Leveraging iOS Capabilities for Optimal User Experience

Apple’s iOS is a fantastic platform to design for. Out of all the mobile platforms on the market today, it provides the best support for the rendering of user experience and all the highly nuanced visual interaction that often entails. Apple has done an excellent job of providing a variety of specialized technologies to enable a development team to overcome even the most complex challenges that a designer can bring to the table.

There’s been much discussion in the interaction design community around the notion of “designer-developer workflow.” Many of the new technologies driving contemporary web user experience provide a seamless transition for design material moving between the design and development domains. This has had the effect of making the creation of sophisticated user experiences a much more streamlined affair, with less communication overhead for teams and greater design fidelity for the experiences being created. Additionally, there has been a revolutionary shift in traditional project roles as more designers move beyond just the specification of user experience, and begin to directly implement front-end code.