How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code

Re:How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code by nathanbarry on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:14PM (#3239342)

Maybe. Though Apple gives you a lot of tools to help you make good (though simple) looking applications. UIKit is pretty detailed.

Here is my simple design advice if you don't know how to design:

* Use the provided UI elements, they look great.

* Choose a primary color and an accent color, don't get carried away.

* Make sure everything lines up. Choose a number (10 pts) and align everything off of that. Aligning your UI elements will go a very long ways to make everything look good.

* If you have paragraphs of text set the line height to around 1.5 (depending on the font).

* The only thing provided by Apple that is Ugly is the UIButtons. Draw a simple, clean button or ask someone to make one for you.

If you follow these simple ideas you can make a pretty good looking application without knowing how to design.

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Re:How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code by nathanbarry on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:30PM (#3239415)

Also, a programmer who can't design is able to release an ugly, but functional application. A designer who can't program will only make a beautiful but useless design. In this case I think the programmer has the advantage.

Though my philosophy is to learn both.

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Re:How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code by wallflower on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:41PM (#3239790)

> Though my philosophy is to learn both.

How many of your friends are designers or artists?

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Re:How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code by nathanbarry on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @04:43PM (#3240411)

I have a couple friends who are designers. But many more who are programmers.

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