An Ever Growing iPhone Resource Thread

In an effort to help the community as a whole I am releasing  “An Ever Growing iPhone Resource Thread”. The point? It’s simple. We are all busy. We all need to finds things fast, learn, download and move on. So, I am trying to compile a big list of all things iPhone. However, I need your help. I have started with a small amount articles, downloads and information in hopes that you will share your favorites over time in the comments. Just copy and paste the link in your comment and I will do the rest. On the the content!

**UPDATED**

9/23/09

10/15/09

11/11/09

Articles:

iPhone Human Interface Guidelines

Phone and iPod touch are sophisticated devices that combine the revolutionary Multi-Touch interface with powerful features, such as email and instant-messaging capability, a full-featured web browser, iPod, and, in iPhone, a mobile phone.

The Making of Things iPhone

One of the first major design decisions was to either have a Tab Bar or a Toolbar.

We liked the idea of a Tab Bar very much as it allowed to quickly browse your tasks from different perspectives (by Projects, by Tags, by Due Date, Search, …)

How to Create Your First iPhone Application

What if you had a nickle for every time you heard: “I have the perfect idea for a great application!“? It’s the buzz on the street. The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both inside and outside the software development community. Still for those outside the development world, the process is a bit of a mystery.

App Store Heresies: Higher Price, Better Ratings. Don’t Discount Your App At Launch

Lower your price, lower your ratings. Lower ratings, lower social proof. Lower social proof, lower sales. That’s my theory, and I’ve got data to support it.

Inspiration:

60 Sleek and Sexy iPhone App Websites

Like most of Apple’s expensive toys, the iPhone is a beautiful piece of kit. Its cool curves and bright display seem perfectly suited to sleek, glossy web design. Here’s a big bunch of lovely iPhone app websites for your admiration and inspiration.

Downloads:

iPhone GUI PSD

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets.

iPhone PSD Vector Kit

Today, we are glad to release the iPhone Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options. This pack may be useful for mobile developers and front-end designers who need a professional way to show mock-ups to clients or to work out ideas. This set was designed by Renee Rist especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Ultimate iPhone Stencil

This is the ultimate stencil for folks designing iPhone interfaces.

• Contains backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and other iPhone UI elements

• Text is fully editable on lists, title bars, buttons, and scroll wheels

• Buttons can be resized horizontally by ungrouping, resizing the middle element, and then regrouping the elements back into a single button

iPhone PSD file

iPhone PSD for snapshots, icons, etc… Made entirely in photoshop. Based on the iPhone design by Apple Inc.

Resources:

MobileLex 2009

Sam offers his Keynote slides from MobileLex that highlights:

How I Made an App that Has Over a Million Users

Scrolling Like Butter

Web Services with Cocoa

iPhone Development: The Why and How

I cover what your options are for iPhone development and some tips and resources on how/where to get started. I also speak about how to maintain a good user experience with your iPhone development. Check it out!

The definitive iPhone user interface gallery from Engadget

After getting our hands on the iPhone we set ourselves the irresistible task of photographing every conceivable menu option available to us. So here it is: the definitive iPhone user interface gallery, almost 300 images deep. If you’re the type to obsessively pore over every possible menu, submenu, setting, and function in a new device, this one goes out to you.

Coding:

iPhone View Switching Tutorial

The world of iPhone development can be a bit of a daunting task and irritating at times. I’m the kind of person that likes to do things from scratch as much as I can. So when I headed down this path, I decided to start with the simplest template and create a very, very easy app: creating 2 views and switching between them.

14 Essential Xcode Tips, Tricks and Resources for iPhone Devs

Cutting Through The Clutter

We’ve collected a set of tips, resources, how-tos, tutorials and links ranging from newbie-to-expert to help you wring the maximum amount of productivity out of Xcode.

Learn How To Develop For The iPhone

We’re going to start off with 2 psd’s I made and get those working in an iPhone page. I am using images for the background and header although you could use just straight colors instead of images.

Tools:

Notepod

What’s a Notepod 3-Pack?

Three 60 x 110mm, 100pp Notepods printed on both sides. 80gsm laser throughout with a stiff black strawboard back.

Design Comission iPhone Stencil

- Layout Nav Bar, Tab Bar and Keyboard
- New overlay icons provide cleaner look
- Additional icons
- Overall dimensioning and layout improvements

Quickly sketch out iPhone UI prototypes. Brainstorm your application ideas using our precision cut stainless steel stencil and mechanical pencil.

Mobile Sketchbook

• 100 pages of to-scale design templates
• One organized place for User Interface Designs
• Get your designs down on the Sketch Book today!

What Not To Do:

iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals

The development of iPhone applications has recently become a hot topic in the design community; everybody tries to come up with some creative idea, port it into a stylish iPhone-alike application and sell it to thousands of users through the iPhone app store. However, many of these applications are poorly designed and therefore miss the chance of providing users with a truly useful product that users would find worth recommending to friends and colleagues.