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This week we go through some of the details that we missed in our WWDC episode, and Kevin has a special announcement!

• MacBook Air Corrections

• Until
  • Landing page
  • App Store link
• Menubar utility for Simulators status bar

• Kareprints
• Freddie’s art
• Joey Banks’ iOS 16 UI Kit

This week, we are joined by special guest Joey Banks to talk about Apple's WWDC 2022 announcements: iOS 16, watchOS 8, macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16, and the newly designed M2 MacBook Air.

• Joey Banks
  • Twitter
  • iOS 15 UI Kit for Figma
  • Joey’s Newsletter
• WWDC22 — Watch the Keynote
  • iOS 16 — Preview
  • macOS Ventura — Preview
  • iPadOS 16 — Preview
  • watchOS 8 — Preview
  • MacBook Air with M2
• ‘realityOS' Trademark Filing Hints at Possible WWDC Announcement — MacRumors
• Download the new macOS 13 Ventura wallpaper - 9to5Mac
• Rediscovering the Mac: An iPad User’s Journey into macOS with the M1 Max MacBook Pro — MacStories

• Vincent Schwenk
  • Patreon
• THE INSIDE OUTTAKES - Bo Burnham — YouTube
  • Album on Apple Music
• Effekt | Wallpaper Art Creator — App Store

Kevin is out this week, so Rafa is joined by special guests Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson from Figma to talk about their work designing Autolayout V4.

• Oscar Nilsson
• Joel Miller
• Figma
• Designing Autolayout V4 - Joel Miller, Oscar Nilsson (Config 2022)
• Layout 204: Designing FigJam, with Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo
• Layout 220: Figma's Redesigned Comments, with Ryhan Hassan

• Martijn Doolaard — YouTube
• Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla
• The Staircase — IMDB

This week we celebrate the life of the iPod by ranking our favorite and least favorite iPod industrial designs.

• Kevin Was Wrong™
  • Turns out, it seems that most people do use Figma in fullscreen.
  • Screenshot of Rafa’s Desktop when using Figma
• PiSight Camera
• Test

• Our rankings
• iPod Line — Wikipedia
• Identify Your iPod — Apple
• https://patrickcollison.com/fast

• Twenty Thousand Hertz: Windows_Logon.wav
• After Steve

This week we talk about our first impressions of the new Figma features introduced at Config 2022, and what they mean for us as designers.

• Hand Mirror 1.6
• Hand Mirror on the App Store
• Announcement Tweet (featuring the Apple Store employee)

• Figma Config 2022
• Thread by Ryhan
• Dark Mode — WWDC 2018

• The App Icon Book
• Airbnb 2022 Summer Release

This week we continue our discussion on app icons and go deep on the icon picker UI Rafa designed.

• Ollie on Twitter: Carpet vs Rug vs Mat

• The App Icon Book
• Rafa’s Icon Tweet
• Rafa’s Icon Picker UI Tweet
• SwiftUI Special Effects

• Behind the Mac: Skywalker Sounds
• Flex Mobile Power
• Alex Cornell’s tweets

This week we talk about Kevin's foray into designing something for work, then get an update from Rafa about some of his furniture decisions, and Rafa shares his explorations for Along's app icon design.

• Zara Home rugs
• Kevin’s living room rug
• Togo Couch
• Tufty-Time
• Rafa's tweets about app icons

• Couverture
• Mimestream
• Clear Spaces
• Rafa's homescreen

This week we talk about spending in-person time with your team, one of us has an official statement about the Studio Display, and we check in on Until, Kevin's side project. We also discuss our thoughts on Severance, the best show on Apple TV+.

• Codenames
• Custom codenames
• Layout Episode 55: With our powers combined
• Severance

• goods.wtf
• Siddarth Arun
• Opal C1
• Rafa’s thread about Opal

This week we talk about Kevin's Studio Display woes, webcams and dive into roll out strategies for launching a new iOS app.

• Apple Studio Display
• Logitech 4K Pro Magnetic Webcam
• Opal C1
• Lumina

• Handmirror
• Thwip

• Vivid (use code LAYOUT for 33% off)
• Audio Hijack

This week, Rafa gives us an update on his talk proposal, which leads into a conversation about bringing delight into our work, we then get into more on the Studio Display and cable management.

• Config
• Mailbox beta coin again
• Studio Display
• Christian Selig’s Dream Apple Monitor Lineup
• Vivid: Permanent full brightness on XDR display
• Cable management-gate!
• Slide: Smart Curtains

• amie.so
• Krijn Rijshouwer
• https://interface.community
• Substack, App Store
• Introducing the Substack app
  • Alex Cornell, on Twitter