About a year and a half ago Spotify released an iOS app that basically "ripped off" the app we designed at rdio a year and a half before that. At first I felt sad when I saw the Spotify app, sad that people just copied and didn't try to find their own new way... But it doesn't matter. I'm sure many designers would argue against this, but your UI is not your product, it's the product of millions of decisions made by millions of people over the past 20+ years.

So what if it looks the same... they all look the same, every designer is just an assembler of ideas they've seen in the past. Their ego can get in the way sometimes and make them think they made something up from nothing, but they didn't.. they just found an interesting combination, and I guarantee someone out there looks at their design and says "that's a rip-off of ____ that I designed years ago."

There are no "rip-offs" in design. None of us invented this stuff.. we are ALL ripping it off.

Sadly we're not U2, so you'll need to download it yourself.

Very little. From what I know about Swift so far with reference to developing iOS apps is that it still requires understanding the underlying frameworks that are all written in objective-c because it will be quite some time before everything is ported over... it also seems very easy to learn and I don't think it will take much time to get into the new syntax.

This year I finally made the resolution to learn a programming language… I've never coded before and started with Objective-C and Xcode since it fits most specifically to my current profession.

It has been very difficult, but an amazing learning experience and I would highly recommend it to any experienced mobile designer.

*Also keep in mind that the largest group of members of the AIGA are students and recent grads.

After spending a solid year designing the overhauled rdio iOS app and trying to find new and inventive ways to make music apps new and exciting, it was very sad to come to the realization that other companies can just copy it (albeit, quite poorly).

https://twitter.com/dlogtnarg/status/425700132122660865

Startup website sample #1 No one is doing anything new.

Exclusively mobile product.