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Louie Mantia writes LMNT, designs icons for Parakeet, makes playing cards for Junior, and creates fonts for Crown.
Bow to fascists all you want but as I said, do it outside of my replies. Youβre not welcome there.
Replying to me via another social network is block evasion.
The Talk Show (with some notes and links)
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Buckle up.
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Alright. Since these past two posts are getting some appreciation, let me top it off with a third. Thatβs right, itβsβ
Tap Tap Revolution. Waitβ what?
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Hereβs another thing I was working on for a bit, a...buddy list app. It can easily imagine it being much more.
Buddies (??)
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Sometimes I spend a fair amount of time making something and I realize I didnβt even show anyone. So hereβs one of those things:
Pixadex (version 4??)
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Itβs crazy that Alan Dye had no experience with UI before being thrust into a position of power over platform design, affecting millions of apps. He has a responsibility to the industry. Platform design should be way more comprehensive and far less restrictive than this.
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Itβs crazy that Alan Dye had no experience with UI before being thrust into a position of power over platform design, affecting millions of apps. He has a responsibility to the industry. Platform design should be way more comprehensive and far less restrictive than this.
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π΄ππ² Introducing an all-π Junior website. π Read all about it on my blog:
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I will write a proper blog post about this later but consider this a soft-launch.
All-new Junior website, which I think is extremely nice and very informative:
π www.junior.cards
I sincerely hope it helps. That game is so... so difficult to understand and I just really, really want it to be easier to play.
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I will write a proper blog post about this later but consider this a soft-launch.
All-new Junior website, which I think is extremely nice and very informative:
π www.junior.cards
Yeah! lmnt.me/blog/tapulou...
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Happy 17th birthday to Tap Tap Revenge!
...wow, I made that app icon and designed that app... 17 years ago??
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Doesnβt feel ironic to me. Iβm a single person, not a multi-trillion dollar company. I donβt have the same responsibilities they do. I think you know that.
06.07.2025 22:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I mean what kind of designer canβt be bothered to have a website they create on their own?? π
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The Web Is So Cool
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Iβve got better things to do than write about Liquid Glass (again), and yet, here I am.
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Iβve got better things to do than write about Liquid Glass (again), and yet, here I am.
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Binary Sunsetβbased on classic Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars poster art, that I reinterpreted in college, and dressed up a little for a wallpaper in 2011.
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The amount of plastic I see is starting to upset me. I donβt... know what I can possibly do about it, because I donβt think itβs really my fault. But consumers end up getting the short end of this instead of the companies that produce the plastic ??
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Hereβs some of the *fifty* εη€Ύζ (senjafuda) Iβve been drawing recently. Itβs so much fun, I could do it every day and never get bored.
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I donβt wanna act like this is a big honkinβ deal because thereβs like 50 mini-problems I have with Tahoe app iconsβ
But do they really want different blues for Finder and Mail / Safari? And if so, could they perhaps choose more different blues, because these are too close.
π An oldie but a goodieβ
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Three Little Moments
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π² Wait, wait, wait.
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More importantly than renaming the OS to match the year will be devices. iPhone 26 will be way clearer which yearβs model you have.
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π² Wait, wait, wait.
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Iβve said this about Jony recently, but I keep wondering about some people in charge the days: Do these people even like computers?
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I recommend reading the whole post, but one thing I canβt stop thinking about regarding a small part of it:
I find it weird that no one really knows where Alan Dye came from or whyβcollectivelyβwe should be trusting his judgement on design.
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