So excited to share one of my white-whale projects: a fully physics-based, holographic foil shader.

Each pixel simulates a ray of light diffracting into a rainbow of waves, which add and subtract to create these incredible patterns.

Not a single gradient was used here!

Had a lot of fun making this custom album transition!

Dismissing feels nice and continuous because the velocity of your drag gets carried into the artwork, which “swoops” back down.

Curious how the Dynamic Island app morph animation works?

I built a similar mesh transform animation in SwiftUI, and open-sourced it!

It’s simple, interruptible, runs at 120hz, and doesn’t use any private APIs:

https://github.com/jtrivedi/Mesh-Transform-Animation

I made this iridescent/metallic card, inspired by the cover of The iOS App Icon Book.

The color, texture, and noise is driven by two SwiftUI Metal shaders.

I prototyped a fully 3D, live Lock Screen wallpaper written in Metal, SwiftUI, and Wave!

- The terrain and lighting changes over time
- Super interactive and customizable b/c it’s all drawn in a shader
- “Night mode” moves the sun away, creating a cool dusk effect

I made this fun magnification loupe with Metal, SwiftUI, and Wave, with iOS 17’s new shader support!

And, I open sourced it, if you’re curious about how this stuff works :)

Thanks to @dlx for the inspiration!

GitHub: https://github.com/jtrivedi/MagnificationLoupe

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!

This last year, I’ve been leading a UI refresh to make Netflix feel more fluid, delightful, and polished.

Today, all that work shipped!

Huge thanks to @nebson and @b3ll for helping bring this to life ❤️

Details below, but try it out yourself!