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We’re so grateful to be Mastodon’s design partner for three years now! This is a fantastic read by @zoeschiffer. @Gargron’s enthusiasm for the future is infectious. We can’t wait for you all to see what we’ve been cooking up together 🧑🍳🤌 https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/ live every day with the level of delusion apple had when they set the iOS 7 beta 1 system font to helvetica neue ultra light  @lickability I remember installing it it on my iPhone 4S after the keynote and trying not to cry.  When I saw the first screenshots of the beta, I assumed the system app icons were placeholders, that they just didn't reveal the real ones yet 🎊🍦 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. 🛡️ In our latest blog post, @samhenrigold walked through a few iterations of the designs we worked on for @Mastodon’s new safety features. Here’s what we learned from creating thoughtful prompts to improve conversations: https://lickability.com/blog/designing-mastodons-reply-safety-features/ 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. Thanks for coming to the final Design Friends meetup of the year! It’s always great to gather & talk craft with this community. ❤️ We hope your holidays are pixel perfect! Stay cozy. ☃️  🤔 Ever wonder how to create a variable blur effect without dipping into undocumented APIs? So have we! Anyway. Hope you’re having a nice week so far. #iOSDevTips 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. ✨ Shared in our newsletter, Soft Serve (https://lickab.ly/newsletter) 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! https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938639/mastodon-lists-android-update-news  Quick! Spot the issue in this date range: 1970-2023 Did you catch it? It looks like it was typeset by an amateur. Our designer @samhenrigold learned how to typeset date ranges properly: 1970 – 2023 The difference? An en-dash (–) instead of a hyphen between two thin spaces ( ). This blog post from @Richr recommends the Glyphfinder app to easily copy those characters. https://clagnut.com/blog/2419  @lickability @samhenrigold @Richr Has anyone told Sam that he is absurd in the best way? Today, I mean. We’re sending something exciting (and delicious) to your inbox today. 🍦👀 Sign up now so you don’t miss it!👇 🙌 Love to see that @samhenrigold was featured in this week’s @iosdevweekly for his new post on how to level up your app design! ➕⁉️ What the heck is “plussing”? @samhenrigold explains how to take your iOS app’s design to the next level in our latest post. “I reached out to designer (and jokester) @samhenrigold for insight. He had reached the same conclusion: ‘that before time’s relentless march, we all fade to whispered dust, our finale preordained. And also you’ll get a lot of dust in that new USB-C port.’’’ 🌬️ https://www.cultofmac.com/828686/what-could-wonderlust-mean/ ✨ Details make the difference! Dive into our latest blog post by @samhenrigold to discover how to elevate your iOS app from good to great. 📢 Announcing ObservableConverter, a handy new SwiftPM plugin to convert your SwiftUI code from ObservableObject to the new @Observable macro introduced at #WWDC23. ⬇️ Find out how it works and how to use it for your own app in our latest post! https://lickability.com/blog/introducing-observableconverter/ 👀 Already building for iOS 17 and want to try out the beta? Here’s the @GitHub repository with install instructions and a before & after. ⭐️ and 💬 appreciated! |
