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As a purely additive feature I think the concept of the Touch Bar might have been fine. As a thing in between you and the keys you press a million times per day, huge annoyance. Combined with the butterfly keyboards, it was a perfect storm of what the heck is happening at Apple

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Fons Mans

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Touch bar announcement (2016)

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#TearsOfTheKingdom has broken my brain. I just saw this on Airbnb and my mind screamed, "GO DOWN THE WELL"

I want a Mission Impossible movie where Kittridge is like, "ETHAN HUNT IS A BAD GUY NOW" but then someone says, "We do this every three years and we're always wrong. He's solid." and then everyone is like, "Yeah ok you're right."

This is my very-scientific analysis of the current AI-powered creative tool landscape:

A chart showing how most AI tools are neat or impressive, but don't create usable output.

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Jun 15

Once you start the scritches, you are not allowed to stop

There's something about pixel art that lights up the nostalgia in my brain and makes me stop scrolling every time. Such fantastic artistry applied in a constrained framework.

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Pixel Jess

@pixeljess

Broken Master Sword - Tears of the Kingdom

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I am so proud of how fast this small but mighty team is shipping improvements at

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. We just sent out a newsletter that is absolutely packed with great new value for our makers. Lots more to come!

Last night I dreamed that I went to a pizza place where as soon as you sit down, they give you a tiny cheese pizza so you have something to eat while you wait on your big pizza. Listen, I think this is a million dollar idea.

In the Gruber interview, someone said Vision Pro avatars don’t have to live in a little FaceTime box and I thought he said they teased an image of what it would look like when they’re not. Has anyone seen that?

Jun 13

TOTK nerds: you can’t target caves with your sensor so I target brightblooms and fly around. Is this the best way to find caves without just googling or are there better methods?

Jun 12

The bowl behind her is full of food but she’s yelling at me for not adding fish juice.

The kindest, most amazing people I’ve ever worked with were at Dribbble. And every day we woke up to vicious comments from our designer friends on Twitter. Critiquing a company is fine, but you all are so brutal and someone should tell you what it’s like on the other end of that.

One guy using the keyboard, completely different guy using the mouse, and one dude just pointing: a typical engineer/designer/PM meeting in the 90s before everyone got to have their own computer. This is what remote work stole from us.

When I was a print designer I pitched a million ideas that used lenticular illusions because I love them. Not a single client ever went for it. Zero. It costs way too much, and that’s in print! Apple invented a dang curved lenticular display. I wonder how much of the $3.5K it is

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Azad Balabanian

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Mike Rockwell (so-called the “father of Apple Vision Pro”) talking about the Vision Pro’s front display Apparently it’s the first-of-it’s-kind curved lenticular 3D display

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The amazing Phil Tippett is tweeting out BTS videos, storyboards and animations for Jurassic Park so if you didn’t know he was on Twitter, time to follow.

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Phil Tippett

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Jun 10

This may be the best doppelgänger I’ve ever seen. Holy crap. I can’t believe that’s not him.

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Codify

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tyler glasnow looking great so far today vs. the rangers

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Jun 10

So my citrus trees are looking a little rough and I booked a tree specialist to come by and look at them. I told my wife, “The tree people are coming…” and before I could say anything else she cuts me off and says “Ok Gandalf.” I love this woman so much.

Jun 10

So what’s the neck damage situation for wearing a heavy headset at work all day?

Vision Pro reactions are very context specific. I'm happily alone at my desk all day every day. No one around. A more immersive UX for that sounds great. It could connect me more to others at work. For people with kids, this thing is a blocker. A wall in between them and family.

Absolutely furious that Apple has given designers a reason to continue using the abominable term "glass morphism"

Found this full set of 1974 editions at a Goodwill one time for a few dollars. I adore them.

This is the way. Every morning I close yesterday’s tabs without looking. This sins of my past will not affect my future.

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I close all tabs every hour or so. It drives everyone else who is a tab hoarder nuts.

The designers at Apple have been tweeting way more lately and I'm here for it.

When they let me write the Changelog posts, it's their own fault that we end up with nods to 90s movie memes.

Some of you are too young to remember the alien autopsy frenzy of 1995 and it shows. This recovered alien craft business has alien autopsy hoax 2.0 written all over it.

Silo is a Snowpiercer show.

Jun 7

About 30% of the time when I tap on a tweet now, I get the detail page or even linked URL for a completely different tweet.

Jun 7

People are harping on this but you won’t have to wear a giant Vision Pro headset at your kid’s birthday party to record 3D videos. It’ll be an iPhone feature. You already record videos of your kids with your phone, soon you’ll be able to watch them later in 3D on the VP.

Jun 6

There's another version of this where it's not skeuomorphic at all but it's still not flat rectangles. 3D geometric UI. Just feels like stacking windows is taking yesterday's paradigm and jamming it onto today's tech. There's a next step here that's more engaging.

I’m super interested in this problem. Why is VR UI mostly 2D scrolling rectangles? Why not design interactive objects instead of floating rectangles? More skeuomorphic. A podcast app that’s a 3D radio that sits on your desk. Too fun? Not boring enough?

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Jun 6

“Spatial Computing”/VR still feels like a solution in search of a problem. The lack of compelling vision (heh) for *why* to use the technology highlights how little interface innovation we’ve seen. 2D surfaces animated in 3D space, floating rectangles. It’s all so uninspiring.

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Jun 6

This one was loooonnnng overdue! It's now easy to align and distribute components in responsive

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apps. Hitting Shift-Option-H to quickly center something on the screen is my new favorite shortcut. I use it approximately one thousand times per day.

Meta can copy UI and UX patterns and get improved hand tracking working “good enough” like early Android phones had “good enough” multi-touch. And eventually they’ll be able to deliver a 4K experience for far less than $3.5k. Apple’s price makes even a $1,500 device a steal.

Every take that Zuck is scared or worried is wrong. This is perfect for him. Apple will increase consumer demand and developer interest for VR and Meta will reap the benefits by making the one you buy your kid for Christmas. $100 tablets sell like candy because the iPad exists.

The hover bike really is the best. This game man.

Apple: We can’t make touchscreen Macs because of arm fatigue Also Apple: Here's an entire OS built around waving your arms

Here's a visual guide to Vision vs. Vision Pro.

It's been almost 45 minutes since Apple announced Vision Pro and 99% of people aren't AR experts, but I read a web page on Apple dot com and now I am. Here's what you need to know. 🧵

This is truly the future.

This. It’ll get cheaper and better so fast that the V1 will be outdated before you’ve convinced yourself that you don’t miss that $3,500.

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