Edward Sánchez
@edwardsanchez
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iOS / macOS designer and iconographer. Ex-Apple at Xcode. Vegan ✌🏻. Now designing and coding my own app. 🇪🇸🇧🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸
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“To be a good designer you must be a good engineer in every sense: curious, inquisitive.”
— Charles Eames
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First time I see transparent LED being used. Feels science fictiony.
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One of the icons I was most proud of coming up with - disable auto correction.
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After 9 years, today was my last day at Apple. It's been an incredible journey. 5 of those years I spent at Xcode and it's changed my life. I made a little video with some of my favorite features and things I helped with!
So long, and thanks for all the Swift!
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Ladies and gentlemen… mystery solved! 3 app icon shapes.
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Little reminder for WWDC. Be kind with your criticisms. There’s a human behind everything you see.
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I hereby raise a challenge to any 3D artist to correctly recreate the app store icon based on the Instruments icon mesh - and show a 360 rotation of it. It's surprising, and as you can see, not sticks. I can't share the source, but I can reward the winner with a like and retweet.
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This is about the route that girl took on the intro video. She must be new at Apple Park - I probably took similar routes in my first week here.
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In Xcode 14, if you select a block of text and type {, it embeds the block in a closure and puts the cursor in the beginning of the closure so you can define it. Works great for SwiftUI!.
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I always forget you can ⌘ click anything in an unfocused window to interact with it without switching your active window focus.
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Me: what do you think of this quick little design I made?
Engineer: Nice. But what if the user is offline, has accessibility type on, is on landscape, is Russian but in Brazil, has a broken thumb, is holding a martini on the other hand while running from a pack of wolves?
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Credit to Mr
@ChristianSelig
for coming up with a hedgehog for the medium speed icon. I love making cute SF symbols!
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In iOS 13 you can now set your cornerRadius to continuous corners (aka squircle or superEllipse). Just set MyUIView.layer.cornerCurve = .continuous
And it's animatable too! So no more ugly corners!
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Here are some of my favorite new improvements in Xcode 13: 🧵
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@SeeJaneMarie
@SawyerBlatz
Bad take. I had to travel to see my dying dad and be with my family in his funeral. I shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for that.
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All these colors have a 3:1 WCAG Contrast Ratio. But clearly they are not all equally easy to read.
On the right I have the experimental SAPC Contrast Ratio, which comes much closer to measuring the different readability of these labels.
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I'm likely 20 years late to the party, but today I learned that selecting a word and hitting ⌘E will add it to the search field, so you can just ⌘G from there. I've literally been doing ⌘C, ⌘F, ⌘V ⌘G all of my life. Works in Xcode and most text editors.
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macOS 11 can now programmatically generate document icons. You just define a center image, background image and the text as a string and the rest is done for you! You can download the Sketch and Photoshop templates on
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Someone had fun in Cupertino drawing this neat little new debug icon for Xcode 12 🙃
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I am afraid of being disbarred from being a developer. But I just added icons to the names of all my files - much easier to find them in a sea of orange birds!
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Employees: I don’t wanna work at Apple unless it’s fully remote.
Apple:
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This is a 30 minute crash course on UX Design, teaching the same principles we use at Apple to design great apps. Worth watching no matter your level of expertise.
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What an incredible year! Every icon, every checkbox, every hairline and every color you see has an insane amount of work and consideration from several people behind it. Nothing is done lightly, just as it should be. Congrats to everyone, it's been an honor being a part of it! ❤️
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Live Previews in Xcode 11 also works for UIKit files. It means you no longer need to build, run and navigate to the screen to validate the changes you made!
My awesome colleagues
@neightchan
and
@antonvlad
show you how in this mind-blowing presentation:
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OMG! Biden signed an executive order banning the use of the letter X as the glyph in close buttons!!!
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The sample code for the Fruta app is now available for download. It's our biggest sample app yet!
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If you type something from a framework that's not imported, Xcode will recognize it and offer to import it for you:
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Beautiful display for the pride watch band exclusive to the Apple Park Visitor Center.
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And there are always reasons behind everything we do, and it’s often not “we didn’t think about it”.
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Since joining the Xcode team I have worked longer from home than I have worked in the office. I’m super sick of this tbh. I want to see people, I want to have lunch with them, I want to white board ideas, I want to chat in the kitchen, and I want to dress up!
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Fun fact: We ended up creating 2 versions of every Placeholder icon in Swift Playgrounds, a normal and an inverted because simply tinting the icon looked wrong.... 🧵
Fun fact: I designed and implemented this sheet in Swift Playgrounds as an app project! I handed it off to
@chrisbroughart
as design spec & first-pass implementation and he integrated it into the real app, what an awesome workflow!
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There are a lot of different document icons for common file types to make it easier to spot your different files by shape and color:
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What’s your favorite transition animation on any app on iOS? Send screen recordings if possible 😄
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I love seeing my SwiftData logo in the wild. I explored a lot of options for it but this was my very first idea and the one that ultimately stuck - a blend of the Swift logo with database cylinders. This is the intro animation I made for it for the SOTU announcement.
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📢 Developer and designer friends, show me your SwiftUI / UIKit / AppKit animations! Can be something simple, or complex like chained and multi layer - can be a single view, or transition between views, interactive (following a gesture) or standalone. 🙏
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Working in Xcode is often quite a trip. I'm currently using breakpoints to debug breakpoints.
