Use when starting or adapting an Apple-platform app or game, choosing platform conventions, evaluating core design principles, or designing for iPhone Duo display poses.
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name: apple-hig-getting-started
description: Use when starting or adapting an Apple-platform app or game, choosing platform conventions, evaluating core design principles, or designing for iPhone Duo display poses.
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# Apple HIG: Platform and task adaptation
Use this family to select and compose topic procedures. Infer the platform and
requested work from the supplied project; preserve its framework and constraints.
## Work through the decision
1. Identify the person’s primary task and the target platform before translating a screen. Read that platform’s procedure; use Principles to resolve hierarchy and Designing for games only for gameplay.
2. Compare navigation, window/scene model, primary input, attention duration and state restoration. Preserve the product task while changing the interaction appropriate to the destination platform.
3. For device changes such as opening an iPhone Duo or resizing an iPad window, specify what selection, editing state and route survive each transition.
4. Deliver a platform-decision matrix or an adaptation patch, with concrete acceptance scenarios for each materially different interaction.
## Enter the topic procedure
Read the selected topic’s SKILL.md before its supporting guidance. For a review,
inspect actual evidence and return findings; for an implementation request, make
the authorized change; for design or adaptation, produce a usable specification
or patch. Load related topics only when the chosen procedure calls for them.
- [Design principles](.topics/apple-hig-design-principles/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for games](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-games/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for iOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-ios/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for iPadOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-ipados/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for iPhone Duo](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-iphone-duo/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for macOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-macos/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for tvOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-tvos/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for visionOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-visionos/SKILL.md)
- [Designing for watchOS](.topics/apple-hig-designing-for-watchos/SKILL.md)
## Completion evidence
Report the concrete decisions or changes, their source support, and which checks
passed, failed or were not executed. A source citation or a list of links is not
the requested work product. Retain platform exceptions and unresolved source
conflicts; the absence of a platform subsection does not establish support.
