While researching how an iPad app should look, I came across this 13-year-old video of Spotify's iPad app. It reminds me how we are stuck in mobile app design.
We have achieved nothing in the last 13 years besides adding some meaningless gestures and maybe pushing a few pixels to the left or right (metaphorically).
#ipad #ios #indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic #skeumorphism
@obrhoff We live in a time of platform maturity so I’d expect less wild innovation for innovation’s sake. It’s easy to forget what’s been added by the platform. By year:
2023 - Interactive widgets, standby mode
2022 - Live activities
2021 - Focus modes, sheet detents
2020 - Widgets, Picture-in-Picture
2019 - Dark Mode and modal cards
It’s striking we’re still getting “basic” UX features from the OS.
obrhoff
Michael Critz