Is your app icon symbol too big? (Probably, yes 😄) @matthewskiles.com — the designer behind Bartender, Xcodes, Capo, and so many more indie icons — shares the #1 mistake he sees devs make, and the few-pixel fix. Full episode on Launched 🎙️ Link in the first comment below 👇
Phil Amour
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Software designer and front-end developer. Into cooking, motorcycles, performance cars, and keeping up with my two dogs. https://philamour.com https://mastodon.design/@phil
Craft’s next chapter I want to share some important news. Going forward, the team that builds Craft owns Craft. Craft has bought out all of our external investors and is now a fully independent, team-owned company.
In a blog post from @parakeet.co, Luka and I detail the new features of Icon Composer 2 while making five sample app icons. These files are also downloadable, so you can open them in Icon Composer 2 to learn more. parakeet.co/blog/liquid-...
Parakeet Blog: Liquid Glass App Icons
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Huh, would you look at that! There’s an iOS 27 UI kit from Apple ready for you to work with in Sketch already ↓ skt.ch/ios27
TIL that iOS 26 Tab Bar’s search button is actually a tab and that’s what Apple wants you to use it as. I’d use it as a FAB but the customization is limited. This guy is recreating Tab Bar with Segmented Control for that and it works surprisingly well! https://ryanashcraft.com/introducing-fabbar/
Introducing FabBar: The Liquid Glass Tab Bar I Wish Apple Made
FabBar is an open source SwiftUI library that recreates iOS 26's Liquid Glass tab bar with an integrated, tinted floating action button.
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If anyone has scans or copies of older Apple product brochures, please reach out. I’d love to start building an archive collection of these for the Apple community.
If you're like me and are trying to study and inspect the new Liquid Glass effect, I've built a small utility app for you! Test Liquid Glass with all the different options, tinting, sizes, and backgrounds — only for macOS Tahoe for obvious reasons. 💾 rafa.design/glasshole