webOS Design Patterns showcases app design best practices 9
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 6:53 pm EDT
While the webOS App Catalog may be lacking in sheer numbers of apps, it’s not lacking in quality. There simply are many well-designed original apps in the App Catalog, and developer Geoff Gauchet has decided it’s time to highlight those that do it right. So he’s put together a new site called webOS Design Patterns that seeks to categorize exemplary apps by their outstanding features. Gauchet, the developer behind foursquare, growlr, and neato! (which just so happen to be some our favorites as far as design goes), writes that he put together webOS Design Patterns “to inspire you to make beautiful and user-friendly and creative webOS apps.” Looking at the collection of apps that he’s highlighted, we can feel some inspiration springing forth right now...
Source: webOS Design Patterns
9 Comments
How about some tutorials on these patterns??!
I can give you one for custom buttons! http://blog.zhephree.com/post/4089142892/making-custom-colored-buttons-i...
Gauchet so smart, HP lucky to have you on their side. Glad that I bought your app Neato, keep up the good work.
I think the main issue is that people don't know how to implement it. The design isn't that hard.
Have you seen some of the stuff out there? Design is harder than you might think.
Derek's definitely right, but, yeah, people should be more forthcoming with how to implement things. Jeremy Thomas blogged about custom spinners, I did custom buttons... I'd like to see more tutorials crop up.
For instance, knowing how to make a custom spinner is a big help, but, if your graphic for the spinner look awful, it doesn't matter if you did the implementation correctly. It's still an ugly spinner.
A nice looking app is equal parts design and implementation.
Design is indeed hard. I sure wish this was more than just a tagged gallery, though. I mean, OK, *I* think FlashCards has neat buttons, but why does a professional designer think so? Where's the value judgment that comes from being an expert? I'm an expert software developer, qualified to judge and comment on code, but I'd love to see the expert opinions of the designer.
These designs are definitely hard to do. It requires a pretty extensive level of understanding of the platform to pull these designs off.
I have an app out there and I plan to release the source code so everyone in the community can check it out. I wanna make webOS apps as open sourced as webOS itself.