How should I design an iPad app using Apple's HIG?

Apple's HIG recommends using sidebars instead of bottom tab bars on iPadOS, supporting split views for multitasking, and adding pointer interactions. Apple HIG Skills provides instant, AI-ready guidance on all iPadOS conventions.

What are Apple's guidelines for adding Apple Pay?

Apple's HIG specifies exact payment button placement, flow design, error states, and UX patterns required for App Store approval. Apple HIG Skills gives your AI agent access to the full Apple Pay design guidelines.

How do I make my Apple app accessible?

Apple's HIG requires support for VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, sufficient color contrast ratios, and motor accessibility features like Switch Control. Apple HIG Skills covers all accessibility foundations and requirements.

How do I design for visionOS and Apple Vision Pro?

Apple's HIG for visionOS covers ornaments, volumes, immersive spaces, eye tracking, and spatial interaction patterns. Apple HIG Skills includes dedicated visionOS platform guidance and spatial layout references.

What are Apple's dark mode design guidelines?

Apple's HIG specifies using system semantic colors, material backgrounds, elevated surfaces, and vibrancy for dark mode. Apps should test in both modes and avoid hard-coded color values. Apple HIG Skills covers the full dark mode specification.

How should I design notifications for iOS apps?

Apple's HIG covers notification grouping, Live Activities, action buttons, and respecting user attention. Apple HIG Skills provides guidelines for the full notification system including widgets and complications.

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Charting data

Analyzing trends based on historical or predicted values
Visualizing the current state of a process, system, or quantity that changes over time
Evaluating different items — or the same item at different times — by comparing data across multiple categories

Best practices

Use a chart when you want to highlight important information about a dataset.

Keep a chart simple, letting people choose when they want additional details.

Make every chart in your app accessible.

Designing effective charts

In general, prefer using common chart types.

If you need to create a chart that presents data in a novel way, help people learn how to interpret the chart.

Examine the data from multiple levels or perspectives to find details you can display to enhance the chart.

Aid comprehension by adding descriptive text to the chart.

Match the size of a chart to its functionality, topic, and level of detail.

Prefer consistency across multiple charts, deviating only when you need to highlight differences.

Maintain continuity among multiple charts that use the same data.

Charting data

Charting data

Best practices

Designing effective charts

Platform considerations

Resources

Developer documentation

Videos

Change log

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