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06 May 2023
So many nice details in the Airbnb 2023 Summer Release. The playful animation used for onScroll and onTap for the Host Passport is delightful.
It’s interesting to increasingly see the return of skeuomorphic design in releases from the past year or so. Arc browser mobile, Apple Books, Hipstamatic (2023), Halide, Flighty, (Not Boring) apps are a few great examples that come to mind.
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10 April 2023
Increasingly, I’m started to think of SwiftUI as a design tool that helps define no-missing-pieces design hand-off. Not all parts of a design are visible, and tools like Figma are great to displaying a particular state, dimension and data set, however these will always have their limits. No matter how diligent the designer behind them, during implementation there will be a fair amount of reading between the lines that engineers will need to do to fully realise a design.
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09 April 2023
Blend modes are something I’m used to seeing in apps like Figma, but in SwiftUI it’s amazing to interact with this effect in real time.
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09 April 2023
The quality and attention to detail in Splatoon 3 is inspiring. This is a rabbit hole I’ll keep falling down.
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02 April 2023
Today I discovered, JSON Viewer, a ‘native Mac app to visualise, validate and format JSON datasets in a clean and snappy interface’.
In my test case I opened a 4 MB JSON file containing 97,296 lines of data and it loaded quickly with syntax highlighting and the ability to easily expand and collapse nodes.
25 March 2023
The new Hipstamatic is one of the best of examples of quality iOS design in 2023.
It’s full of moments of delight and craft, with tasteful animations throughout.
Also, leveraging App Clips on the web as a sub-step between web pages and the App Store feels right. Users get a chance to get a feel for your app without getting redirected and having to go through the whole process of entering their Apple ID and starting a download. Try it here.
Links: http://hipstamatic.com/x/