Breaking down the design details of well-crafted mobile apps. In-depth analysis of UI patterns, interactions, and user experience.
Apple Design Resources
Design apps accurately and quickly using official Apple design templates, icon production templates, color guides, and more.
Discover stories and stacks behind your favorite apps
DIscover what makes your favorite apps so special - from their origin story to their tech stacks and the tools their teams rely on daily. Build smarter by learning from the best.
Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Origin UI - Svelte
An extensive collection of copy-and-paste Svelte components for quickly building app UIs.
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.
Hinge Dating App UI Design Patterns for Modern Matchmaking Apps
A practical teardown of Hinge UI patterns for onboarding, profile cards, prompts, trust, monetization, and AI-generated mobile screens.
Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps
While icons on iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) have always been rounded squares, and rounded-square icons have existed on Apple platforms for over 20 years now, Mac app icons have historically exhibited a variety of unique silhouettes, which helped identification alongside other visual tools like color, lighting, and dimensionality.
Series: Apps as Views, Not Vaults | Guido X Jansen
Your data lives in a bookshelf you own; apps are just the views that read from it. A seven-part series on what the AT Protocol flips, what it doesn't, and why the boring architecture really does impact you.
I saw some talk about "everything apps" and it got me thinking a little bit about it. With the Atmosphere I feel like a really cool part about it is that we can make all of our apps "everything" apps. It's not "my app's data" or "your app's data" anymore. We can color outside the lines.
Every App is an "Everything" App In the Atmosphere
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