Holding a Starbucks cup in front of an out of do I monitor, displaying Xcode, with lines of Swift present.

SwiftUI is really good. (Stop booing me, I’m right.) However, there comes a time when you may look at your app and think, “this reeks of SwiftUI.” System-provided list layouts, the same typography, the same colors as every other app.

Plussing your iOS app

https://lickability.com/blog/plussing-your-ios-app/

A centered iPad Pro, showing off Marker, with a left sidebar with various "sessions" in a list. Active sessions are top aligned. an 
"Inactive Sessions" sub list follows.

The main view contains a current Timestamp, reading: "00:13:37", followed by a smaller middle aligned text reading: "Last Marker 15M Ago".

Vertically below that, is the History section, which contains a wheel of markers during the session in a "xM ago • MarkerName" Format.

In the upper right corner we have a vertical bar with 3 buttons, top to bottom:
"Feedback, Stats, Settings".

In the bottom right corner we have a "Action" Button, which expands out to display a list of actions.

Why we changed one of our most important features — then changed it back.

There and back again: the product dilemma

Showcasing the 5 featured plugins on Elgato’s new ”Marketplace” App Store.

From left to right: Discord by Elgato, Spotify by BarRaider, Voicemod by Voicemod S.L, Shortcuts by SENTINELITE, & Microsoft Teams by Microsoft.

Chris W. Griffith on Adobe Forums:
"XD is no longer available as a stand-alone download. If you have a certifacte for it for your course, contact the course admins or Adobe support. XD is effectively sunseted. I strongly recommend you learn another actively supported tool for your design work."

iPhone centered ontop of a red table with roses & rose petals. The screen is showing an "Open" button, inside the TestFlight App.

the note taking app, Bear’s theme selection, with 6 vertically stacked themes in a presented sheet.

Top to bottom:
Red Graphite (White background with red accents)
High Contrast (White background with blue accents)
Dark Graphite (Dark Gray background with blue accents)
Charcoal (Gray background with light, washed blue accents)
Solarized Light (Yellowish-White background with dark gold accents)
Solarized Dark (Dark blue-ish green background with dark green accents)

Two custom toolbars.

The left version has 4x buttons aligned left-to-right: Sidebar, Feedback, Stats, Settings.

The right version has a vertical sidebar, that respects the safe area (the status bar), top-to-bottom: Feedback, Stats, Settings.

3, 3d iPhone mockups with a various screens from Marker, ontop of a colorful, washed-sky blue & golden hour orange pastel, gradient.

Snippet form the newsletter reading: “I’m really enjoying Read.cv and their little social network app Posts.cv — mostly centered around designers, but it’s fun seeing all the apps and web design all these people are coming up with.” – Christopher

An iPhone showing a medium iOS widget, displaying the current Apex map rotation, with text reading "Stormpoint -> World's Edge". 

Followed by a vertical list of friends & their online status, as well as their current rank.

There are two Legend Stats widgets, displaying the legend with a vibrant gradient, with their name in the upper left corner. A large image of the legend in present on the left 2/3rds. On the right side we have a list of currently equipped trackers for that legend, as well as their stats.

Marker's main window, floating next to a kitchen stove. The current time displays "13:37".

My musings about calendars and their untapped potential. 

The Concept of Calendars and Their Potential Evolution - Ömer Uzun

A notification reading:
"We've received your application.

Thank you for your interest. We'll get back to you soon with your status."

Gone are the days of leaving your `todos` for dead 💀 With Code To Task, you can automate task creation right from your code comments.

Code to Task: Turn // todo into tasks - Height

https://height.app/blog/code-to-task-turn-todo-into-tasks

We now support dark mode in Footprint docs! Added a few other UI candies too 🌚 🌝. Code-only illustrations are a one-way road. The quality you get from building them from scratch is incomparable to any png!

We just released Clay profiles, which beautifully showcase your professional background. 

With Clay profiles, you can share your social links, bio, work history, and recent news with your network. 

Sign-up and claim your handle at http://clay.earth!

Coding time!

Can you guess what I’m drinking!?

Dropping this here on Posts first:

Wish you were a little better about staying in touch with friends? I made an app to help. Get it on TestFlight and let me know what you think: https://catchup.chrsl.net

New blog post: Plussing your iOS app https://lickability.com/blog/plussing-your-ios-app/

Long term, abstract goals have their place (“anchor designs around your brand's visual style!”) but sometimes, you deserve a little objectivity. As a treat.

New work added to my site, Muriel case study is up 👇

Learned a lot along the way, many mistakes were made in the stack and approach we chose, some that we're still recovering from. Regardless, excited for people to finally see some of this stuff

https://xander.xyz/muriel

Had a pretty successful design direction meeting for Marker. 

