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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
4 years
Watch me talk about the design thinking and mechanics behind the new pointing system in iPadOS. Then @malonso , @ms_ccwan , and @DylanRoss will show you how to best update the design of your app for the new pointer. Full video:
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Grateful for the last 8 years on the Apple design team working with incredibly kind and talented people. Excited to be starting a new role on the design team @OpenAI .
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
4 years
Great deep-dive on our new cursor, which was three years in the making. Hope you all can try it out!
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
8 years
Here’s a fun Reactions exploration I did to help avoid obscuring the icons when users scrub diagonally.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
8 years
Some news! Started at Apple this week as a designer on the Human Interfaces team.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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@leovallet Just want to also shout out @chan_k who came up with and designed the Dynamic Island!
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Introducing Origami: a design prototyping toolkit for Quartz Composer. http://t.co/yAuTjqZtcY
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Check out the new Pointers page in the HIG to learn more about how the iPadOS pointer works and the best way to support it in your apps.
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Excited to announce Origami Live for iOS and a major new version of Origami! http://t.co/yAuTjqZtcY
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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After a fun 6 years, tomorrow will be my last day at Facebook! Taking some time off to figure out what’s next.
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Here's a sneak peek at the new Voice Mode in ChatGPT. Honored to help bring this to life!
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OpenAI
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Live audience request for GPT-4o vision capabilities
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Revamped my personal site! Check it out. http://t.co/6MF34vTHxq
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
7 years
Check out the new iPad multitasking features. Coming soon to an iPad near you.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
We just announced that we're open-sourcing Display Node, the asynchronous UI engine that enabled us to get 60 fps in Paper.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
The new Keynote.app bundle has plain-text source code to a bunch of the transitions in the app. http://t.co/zfrvazNXXJ
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Just published a blog post proposing some UI improvements to Xcode. Have a look. http://bit.ly/bzn57P
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
We open-sourced Pop today, the animation engine that powers Paper. Excited to see what people do with it.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
i'm in the year 2015, on a 4 GHz 8-core iMac with 32 GB of RAM, 4 GB VRAM, and I can't scroll rdio at more than 10 fps. how far we've come
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
6 years
Really excited about this!
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Shubham Kedia
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Such a blast to be able to bring the fast and fluid gestural interface of iPhone X to the iPad. Don’t forget to try out the all new four/five finger gestures too!
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
Pet peeve: sloppy screen comping in product marketing videos.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
Open source iPhone project that replicates Tweetie's excellent pull-down-to-refresh UI: http://is.gd/4o8ms
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
Jitouch 2 is a *must have* for anyone with a Magic Mouse: http://is.gd/5Czfx
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Nearly everything you see in Facebook Paper was prototyped with Quartz Composer & Origami.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
13 years
Awesome news: Twitter's open sourcing ABUIKit. http://t.co/MxXl8Vw
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
Excited to announce Reactions! Collab'd with @_andychung , @seth_eckert , @brfrick , and some amazing engineers.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Drew and I talked to Fast Company about Quartz Composer & Origami and its role in designing Paper. http://t.co/2bT1Wl2xZa
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
6 years
It’s a unique look at designing interactions and has the highest production value slides of any talk I’ve seen.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
If anyone's interested, the dark Dock menus in Snow Leopard are RGB 32 at 85% alpha.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Installed a mod that replaces the monochrome source list icons in iTunes 10. Now I can enjoy life. http://bit.ly/9A21Mn
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
We now have tutorial videos ranging from simple to advanced to get you started with Origami.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
OS X 10.11 Al Pastor
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Ingredients is a pretty nice Cocoa documentation browser. Open source and uses BWToolkit. http://bit.ly/atY2NU (via @zacwhite )
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
It looks like Origami Live finally propagated to the App Store. Is it working for y'all?
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
They fixed the blurry "Connected" text in the Apple Watch 1.0.1 update! Now I can finally use this thing. http://t.co/1JnO6LxEGn
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
iOS devs, don't miss @scottgoodson 's talk on advanced iOS techniques (3:45-4:30). Some exciting developments there. http://t.co/q544bCavX0
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
We also have an opening for a Product Designer on design tools. DM / email me if interested!
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
8 years
Really dig this new sketching app for designers. Nice work, @_andychung !
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
Just published a blog post on managing UI complexity: http://is.gd/2aIWa
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
13 years
The fact that this blog post exists is a testament to how bad Apple's docs are. http://t.co/l2N2SlPx Official docs: http://t.co/nFPQvUNe
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
The Quartz Composer modifications in Origami wouldn't be possible without class-dump, F-Script Anywhere, and @grp teaching me assembly.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
Come work with us on Origami and the next generation of design tools. http://t.co/sNJvf1yJKZ
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Great collection of Cocoa tips by @mikeash : http://bit.ly/dosPC5
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Apple's iAd Producer is really well done. http://developer.apple.com/iad/iadproducer/
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
It's been so much fun designing this with @mike_matas and @mycookingdiary over the past two years. Can't wait for you all to try it!
