Resources

Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
UI Guideline
UI Components Handbook
Page Flows Recorded flows from established sites: When designing common, but vital flows like onboarding, upgrading, and inviting friends, start from a solid base of knowledge by seeing how successful products do it. All without having to sign up to a whole bunch of services & clogging up your inbox.
🧡 Orange Digital Accessibility
Contrast checker (more tools on the same site)
⭐️ SemanticUI makes it easy to visualize all of iOS 13’s semantic and adaptable colors, preferred fonts for text styles, and built-in icons.
GOV.UK Design System
Design Principles An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.
Laws of UX

Accessibility

2022.07 VoiceOver For Frequently Updating Data iOS can automatically re-read text that is marked as .updatesFrequently
2020.05 When to use Accessibility Labels (there are more posts about accessibility)
2012.04 How to Build Accessible iOS Apps. Transcript from a podcast episode.
- Some apps change behavior when VO is on (simplifying the UI for example)
- Notify users when a significant layout change has happened (tapping the “Buy” button on the AppStore app)
- Let users know if a button will start playback

2022.11 The iOS 16 Design Guidelines: An Illustrated Guide
2020.02 How To Design Mobile Apps For One-Hand Usage
2019.11 What a Designer Needs to Know about iOS Dark Mode When Working with a Developer
2019.10 Adopting Dark Mode on iOS and Ensuring Backward Compatibility
2019.09 How to Prepare Your App for Dark Mode in iOS 13
2019.07 10-Minute Tips to Make Your iOS App More Interactive This blog post will provide you with 4 quick and easy ways to make your apps stand out in the sea of similar ones, and all it’s going to take is a few minutes of your time.
2019.02 ⭐️ A Best in Class iOS App What things can I quantify that help make an app great?
2018.12 Animations in iOS: 30 beautiful examples
2018.11 ⭐️ The iOS Design Guidelines
2017.06 Little UI Details A collections of little tips from @steveschoger to improve your visual design skills with the little details that make a big difference
2016.08 Is this my interface or yours?