Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

When it comes to developing apps, Sound Design is an often overlooked area. Many a times, apps either ship with little to no sound at all, or poorly chosen sounds that do not fit at all. Sound plays a critical role in any kind of interaction, and goes a long way in adding that ‘delight’ to your overall user experience. I’ve been writing about apps for almost a decade now and yet, there are very few apps that I can recall that have gotten this area right. At WWDC 2017, Apple had an absolutely brilliant session titled ‘Designing Sound’ by…

Last week, we wrote about Little Movies a lovely iPhone app that offers daily movie recommendations. Little Movies suggests a single movie per genre, and the app only supports 5 genres, so if you’re looking for lots of different recommendations, take a look at Popcorn. Popcorn is a gorgeous iPhone app that also offers daily movie recommendations, but does so using lists along with genres. While Little Movies is designed specifically to do one thing well, Popcorn goes all the way and offers a many different ways of recommending movies for you. The Home Tab features several lists across various…

Day One — the popular journaling app for iOS and Mac has today announced that it will be transitioning to a subscription-based service going forward, in order to have a more stable business model for the company. This week, Day One is introducing the Day One Premium service that will cost $50 per year and will let you create more than 10 journals and give you access to additional features that the company will add to the service in the future, including Audio Entries, Writing Prompts and Guided Journaling, as well 25% off book orders. […] Day One Premium provides…

Thousands of movies released every year, and many of them don’t do well at the box-office and quickly make their way to online streaming services. You also have tens of thousands of movies released in the previous years that you may have never gotten a chance to watch. With so much content out there, it becomes difficult to find something you want to watch. There are several sites, like Letterboxd for example, that offer a bunch of different ways to recommend films to you, based around a social network of your friends. At the other end of the spectrum, is…

Twitter today announced a major redesign to its UI across all its major platforms — iPhone, iPad and Android apps, Tweetdeck, as well as on the Web (including the Mobile website and Twitter Lite). This redesign introduces a consistent design languages across all the platforms and also introduces a (much needed) refreshing experience to the product. Of course, just like all the previous redesigns, the changes introduced today aren’t going well with its user base. The biggest change today comes to the iPhone and iPad apps, which now looks striking similar to Twitter’s Android app. The iOS app now features…

Feather Icons is a beautiful set of icons designed and released by Cole Bemis. The set contains 200+ simple and elegant icons and is available to download for free from the website. I love that you don’t have to enter your email address to download the set. The icon set contains .svg files filed under the following categories: — arrows — communication — core — location — logos — media-controls — photo-and-video — weather Feather icons are released under a MIT license and can be downloaded from here.