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
I don't totally understand why they'd make the Control Center gesture worse in iOS 7.1 by not integrating your velocity into the spring.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
We just launched Rooms, a new way to make places for topics you're into. http://t.co/5hSaEcD4xu Congrats @_andychung and @tarngerine !
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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I don't think it's possible to watch this video and not get excited about designing / developing for iPad. http://bit.ly/d096q4
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Extremely proud to introduce Paper, a new app to explore and share stories from friends and sources. http://t.co/J9uoYZMYSh
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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@nlevin Switched to Figma recently and it's mostly great! Except every time I want to scrub an opacity it requires me to target a 1 pt wide control. Help!
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Easily one of the best Safari Extensions out there: http://autopagerize.net/
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
@stroughtonsmith @brainy Created at FB and shipped in our main iOS app in Aug 2012. http://t.co/6MF34vByji http://t.co/fjFHgfBRs2
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
@bradellis this segmented control in Finder is more egregious imo
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
It's kind of incredible that you can't tap the text labels to switch capture modes in the iOS 7 Camera app. http://t.co/7o13D31Abc
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
For an opaque black nav bar, consider using a Black Translucent bar above an opaque black view. Buttons look better. http://bit.ly/bdWRDH
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
@flyosity I actually spent a whole week on that. Designed in QC and translated to CAEmitterLayer.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
I was fortunate to see this amazing talk by @worrydream in SF a little while ago. Now it's online! http://t.co/0k35dEYH2U
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
The Teehan+Lax iPhone PSD is indirectly responsible for reducing the quality of UI on the App Store.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
I'm actually just so into the new Apple TV. It's really well done. Congrats @khiscott and the other folks who worked on it!
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Got my ticket. See y'all at the conference. http://t.co/ox01jRZgy3
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
The Interface Builder 3.2 release notes are available now. Recommended read for Cocoa devs. http://is.gd/4wrsJ
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
It's going to be real depressing if the next version of OS X is basically 10.9 but flat with a different system font.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
iPhone-style sticky NSTableView section headers by @mr_noodle . http://bit.ly/snhsl
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Congrats to Sofa on shipping Kaleidoscope. The app and the website are very well done. http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Using Xcode 4: 20% writing code, 80% mindless workspace administration (collapsing, expanding, resizing, and switching panes)
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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. @lobau Whenever I need photos for a mockup, I grab them from Apple's "Emily Parker" gallery: http://bit.ly/alGR2f
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
*pours out a 40 for the iOS 6 pull-to-refresh indicator* We barely knew ye.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
12 years
Most things are bad. This one is good: http://t.co/SUZVD4gu
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Pro tip: The iPad HIG PDF file has full resolution screenshots. Just scale the document so the images are 1024x768.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Paper is now available in the App Store! Try it out and let me know what you think. http://t.co/bisWtg1EE6
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
12 years
Pretty excited about this graphics book. http://t.co/56HbcdTd (via @worrydream )
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
11 years
That sure is an icon. http://t.co/FCd8AQOOAG
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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In Lion, try holding Shift and/or Option as you resize a window.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
The sample code experience for OS X and iOS development is pretty poor. Andy Lee goes into detail: http://bit.ly/aHiHyK
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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RT @grp : I just built an animation that @bwalkin designed. It's 800 lines of code and uses 41 ivars. Sometimes I wish QC didn't exist.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Great to see custom controls added back to Interface Builder! Hopefully they can be easily distributed and added to the library.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
9 years
Really excited about Instant Articles. Here's a demo showing how much better of an experience they are vs the web.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Awesome Xcode plugin for automatically inserting paired brackets. I've wanted this for a while. http://tr.im/igdH
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
10 years
Paper 1.2 is out with some highly requested features.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
This guy is completely clueless. http://bit.ly/d58Sa3
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
280north's new GitHub Issues app is a million times better than GitHub's issues site. Compare: http://bit.ly/bD34eu vs http://bit.ly/biC8ET
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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Still shocked that there are people inside Apple who think this is an improvement. http://t.co/bflpDbz
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Drew some new buttons for the Facebook iOS SDK. Also added pressed states and 2x graphics. http://bit.ly/cXlcR0
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
Nice tutorial on creating animated tabs like those on the Coda site. http://bit.ly/k81Lf
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Really dig the simple aesthetic of this app. http://bit.ly/9sMx2k Great work, @jessegrosjean .
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
14 years
Love the new Sofa redesign. http://bit.ly/avdAYB
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
Nice article by @mike9r on iPhone UI patterns: http://tr.im/uPtW Adopt (or create) an interaction model that's most appropriate for the app.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
For anyone who's mocking up an iPhone app with a translucent status bar – it's black at 67% opacity.
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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These Xcode buttons are the worst thing in my life right now. http://t.co/eJkUcxI They're right beside each other!
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
15 years
The best (but far from perfect) 3rd party Cocoa documentation browser at the moment is AppKiDo. http://is.gd/43GDW
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@bwalkin
Brandon Walkin 🚶🏻
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@flyosity @phillryu Timeline designers: Nicholas Felton, Joey Flynn, Drew Hamlin, Aaron Sittig, and Ryan Case.
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