Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful

[binaryorganic]

"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making design decisions for your app. Period.

[mootothemax]

"No design skills required!" is not something you should read when making design decisions for your app. Period.

So what's your alternative? Either investing a load of time in learning, or a load of money in hiring a designer?

If you don't have the time/money/talent, this solves a very real problem.

[wmeredith]

Yes, that should throw all the same flags that, "No programming skills required" would if you were looking at something that promised you could build an amazing iOS app. It's marketing bullshit. Either the skills are required or it's not amazing.

[danielhughes]

Looks great. I'm quite tempted to buy this. But I have a few questions:

1) Is a tab bar included?

2) What other iOS controls have you styled and included in the kit?

3) I see some icons depicted in the screenshots. Are those included? If so, what other icons are available?

4) Any plans to target iPad?

[cpursley]

+1 on all 4 points.

[niico]

Use the 'hackernews' promo code to get a 29$ off on the Full UI + xCode project pack.

[Bill_Dimm]

promo code to get a 29$ off

I find it weird to offer $29 off, rather than $30 off. The whole point of having a price end in 9 like $29 is to take advantage of people thinking "It's like $20" (cheap!) rather than "It's like $30" (expensive). But, since this is a discount you want to make it look as high as possible, not as low as possible.

[Kudos]

How easy is it to change aspects like the colour in the Xcode project?

I'm interested in seeing the source, do you offer a refund if I don't find it satisfactory?

[tehwebguy]

Looks awesome! Just bought the Full UI + xCode and started to play with it.

It seems to be missing a "Sharing" folder in "xCode Project/"

[davidkatz]

detailed screenshots needed. can you email me at hi at davidkatz dot me?

[epaga]

Love the look of the site. A few remarks/questions:

* Is there a possibility to get PNGs in addition to PSDs?

* It's Xcode, not xCode.

* What exactly is in the Xcode project already? A storyboard? Any functionality?

[eddieroger]

I don't know the answer to number 1, since I haven't purchased, but expecting that everything is properly layered and labeled, Slicy [0] would be a good thing to have around. It really makes communicating with Photoshop a ton easier for both designers and developers. (Not affiliated with MacRabbit, but I love Slicy)

[0] http://macrabbit.com/slicy/

[marknutter]

Kind of like Twitter Bootstrap but you have to pay for it.

[bennyg]

Makes me want to create an open source, but free version of nice Xcode UI templates with documentation.

[cpursley]

This is much nicer than bootstrap.

[kybernetyk]

> beautiful

For some values of beautiful that is.

[pretz]

If you can't get the capitalization of Xcode's name right, can I trust your code?

[danielgrieve]

You're right, that is definitely an indicator that his code is absolutely horrible. He should have spent more time obsessing over which letter to capitalize.

[mcabral]

I'm using Chrome on Windows and I'm noticing that when I have my Chrome window on one half of the screen, the responsive design breaks a bit. Basically, if I try to scroll to the right, about 1/4th of the "Ready-to-Code XCode" is cut off.

See: http://imgur.com/JnOp2CE

[BHSPitMonkey]

I'm not quite understanding this. How does getting handed a .psd template help me make the app? Is this simply one possible alternative to the stock UIKit skin that's been packaged up as an idea to reuse? (Like Bootstrap, if Bootstrap was just a Photoshop document instead of usable CSS/HTML?)

[thomaslutz]

A followup on the marketing effect of this post regarding visitors, sales, etc. would be useful.

[yoda_sl]

Kind of remind me of App Design Vault: http://www.appdesignvault.com/

Not associated to that site, simply got a few existing templates a few months back when there was a super promo discount.

[Evenjos]

I'd like to see a site that matches designers and artists up with mobile developers.

[ryandetzel]

So now the app store is going to be flooded with apps with all the same design. :-P

[sandofsky]

The hamburger menu is a pretty bad anti-pattern in iOS design.

Worse, in the screen shot, there are only five items. They could fit in a conventional iOS tab bar, which is significantly less clunky to navigate.

[S_A_P]

This looks very much like the capital one mobile app...

[cpursley]

This is actually pretty nice. Considering buying xcode version. Would be better with a video overview of working xcode project.

[alexgaribay]

This looks great. I love the flat design of the site. And I love the UI design. It looks very clean and minimal to me.

[andrewroycarter]

This is really cool- I'd love to see a lot of different templates to choose from!

[niico]

As this first test was quite successful, I will be releasing new UI templates soon. Also will be working on different platforms such as Android and iPad.

[BaconJuice]

How about an Android version?

[niico]

Sure, I wanted to "test the waters" before releasing other versions. But definitely will release an android version!

[holgersindbaek]

Looks cool. What exactly does the Xcode project consists of though?