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2026-05-18 23:18:19 GMT

Introducing the 2026 Apple Design Award finalists! https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/
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2026-03-04 15:46:58 GMT

I vividly remember getting my first MacBook and how much it inspired me to become a designer. Really cool to think about how many people who will get to know the Mac with MacBook Neo!
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2026-02-23 20:34:13 GMT

Great seeing you all at the Amsterdam edition of “Let’s talk Liquid Glass” today!
Epic venue and great talks.
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2026-01-28 21:49:37 GMT

Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple.
So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️
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2025-06-12 16:22:44 GMT

Closing out another fantastic #WWDC25 — possibly my favorite yet. Thanks to everyone that made it such a fun one!
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2025-06-03 15:08:31 GMT

I wrote some words and made some renders on what the New Design Language of iOS, iPadOS and macOS might be. Physicality: The new age of UI. https://www.lux.camera/physicality-the-new-age-of-ui/
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2025-01-12 22:22:17 GMT

I genuinely believe we’ll look back on this era of the web and think we were all just collectively insane.
The best technology of our existence for reading is ubiquitous yet there’s never been a worse reading experience.
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2024-12-20 21:17:32 GMT

Moonrise in Patagonia.
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2024-12-16 15:45:49 GMT

Anyone else’s Mac spotlight just totally not working? Searching for an app gets no app results, a file type search remains an empty list. It got bad in previous releases but Sequoia’s been unusable even on a fresh new install.

2024-12-07 15:46:01 GMT

Good morning.
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2024-12-04 18:26:02 GMT

While it feels completely illegal you can actually just go and set a Vaio laptop wallpaper as your iPad lock screen image
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2024-12-01 20:05:01 GMT

Cut a redwood for our tree this year. 🎄
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2024-11-29 15:03:23 GMT

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@nprofile…lv6z I'm probably fairly pro-this in principle but the execution always ends up being a authoritarian-style power grab with mandatory online digital ID, tracking, etc. :/

2024-11-29 14:28:48 GMT

A crisp fall night in Amsterdam. snapped on iPhone 16 Pro.
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2024-11-25 12:04:28 GMT

I remember being so in love with the “Blades of Grass” wallpaper from the Mac OS X Leopard beta (supposedly a photo shot by Steve himself). It looked great with the new glossy shelf dock.
We have to bring back touching (desktop) grass
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2024-11-22 16:28:48 GMT

The Apple Music Awards are so damn cool. A wafer of chips on a rounded aluminum slab.
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2024-11-13 22:45:48 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 this is incredible

2024-11-13 22:44:21 GMT

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@nprofile…537s makes sense — sorry it excludes you like this. I think you can actually still technically get a monthly via the subscription settings in iOS, but let me see if I can't get you a code so you can just enjoy it

2024-11-13 22:07:03 GMT

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@npub19un…9j68 I think we are charging what we do to sustain ourselves, so I don’t think we'd offer it for less. We could definitely re-consider monthlies, but they just didn't have enough uptake for us to keep them around…

2024-10-22 20:03:42 GMT

“An Apple employee demonstrates a new 30-inch flat panel display”
Just a random Apple employee.
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2024-09-27 07:13:17 GMT

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@npub1sy6…5dxr what a cute icon!

2024-09-11 19:44:07 GMT

This Home Screen from Apple’s website has straight up the craziest set of apps in the dock I have ever seen
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2024-09-09 20:43:40 GMT

“The EU version of iOS is the most fun version of iOS!”
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2024-09-09 18:32:14 GMT

uh, wow https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/113109014481022767

2024-08-31 17:19:41 GMT

Dang the new PDX airport terminal is gorgeous.
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2024-08-29 15:37:23 GMT

I’m deep into third party camera/photo apps (shocker!) but I can’t see any benefit in letting users delete the stock Photos and Camera app on iPhone. Hide? Sure. But delete?
At best, we’ll see lots of incredibly confused average users who accidentally deleted core parts of iOS. Can someone explain the logic here?
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2024-08-28 02:35:55 GMT

I’m sure the new Siri animation is probably going to get old at some point but this still blows my mind every time
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2024-08-15 22:07:03 GMT

A perfect foggy day for a Process Zero shot.
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2024-07-31 20:20:54 GMT

Incredible stuff from The Washington Post here.
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2024-07-25 06:31:39 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 safe travels!

