We’re getting all the design assets for our lead apps together at a rate of knots, but one issue we have come up against, as design obsessives, is the icons for the individual apps.
As well as the issue of all editions of the app needing to have the same icon (when the app is internationally available), we have the problem that the icon must be a tiny 57×57 pixels and meet Apple’s design and interface guidelines. There are also limits on the number of characters we can use with the app on the desktop and in the store before the name is truncated. When you are working with long book titles – The Death of Bunny Munro or Dreams From My Father – you just can’t use them in full. (more…)
