Matthew Mang

@SebJVidal Nice! How did you find the API?

Two hours on a train without WiFi means reverse engineering the Liquid Glass...liquid...effect? Reasonably simple API to work with: CASDFLayer, CASDFElementLayer and a CASDFEffect subclass, in this case CASDFFillEffect. You can wrap up in a UIView subclass, overriding layerClass to play nicely with higher-level UIKit animation abstractions.

Majors props to @eromanc for building all of these new features and effects into @FacebookOrigami!

We’ve raised the expressive ceiling for Origami. Liquid Glass, shaders, HDR, ProMotion, chromatic aberration, and many more effects now available

@jh3yy @raycast No need. You can use arrows to scrub frame by frame directly in Quicktime

forgot this trick 🤦‍♂️ if you wanna check video frames with an easy up/down in Preview, run this in the same directory as your video file 😎 (likely a nice way to hook this up with @raycast too)

you will learn a lot about animation by scrubbing things frame-by-frame make it a habit for example ↓ notice how apple transitions the lines in and out differently there's usually a reason 🤙

@tbsrnstrm Does CI work on both macOS and iOS? I was under the impression the CIFilters only work on macOS

@matthewmang Sure, I'd say ask Claude about creating metal shaders using CIColorKernel, CIWarpKernel or CIKernel if you want to roll your own shaders. Or use one of the many CIFilter shaders is the easier approach, may or may not cover precisely what you want

It's wild how these GPU-accelerated, ultra-performant effects have been available on native macOS/iOS for two decades. Works on top of live UI, works on top of video and complex view hierarchies, ripple effects, glass refraction, pixelation, colors, stacking... the list goes on

@tbsrnstrm Would love to know more about how to implement Core Animation shaders!

@matthewmang They are core animation shaders, I wasn't able to use SwiftUI shaders because they would sample the whole layer tree, which for an infinite canvas type app doesn't quite work

@gabrielvaldivia Would love to test this out!

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@rsms @SamZoloth I don’t think it’s about tool use. It’s about developing muscle memory. Physically doing something will always commit to memory better than simply seeing it happen in front of you

@SamZoloth Karri’s reply is 🎯

This is really neat but it’s not a design tool as much as it’s a design _production_ tool. The practice of design is mostly about what comes before production. There’s no doubt in my mind that all parts of software production will become automated very soon. Writing code, making web pages, putting pieces of a design system together etc. And that’s fine. I think few people actually enjoy this kind of production work. Wouldn’t it be better if we spent our precious time in life on what is more meaningful?! At the core, the practice of design is methodical; like architecture, not like art. In a nutshell: We find constraints, form comprehension of the whole and propose solutions that honor those constraints. First after that do we enter some form of production phase, usually prototypes first, learn about some constraints that were hidden before, loop back, prototype and then build the production-grade “final” artifact. These last few tasks are quickly losing value because AI tools can do it much faster (not yet better though) than humans. It’s simply just what has the best RoI for a business. Some companies and individuals will continue to spend human time on certain parts of the “production line” as a market differentiator, but it will cost them a relatively high price compared to competitors. Anyhow, I still haven’t seen a tool better than Figma that supports the actually-interesting part of the design process. I wouldn’t be surprised if Figma focused their products on that, maybe separating “products for production” of “products for ideation & exploration.” The latter would obviously still leverage AI, but not to do the work for me but rather to support my efforts the way a therapist helps me live a better life (not living my life for me.)

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@Gilyyyyyuy Love seeing the final version!

Shoutout @matthewmang for all the advice/help 🙌

An interaction concept - deleting text with device motion :)) Was in the trenches with this one 😔

@krishbuildsai @eliguerron I designed a similar dictation mode for Meta AI a few months ago. The Meta AI dictation punctuates without you speaking it. x.com/matthewmang/st…

@eliguerron is there a version of this where you don't have to speak the punctuation out loud? the ai just gets it. super cool gradient animation btw

Probably one of my most fun explorations for dictation on Apple Intelligence. (Play it with sound)

@eliguerron Love this! Spiritually very similar to the dictation mode I designed for Meta AI a few months ago

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@_chenglou Does iOS not count as a “new software paradigm” when it was first released?

Apple's been the master of designing the last device of its category: the last phone, the last mp3 player, tablet, earbuds, laptop, game-like software interactions It's been horrible at designing the first device of its category (Newton, Vision Pro, new software paradigm) I will love Apple forever, but its current design design tendencies dooms it to fail in the new era The ex-Apple diaspora has been, relatively speaking, much weaker than e.g. ex-Meta & ex-PayPal, who emphasized on distribution & iteration speed above polish, which is what the industry welcomed

@tuhin Hard agree. I don’t think designing for pixels is dead, but the question of what experiences benefit most from pixels is currently in flux

I will argue that the culprit is timing and substrate instability more than design or anything else. We have simply not had successful consumer AI companies (besides OpenAI and maybe Claude - not Claude Code). - Inference cost - Jagged intelligence - Rapidly changing frontier - Free ChatGPT good enough for most normies Intelligence is a new medium. Even there memory, personality, persistence, agent agency, long term planning are not really solved. I have yet to see an agent harness/scaffolding that survives 6 months. Every new model makes half the bells and whistles unnecessary. New model capabilities gave a shelf life of a few months before Open Source catches up. You can’t design great consumer UX on a platform that’s still being invented underneath you. The tech has not settled yet for masses. Even early adopters can’t keep up. Things that have won are those that we had priors for - Chatbots, Coding. Also don’t think designing for pixels is dead. We are very visual creatures. The shape of what we call “UI” needs to evolve along with a few computing constructs. The shape of the container of intelligence will be varied and hyper personal. We are in very very early innings. This is not the iPhone moment. This is pre-Macintosh moment.

@andy_matuschak Like @schwa23 I still use Origami a lot for exploration and fine tuning interactions / animations. I find it’s still better than vibr coding for novel interactions

Prototypers: do you still see a role for semi-high-fidelity modalities like Origami? Or just straight from sketchbook/mocks to vibecode?

@OhAnotherAlt @andy_matuschak Claude writing JS patches, or actual patch graphs?

@andy_matuschak I should also note that it is possible to connect Claude to origami to orchestrate prototype creation as well. The representation visually is useful, and the speed makes origami more valuable as a result I’ll leave the question of how I did this as a challenge for readers.

@mhrescak Love the Lighthouse reference in the hero image, haha

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