or Ticket discipline starts in elaboration. When we work in an agile environment we can expect to be given work in ticket form. The ticket is one of the glues of the agile environment, so it follows that good tickets promote a good working environment and bad tickets … don’t. What happens when there is…

The Springboard or app switcher is the UI/UX interface in iOS for switching between applications. It’s great but sometimes as developers of apps, we forget that the iOS is evolving with each release and some behavioural changes can trip us up. Recently, a tester working on an app with me…

Designer: Can you have a look at the fonts on the login screen? The kerning doesn’t match the designs I gave you. Developer: WhatTheWhat is Kerning? There was a time when such conversations could lead to … Kerning is the typographical adjustment of the space between character glyphs. That sounds…

CoreData can seem something of a mystery but there are many techniques and 3rd party libraries available to make life more bearable while at the same time getting downright dirty with the power available in CoreData. Create Read Update Delete Databases are essentially CRUD systems and when we as developers…

Many a time I have been asked to implement a drop down text field in an iOS app. Thankfully those times are getting rarer and recently I had a lightbulb moment and suggested we use an Input Accessory View to facilitate text field choices for the user. Input Accessory View’s…