60 // Real materials with Dan LaCivita

Designers use general-purpose vector editors like Sketch and Figma to mock up mobile UIs. Play is a design tool that offer a different approach: designing directly on an iPhone or iPad. Dan from Play joins Mark and Adam to talk about the problem with mirror apps; how much time you should spend on sketching before “getting your hands on the clay”; and why developer handoff should be a collaboration, not a handoff. Plus: the correlation between the loudness of your mechanical keyboard and your coding skills.

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Show notes

• Dan LaCivita
• Play @createwithplay
• Karate Kid
• UI pattern
• Play’s Slider
• Figma Mirror, Sketch Mirror
• WYSIWYG
• Spatial Interfaces
• Play’s spatial UI
• Honor the Material
• Metamuse episode with David Hoang
• Play’s UIButton, Apple’s UIButton
• Textfield, UICollectionView
• iOS Design System for Figma
• Metamuse episode with Paulo Pereira
• Higher Fidelity Prototype
• Origami, Protopie
• iOS 15 Modals & Haptics
• Bezier Curves
• Waterfall Methodologies
• Principles of Product Development
• Picker in Play
• Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design
• Early Ideation
• Play’s Launch article on Medium
• User Testing
• No-Code, Low-Code
• Variables in Play
• Glide, Adalo
• HyperCard
• Gradual Enhancement
• Low Floor, High Ceiling
• SwiftUI Charts