Customer Reviews

iPhone Application Sketch Book

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I like this book for what it is: a screen layout sketchbook; I've used those pages to design some of my more complicated screen navigations. The only caution I have for the uninformed is that you'll need access to a copy machine to make sure you have plenty of extra pages.

The only complaint I have about the book (and its synopsis here) is that it wasn't clear that there was not much instructional prose in it (i.e. that it is essentially just a sketch book with no real content to help with screen layout activities).

So, if you're already familiar with iPhone/iPad screen layout practices, then this book is fine, else, it's too thin to really help novice developers.

I'm perhaps a little slow, but why exactly i this sketch book available for Kindle? It's nothing but blank pages with an iPhone template...

Sure, you could print out your own iphone images and mark them up, and I'm nearly certain that some occasions might call for such a technique. BUt for situations in which you are wanting to detail what you KNOW a view should look like, and want to make extensive notes and drawings in the margins, this book is ideal for only $10!

I'm now waiting for the iPad version of this one.

If you ever wished you had a convenient way to quickly jot down your iPhone UI development ideas. This is it. It's an easy way to brainstorm and sketch those high-tech ideas on to-scale screen-sized templates. It also helps make sure your ideas aren't scaled bigger or smaller than planned -- once you go to to actual development. Saves time and frustration here.

Having this book handy also helps to make sure I capture ideas I otherwise would forget about. Especially when I wake up in the middle of the night with that next idea for a killer app. Now I just need to learn to write more clearly so I actually remember what I was dreaming up when I read it the next morning....

The only improvement I'd like to see is to sell them in 5-packs (with a discount). So you can keep them in different places (bedroom, office, car, etc.) It's works a lot better for brainstorming if you have it handy when you need it.

This is the first book everyone in our user experience book club finished. Once you pick it up you won't be able to put it down till the end. A real masterwork.