Ryan McLeod

Screenshot of Helm

If you make iOS apps and aren't using @helm-app.bsky.social at this point what are you doing??

Uploading new screenshots?
ASC: Ugly, slow, confusing, randomizes the order for fun
Helm: Drop every screenshot all at once and it sorts and places them in the right sections like a coin sorterScree

I was born too late and never got to design a physical box for my software, so I did a fake one for the “What's new" window in Hand Mirror.

This update is almost ready, if you like to make videos or write about this stuff get in touch!

Hand Mirror 4 is out now, you can take a Snap, draw on it, and save it to your Photo Library 📸

Here's some of my favorite UI details:

Hey Kris! Let me look into this. I find Mastodon so troublesome to use so maybe this will help.

🧡🧡🧡 Make me so happy

Thank you @sdw.bsky.social for capturing this moment :)

I have so many fond memories at the mall playing indie games like Enigmo, Bugdom, and Cro-Mag Rally back in the day. I can only imagine that there are now kids (and adults 😉) out there playing @blackboxpuzzles.bsky.social for the first time, having those same moments with something I made. So cool.

Blackbox running on an iPad in hand

Ryan McLeod holding an iPad running Blackbox

Ryan McLeod holding iPad running Blackbox

As a kid, whenever we went to the Apple Store I always ran to the back to play the demo games on the iMacs. Now many years later, in an absolutely crazy, full-circle, bucket-list moment, my own game is one of those demo games on thousands of iPads in hundreds of Apple Stores around the world.

I have learned that it’s actually just like this all the time now for readability

That’s pretty cool

Our train stations got a dark mode update 🥲 just in time for daylight savings

Beep beep.
See you soon #WWDC25!

The Art of Koen - Back to Blender Software Design & Production by Roger Kemp in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. From immersive experiences to data management.

I’ve posted an update on our #visionOS project with Koen. If you’d like to help with our quest to get Koen back at the helm of #Blender, let us know!

Thanks Clem!!

Thanks Oliver!! And thanks for the RT :)

Ryan holding a mic and presenting

(Whoops! Got the photo credit wrong here! I believe Clem’s was this one?)

Thanks Doug!

Thanks Doug!

So stoked and proud to share the design keynote I gave at Let's Vision in Shanghai: a discussion about my own design thinking, new interface approaches, and various interaction design challenges!

Warning: this talk involves a puzzle ;)
youtu.be/xvUHZcquSts?... (photo: @sxp.studio)

Imagine software designed by people who didn't actively hate you?

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Are you a student interested in play at the intersection of digital and physical toys? Are you available in Sept?

Come work with our team! My team is the “digital” team, but our interns are a big flexible crew, so apply to any of these that suit you!

I wish everyone who's paid a quarter million dollars a year to work on WhatsApp a very unpleasant existence.

I was trying to use a great app called JOMO to setup app blocking but the app picker (provided by Apple) crashed. I know Opal has also had a lot of trouble with this API

Packaging: Advanced fuzzy logic (AI) multi multifunction rice cooker

The year is 2025
Your new rice cooker is powered by “AI”
Somehow, this seems fine

What happens in airplane mode? Doesn’t parental mode disable messing with the clock?

That feeling of dread sharing your screen is 100x when you share from your Vision Pro of your actual desktop

An overhead shot of a huge pink rabbit on a pleasant mountainside

People walk on the surface of a huge knitted rabbit on a foggy mountainside. They are Lilliputian in scale on the giant pink limbs

An overhead shot of a giant knitted rabbit covered in snow

The decayed remains of a giant knitted sculpture on a grassy mountainside

Remembering when an art collective installed a giant knitted pink bunny on a mountain in Italy so that people could wander over its surface as it slowly decayed

🎨: Gelitin, "Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio", Artesina, Piemont, Italy (2005)

Sounds like UIKit is slowly ship of theseus-ing away.

(For the record I think the project of SwiftUI is incredible and should be celebrated. What I am incredibly defiant of is the writing on the wall that says we will all eventually be corralled out of UIKit like cattle into a tiny, boring pen that is far from production ready.

SwiftUI is incredible.
I don't know what I would do without the spontaneous, pedantic, utterly indecipherable error messages, useless autocompletion, and daily opportunities to scream ☺️