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Andy Allen

@asallen
14 posts
2025-12-04
This ain't a “coup”. It's a healthy reboot for Apple Design.
2025-12-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …

2025-06-14
@sandra_letter ... Glad it connected. Lots of rich history to be told and this just scratches the surface.
2025-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces

From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again. Threads: @asallen . X: @austincarr...

2024-07-03
Figma AI designs a “not boring weather app” [video]
2024-07-03 View on X
404 Media

Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app

The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : AI Design Tool Axes Feature that Cloned Apple's Weather App J...

This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature in Figma AI and the results are nearly identical to Apple's Weather app (left).  Tried three times, same results.  Hmm... 🤔
2024-07-03 View on X
The Verge

Responding to criticism, Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen says Make Design is “powered by off-the-shelf models and a bespoke design system that we commissioned”

Figma says it didn't train the generative AI models it used and blames a ‘bespoke design system.’

Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps. This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature and the results are basically Apple's Weather app (left). Tried three times, same results. [image]
2024-07-03 View on X
The Verge

Responding to criticism, Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen says Make Design is “powered by off-the-shelf models and a bespoke design system that we commissioned”

Figma says it didn't train the generative AI models it used and blames a ‘bespoke design system.’

Figma AI designs a “not boring weather app” [video]
2024-07-03 View on X
The Verge

Responding to criticism, Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen says Make Design is “powered by off-the-shelf models and a bespoke design system that we commissioned”

Figma says it didn't train the generative AI models it used and blames a ‘bespoke design system.’

This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature in Figma AI and the results are nearly identical to Apple's Weather app (left).  Tried three times, same results.  Hmm... 🤔
2024-07-03 View on X
404 Media

Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app

The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : AI Design Tool Axes Feature that Cloned Apple's Weather App J...

Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps. This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature and the results are basically Apple's Weather app (left). Tried three times, same results. [image]
2024-07-03 View on X
404 Media

Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app

The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : AI Design Tool Axes Feature that Cloned Apple's Weather App J...

2024-05-10
LG phone ad from 2008 (BBH London) [video]
2024-05-10 View on X
Ad Age

Apple apologizes for its “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plan to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives

2024-04-07
Still one of the most beautiful games... mobile or otherwise. https://www.theringer.com/...
2024-04-07 View on X
The Ringer

A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles

Lewis Gordon / The Ringer :

2024-04-06
Still one of the most beautiful games... mobile or otherwise. https://www.theringer.com/...
2024-04-06 View on X
The Ringer

A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles

A scene as still and pure as it is confounding: towers stretching up, flags billowing gently in the wind, stone walkways appearing to defy the principles of architecture. Mastodon:...

2023-07-01
Farewell, Apollo. Your indie spirit shines on. https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-07-01 View on X
The Verge

Major third-party Reddit apps Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader shut down, as Reddit prepares to enforce its new API rate limits “shortly”

After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps.

2023-05-17
Here I am wishing this level of simplicity was the default. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple unveils new cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, like an AI voice that sounds like the user's, coming in 2023

If done well, this could be excellent for live music fans and support for Maps guides makes sense. … Blake E. Reid / @blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org : It won't get nearly as much...

2022-10-26
Thoughts & prayers for the App Store 🙏🏼 https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-26 View on X
MacRumors

After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them

Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places …