Sergio Panagia

I'm Sergio Panagìa. User Experience Designer and Web Developer.

Recent articles

Web apps or PhoneGap: SQL local storage + iUI. A live Demo.

Some month ago I posted an article named Into PhoneGap: an example of API-aware native iPhone app with HTML5 and SQL local database and several readers asked me for the full source code of the example app.

In this post I would like to do more. In recent times I had to chance to work a lot on mobile apps based on web technologies, so I came in iUI framework.
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Transiting from native iOs apps to webapps: 5 top design patterns

Web apps optimized for mobile devices may now count on specific, advanced functions offered by a cross synergy between edge-features browsers and hardware producer: HTML5, low-level events implementation for touchable surfaces etc..
This gives designers huge opportunities to create new products based on web technologies, often replicating native app UI.
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Introducing Slideup: An iOs-like panel built for iUI framework

Mobile web application libraries are dividing in two main groups: lightweight libraries and complex and (often heavy) application framework with extended UI support.

Introduction

A good point of balance is iUI – a web UI framework for mobile devices. It offers a really basic, but very functional, navigation system between pages (the classic left-to-right and right-to-left swipe effect when transiting page). At this time is still a beta and there is some work to be done.
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