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My Favorite New Tool: A Tiny Voice Recorder That's Changing How I Work written by Patrick Hill How a pocket-sized voice recorder and a simple automation pipeline turned fleeting thoughts into actionable tasks.

I got a new toy
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Playing with a subtle way to let people know their changes are being saved without pop-ups or noisy toasts.

It shows that things are saving and points to where the change history lives. Over time, the idea is it fades back to just a tiny inline animation as people get familiar with the UI.

Made a prototype for an AI suggestion UI where you describe how an agent should behave, then ask AI to help polish it. Tried to keep things speedy while adding some subtle motion and satisfying reveals.

UI design for processing multiple message threads

UI design for batch processing sms threads. This was done for an app that supports multiple outgoing phone numbers with different messaging features so I needed a way to group the selected threads by those numbers while still allowing quick access to common actions.

YouTube video by Alex Grigg // Animation for Anyone Animator’s Magic Trick

I used two icons. Wanted to stick with our existing icon system instead of making a custom one for this. I swap the icons at the fastest part of the animation so it hides pretty well. Borrowed the idea from this traditional animation technique www.youtube.com/shorts/82tbH...

Made a little ui animation of a folder opening on hover

Messing around with input validation styles. Can't decide if I like animating to normal state or shifting to success better.

nice, what styles are you using on these?

I like how the glass becomes frosted when the menu opens to increase readability

I recently started too. That's a beautiful first try 👏😄. Can't wait till I get something like this.

I love these AirPod physical controls. Wish Apple would do something like this. jenson.org/airpod/

iOS icons designed for dark and tinted modes for the apps Zenti and Stakburn

Finally got around to updating some iOS icons for dark and tinted modes. Better late than never 😅

Mobile version of a web app I've been working on. We tried platform specific versions for iOS and Android but ended up going with a unified design to keep a consistent user experience and simplify development. #uidesign #designsky

no, but you do need to read this first 😄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS4A2

Tried it without icons but felt like it went too far. Opted instead for something in between by deemphasizing the icons. Still lets you know what happens when you click these without competing for attention with the main action items.

No, I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Working on an action menu. Trying to differentiate between direct actions and links to other pages. #designsky #uidesign

whoops, just discovered SF Symbols aren't verified on build. If you use a newer symbol name that isn't support on an older iOS version, it just doesn't render. No errors or warnings 🤷

This drives me nuts too especially when trying to reduce built in line height. Never found a solution. Hopefully someone chimes in with one 🤞

Looks like bee not a B 😄

What about mirroring it and making a chunky butterfly? 😄

👋 designing and building apps for the web and iOS. Would love to be added 😃

👋 hi, would love to join. Designer / dev with a couple iOS apps in the store

Wow, Appstore Connect now auto generates shareable art. Kinda nice but total overkill for my minor bug fix release 😄

🤤 has this been released yet? Would love to play with it.

👋 would love to be included. Mainly a UI designer and front end dev but also have a couple iOS apps.

Love this "hold to delete" UI pattern by @easycool.bsky.social 👏🤩
www.aconiti.com/lab003

Spent the weekend on some UI design updates to Stakburn. Made it a little more kid friendly so my son could work on his sight words. Added swipe actions and the ability to tap to hear the word aloud. He likes to cheat though so I had to disable the correct swipe if audio played 😄 #ui #designsky

You can also do this with Apple Shortcuts and then access it through Spotlight. Think you can also assign keyboard shortcuts too.

I use Keyboard Maestro to run Apple Script

tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Figma"
click menu item "Set Width to Hug Contents" of menu "More Layout Options" of menu item "More Layout Options" of menu "Object" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell