Ryan McLeod@warpling

🫧 2x Apple Design Award winner • designer of @BlackboxPuzzles • all opinions are my employer’s

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Joined October 2007
Am I stupid?
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Omg, all the iMessage HAHAs So good
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"More results will be shown once iMessage finishes indexing"
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Had this idea in bed last night to use Liquid Glass to make morphing pins that blob to get out of the way. Love getting to experiment so effortlessly.
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I'm not sure anything has ever made me as productive as little progress bar
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If you make iOS apps and aren't using Helm at this point what are you doing?? Drop every screenshot all at once and it sorts and places them in the right sections like a coin sorter Meanwhile ASC is huffing glue, randomizing your screenshots and losing em from time to time
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As a kid, whenever we went to the Apple Store I'd run to the back to play the demo games on the iMacs. Now, in an absolutely crazy, full-circle moment, my own game @BlackboxPuzzles is one of those games on thousands of iPads in hundreds of Apple Stores around the world.
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Replying to @iruletheworldmo
Careful out there
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I don't need nano banana, I just need autocomplete to work
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I'm sorry but can someone explain how I'm using @1Password wrong? It feels like I'm fighting dial-up pop-ups.
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For starters you could put this whole view in a sheet! Now it's… A) easy to dismiss by swiping ANYWHERE on the card B) animates in over the puzzle content, helping players stay oriented in the app
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Every time I finish (but especially when I fail) I want to see what the categories were but RIGHT as we're starting to read them the share screen slowly fades over the whole thing requiring me to hunt down and reach the far away and confusing "Back to puzzle X" button.
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Why has iMessage been like this for so long?
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Amsterdam is creating new land so fast that it doesn't always show up on the map unless you're at the right zoom level!
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Our train stations got a dark mode update! just in time for daylight savings 🌚
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Endlessly amused by my past self whenever I get to change my AirTag batteries
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Apple's use of natural sounding, localized copy is truly unrivaled. This is a perfect example of how Dutch and English often gets blended. Curious what all the other language pairs look like now!
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Replying to @tomjohndesign
I think Slack has made it worse by filling the icons when it switches too. Here’s how it looks in podcasts: definitely some weird flashes that should be smoothed out but overall if were talking about jarring, this whole thing happens while the entire view hierarchy is swapped out
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Replying to @warpling @xuwu
I talked about this process at a high level earlier this year piped.video/i0YvE8Gn4q8?si=zDSo…

[Ryan McLeod] Blackbox, evolved: The leap into the living room

从掌中解谜到空间交互: Blackbox 的 Vision Pro 进化之路About Ryan McLeod: Apple De...

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This a really cute way to celebrate someone returning to your app.
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Replying to @gregggreg2 @BlackboxPuzzles

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“WhAt ArE YoU stILl wOrkInG oN iN @BlACkBoxPUzZLEs? You think these Dynamic Islands measure themselves??? 😒 Unrelated: who would pay for a small database of Dynamic Island sizes?
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Always struggling to get to the “redeem” section of the App Store? Boy do I have news for you…
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Replying to @drunknbass
Happy to be wrong!
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Replying to @SwiftDev_UI
Glass container effect doesn't need a shape? This is 3 UIEffectViews with different shapes added to the container.
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Any LiquidGlass experts out there know how to use UIGlassContainerEffect to combine tinted glass without it doing this…
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Is it tenable that iMessage uses HALF of my MacBook's storage?
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What a wonderful and cool project to work on 🌊⚪ piped.video/Q7Pmgq2JKbI?si=_zui…

Ocean-2

One of our first big milestones — and we mean big — came with Ocean...

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Someone please help me. Is there not a proper way to tint Sheets in iOS 26? All I seem to be able to do is add more glass or a color on top of the existing glass…
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When did Apple start rounding the reported battery percentage to the nearest 5%? 🥲
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What great communicative animations! 😍 Flow.ai
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iMessage still disappears voice notes 2 minutes after you listen to them. This confuses 100% of people that expect them to persist like every other iMessage bubble since Apple famously has never made a feature for sending disappearing messages!! Unless you manually go change this setting
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Nothing drives me more insane than how uncaring apps like iMessage still feel It feels to me like it was made by people who never leave Cupertino. Take for example bad cell service: Message failed to send? For some reason it's on you to re-send it! (WhatsApp will just resend when back online)
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Beep beep. See you soon #WWDC25!
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Loving the choice between putting baby hammers or a bunch of tiny scissor icons down my drain
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So stoked and proud to share the design keynote I gave at Let's Vision in Shanghai! Warning: this talk involves a puzzle ;) piped.video/xvUHZcquSts?si=tb-H…
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SwiftSIQI
@SwiftSIQI
14 May 2025
After a period of preparation, we're about to release the presentation videos from LET'S VISION 2025! Today, let’s enjoy a brilliant talk from Ryan(@warpling) , the creator of Blackbox (@BlackboxPuzzles ), winner of the 2024 Apple Design Award! piped.video/watch?v=xvUHZcqu…
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"You wouldn't download an auto layout constraint"
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WhatsApp: An app used by over 2 BILLION daily active users... And yet A) it looks like this B) if your messages do this after restore Facebook's best recommendation is to ask your friends to re-send their messages 🫠 Truly software made by people who love you 💛
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Replying to @Gavmn
I have a similar interface in @blackboxpuzzles :) I think transitioning an element to the new page gives some continuity and helps make the “scroll to dismiss” interaction a little clearer too
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Sent with fireworks 🎆
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🦋 bsky.app/profile/warpling.bs…

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Can someone please explain why Korean is sensitive to periods? Seemingly simple sentences translate wildly different if the english sentence has or lacks a period!
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Replying to @MattPfeiffer
Damn
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Just me or is it new to see Apple showing off so many third party accessories lately?
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Replying to @warpling @kschlenker
Okay yeah no
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Just noticed *such* a fun design detail: The "Reduce Interruptions" icon on macOS has a uniquely fuzzy border to represent the more nebulous and fuzzy AI notification boundaries it provides
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Convinced the Airbnb "beds overview" is one of the greatest features they've ever shipped
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Replying to @warpling @hiddevdploeg
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The next app I'd like to see @hiddevdploeg obsolete
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Best part? Never touching this thing ever again.
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Super thoughtful feature. I essentially use my MBP as a desktop computer so this is really clever to prolong battery life. The best kind of Apple detail
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It's that time of year.
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Love this new sketch.com homepage with @BlackboxPuzzles among so many good app friends! :) @_CroutonApp @usedarkroom @halidecamera @Gentler_App @playpokpok
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Now with the most realistic bubbles ever seen in augmented reality???
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Love seeing this. @BlackboxPuzzles for visionOS 2 coming soon :)
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Replying to @gazanfarov
Okay lol
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On iOS it feels verrry different
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Or just the off the shelf SwiftUI tutorial feel of Apple Music? Very scalable, very yawn, nothing fun.
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Perhaps it's just the lack of human feeling touches in the artwork that makes it feel sterile?
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Genuine question: Why does Apple Music feel so sexless?
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Making cowboy frog with Newji 🐸 Https://apps.apple.com/us/ap… #AppleEvent2024
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