2024-07-23 17:09:55 GMT

Very pleased with how our new manual white balance controls came out. The UI temperature changes slightly in step with your adjustments.
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2024-07-21 19:33:17 GMT

what a year this week has been

2024-06-25 20:54:47 GMT

AI is going just great, part 491:
“rabbit has known that we have had their api key for a month, but they have taken no action to rotate the api keys. […] these keys allow anyone to: read every response every r1 has ever given, including ones containing personal information, brick all R1s, alter the responses and more”
https://rabbitu.de/articles/security-disclosure-1

2024-06-22 16:04:18 GMT

Coffee, sunrise.
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2024-06-21 17:28:56 GMT

Ah, an exciting new chapter in “Give EU the control over software and enjoy the consequences”:
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2024-06-20 18:32:42 GMT

The EU wants to end encryption. It doesn’t end today.
Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security — powerful forces inside and out of the EU continue to push to end encryption. Not for the children, but for profit.
https://sdw.space/europe-wants-to-end-encryption/

2024-06-19 04:28:18 GMT

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@npub1c0m…xqjl good question on depth. It's a solid 10+ feet and it's pretty challenging even for two to get off the legs.

2024-06-19 04:02:19 GMT

Just made my Gear Guide public. It’s a simple, semi-frequently updated guide of my go-to products I use for work. Send in any questions about stuff I might’ve missed!
https://sdw.space/gearguide/
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2024-06-17 00:08:06 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 hell yeah

2024-06-16 17:55:44 GMT

Your GPS Is Wrong
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2024-06-15 06:47:14 GMT

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@npub1238…g63g six hour wait for a double double is next level

2024-06-14 19:53:12 GMT

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@npub1sy6…5dxr breaking news

2024-06-14 05:48:07 GMT

@npub1sdu…w074 good seeing you this week!

2024-06-12 07:16:10 GMT

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@npub1t5m…9guy objectively the best mugs. I have the non Apple ones but wow. they have like 20 other things that perfectly stack with that radius too

2024-06-11 17:05:41 GMT

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@npub1sy6…5dxr powered by faster hand tracking I believe

2024-06-11 03:43:31 GMT

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@npub1238…g63g no you can provide a dark icon too

2024-06-08 20:57:21 GMT

🪐 Microsoft Recalled.
Microsoft Recall is a dumpster fire. It should be a bigger story that it was somehow announced and shipped the way it was. https://sdw.space/microsoft-recalled/

2024-06-07 16:15:21 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 I always feel better designing invoices when they are nicely designed. Good work! (and I basically never see them, even from great designers!)

2024-06-06 19:17:03 GMT

New website alert: http://sdw.space! 🪐
- I am making a return to blogging (!).
- Finally, a place to get my Lightroom presets and high-res designs / wallpapers
- a place where I upload my photos
… and, offering a pre-order for my photo and editing course, starting Fall 2024
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2024-06-05 17:27:59 GMT

I like how people are claiming Apple has ‘never outsourced so much of their software to anyone’ with a potential OpenAI deal when the iPhone launched with Google search powered Safari, Google Maps and Youtube on the Home Screen.
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2024-06-01 08:24:45 GMT

There’s apparently a festival called “Forest Moon” happening north of us in the redwoods this weekend (where they filmed the Endor scenes of Star Wars). Fantastic.
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2024-05-29 22:47:14 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 jelly. Wish I'd kept mine like that.

2024-05-29 20:26:06 GMT

Bento for lunch, anyone?
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2024-05-29 16:11:41 GMT

Introducing Kino - Halide’s new pro video camera sibling.
It’s our beautiful, simple, but powerful app for taking cinematic video. Packed with amazing color presets by my favorite pros. Out now, and half off for launch!
http://www.shotwithkino.com
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2024-05-19 04:02:49 GMT

I love that people were like ‘wahh, I never use all that power in my iPad Pro for anything!' so Apple designers + engineers went 'sick, that means we can render high-poly 3d tools with this new Apple Pencil Pro to cast dynamic shadows at 120fps’
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2024-05-19 02:31:43 GMT

Throwback to a cute little feature I mocked up in 2009: MobileMe Home, a way to connect with your home network. (Oh man, the days of fitting a whole icon in 16×16 pixels)
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2024-05-15 13:05:30 GMT

Approaching the Dutch coast at sunrise. iPhone 15 Pro — 1× • 2× • 5×
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2024-05-07 13:28:38 GMT

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@npub1sdu…w074 amen!

2024-05-07 13:14:23 GMT

Wonderful update to Sketch today. We design all our apps with Sketch — a great mac-assed Mac app.
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2024-05-04 01:38:09 GMT

Checked into my hotel room only to discover this absolutely perfect bathtub situation
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2024-05-03 16:12:24 GMT

I still think about this tweet
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2024-04-22 18:49:17 GMT

this is some bullshit
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2024-04-17 19:33:44 GMT

iOS disk space management continues to absolutely confound me. My iPhone lies about having 250 GB of ‘free’ space on-device, but plugged in shows only a fraction of that. And it complains about storage nonstop.
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2024-04-02 22:12:00 GMT

AI: Actually Indians
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2024-03-22 03:36:25 GMT

The US Department of Justice thinks Beeper — a hack that spoofed Mac serial numbers to make iMessage work on random hardware — was ‘fixing’ the messaging experience on iOS.
What… the actual fuck
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2024-03-20 23:33:11 GMT

I do not envy Apple PR this year. Every single release and the usual excitement around new products has been mixed with or even buried under a veritable torrent of regulation and lawsuit news.

