What if the macOS dock and its icons were more dynamic and fluid?

Made a little demo that shows message previews, live music, download progress, and more.

Pretty happy with how this turned out!

@janum Aww. Looking good! ๐Ÿ˜
@janum Didn't catch originally that the Safari preview was download progress. Thought it was a tab counter, hahah
@janum Yes please! Especially like the music controls
@janum lovely stuff, that could be quite handy although my dock is quite packed so not sure how it would handle that?
@janum Very nice work! Itโ€™s really nice you managed to keep the animations minimal and clean ! :D
@janum Ooooo, that would be sweet. Great concept!
@janum Loving the music controls and the Messages view! This would be great IRL.
@janum looks great! i'd love a pinch gesture to open/close apps on the dock like that ๐Ÿคฉ
@janum If i ever used my dock i would absolutely love this. Alas, i keep it hidden and try and avoid ever interacting with it. I'm not the target audience, but I shall admire it from afar. :D

@janum

Safari dragginโ€™ the line. Seems on point.

@janum This is incredibly nice! How'd you go about prototyping it so well?
@joeyabanks Thanks Joey! Itโ€™s built as an actual app (Swift/UIKit) with my animation engine, Wave.
@janum Very cool! Nice work.
@janum shut up and take my money .gif
@janum I like elements of this. Actually Iโ€™d love to see an enhanced โ€˜context menuโ€™ execution of this. Or even on-hover, I def agree the dock icons are perhaps under-utilized to their full potential.
@janum this is an awesome idea. The kind that seems so obvious as soon as you see it.
@janum Love this so much! Fantastic job
@janum You should split-zone the dock so that we could click the upper half for ordinary action or the lower for dock utility โ€“ which would be opt-in behavior.
@janum @BasicAppleGuy wow! ๐Ÿ˜ if this was really in macOS I might actually unhide my dock!
@janum looks cool, but the iTunes widget won't work for the vertical dock users like me ๐Ÿ‘€
@janum @jens Das denke ich auch bei #ios immer wieder.
@janum @macmaniacs Thatโ€™s nice as long as you have close to nothing in the dock ๐Ÿ˜† in other words: for those not really using the dock yet, thatโ€™s a nice option to finally use it for more specific things. But if you have a lot of Apps, folders and Docs in the dock โ€ฆ nope, I would never use it ๐Ÿ™ƒ
@nSonic @janum Well, I can only speak for myself and my dock hasn't changed much in YEARS. I don't like it cluttered and overloaded with tons of apps or folders, same goes for my desktop.
@janum This is REALLY cool, I like this
@janum wow! Thatโ€™s incredible ๐Ÿ‘
@janum Love this idea! Hope Apple is paying attention
@janum I would buy that app if you made it!
@janum reminds me in some very dusty way of the OS 9 Control Strip. Widgets but without stealing screen real estate. Love it.
@janum Apple should have done this instead of the Touch Bar.
@janum this would be great. Love it.