“To be a good designer you must be a good engineer in every sense: curious, inquisitive.” — Charles Eames

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One of my biggest gripes with so many apps! Especially indie or web ones.

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I’ve been having pretty good results using Cursor with SwiftUI by letting it drive the UI through automations. It controls the simulator, takes screenshots, reads runtime logs, and iterates until it hits the goal I gave it. It cuts down a lot on back and forth.

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Four times in four days I've been asked for advice on working with AI-generated Swift code, so here you go – here's a brief article about dubious code I suggest you watch out for, and what to replace it with instead:

Went to the Eames Archive in Richmond today and learned about the Guest Host principle, which is very similar to what I experienced at Apple. "The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host, whose energy goes into trying to anticipate the needs of his guests."

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You cannot imagine the craft that goes into them. Thousands of icons hand drawn and obsessed over! Perfecting curves and gaps and strokes in every weight so the icon reads well in all extremes.

SF Symbols are unlike any other library of icons. The geometric and stylistic consistency is beautifully achieved in 9 font weights. Fill and line versions for almost every icon, custom badges, animations, including stroke path, colors, gradients….

I wonder where we’ll land on what to call AI friends. Bots, agents, companions, assistants? Some new word? Just “ai friends”?

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What do you all think of this as a logo / app icon?

So affordance is the clue on HOW to use an UI element. A signifier is the clue that the feature exists.

So, what word would be technically more correct than affordance for what we use? That word, according to Don Norman, is signifier. It's just a visual clue that communicates the existence and entry point to a feature.

Maybe you have an element that looks like it's a button that can be tapped but it's actually just a notice. Maybe you have an element with a shadow that you think you can drag around, but it's static. This can be pretty frustrating and confusing.

So what happens if you see a door that offers you to pull on it, and you try pulling it and it turns out what you should've pushed it? That's called a false affordance - and doors tend of be the most prominent culprits of this. But you can have false affordances in UI too...

In UI, an affordance would be more like a 3D highlight and shadow on a button that "offers" it to be pushed down, or a slider that offers to be dragged, or a checkbox that offers to be checked.

Just by looking at a door handle, you instinctually know what to do with it from all your innate knowledge of physics, your own anatomy, and life experiences. A door handle therefore "offers" you to push down on it / and pull it.

Etymologically, "afford" here has nothing to do with money, but what something enables one to accomplish. Like having legs affords you the ability to walk / having gills affords a fish the ability to breathe under water. But then Don Norman repurposed it for objects...