“Objective-C without all the baggage of C”

One of my developers who has a C background said about Objective-C, ‘it has a lot of baggage from C’.

Apple asked the question, ‘what if we could have Objective-C, without the baggage of C’. Today they gave an answer- a new language called Swift.

finally.

great podcasts for iOS developers

Here’s what keeps me awake when I drive.  Most of these are developer centric but some are good for designers, too:Continue reading

iOS 7 Design Resources

Recently I told one of my designers I would send him some links for iOS 7 design resources.  Everything I was sending him was already in my iOS Dev notebook on Springpad, which is public and I had previously shared with him, but when I went to look at the Springpad notebook, even expanded in the “blocks” view on a 30″ cinema display, I realized that at a glance the Springpad UI is cluttered and pretty unusable when you start adding a lot of notes.  The fact that most of the thumbnails are pretty meaningless doesn’t help much, either.

Anyway after I wrote the email I realized that this collection of design resources might be useful to others so I decided to post it here.  If anyone has other resources they’d like to share please do leave a comment.Continue reading