Happy New Year from your friends at Lickability! Our first Soft Serve of 2024 brings you some thoughtful articles, from squircle math to perfecting a SwiftUI API that would make Apple proud, hot off the press to keep you warm in these chilly times.
An oldie but a goodie: Figma’s deep dive into the math behind their squircle shape feature. They trace the journey from a simple, geometric rounded rectangle to the final, parametric superellipse.
Although it never shipped, @stammy’s Stocketa stock portfolio tracker app was polished to an unbelievable degree. He wrote an incredible deep dive into the designs he’s most proud of, the challenges he faced, and why the project ultimately didn’t ship.
This article from a few weeks ago is a fascinating look into how you could make a totally custom Picker. It even goes into detail on how to destructure child views to achieve an Apple-level SwiftUI API!
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👋 Until next time!
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