Drawing R&D

Drawing R&D

iOS Drawing R&D It’s no grand feat in UI design, but I put together this simple app to showcase some R&D I did in line-drawing. Elastic asked me to research line-drawing for iOS, aiming for the kind of clarity and crispness and responsive viscosity of the line-drawing in the legendary Paper app by Fifty Three. It was my first dip into cocos2d and OpenGL. The app has undo/redo features, different line thicknesses, and line colors. Through experimentation, I was able to implement a function that ‘plays back’ the sequence of your strokes, re-drawing the picture before your eyes. It was pretty...
IADT iPad App

IADT iPad App

IADT iPad App A native iPad app for the International Academy of Design & Technology. Elegantly Responsive Vivamus ipsum velit, ullamcorper quis nibh non, molestie tempus sapien. Mauris ultrices, felis ut eleifend auctor, leo felis vehicula quam, ut accumsan augue nunc at nisl. Cras venenatis. Join Today Drag & drop games. IADT wanted an interactive experience to attract visitors to their booths at informational college fairs. The user completes a series of drag-and-drop sorting games in the app to determine their ‘digital DNA’ and is assigned one of eight badges based on their preferences and tastes. Visitors can tweet their results or post to Facebook. Data Collection IADT was designed to be used at informational booths by various users. It was imperative that the app collect and store information about the people approaching the booth and write to disk a file to be easily accessed by the client. The client requested to make the data available in CSV format and data was collected by the app and stored in the storage directory where it could be downloaded through iTunes sync. Later, we made the user data collection an optional screen that could be toggled on or off from the app settings. Social Media Integration The biggest challenge in this project was implementing posting to Facebook & Twitter from multiple user accounts while not retaining any of the visitors’ login information. Native iOS support for Facebook & Twitter requires the username and passwords to be entered and stored in the iPad’s settings. However, this app was meant to be used at a booth by many people in a given day,...
NewsToons

NewsToons

NewsToons An iOS app for Mark Fiore. View In App Store Browse Toons Browse through toons. Watch Mark’s animated cartoons directly from your phone. About The Toons View details and discover the news stories that inspired the political cartoons. Post to Facebook, Twitter, or email to a friend. Save Toons Save a toon to your favorites for later. YouTube API Integration NewsToons integrates with YouTube Data API to load information about an animation’s ratings, likes, and number of views. The app also pulls from Mark’s posted YouTube playlists to display cartoons organized around a particular sociopolitical thematic. The cartoons are featured in the Playlists section. Most of the toons are pulled from a Drupal feed from...
Choices App

Choices App

The Choices App An iOS app for educational resources View In App Store About The Choices App Timeline Feature Users can scroll through the timeline section to find relevant historical dates. Tapping on an event brings up the event’s details and relevant media. Media Section Users can browse through a list of primary and secondary historical documents. Users can zoom and pan on an image, or view video interviews with professors. Development and design by...