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Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by busymom0 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 11:27 AM UTC

camillomiller wrote: post #4

Is this new, or was it already available for a while?

It's been available for a while. They update it every time a new iOS releases. Archive shows the same page from September 2020:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200930191859/https://developer...

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by willswire » Thu, May 13, 2021, 12:17 PM UTC

This is nice and all, but as an indie developer, I've never needed to design my app layouts separately from my actual project in Xcode. Maybe I'm going about this development thing all wrong - but as a one-man-band, it would take too much time to design my app layouts outside of the coding environment IMHO.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by jamil7 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

willswire wrote: post #22

This is nice and all, but as an indie developer, I've never needed to design my app layouts separately from my actual project in Xcode. Maybe I'm going about this development thing all wrong - but as a one-man-band, it would take too much time to design my app layouts outside of the coding environment IMHO.

Neither. SwiftUI previews make it even faster (when they work). I'm mostly using stock UI stuff though.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by wincy » Thu, May 13, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC

So as someone who doesn’t do Apple development on a regular basis, I feel like any time I do try to find some sort of documentation the Google link to Apple’s documentation is broken. Anyone know what the deal is with that?

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by throwawaygh » Thu, May 13, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

wincy wrote: post #24

So as someone who doesn’t do Apple development on a regular basis, I feel like any time I do try to find some sort of documentation the Google link to Apple’s documentation is broken. Anyone know what the deal is with that?

I have the same issue -- Apple developer documentation, at least what you find on Google, is really awful. Sometimes I even have to watch youtube videos of random developers to figure out how objects' protocols are supposed to work. Developing for Apple is really a huge pain unless you're immersed in that environment.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by swyx » Thu, May 13, 2021, 3:11 PM UTC

here's my collection of more design resources in case it helps anyone https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by dbg31415 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC

About time!

This is great, saves every designer from doing a half-baked version of this on their own.

Seems a bit odd to put it under developer.apple.com, but I guess UX and visual design are part of the SDLC... Hope designers know to look there.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by azinman2 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

willswire wrote: post #22

This is nice and all, but as an indie developer, I've never needed to design my app layouts separately from my actual project in Xcode. Maybe I'm going about this development thing all wrong - but as a one-man-band, it would take too much time to design my app layouts outside of the coding environment IMHO.

It’s way faster to make changes in Sketch/Figma than it is in code.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by azinman2 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 3:30 PM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #12

PetrBrzyBrzek wrote: post #2

It’s interesting that there is no Figma links.

Probably because Sketch is a native Mac app, whereas Figma is not.

Figma is cloud based, Sketch let’s you work locally.

Re: Apple Design Resources

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 13, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

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