the learning curve in Xcode yet, so I can not really comment on that.