2.5. Establish a Style

Finding a theme to riff on can give us a clarity of vision about the look of our app. In the case of StarTrackr, we can start by thinking about the sort of imagery we associate with celebrity. Here are a few ideas: money, the red carpet, sunglasses, flash photography, film, movies, music, awards shows, the Oscars, stars, gold, diamonds, paparazzi, glamor.

Which items on that list stand out as the strongest images? The colors. The red carpet is synonymous with celebrity, while the color gold brings to mind wealth and glamor. Luckily for us, those colors should work well together, so we can create a palette with which to build our design. What we’ve come up with is shown in Figure 2-18.