Ryan McLeod

Ryan McLeod

@warpling.bsky.social

🫧 2x Apple Design Award cube carrier for @BlackboxPuzzles.bsky.social on VisionOS and iOS. Also making candy, foraging plants, running, idk. All opinions are endorsements.

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"Your Duo has two touchscreens. Blackbox wants you to touch neither and instead solve puzzles by way of sensors you rarely think about and never use."

Obviously the glass isn't the most performant option here, but there are plenty of ways to fix that :) Simply incredibly devastating how easy it is to one-shot improve Google Maps

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

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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!

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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:

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 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.

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www.lego.com/en-us/career... 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!

lego.comPlay Invention & Prototypes Internship - Careers - LEGO.comPlay Invention & Prototypes Internship: Job Description Play Invention & Prototypes Internship : Are You an Aspiring Toy Inventor Looking to Discover New Pl...

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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)

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 ☺️

(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.

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We're hiring a Senior UI Designer iOS If you can make the Mona Lisa blush, we’ve got the spot for you! 🥇 We're 2022 App Store Award winners 📱 @waterllama.app: 5M+ downloads 🦸 Full/Part-time 💰 Competitive salary Email team@waterllama.com Or tag below who should we look into 🤓

That awkward feeling of infidelity when you go to your hairdresser and it’s obvious you’ve had a haircut since you last saw them but neither of you acknowledges it…

This is also my first SwiftUI app! I’m constantly amazed at how incredibly easy SwiftUI makes most things and how incredibly hard it makes the rest 😆 I’ve also always shied away from using any server infrastructure but @robertlong.me built and abstracted it all away beautifully! 😇👌

What’s your favorite thoughtful example of an app using context (time of day, some sensor, etc) to subtly improve UX? Some examples • Strava suggesting photos to add taken during a run • Spotify car mode • Location based reminders

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