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Chapter 3: Designing for the iPhone and iPad

In This Chapter

arrow Comparing the iPhone and iPad audiences

arrow Creating designs for the iPhone

arrow Creating designs for the iPad

arrow Designing for the future

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Web pages are now viewed on everything from tiny cellphone screens to projectors that can light up the side of a barn. The constraints you face when creating sites for the small iPhone screen leave many designers feeling as though they’re being asked to paint Easter eggs in a straitjacket. And even seasoned professionals find it challenging to create websites that look great on screens of every size and dimension used to access the Internet.

One of the most exciting aspects of creating websites for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is that they offer you a chance to completely rethink how you design for the Internet.

Design is highly subjective — you either love pink or you hate it and there’s ...

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