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Fake Apps: How to prototype your way through a major redesign

How I redesigned LookUp into smaller, sizable chunks and then strung them together into a main app.

A short primer on Action-Centered Design

Tools follow action, just like form follows function. Action-Centered Design is a versatile framework that enables designers to design for actions first.

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Beyond Sparkles and Chat

AI helps best when it stops taking the center-stage

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Designing apps iteratively

Look is 10 years old. A detailed story on the design process of the app

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Redesigning LookUp’s word of the day for VisionOS

A case study on how LookUp's Word of the Day cards were redesigned for Vision Pro

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Design Concept: Menu Bar and Multitasking for iPadOS

Imaging what a menu bar for iPadOS would look like When we look at apps like Illustrator, or Affinity Designer or even Procreate on the iPad. They are powerful utility apps that some how struggle with providing a simple, easy to use and understand navigation for their actions. Actions are

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Designed for iPad

Over the last few years, the iPad has transformed significantly from being a large touch screen device to a device that supports multiple inputs and can be used in a variety of situations. It’s changed the way people interact with their apps. A good iPad app experience is not

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Always on display on the Apple Watch Series 5

For anyone who has used the Apple Watch Series 5, the always on display is something that’s literally hard to miss. It’s an essential feature that Apple’s done well. The watch faces elegantly fade into their dimmer versions. Not only reducing the alpha values, but also

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Designing for iPhone X

Vidit Bhargava Over the ten years of iPhone’s existence, Apple’s star product has gone through many iterations and has changed it’s screen size and aspect ratio at least of couple of times. Each time the iPhone’s screen changed, it opened up possibilities for newer interactions and

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Don Bradman Cricket 17: First Impressions

Vidit Bhargava This is a very quick first impression post. Will right a complete review sometime later this week. Don Bradman Cricket 17 focuses on Customizability and Analytics. Two aspects which were present in Don Bradman Cricket 14 but not to the extent that DBC 17 provides. There’s

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How I use Siri

Vidit Bhargava Some time back, Walt Mossberg wrote an interesting piece for the Verge stating that Siri seems “Dumb”, the gist of that article is that in the last 5 years that Siri has existed, it has done little to improve itself and that the inconsistency of the responses drives

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Something About the Stylus

Vidit Bhargava In 2007, while introducing the iPhone, Steve Jobs said this about styluses, “Who wants a Stylus!?”, he then went on to offer us the convenience of using our own fingers to touch the screen. If you’ve seen the launch video, you’ll probably realize that much of

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One of the main reasons I keep the Clear Reminders app empty on my iPhone is just to be able to read such amazing quotes, with a swipe on my screen. I haven’t tried QuoteBook yet, but given how frequently I like reading these, I might give it a

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Apple Watch Preview

Vidit BhargavaApple Watch is a gadget of convenience. It’s more about Want than Need. It’s about using a needle instead of the sword, when needed. The entire purpose of putting things on your wrist is so you can stop scooping out your phone more often. To apply the

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Doing different is easy but doing something significantly better is difficult. Jony Ive

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4 Lesser Known iOS8 Features -Artwork by Vidit Bhargava

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Introducing Pixel Posts

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