55 // Mac app design

Pro apps on macOS have a look and feel unlike apps on any other platform. Julia and Lennart join Adam to get into the details of designing and implementing Muse for Mac. Topics include the pros and cons of building with Catalyst, how the Muse canvas mixes with system conventions and UI chrome, and our experimental approach to developing the keyboard+mouse command vocabulary. Plus: how Julia rediscovered her love of right-click context menus.

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Show notes

• Muse for Mac
• Metamuse episode on native apps
• Mac Catalyst
• 80-20 rule
• Apple HIG
• macOS Finder
• Craft and their guide to Catalyst
• Metamuse episode on career
• Audacity labels
• macOS help menu search
• Transmit, OptImage, Forecast
• TestFlight
• AppKit
• React Native
• “medium for thought”
• What’s a computer?
• iPadOS morphing cursor