App icons are art. Getting a great app icon for your app can be a process. Even with a clear idea in mind, you'll need to iterate. If you hire a designer this can be done during a focused design phase, or as an indie developer it may
Design systems have had a big impact for teams to ship consistent product design. Consistency is great. However, I would argue that design systems are meant to be broken. You work within the system to keep delivering what you know works, or what someone else has deemed works. But for
How much was really lost in the great calamity that was iOS 7? For a UI designer like myself, quite a lot. I wandered around aimlessly for some time before finding my footing again. There was something so tangible with using real world metaphors for digital interfaces. Modern design languages
With so much of app development and user interface design being standardized with declarative programming, design systems and UI kits, things start to look the same and it’s becoming harder to stand out. One aspect I only recently put into words is how great apps have a sense of