Designing for iOS with Sketch

Chapter    5

Prepping for App Design

So far, we have covered most of the basics of Sketch. You should now be familiar with the program and how it works—its interface, how to create basic shapes, and how to perform various design actions that will come in handy when you start designing your app. What we’ve done thus far is basically to expand upon the basic instructions and documentation provided by Bohemian Coding. This, however, does not an app make. In this chapter, we will prepare you for the actual design of your app.

The Human Interface Guidelines

The first thing that you want to do is to make sure that you have familiarized yourself with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIGs). Although I’ve alluded to them in previous chapters, if you ...