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This week we follow up on SwiftUI and talk about our own personal challenges. We then talk about the new Dropbox app and episode 1 of Big Little lies Season 2.

• SwiftUI Tutorials | Apple Developer Documentation
• Expanding the Sensory Experience with Core Haptics - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer

• Start building your dream integration with the Abstract SDK - Abstract
• Kevin Clark on Twitter: "What is your biggest challenge right now?"
• Dropbox Updates: Meet the Latest Version - Dropbox
• Sebastiaan de With on Twitter: "New Dropbox! I dub it... SlackBox™… "

• Big Little Lies: Opening Credits (HBO) - YouTube

• Mercury
• CleanMyMac X
• I Think You Should Leave

This week the episode is all about Apple's 2019 WWDC announcements: watchOS 6, iOS 13 and Dark Mode, iPadOS, the new cheese-grater Mac Pro and the outrageously expensive Pro Display XDR.

• Apple Events - Keynote June 2019
• watchOS 6 Preview
• iOS 13 Preview
• iPadOS Preview
• Mac Pro
• Mac Pro - Design
• Pro Display XDR
• macOS Catalina

• ‎The Catch Up Call on Apple Podcasts
• The Catch Up Call on Overcast
• Chernobyl: Starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, & More | HBO

This week we talk about our job interviews that didn't work out and what we took away from these experiences. We also talk about Playdate, going all in on the USB-C lifestyle and how books might not work.

• What does the term 'Individual Contributor Role' mean?
• Gavin Nelson

• Playdate
• PixelSnap 2 for macOS
• Runner Pro
• Andy Matuschak: Why books don’t work
• Animation Handbook by Ryan McLeod
• Easy on Netflix
• Accidental Tech Podcast: 326: Blow Your Redo Stack
• Apple Watch Magnetic Charger to USB-C Cable (0.3 m)
• Fundraiser by Devon Ko: Devon Ko's medical recovery
• Thinking about Design Career Growth - Alberto Orsini
• The Making of a Manager Book by Julie Zhuo
• zenangst/Gray: Tailor your macOS Mojave experience

This week we talk about feeling impostor syndrome as a manager and Dark themes vs Light themes.

• Loren Brichter tweet
• Original dark/light theme tweet (poll)
• Using Mojave Dark Mode on only the Menu Bar and Dock — MDS
• NightOwl

• Loom
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined

This week we talk at length about the Facebook redesign. We also finally talk about The Rise of Skywalker trailer.

• Did Apple buy or create the Keynote software? - Quora
• F8 2019 keynote in 12 minutes - The Verge
• Facebook is redesigning its core app around the two parts people actually like to use - The Verge
• Mark Zuckerberg Gives The Keynote Speech At Facebook Developer Conference

• STAR WARS Episode 9: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Trailer (2019)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
• Thanks, I hate it

• Frustro | Sansless
• CleanShot for macOS

This week we talk about how sometimes you have to be irrational to make something great. We also circle back to Rafa's Avengers Endgame predictions.

• Samsung Delays Release of Galaxy Fold Smartphone - WSJ
• Vlad Savov on Twitter: "Samsung Galaxy Almost Fold"
• Kevin Gutowski on Twitter: the Keynote animation UI
• Kevin Clark on Twitter: "The new Google calendar UI for creating events with other people is amazing"

• ‎Avengers: Endgame (2019) directed by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
• Game of Thrones
• ‎Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) directed by Rob Letterman
• ‎Unicorn Store (2017) directed by Brie Larson

• BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content - YouTube
• ‎Wanna Kicks on the App Store

This week we talk about why it seems like we're seeing fewer and fewer UI innovations and how there might hopefully be a silver lining in all of this. We also discuss Figma's UI refresh.

• Layout #61: Crowdsourced Burritos (with Special Guest Ryan McLeod
• Blackbox
• Mike Rundle on Twitter: "Our Choice and Twitter for iPad were the peak and the end of iPad interface design innovation and they came out 8+ years ago. Since then, designers have been so preoccupied with flat design, new prototyping tools and design systems and we forgot how to innovate."
• Tweetie - Wikipedia
• iKyle on Twitter: "Something easy to forget about Twitter for iPad is it wasn't just the sliding panels design, it has some of the best gestures and nice little interactions of any app I've used."
• We refreshed Figma's UI: An inside look at our process
• Matthew Sanders on Twitter: "When you base your decisions off of data alone. You compromise choice and critical decision making. People are resourceful. They are quite well acquainted with suffering."

• Cardhop for iOS - Flexibits
• Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way
• Accidental Tech Podcast #321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out - Breaking up iTunes
• Accidental Tech Podcast #322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires - Reactions to Katie Bouman’s work

This week Kevin has a contrarian opinion on the Staples logo reveal video and we talk about John Maeda's comments on the importance of design. Finally, Rafa gets his theory about Avengers Endgame on the record.

• Staples logo reveal
• Brand New: A seat at the Staple
• John Maeda: "Design is not that important"
• Kevin Gutowski

• Pixelmator Photo
• Our Planet

Short show this week. We follow our tradition of picking apart the details of Apple's announcements: News+, Arcade, Card and TV+.

• AirPods
• ​​Apple Event
  • ​​Apple News+
  • ​​Apple News+ vs. Apple Newsstand
  • ​​Apple Arcade
  • ​​Apple Card
  • ​​Apple TV App
  • ​​Apple TV+

• ​​The OA (season 2)
• Us

This week, Rafa tells us all about his recent experience using Android for a few weeks: what he liked, what he didn't like and we finish by answering some listener questions.

• ​​Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL
• ​​Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service at GDC 2019
• ​​Here is Google’s controller for its Stadia game-streaming service
• ​​Designing Fluid Interfaces - WWDC 2018
• ​​Paste – Cloud clipboard history & snippets manager for Mac and iOS
• ​​Things for Mac & iOS
• ​​Todoist
• ​​Castro Podcasts
• ​​Google Podcasts
• ​​Pocket Casts App
• ​​Apollo - A beautiful reddit app built for power and speed
• ​​1Password - Password Manager for Families, Businesses, Teams

• ​​5 Excellent Examples Of Progressive Web Applications
• ​​Love Death + Robots