Introducing x2y
Today I’m launching my first iOS app, x2y. While I’ve collaborated on many apps with my partners at Bombing Brain Interactive, this is the first app developed entirely by yours truly and published...
View ArticleWhy Would a Designer Want to Learn Objective-C?
I work with an amazing team at Bombing Brain Interactive. While my role there has always been visual and user experience design, along with web site development, one of my goals this year was to branch...
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It Bothered Me Enough
I was really happy that I was able to learn enough Objective-C to make my own app, put it on the App Store, and see other people getting use out of it. The response has been great so far, and I’m...
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Designing x2y for iPad
The first big challenge in designing the iPad version of x2y was the placement of the controls. Looking at all that screen real estate, you are tempted to concentrate only on the visual aesthetic and...
View Articlex2y Updated to Version 1.3
I made a few small tweaks to x2y this week. Haven’t had time to work on any major new features lately, but there is always room for small improvements. I realized that somehow one of the ratio...
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x2y Version 1.4
When I released x2y 1.0 last year there were only two major features it didn’t have that really bothered me. The first was full iPad support, which I managed to add in version 1.2. The second was the...
View ArticleA Step Towards the Visceral
I surprised myself last week by working up yet another new version of x2y. I thought it would be a few months before I had a chance to finish up the optimizations and polishing I wanted to do for 1.5....
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Course Correction
I’ve been looking closely at iOS 7, and like many designers I have mixed feelings. Some of the changes, like the expanded use of motion, are a breath of fresh air. Animation is coming to the forefront...
View Articlex2y Version 2.1
One thing that I wanted to be certain didn’t happen when I started working on Fin was the neglecting my first app, x2y. While x2y has a great feature set and just this summer received a UI overhaul for...
View ArticleRiccardo Mori's Essential iOS Apps
Riccardo Mori » My essential iOS apps — Part 1: “This article may disappoint some people. It doesn’t want to be an in-depth guide to ‘The 30 best iOS apps you must have on your iPhone or iPad’. It’s...
View ArticleThumb Gymnastics - x2y 2.2
One thing that has bugged me since I got my first 4-inch iPhone is the “thumb gymnastics” involved whenever I need to reach a control that’s near the top of the screen. You know what I mean. Holding...
View Articlex2y Version 3.0
Today, I’m releasing version 3.0 of x2y, my aspect ratio calculator for iOS. As I’ve said before, I want to continually find ways to improve this app, as it’s something I use regularly myself. When I...
View Articlex2y version 4
It was all the way back at WWDC 2014 that my friend Hans vershooten suggested what eventually became the marquis feature of x2y 4.0: Percentages. x2y has always been able to calculate x or y dimensions...
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