Gavin Nelson - Prototyping, interaction design, and learning SwiftUI
Gavin Nelson is currently designing the Linear mobile app in addition to the best app icons on the internet. So this episode is a deep dive into prototyping and interaction design:
- Gavin’s journey learning SwiftUI
- How Gavin got into designing app icons
- How to design physics-based interactions
- What it’s like designing for power users at Linear
- Why interaction design is so important for mobile apps
- Why Gavin uses code almost exclusively for prototyping now
- When it makes sense to prototype at the beginning of your process
- The interplay between custom and stock components in mobile design
- Things by Cultured Code
- Janum shows interactions in the Netflix mobile app
- Episode with Brian Lovin (who Gavin worked with at Github)
- Episode with Alex Cornell (who started the design of the Linear mobile app)
- Parallax effect from the Linear onboarding screen