Think I’m going to bite the bullet & give Figma a go! 👀

I've designed two simple looping animations for the Layers logo. 

I also share my latest designs on Layers. Feel free to check out my profile to see what I've been working on:
layers.to/pixelamiri

Forgot to share this, but last month I finally shared my little red pandas!!! 🎉

15 Months in the making, the Red Panda Stickerpack is out now!

(A few free codes to follow)

Now time for the story:

Looking for design critiques!

(Also trying to get better at presenting my work)

Marker's an app to keep track of key moments during a livestream, lecture, podcast, etc.

From there, you can export in various formats to speed up your post workflows, assignments.

i keep having a lot of fun with gradients!
sound on, i feel like it synched pretty well 🙃

Did y’all know that in Safari you can just download any font on a website and use it?!?

Develop > Show Web Inspector > Fonts > Save File

BOOM. 🤯

I wrote an internal memo at Arc about how our tabs should work.

We made a change a few months ago, then realized it was wrong and changed it back today.

The questions it raised are ones that come up in almost every decision we make, so I thought it would be cool to share here.

Arc Search’s gradient “loading” animation. 🌈

Been fighting with SwiftData (Cloud-Sync) so app progress has been slow the past week or so…

This API (while nice) needed more time. I’m floored Apple shipped this, respectively.

It’s *so* close to being perfect, though!

I don't usually post this kind of stuff here, but...

I'm ecstatic that my plugin is on the front page of Elgato's (Beta) Marketplace!

A lot more work for Version 2, but it's coming along & I've been running it daily! 👀

All-new cursor-follow particles component for Framer — cursor-follow.framer.website It allows you to link a design element and generate a grid of design particles, which you can animate by hovering over.

All the recent advancements in technology is incredibly exciting & inspiring, however...

I can't help but feel like we're silo'ing ourselves off. These companies & models dictate what we can envision, create, & talk about. Important topics. 1/2

This weekened @ssbittle asked us to share more of our roadmap, so making this little thread of 3 things we have planned for this year!

Working on membership cards for my upcoming 
Framer project 🪄

Felt like sharing this here... Adobe XD is sunsetting. 🥲

So today I took a stab to visualise what's really in my head as I compose music for Sound System. Not live yet. Sound on, by the way.

Finally got access to Big Mail! (V2)

I haven't CMD+R'd that much in soooo long! 😅

What apps have the best customization/theme’ing UI/UX!? 

Currently working on mine & looking for inspiration! 👀

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Kinda loved the rounded corner, but it didn't feel right with the safe areas…

Straight from the archives! Some older, creative explorations for Marker!

Marker x Sonoma.

Coming to a Mac near you, soon.™

Christopher beat me to it! Read/Posts got featured in The Verge's 5th "Installer" newsletter, by David Pierce! Cc @andy

Aaaand Action... Marker x iPhone 15! 👀

// Design doesn't stop at how it looks, it's also how it feels, & sounds. Marker's been a labor of love these past few years. From numerous design changes, rewrites, etc. It's a living, breathing piece of software.

I know a lot of people already know about this… but in case you didn’t…

• Go to Google
• Search for “dog”
• Touch the paw
• Touch anywhere on the screen

you’re welcome. ☺️
(Also works with searching for “cat”!)

I'm a life-long gamer, as such, here's some widgets for Apex that I've been sitting on for quite some time!

Looks like a fun lil' project to hack on! Should I? 👀

Sidebar explorations for my Elgato StreamDeck Plugin. I feel like this is far more superior to the standard interface.

I'll be able to provide dynamic sizing & more accessibility-focused features!

An earlier, more stable build of Marker running on Vision Pro's sim! 👀

My take on SwiftUI's new Content Transition API, for Marker!

(Still need to do another round of polish around the editing experience, but I hope it's feeling familiar!)

Inspired by: @haneenmahdin 👀

By combining the concepts of calendars, diary and the data from self-tracking apps, we could transform it to a tool that not only for scheduling future events, but also a time machine that could learn from our past behaviours and would offer profound insights.

had fun today designing these cute smileys. there's never too much gradients AND pop art 🌈

What are some of your most used or best designed Live Activities!?

Really productive (75M) meeting with someone at Elgato. Talked about accessibility, which is very near & dear to me.

& Software should be fun, right!?

🤞🏼Fingers crossed, it's been a long time coming... 👀

Kinda a full circle moment for me, so I'm hoping...

Just messing around with some assets/animations for my app; Marker.

This might be one of the smartest integrations I've seen... Shoutout to the Height team for this one!

https://height.app/blog/code-to-task-turn-todo-into-tasks

Posting another homework from @mdsnotavailable’s Shift Nudge course: No stress design exploration. Finding a design direction through individual or smaller components. As a proponent of Apple Music needing refactoring, I took a crack at some possible changes. Thread-ish 👇