🧵 In our designs, we’ll often create this type of view where text is overlaid on top of an image. If the images are dynamically loaded, you might run into legibility issues. We’ve been around the block a few times, here’s how we solve it:
🧵🎙️ Yesterday, Apple released the transcripts feature for Apple Podcasts. This reminded us to revisit the UI of the Podcasts app, and we’d love to share some of our findings. We’re just focusing on the player since there’s a ton to cover.
🐘✨ Hyped to see some of our latest work for @Mastodon featured in TechCrunch! If you have an Android phone, download the app to check out the fun QR codes @samhenrigold designed.
🗳️ Since y’all seemed to like our design breakdown of the Apple Sports app last week, we’d love to do more. Which app would you like us to look at next?
🧵👇 Last week, Apple did a surprise announcement of Apple Sports, a new app for sports fans. We do internal design critiques quite often, but we noticed a few things worth mentioning for designers and developers thinking about modern iOS design practices.
This app remixes stock UI components in really interesting ways. We once heard someone say, “design your app for the current iOS version + 1.” So with that lens, we’ve been looking at what the design of Apple Sports can tell us about iOS 18.
🎊🍦 It’s our first issue of Soft Serve of 2024! We’re back with a bunch of articles to share that we’ve enjoyed recently — we hope you’ll enjoy them too.
It’s wild how scroll views are the only type of view associated with “doom.” I can think of way more container views that should be doom-coded. Nothing ever good happens in a LazyHGrid.
Put several thin UIVisualEffectViews into a stack. Set them to different blur radiuses. Put another one on top to blur the visible discontinuities between them.
This talk from #Config23 from @rsms goes in depth in the invisible parts of HCI — the stuff that we don't even think about anymore. It's a great refresher on the stuff we use every day and barely notice. 👇
Great to see this coverage of @samhenrigold’s new design for lists in the @Mastodon Android app. If you’ve got an Android device, download it and let us know what you think!