Designing watchOS
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Ed Chao retweeted
In iOS 27, Home notifications are more natural.
Instead of pinging you per event, people’s arrivals, departures, and other events now neatly collapse into a single notification that updates as the activity unfolds.
Ed Chao retweeted
Feels incredible to share the work we’ve done this year, excited to have been a big part in bringing to life a more powerful and personal Siri.
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.@Apple enters a new chapter in Human Interface Design as Steve Lemay becomes the new leader of the team, working alongside Molly Anderson, head of Industrial Design at Apple. A veteran at the company since 1999, Lemay has shaped every major interface evolution from the original #iPhone to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and, most recently, visionOS.
Tim Cook calls him “an extraordinarily high bar for excellence,” noting his depth of understanding in platform technologies and his gift for shaping intuitive, human-centred digital experiences.
With Lemay now at the helm, Apple’s design bench continues to push forward, refining the interactions, systems and visual languages that define the world’s most recognisable devices.
Ed Chao retweeted
With watchOS 11, you can now press and hold the Action Button on Apple Watch Ultra to quickly switch actions using your finger or the Digital Crown. Had a lot of fun working on this with @edchao.
Ed Chao retweeted
We’ve brought Live Activities to Apple Watch and made the Smart Stack even more intelligent in watchOS 11. Join @edchao and I for “Design Live Activities for Apple Watch” to learn about the design of Live Activities and bringing yours to watchOS. #wwdc24 developer.apple.com/videos/p…
I did another short talk this year for WWDC. This year with my friend and colleague @taylorcarrigan. We cover updates to the Smart Stack and the special addition of Live Activities.
developer.apple.com/videos/p…
Ed Chao retweeted
I’m continually so proud of the work our team puts into initiatives like this. Announcing Apple’s new Black Unity collection for Apple Watch. apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/a…
Sometimes I think that if life were a VR game, We'd appreciate things more. We'd be struck by the detail and the expansiveness. We'd pause. We'd explore. We'd be more present. Yet strangely, we yawn at reality; satisfied with the small routine circuits of our lives.
You may compose the most wonderful music or write the most captivating drama but if the song never fades to silence and if the story bears no conclusion, even a masterpiece will wither into tedium. Dying then, is the arc of life. While living forever is the arc of death.
Religion is effective becomes it changes the way you think. It is the joyful mind that makes the joyful life.
Someone struggling to lift weight will not succeed if they are told they are acting weak and only need to try harder. They need someone to stand beside them and spot them. We can help others develop their own strength by bearing just enough of the weight for them to push through.
A lovely recounting of some of the more subtle design details in the watchOS 10 redesign.
coolhunting.com/tech/nerdy-d…