2024-02-26 21:40:06 GMT

San Francisco. The most beautiful place to live.
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2024-02-03 05:21:12 GMT

just remember, when you die in visionOS, you die in the real world

2024-01-19 13:16:05 GMT

Vision Pro comes with all the standard apps a user might expect like mail, messages, music, dinosaurs
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2023-12-18 02:32:08 GMT

so grateful for sunday forest walks with my little girl.
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2023-11-28 17:56:09 GMT

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@npub1sy6…5dxr @npub13xj…sys0 oh interesting. they're listening probably. watched you post that toot on the built in camera and saw you speaking ill. an 'education team' is on the way. knock knock

2023-11-28 17:48:52 GMT

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@npub1sy6…5dxr @npub13xj…sys0 what does it upsell?

2023-11-28 17:26:35 GMT

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@npub1eee…e209 this makes me realize how much my dream setup is eventually just going to be a westworld tablet. Super thin, folds into a laptop like shape that is basically a giant touch bar (with haptics) on the bottom and screen up top, or just a one-pane tablet, or folded up as a phone.
Crazy nightmare for UI design, but they could get it right. It'd be a real sci-fi device.

2023-11-07 21:21:38 GMT

It has been 0️⃣ days since the sign had to be tapped
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2023-11-03 17:04:23 GMT

Love the perspective you can get from that extra 5× reach.
iPhone 15 Pro Max, ultra wide (0.5×) vs tetraprism lens (5×), @npub1dc0…02uq ProRAW
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2023-10-31 23:38:42 GMT

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@npub1c0m…xqjl this is good for bitcoin

2023-10-26 06:47:21 GMT

First fall snow in the mountains tonight. Excited to get out and shoot some wintery Sierra Nevada mountains again this year.
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2023-10-25 17:46:58 GMT

We’re on the look for a new family car and I’ve been pleasantly impressed with the BMW X5/X6. 2023 models have nice climate controls: physical switches and a little screen showing mode, degrees, etc
Then I drove the new 2024 model. And got this absolute mess:
Carmakers, please stop using screens instead of buttons. This is not an upgrade.
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2023-10-23 03:21:07 GMT

Love Xiaomi’s HyperOS’ quick settings design. Innovative and original design all around.
I really can’t take Android OEMs seriously with blatant copycat stuff like this.
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2023-10-13 03:36:18 GMT

Throwback to when the Photoshop icon was cool and a literal photo shop
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2023-09-20 16:28:30 GMT

Me and @npub1zdg…xg5r wrote a post about the how and why of developing Orion, our latest b-side app. Lots of fun peeks at the design process in here.
http://lux.camera/meet-orion
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2023-09-20 16:11:00 GMT

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@npub1utv…87lr @npub1zdg…xg5r thank you!!! I knew you'd dig it :)

2023-08-30 18:35:30 GMT

Throwback to this hilariously over the top equalizer UI I made for Android phones back in 2011.
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2023-08-27 05:31:38 GMT

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@npub1u24…32pl agree with @npub1dpj…ayn4: development is design by definition. should developers be visual designers? I don't really think so - one should follow your own interests and talents, much like I think many designers shouldn't try to be fulltime coders.

2023-08-25 04:22:32 GMT

The Dynamic Island.
The Magic Port.
USB-C
The Action Button.
The Dynamic Island, Magic Port, USB-C, the Action Button.
Are you getting it? These are not four separate features.
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2023-08-21 16:45:22 GMT

Name a better iOS 6 icon than Safari’s. an incredibly extra icon. It’s like three compasses in one with a globe thrown in for good measure.
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2023-08-10 00:46:49 GMT

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@npub1xsy…cevg I always thought it'd fly on a beefy Mac Pro, and then I got a beefy Mac Pro and it was still terribly slow. I wanted to love it so badly.

2023-08-10 00:33:59 GMT

This still looks great.
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2023-07-31 23:01:43 GMT

bike infrastructure in the Netherlands: we built a bike garage that look like an Apple Store!
bike infrastructure in California: enjoy the new suicide center lane on this highway overpass
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2023-07-16 08:01:46 GMT

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@npub1utv…87lr my condolences Christina.

2023-06-26 22:43:47 GMT

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@npub1c0m…xqjl Fargo is so good.

2023-06-15 01:54:55 GMT

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@npub1eee…e209 glad they’re using protection

2023-06-13 20:52:28 GMT

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@npub1c0m…xqjl surely this won’t turn out to be a blatant copy

2023-06-06 21:00:14 GMT

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@npub1eee…e209 what is the capture experience like for taking photos and videos, if they let you try that out