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A little gem in the latest Xcode: you’ll no longer be nagged, ahem, warned about unchanged variables and unused constants while you’re still in the middle of coding. Those warnings will only show up when you build. 🙌🏻
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If you ⌘ click on the view debugger icon in Xcode’s debug bar while it’s in the background, it’ll invoke view debugger without switching focus to Xcode.
This is actually a macOS feature. ⌘ click on any unfocused window takes the click without switching focus.
A neat thing that AFAIK you can only do with a Touch Bar is debugging view hierarchies of transient views (things like menus or popovers that disappear when you click outside or switch apps). Super handy when working on a menu bar extra
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I’m obsessed with little improvements to code completion and the Xcode source editor. This year I pushed for auto indentation on closing a closure, improvements to completing functions that have default values, and more… 👇🏻
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One of the features I'm proud to have helped with this year!
Learn how to design and implement the new Big Sur document icons:
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Interface Builder now has accessibility overrides - so you don't have to run your app to test for many accessibility settings:
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I became an American citizen today! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'll now get to vote for this to become the new national anthem!
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Another little Xcode tip. Holding ⌘ while hovering on the Minimap shows you all your symbols and you can quickly navigate to them.
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I’ve been using SwiftUI as a way to prototype interactions. Takes a little longer but you just can’t match this level of fedility with any GUI based prototyping tools. Added bonus: it can serve as basis for the engineer to implement it for real!
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What's New in Xcode 15 is out! Super exciting new features like improved code completion, previews, testing, staging support, a new bookmarks navigator!
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And here’s another example where we do this in iOS, with the Voice Memos App icon. Notes, Reminders and Safari all have pixel hinted icons for every resolution because of those fine lines.
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While taking a screenshot, press space to map it exactly to a window, then hold ⌘ to map it to a sheet or popover and exclude the rest of the window
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One UI technique I don't hear about much is called Progressive Reduction. It means that as users get familiar with an app, the interface simplifies, removing or minimizing elements that are no longer needed.
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@spectatorindex
“The misery index is calculated from the unemployment rate, the lending rate, and the inflation rate minus the percent change in real GDP per capita of a country.”
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My team at Apple is hiring!! If you're a designer who's also passionate about programming and tools, this is an amazing opportunity! DM if you wanna learn more.
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My niece swapped her iPhone for a Samsung because BTS advertised it. Or should I say my ex-niece?
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@maxrudberg
Nothing in our hardware design is an accident. They are extremely meticulous. My guess is that someone decided that optically this looked more right than having it metrically perfect.
The inset white line in the Xcode icon is also not metrically aligned for that reason.
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Simulator now can go full screen and even split screen!
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Did you know you can append : and the line number after a file name to open that file on that line using Open Quickly? So type ViewController:12 and it opens it in line 12! 🤯
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Spending 80+ hours working on replacing an old, impossible to follow code base from generations ago. Yet when it comes out next year, people will look at the visual result and just go “oh that’s nice little change”or maybe they won’t even notice. But I notice and I like it. 💁🏻♂️
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First time in Paris as an adult. What kind of wonder land is this?? So beautiful - and it’s 12am on a Monday and the streets are full of locals hanging out with friends. In the Bay Area I have like 3 friends that I see once a month.
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This is 🔥
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Ted Lasso happens in an alternate universe where everyone has an iPhone 12 but there’s no COVID.
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I bet you you are not using Xcode’s column selection (⌥ drag) and multi-cursor placement (⌃ ⇧ click) as often as you could.
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I wanna take whatever the
#WWDC22
volunteers are taking. Imagine being that happy and full of energy even if just for 5 minutes!
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9 months working at Xcode and still pinching myself constantly - feels like way longer but in a great way. Never had a job I loved this much - and so many awesome people to collaborate with across so many different teams. 💙
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Breakpoints are also rounded, and inset so they don't overlap with the change bars:
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You can now copy the file name and line number to the clipboard in Edit > Copy Location. Paste that in Open Quickly (⌘ ⇧ O) and it'll navigate directly to that location.
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The power of UIViewPropertyAnimator additive animations & damped springs. No physics engine used for this iMessage wiggly chat bubble proto!
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Way too many good looking people at the Apple gyms. Not fair to be both smart and beautiful - pick one please.
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This past year has been rough. My dad passed away a month ago after 2 year battling cancer. 😔 It’s strange losing someone who’s been there all your life. It made me consider my own mortality and realize I need to enjoy life while I’m still somewhat young.
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What’s New in Xcode 14 is out! So proud of all that we pulled off this year! Downloadable platforms, lots of great improvements to the source editor and code completion, the ability to provide a single 1024 app icon for iOS and watchOS apps, and tons more!
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Today a PR is landing where an icon was made 0.25pt larger so it would align better with another icon. You'd think I had reached peak designer, but plot twist, the engineer asked for it.
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Simulator screenshot previews lets you drag screenshots anywhere. Great for attaching them to PRs, or message them.
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If you're bothered by issues showing up in your code, you can set issues to Minimized. You then have to click the issue icon to get details.
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Today I heard Sir Jony Ive say Aluminium... in person! That’s gonna be one of my highlights of 2019!
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I love those features that you work for hours on, stressing over all the details, iterating through several variations with engineers, that look easy to implement but are actually super complex, and in the end people look at and go “yeah, of course this is how you’d design it”
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The
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This is a pretty good explanation of programming, especially programming without a framework.
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So, after 12 years in California. I’m convinced I need to move back to London. This is home.
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