CocoaHeads Hong Kong~ for Cocoa, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iOS developers

It’s great seeing everyone of you. Great audience in good size. 15-ish of us were in the meet up. That’s the exact right size for some meaningful, in-depth discussion on Lion.

First of all, we need to thank Talos for coming over and spend time with us. This is his personal trip and he scarified time with family to join us. We appreciate his presence a lot!

We had a great discussion. I still remember several key issues you guys raised:

• Problem with no “Save as…”. In Lion, “Version” replaced “save as”. This also brings in complication. E.g. instead of “Save as”, we have to use “duplicate”. When you “duplicate”, the file that is duplicated is not saved yet. You still need to use “save” to save the file.
• On leather interface, we mentioned about design conflict where, on one hand, Lion’s interface is toned down. On the other hand, we have this skeuomorphic leather background. None of us in the audience can find a reason to justify this design decision.

Check the video recording. We went through a lot more than above.

Additional discussion on iOS-ification:

• The Conversation #36: iOSification
• How to De-iOS-ify Mac OS X Lion
• Matias Duarte on Ice cream sandwich design philosophy

Talos is super nice to us. He handed me badges, pins and a few sketch books as souvenir. Come ask good questions on 14 Dec (RSVP). You will get to take some of these home!

Hey everyone, please meet Talos from the Iconfactory.

The Iconfactory - an indie Mac/iOS design and software company known for designing beautiful icons and interfaces for clients. In parallel with client work, they also produce a portfolio of super popular apps – Flare, Twitterific, xScope, Astronut and more.

Talos spoke last year in an interview at iPhanatic. He’s back again this year and want more with us. This time, we focus our discussion on iOS-ification.

Lion – king of the jungle is used as the code name of Mac OS 10.7.

Apple showcased this current OS in the “Back to the Mac” event in Oct 2010. The pitch, in general sense, is Apple has learnt a lot over the past several years working on iOS and it’s time to bring to great stuff “back to the Mac”.

Here comes in Lion, the list from Steve:

• Multitouch
• App Store
• App Home screens
• Full screen apps
• Auto save
• Apps resume when launched

The list goes on… “natural” scrolling, the toned down interface, iOS-style zooming in Safari, leather-like interface in iCal and Address Book…

Are these your favorite new features in Lion?

Let’s hear what Talos thinks on this current Apple interface design trend. How does he translate a Mac interface to mobile and vice versa? What are the tips to make interface scale across all screen sizes – iPad, Macbook Air and iMac? How much Mac OS X should be like iOS?

Date and Time: 14 Dec 2011, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Venue: Beansbox Studio, 48 Tung Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (Google Map)

RSVP: Facebook