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User Interface Liquid Glass is more opaque Liquid Glass no longer switches between light and dark automatically (just match the environment settings of the current view) Liquid Glass is tappable where you expect it to be Support for Action Buttons next to the Tab Bars Tab Bars support more than
Talking about iterative design is tricky; show every step along the way would be overwhelming and not terribly interesting, but showing just the start and end points obfuscates the amount of work and exploration that went into it. A lot of the work looks like this: And that gets tiresome
I’ve long believed that social media is not about condensing the entire human experience into bite-size nuggets, fed to you endlessly. I think social media should exist to help you stay in touch with the people you care about most. And over the last few years, that
I don’t think anyone is more shocked than I am that it’s been 10 years since Obscura launched.  I went to college to study graphic design, and while our course covered a broad range of design skills and applications, I always knew that user interface
The Studio If you’ve heard me talk about Obscura before, you’ve probably heard me mention that my dad is a professional photographer. For most of my childhood, he worked out of a former 18th century police station, affectionately known as The Studio. Many afternoons were spent
Last November I had an issue where my left AirPod (second generation Pro) would occasionally fail to charge in the case and I’d wake up to find it dead. Not every day, but it was happening enough that it was becoming a real nuisance.  I contacted Apple
For a long while, I’ve felt that the design of iOS is too top heavy. While our phones seem to grow larger every year, our hands do not and so interface elements are pulled ever further out of reach. It’s a real micro-annoyance to have
I didn’t want to, but it happened. It’s been a while since I last bought a new iPad (a 2018 12.9" iPad Pro). The iPad is a really fascinating device, in many ways the most capable device Apple makes, and in others, the most
I’m very pleased to announce Croissant , a brand new app for cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. Over the summer, I began helping Aaron Vegh with the design of his blogging platform. One of its features was the ability to post directly to Mastodon in addition to
I spent Saturday afternoon walking around Golden Gate Park, taking over 1200 photos, all using Obscura. It was a really great experience and I just felt in the zone from start to finish. The only downside was shooting a whole lot of ProRAW photos under the heat of the midday
Hello there! Welcome to the world of Ketchup! I’ve been playing Pokemon games for about as long as I can remember. It all started for me with a copy of Pokemon Yellow on a translucent purple GameBoy Colour, and I’ve been hooked ever since. The Pokemon
When I first began teaching myself to code in 2014, I needed a project that was small, and easy to wrap my head around. Agile was inspired by the carnival game Whack-a-Mole, a simple game that tests your reflexes. All you need to do is tap the circles
Obscura 4 has been doing pretty well since its launch in August. Sales didn’t stop off a cliff and the fact that at least some income is guaranteed this autumn is a huge relief, and is allowing me to consider working on some more experimental projects for the
(I’m pretty sure I’ve used that title before) I spent much of the last two weeks working on a new personal site . I was feeling like my web presence was being stretched a little thin, and I wanted to unify all my projects under one roof.