Best Practices for iOS User Interface Design

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Best Practices for iOS User Interface Design

Name: Best Practices for iOS User Interface Design
Rating: 4.5396825396825395 (189 reviews)

This course is part of iOS Development for Creative Entrepreneurs Specialization

Instructors: Don Patterson

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks to complete

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

189 reviews

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

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There are 4 modules in this course

You will learn to develop sophisticated user interfaces for iOS, with a focus on user interface design best practices, UI animations, and responsive design. You will learn about the key UI widgets, mapping interfaces and view restoration.

Welcome to Best Practices for iOS User Interface Design! This week, we will take a deep dive into getting to know iOS design concepts. We will cover iOS, HCI, and HIG plus complete a peer review assignment called Layout with Dynamic Constraints that, as the name suggests, uses the auto-layout engine to make dynamic user interfaces.

What's included

9 videos3 readings1 peer review

9 videos Total 147 minutes

Welcome! 4 minutes
Intro to iOS Design 10 minutes
iOS Design Concepts 21 minutes
iOS UI Composition 15 minutes
Device Adaptivity 23 minutes
Device Adaptivity Demo 32 minutes
Launch Screen Demo 7 minutes
Case Study: Constraint Layouts Part 1 22 minutes
Case Study: Constraint Layouts Part 2 13 minutes

3 readings Total 30 minutes

Pre-Course Survey 10 minutes
Course Overview 10 minutes
Week 1 Peer Review Directions 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Layout with Dynamic Constraints 60 minutes

In week 2, we will discuss the design solutions that come with iOS. We will cover HIG and HCI principles plus learn how to achieve the design. We will wrap up this week with a quiz to test your knowledge on what you have learned this week.

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

This week, we will look at view controllers and map interfaces. We will cover user interface construction plus complete a peer review assignment called The Basic Map View. Who doesn't want to be able to put locations on a map!

What's included

7 videos1 reading1 peer review

7 videos Total 134 minutes

UIScrollView 32 minutes
Navigation View Controller 25 minutes
Working with the Keyboard 23 minutes
Intro to MapView 16 minutes
MapView Case Study: Part 1 16 minutes
MapView Case Study: Part 2 16 minutes
MapView Case Study: Part 3 6 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

Week 3 Peer Review Directions 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Basic Map Interface 60 minutes

In week 4, we will look at table views, core data, and user interface integration. We will cover table views, table views plus core data, and you will finally learn how to put it all together. We will end the course with a peer review assignment called To Do Manager.

What's included

16 videos1 reading1 peer review

16 videos Total 263 minutes

UITableView: Part 1 8 minutes
UITableView: Part 2 14 minutes
UITableView: Part 3 11 minutes
UITableView: Part 4 9 minutes
UITableView: Part 5 18 minutes
UITableView with CoreData: Part 1 11 minutes
UITableView with CoreData: Part 2 11 minutes
UITableView with CoreData: Part 3 23 minutes
UITableView with CoreData: Part 4 10 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 1 21 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 2 26 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 3 24 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 4 20 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 5 30 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 6 15 minutes
Case Study: To Do List Part 7 13 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

Week 4 Peer Review Directions 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

To Do List Manager 60 minutes

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Don Patterson

University of California, Irvine

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Reviewed on Feb 15, 2016

Very detailed lectures help me to understand iOS app development a lot. Thank you :-)

Reviewed on Nov 5, 2017

I like this course very much! It contains a lot of practical material that allows to develop some simple but helpful apps at the course completion.Thanks to teachers and to Coursera.

Reviewed on May 18, 2016

Gave me a very good perception of the best practises in iOS UI Design

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