Apple updates Human Interface Guidelines with information on visionOS design principles. Design resources, including Figma design kits are available.
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Figma: visionOS
Apple updates Human Interface Guidelines with information on visionOS design principles. Design resources, including Figma design kits are available.
Apple Developer:
Figma: visionOS
Figma design resources for iOS and iPadOS 17 now available. Sketch resources are also available.
Apple is to provide more updates on design language of visionOS. Currently, WWDC23 sessions are recommended for watching.
Also, updated fonts were published, and SF Armenian, SF Hebrew and SF Georgian are added.
All updates to Human Interface Guidelines and other resources are published on Design site.
Figma: Apple Design Resources – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
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Apple revamps Human Interface Guidelines website. Now guidelines are provided as united documents for all platforms.
Document is easier to navigate and understand, pages now contain links to appropriate development resources.
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Reference: Apple Updates Its Human Interface Guidelines
WWDC22 is here! Apple's annual conference started with Special Event day, Keynote, State of the Union and Apple Design Awards.
It actually started on Sunday June 5th. Apple presented its new Apple Developer Center to public. Center provides an opportunity to development teams to participate in workshops hosted by Apple and meet Apple teams while working on interesting projects. Overall, Apple Developer Center brings Apple Store aesthetics to developer-focused venue.
Apple did not provide any announcements on how often it would invite developers to visit Developer Center, but general recommendation is to monitor for emails and news in Developer app.
Before going into OS updates, let's mention Apple M2 announcement which is iterates over success of M1. New chip is presented in new MacBook Air with design following recent MacBook Pro principles. New MacBook Air is fan-less and provides full day battery life.
M2 MacBook Pro 13" is also announced with no body changes.
iOS 16 brings many new features including:
iPadOS gets more desktop-like features:
watchOS 9 brings many features focused on fitness and health including:
macOS also gets attention this year:
Xcode 14 focuses on developer performance and adds multiple useful features for developers. Xcode Previews were rebuilt and are expected to run more smoothly.
As always, many existing frameworks get important updates:
2.5.4: Deleted requirement that apps using location background mode include a reminder that doing so may dramatically decrease battery life.
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4.2.3: Deleted requirement to include sufficient content in the binary for the app to function at launch.
4.7: Deleted restriction on lotteries or charitable donations in code that is not embedded in the binary.
5.2.5: If your app displays Apple Weather data, it should follow the attribution requirements provided in the WeatherKit documentation.
5.3.3: Deleted restriction on purchasing lottery or raffle tickets or initiating fund transfers in the app.
New Apple Human Interface Guidelines are now unified across platforms, provide links to relevant talks and design resources.
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Apple added PNG files for product bezels to its design resource catalog.
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Reference: Apple Design Resources updated with PNG mockups for those who don’t have Photoshop
Apple refreshes design resources. Updates include templates, controls, fonts, etc.
Mike Stern provides more details in a tweet thread.
Another round of interesting reads on development for Apple platforms.
Have a nice weekend!
Google is now gradually removing Material Design components from its apps. Google sees current iOS design unique enough to avoid mixing it with Material Design. Users will see less custom components and more system-looking elements in Google apps.