Kyle Stewart over at BinarySheep.com seems to feel the same way about the lack of HI guidelines. He's drafted his own guidelines off of the iPhone HIG documentation - looks pretty good, but there's lots left to add:
http://www.binarysheep.com/?p=108 - Ben On Jan 8, 3:54 am, Michael Rueger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/8/2010 7:57 AM, Ben Gotow wrote: > > > Hey everybody, > > > I'm porting an iPhone app to Android and I'm having trouble designing > > an interface that looks and feels "Android." I've read all of the > > design documents in the Android Dev Guide and looked through all the > > Google-designed apps, but I feel like the layout of activities is > > largely undefined. Are there any resources that could help me > > transition my iPhone design to the Android platform? > > The Android UI guidelines describe some details way beyond what Apple > does, but then leave the overall look and feel to the app developer. So > detailed *design* guidelines, but almost no *interaction design* guidelines. > > IMHO this is what you generally get from a through and through > engineering company (every seen GE or Siemens do great > designs?):http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html > > I've been struggling with this myself and while I think some of the UI > principles for the iPhone are thought out to be nicer and more > consistent (just try getting an app past the app store review) it is > comforting to know that especially the built-in apps on the iPhone are > as inconsistent/bad as the ones on Android ;-) > Which doesn't answer our need for interaction design howtos... > > > At any rate, does anyone know of existing resources that might help me > > out? What's the best designed app you've used for Android? A few > > examples of great "Android" interfaces would go a long way. > > Agree, would be curious myself :-) > > Just MTC > > Michael
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