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Everything you need to design iOS 8 apps

by Eileen Coyle
Jun 3rd, 2015
In this post you’ll get all the building blocks you need to design great iOS 8 apps. We’ve also got you covered if you’re thinking of designing Android Wear apps or Apple Watch apps.
Guidelines
- The official Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines
- iPhone design 101 in depth tutorial
- A better way to design for Retina in Photoshop
- Wireframing for iOS app interfaces in Photoshop
- A starter guide to designing for iOS from taybenlor.com
- Unofficial design guidelines by Ivo Mynttinen Design
- Design cheat sheet for iPhone 5, 6 and 6 Plus
Inspiration
- Inspire yourself on pinterest: board 1, board 2, board 3, board 4, board 5, board 6
- Start thinking like an app designer — an article on smashingmagazine
- iospirations — everything from iPhone interfaces to iOS icons
- Be wowed by this showcase of 40 insanely detailed iOS icon designs
- Check out these top 10 must see inspiring iOS apps for designers
- Apple inspires me icons, interfaces, websites and more
- 2014 best iOS apps honoured in the Apple Design Awards
- 15 great iOS 8 design concepts
- A huge iOS icon gallery
Case studies
- iOS 8 app interface example project on behance
- A Viber app redesign for iOS 8 on behance
- Instagram iOS 8 concept app design on behance
- Sample sports app concept on behance
- An “edgy concept” iPhone 6 edge to edge concept on Behance
- iOS 8 concept imagines the operating system with widgets
- Designing an iOS fitness app with Apple Watch compatibility — a fictional design study
Downloads
- Apple’s book on iOS human interface guidelines
- AI icon set for iOS 8 contains 16 icons that are used by 90% of apps
- PSD file with free custom iOS 8 keyboard concepts
- A Photoshop template GUI elements found in iOS 8
- iPhone blueprint wireframe kit PSD file
- Build your own gestures with this guide and downloadable icons from Ron George
- AI vector iOS 8 UI kit by Rusty Mitchell
- PSD template containing iOS 8 GUI elements
- Photoshop scalable mockups for iPhone 6
- App icon templates for PSD
- PSD GUI for mocking up iPhone 6 apps
- A fully layered iPhone (retina display) and iPad (standard resolution) app psd template
- iPad GUI PSD contains all major iOS elements to help design your apps
- A big personal license pack of icons to illustrate all of your iOS applications.
- Free iOS 8 user interface PSD by Oz Pinhas
- PSD template on dribble for iPhone 6 plus by Kapil G
- iOS 8 Retina ready icons by Marco Silva
- layered PSD Retina ready UI Kit on Graphicsbay
- iOS 8 health app mockup from techandall
- PSD of iOS 8 UI elements, such as system screens, navigation controls
- iOS 8 Illustrator vector UI kit
- PSD iPhone 6 black & white UI kit
- line icons free 100 iOS 8
- 200 iOS 8 tab bar icons
- iPhone 6 scalable vector mockups
- iOS 8 colour swatches and gradients
Discussion
- What iOS 8 means for app design
- 20 iOS 8 new features and tips you need to know
- Five things to know when designing for iOS
Reviews
- A general video review of iOS 8 new features, improvements, what’s different to iOS 7
- Is this the dramatic redesign that iOS 7 promised
- Three questions enterprises should ask about iOS 8
- As Apple reveals iOS 8 some questions enterprises should ask
- Apple set to create havoc for marketers on globalreachtech
- Is iOS 8 the next best Apple innovation on smartsites
- Some useful things you didn’t know were possible in iOS 8
- iOS now has Material design taking a leaf out of Androids book
- 10 things you can now do in iOS 8
- iOS 8 review on engadget
- iOS 8 review on imore
- iOS 8 review on techradar