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Fabio Staiano
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Fabio Staiano

Fabio Staiano is an experienced interface designer and Figma Community Advocate from Italy. After having been part of the creative agency Geko for several years, he later became a partner, creating digital products for well-known brands and running local events for the creative community. He then began his career in education in 2016, at The Guru Lab, teaching students about user interface and web design. In 2019, he decided to face new challenges by deepening his development skills at the Apple Developer Academy, where he specializes in frontend development and publishes various apps and boilerplate. Currently, he works as a consultant for IT projects and teaches at private design schools.
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Adjusting the interface for tablets

In this section, you will take a step further and learn how to design your tablet app using ready-made Hi-Fi mock-ups for your mobile app. You will discover the best methods for adapting your design to significantly higher resolutions so that it looks great in all views, from simple to complex.

In the previous section of the chapter, you saw how a fluid layout adapts to different mobile resolutions, so it was pretty easy to properly configure our interface for each smartphone model in the presets. But just because our interface can scale automatically doesn't mean it will look good on larger devices, such as the iPad, without additional adjustments. Want to see a practical example?

The following screenshot shows the Login screen of the app immediately after switching to the iPad preset, without additional changes to the originally existing interface design:

Figure 8.13 – Testing the Login view on iPad

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Fabio Staiano

Fabio Staiano is an experienced interface designer and Figma Community Advocate from Italy. After having been part of the creative agency Geko for several years, he later became a partner, creating digital products for well-known brands and running local events for the creative community. He then began his career in education in 2016, at The Guru Lab, teaching students about user interface and web design. In 2019, he decided to face new challenges by deepening his development skills at the Apple Developer Academy, where he specializes in frontend development and publishes various apps and boilerplate. Currently, he works as a consultant for IT projects and teaches at private design schools.
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