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.

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

Screenshot of Helm

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!

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.

Blackbox running on an iPad in handRyan McLeod holding an iPad running BlackboxRyan McLeod holding iPad running Blackbox

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!

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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)

An overhead shot of a huge pink rabbit on a pleasant mountainsidePeople walk on the surface of a huge knitted rabbit on a foggy mountainside. They are Lilliputian in scale on the giant pink limbsAn overhead shot of a giant knitted rabbit covered in snowThe decayed remains of a giant knitted sculpture on a grassy mountainside

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 ☺️

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…

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