Next I needed to design the add commitment screen. My solution was to move the two settings buttons into a slide out drawer. Since I ditched the card layout, that no longer made sense. In the old design the commitment card flipped over to show a few options. First that meant the delete button needed to be replaced with a settings icon. I also realized I needed to change the details view for each commitment. Another change I made was to move the secondary buttons down so they align with the bottom of the “Yes” button. This ended up being the final version of that screen. I also switched to a green button since it seemed more encouraging and reworked the icons. His is really simple, but for some reason I couldn’t think of it when I was stuck. The feedback was really great, but I especially appreciated Marco Moreno designing a better method for doing the chain. I posted what I had on Dribbble to get some feedback. I wanted to come up with a new way of displaying your chain across the bottom and even turned to pen and paper to come up with something completely new, but without any good results. And I still had the shadow/highlight beveled lines which aren’t really seen in iOS 7. Second, the marks for each day at the bottom didn’t seem to match. Which is not ideal since it is the main button you interact with. First, the red button made it look too much like a destructive action. ![]() That was starting to turn into something that would work, but with a couple problems. Next I wanted to try to match the default color schemes in iOS 7, so I used the same button color from the end call button combined with some of the other elements from the original version of Commit. Then overlaying it on a colored background with some noise and a slight gradient. I created a subtle background by taking a stock photo, desaturating it, and blurring it heavily. My next attempt was to match the call screen even more closely. So Commit.psd becomes Commit2.psd and I keep designing without worrying about losing my past work when trying something completely new. My solution is to save a new file so that I can always refer back to the current state. Though whenever I start designing down one path I am hesitant to try an entirely new direction out of fear of losing my current work. ![]() That direction wasn’t working so I scrapped it. My first attempt didn’t turn out very well. I downloaded the iOS 7 Photoshop template from Teehan + Lax and got started. Then it was time to turn to Photoshop to start designing. The first time I saw it I thought, “wow, that’s good design” and took this screenshot: I like the thin lines, high contrast, and subtle background. The active call screen is really well designed. It wasn’t until I installed the iOS 7 beta on my phone and saw this screen that I found a beautifully designed screen I wanted to emulate. There’s nothing wrong with that, but nothing inspired me to design Commit to match. They included screenshots of every app, so I paid close attention to each of the details. I also spent a lot of time looking at the design pages on Apple’s iOS 7 site. You can see the bucket I created for inspiring designs here. Since iOS 7 wasn’t out yet, that meant looking at a work in progress designs on Dribbble. The first goal was to redesign the app to make it visually match iOS 7, so I started researching other app designs. This means that you can add multiple commitments and swiping side to side moves between each commitment. The current design uses a page view controller like the weather app built in with iOS. Read the whole thing, then sign up for the form. Note: at the end of this post I have a really exciting announcement. The point of all that is that Commit was long overdue for a redesign. You can read more about the process and the massive benefits here. I started writing 1,000 words a day in March 2012, by July I had a small streak going that I’ve maintained for over 400 days. ![]() Keep track of your days in a row to build up a chain, then part of your motivation to complete the task today is to not break your chain of days in a row. The idea is that if you want to get good at something (like writing jokes) you should do it every day. It’s not the app sales (those have totaled about $10k in two years), but instead the habit that Commit has helped me form.Ĭommit is a habit building app based on Jerry Seinfield’s productivity method. This little app has made me more money (indirectly) than just about anything else I’ve done. To get your own copy of Commit for $2.99 on the App Store.Ī few years ago I designed an iPhone app called Commit.
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