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113: Qualified Yeses
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John and Darryl recap and grade their WWDC wish-lists and discuss changes to the Human Interface Guidelines for iOS.
WWDC Wishlist Scorecard
John
- Get serious about home automation, maybe make Apple TV an automation hub (Half Credit)
- Siri as a Service (3rd party integration) (Yes)
- Refactoring for Swift (in Xcode) (No)
- Announce date to sunset Obj-C (No)
- Xcode for iPad Pro (Half Credit)
Darryl
- More voice command vocabulary. Something like AppleScript (Half Credit)
- Make Buttons Great Again (Quarter Credit)
- Better accessibility hierarchy visualization tools built into Xcode (Three Quarters Credit)
- Additional accessibility tools for checking things like color contrast. (TBD)
- Improved dynamic font API (Yes, but not what I’d hoped for)
- Upgrade pricing/trials (No: but we got clarification on subscriptions on The Talk Show)
- Faster watch app loading. A way of deferring the most expensive parts? (Yes!)
- Simulators and Xcode bots for Linux? (Lol)
iOS 10 HIG Changes
- Widgets
- Available on “Search” and above “Quick Action List” when you 3D touch an icon on Home screen
- Panning/Scrolling not supported
- Avoid backgrounds / no background images
- Allow jump to app, but no “Open App” button. Allow interaction via content
- Messages
- Can now integrate with Message by providing a messaging extension
- Content with Focus and Value
- Constrained space
- Simple/Intuitive interface
- Integration with Siri
- Don’t
- Advertise
- Impersonate Siri
- Do
- Minimize visual/touch interactions
- Respond quickly
- Take people directly to content
- Improve accuracy via custom vocabulary
- Provide example requests
- Don’t
- Expanded Notifications
- Detail view
- Actions that make sense
- There be dragons, destructive actions
Picks
Darryl
John
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