PatternMusic Blog

We want to reassure all the PatternMusic fans that PatternMusic development is alive and well. We’re actively working on exciting new mobile music creation tools for the future. In the meantime… PatternMusic for iPhone and PatternMusic MXXIV for the iPad are FREE for everyone! So go out and make some music! Thanks for your continued [...]

Creating a sophisticated iPhone app involves a lot of sweat and toil. For some reason we developers tend to convince ourselves that because the program is running on a tiny 3.5 inch screen that somehow the problems of creating the software will be tiny too. It’s just not true. Developing an iPhone app of some [...]

When I worked at Apple and Claris we had sophisticated usability labs with multiple cameras and one-way mirrors to record every subtle aspect of a user’s interactions. We built and tested prototypes to validated our software interface designs. As a solo independent app developer I knew the value of these techniques, but I also knew [...]

It seems Apple is lowering the boom on iPhone apps that directly access the iPhone’s digital photo media folder.