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Title:

Best iPhone Apps: Ingredients for Apps that Delight

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Organizer:
Josh Clark, Global Moxie
Description:
For his O'Reilly book and website, "Best iPhone Apps," Josh Clark stress-tested thousands of apps. Discover the design patterns, principles, inventive interfaces and clever insights that combine to make the best apps. Join in this free-wheeling app fandango to uncover the eye-popping features of the best apps.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What are the key design patterns of the best iPhone apps?
  2. Why is USA Today the best news app, and what can developers learn from a carpenter's calculator app?
  3. How does iPhone change the way people work and play, and how do the best apps fit into those new work styles and habits?
  4. What do a global map of public toilets, a Parisian bicycle finder, and a listing of local concerts have in common? What do they tell us about how precise personal context transforms our relationship to information?
  5. What are the most amazing apps you've never heard of?
  6. Why are delight, beauty, and all-around adorability especially important in an iPhone app?
  7. How does a hiking app blaze the trail for savvy handling of offline and online usage patterns?
  8. With photo, video, and voice, the iPhone makes typing (and even reading) so last century; how do the best iPhone apps change the way we express and process information?
  9. How do the best apps make clever use of free web services like Last.fm, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and others, to create rich tapestries of personalized data? What are the pitfalls of using these APIs for developers and users?
  10. Why are App Store reviews so lousy at helping to identify great apps or aiding developers to make them? Who's the market for the best apps?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Design Thinking, Interface Design, Mobile Applications, User Experience, Visual Design
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
Ellen McBreen
on 18/8/09
This sounds fantastic!
Josh Clark
on 19/8/09
So I've taken a hard look at *lots* of apps. Writing the "Best iPhone Apps" book for O'Reilly, I reviewed thousands of them (deftly sidestepping every fart-sound app). Somewhere in all that tapping, flicking, and swiping, I uncovered an alchemy of design patterns, clever insights, and cultural shifts that create recipes not only for useful apps but for genuinely delightful mobile experiences. This talk is aimed at app developers interested in designing remarkable, forehead-slapping apps, but also at civilian iPhone enthusiasts interested in exploring the eye-popping things their favorite gadget can do.

As the list of topics suggests, the talk will explore a variety of apps, including many under-the-radar apps that haven't received the attention they deserve. I'll examine nitty-gritty interface innovations useful for detailed design work, but also pull back to review how the iPhone introduces opportunities for new kinds of personal computing -- and how these new perspectives should inform app design.

Me, I'm a designer and developer with a pair of O'Reilly books under my belt. I write about iPhone apps for Forbes and other folks. You can find out more about me on my bio page at O'Reilly:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3636

Here's the Best iPhone Apps Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-iPhone-Apps-Discriminating-Downloaders/dp/059680427X

And hey, if you like this talk, please check out my other talk proposal, "Nerds on the Run: Tech and Casual Fitness":
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4966

Thanks for voting!
Josh
Richard Anthony
on 19/8/09
Very interesting topic. Apps on the iPhone are a game-changer and has permanently altered the way I (and many others) interact with my cell phone.
Chris Nicholson
on 19/8/09
I read Josh's book Best iPhone Apps and it changed my relationship with the iPhone. Amazing stuff, and funny too.
Peter Meyers
on 19/8/09
Of the 50 or so books I've been involved with at O'Reilly during my 5 years at the company, this ranks up in my top 3 all-time favorites. Sure, I'm biased, I edited this baby....but Josh is an incredibly talented guy -- great writer, great designer, great presenter. This would be a really fun and informative panel!
MARY JOHNSON
on 21/8/09
I LOVE IT!
Leo Abbett
on 21/8/09
Josh's insights are always outtasight(ouch)but i am using his app info on my ipod touch--great tips
a serafin
on 21/8/09
This guide is indispensable for anyone with an iPhone.
Ursula Ostrom
on 21/8/09
Fan of the book. Would welcome opportunity to hear Josh live.
Sam Minston
on 21/8/09
I prepared to sell my remaining kidney to hear Josh speak, his book is that good.
Nancy Griffin
on 21/8/09
The book and website are great stuff - but Josh in person is not to be missed!
Ken Dyar
on 21/8/09
I LOVE THIS BOOK! I have not met anyone who has an iPhone who does not love the iPhone. "Best iPhone Apps" helps personalize your iPhone but also makes the device so much more productive. I love how Josh Clark thinks and relates to people!
David VanEsselstyn
on 21/8/09
This is vital material, and Josh Clark is a rare talent. Wouldn't surprise me at all if this were one of the presentations everyone was talking about at sxsw 2010. Extremely excited for this!
Ken Dyar
on 21/8/09
I have met and talked with Josh Clark. If anybody chooses to not hear or meet with Josh Clark they are a fool!
james parrack
on 22/8/09
Josh Clark is a legend; smart and funny and life without josh's guide to the world of iphone apps is like a broken pencil: pointless.
Ellen Livingood
on 23/8/09
Practial AND creative. It's a 10!
Kevin Molloy
on 23/8/09
Josh is awesome!
Jennifer Ball
on 24/8/09
I hear nothing but awesome about Josh Clark. He is a Renaissance man fitting for sxsw.
Brad Randlett
on 24/8/09
I hear Josh has downloaded a few iPhone apps.
Elizabeth Millard
on 25/8/09
Truly, this book completes me!
Charlotte Griffin
on 26/8/09
Love this man! He continues to be creative in all the needed areas of the time!
Sandra Ball
on 28/8/09
This is a MUST have, easy to use book. Every app I have added so far on Josh's recommendation has proven great. Any panel with Josh will be dynamic!
katie hornstein
on 30/8/09
what a dynamic topic!
Kristen Laakso
on 2/9/09
Would love to hear the author talk more about how iPhone apps change how we live and work. The book gives you a good idea, but there seems to be much more to be said on the topic.
Susan Lawrence
on 2/9/09
Josh is a genius - this will surely be a can't miss talk.
lori cohen
on 2/9/09
Happy to give Josh a thumbs up. He is most amazing. Wish I could be there for the talk.
Simon Le Geyt
on 2/9/09
Josh is the man - get along to see him in action at SXSW
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
Josh Clark
on 1/12/09
News flash! A revised version of this talk will be presented as part of SXSW's three-hour iPhone workshop. You can find more info about the new talk, as well as the workshop, over here:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5189
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