Hello MacRumors citizens...
We set out to build an app that lets users create beautiful, elegant and effective resumes using your iPhone or iPad. It's called RadResume, and you can get it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radresume-create-professional/id735065382?ls=1&mt=8
Our app is free and comes with 4 resume templates + 6 additional in-app purchasable templates.
RadResume features include:
We know this app isn't for everyone, but if you're applying for a job where you think not only the content of your resume but also the way it looks matters, give our app a try.
This is version 1.0 and we have plans for adding many other features and templates in the coming months, but in the meanwhile we would love to hear all of your feedback.
p.s. some users have asked whether we collect your resume data, and the answer is a resounding NO... we don't even have the ability to see any of it.
We would love to hear everyone's feedback, thanks for reading and checking out our app.
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Here's some screenshots from our app:
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Here's some things we learned during the design and development process:
DESIGN:
DEVELOPMENT:
We set out to build an app that lets users create beautiful, elegant and effective resumes using your iPhone or iPad. It's called RadResume, and you can get it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radresume-create-professional/id735065382?ls=1&mt=8
Our app is free and comes with 4 resume templates + 6 additional in-app purchasable templates.
RadResume features include:
- Import your info from LinkedIn to quickly generate your resume.
- Add or edit any resume details manually.
- Add, edit and re-arrange unlimited sections.
- Export your resume & cover letter in PDF format.
- E-Mail your resume & cover letter directly to potential employers from your iOS device.
- Send your PDF resume to your Dropbox account.
- Print your resume directly from your iOS device.
- Easily duplicate your resumes & cover letters and adjust as necessary for each new potential employer.
- Use one of our beautifully designed templates to create a professional, stylish and effective resume that will stand out from the rest of the pile.
- Choose to include a cover letter or remove it entirely.
- Choose to start or end your PDF resume with your cover letter.
- Each resume template comes with multiple colour themes.
- Easily arrange and re-arrange each of your resume sections.
We know this app isn't for everyone, but if you're applying for a job where you think not only the content of your resume but also the way it looks matters, give our app a try.
This is version 1.0 and we have plans for adding many other features and templates in the coming months, but in the meanwhile we would love to hear all of your feedback.
p.s. some users have asked whether we collect your resume data, and the answer is a resounding NO... we don't even have the ability to see any of it.
We would love to hear everyone's feedback, thanks for reading and checking out our app.
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Here's some screenshots from our app:
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Here's some things we learned during the design and development process:
DESIGN:
- There are lots of great tools out there to get your started, Photoshop, and other image editors, and countless wire-framing tools and iOS design tools, many of which are available in the app store as well, but regardless of what tool you use to design your app, the key thing to remember is that you need to define use cases and really put in a lot of effort up front to understand how your app will flow from screen to screen.
- Designing for iPhone vs. iPad really is quite different. The iPad, because of its form factor and size really lends itself much better to certain applications than others. If you're going to build a universal app, I highly suggest you take the time to think about how your UI and UX will differ between an iPhone and iPad.
- Take the time to sweat the details. It may be cliched... but even a simple and polished app will make a much better impression than something that is bloated with features but was obviously rushed out the door. Pixel perfect precision is essential to a good UI and UX experience.
- Take the time to think about who you will market your app to. Put in the effort required to garner some downloads... we see so many developers build and app, release it and just hope for the best. Unless you get EXTREMELY lucky your app will likely go unnoticed.
- Like on the web, with fewest clicks, when designing your app try to think about the least amount of taps it takes a user to accomplish something. (obviously this does not apply to games).
- Test, test and test some more. Get your friends to test, get strangers to test. Find and fix as many bugs as possible. It's unlikely that you'll find them all, but your app should be as polished as humanly possible. Don't worry, once your users start downloading your app, they'll likely find the rest and you can respond quickly to fix them to avoid negative reviews.
DEVELOPMENT:
- We would highly recommend PaintCode if youre doing iOS development and are in need of coding up dynamic graphics. We wrote a whole blog post about it and why it's so great for this purpose: http://www.radresumeapp.com/enter-paintcode/
- StackOver flow does not always provide the best solution for a problem you're having or something you can't figure out... or even provide the right solution even if the answer is highly rated. So be mindful of wasting time with the incorrect solution.
- Auto-layout is greatly under appreciated.
- Doing as much UI configuration in the Storyboard is highly advised if you're building a Universal app. Pushing everything off to the Storyboard means you don't need specific iPad/iPhone outlets/code in your controllers to handle UI needs for each device.
- Don't forget to use Instruments in Xcode to analyze the performance of your app.