Designinterviews Eva-Lotta is a freelance User Experience Designer. She previously led the Business design team at Skype, worked as interaction designer for Yahoo! in London and as lead designer for Kahn + Associates in Paris. Besides her daytime mission of making the web a more understandable, usable and hopefully more delightful place, she loves sketching, doodling and playing around with various little side projects. In her interview to DI she shared her feelings about her in-house work experience as well as her new freelance status.
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A Useful Collection of iPhone/iPad Apps Developer Tools and Resources The iPad was the 2010 must-have gadget of the year, and the iPhone and respective iPod Touch have been incredibly popular over the last few years. It's clear that the success of these devices can be attributed to the endless number of useful, fun, and interesting applications provided by the community. There is no doubt that the Apple platform for these mobile devices has taken the world by storm and allowed us to customize as we see fit. App development for the iPad and iPhone has become more popular than ever, and tools and resources are being created every day to help the aspiring app developer along. In this post, we'll cover a collection of the most useful tutorials, GUI kits, icon sets, and more for iPad/iPhone development. Getting Started