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).
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Here another example with Tweetie (15 years!!!) and how it pushed everything forward.
The early years of mobile app design were full of energy and creativity (something Apple HIG zealots would probably hate today).
The energy in tech disappeared and we went from: „how could this be the best app we could imagine“ to „it’s good enough, ship it“.
#ipad #ios #indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic #skeumorphism
@obrhoff lol, it's actually hard to get that layout with SwiftUI... it will fight you every step of the way :D
