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Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas iPhone App

Overview
   This was a very structured app I was to design for SSEK (Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas). What was interesting to me on the development of this app was the focus on stocks. There was a fairly quick turn-around on this, but I believe it came out clean and has a very professional/formal look&feel to it. I used the Yahoo Stocks API with JSON/NSURLConnections to pull in stock data, and parsed the data manually. For the high scores, I used PHP with a mySQL database.
   The highlight feature for me is a toss up between the navigation/transitions of the different sections, and the coin/badge designs. Touching a section name would slide open the usable rectangle, respectively pushing up or down on the other section bars in a smooth transition. I created this functionality because I wanted to push away from much of the default iOS development functionality that's often used for this (UINavigationControllers, etc.). I feel it's important to get out of your comfort zone often in order to improve.
   On the coin/badge design I just had fun designing. There needed to be a badge system for earning more money and reaching high scores. It seemed like a perfect fit to use coins for the badges, and I got a chance to un-earth my childhood love for coin collecting. I scanned in a bunch of my old rare coins, along with some common ones, and started swapping elements. I tried to pick contrasting design elements to come up with some interesting coins. I'd like to go back into this as a project in itself and get a chance to polish up some areas and create many more.

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