🫧 2x Apple Design Award winner • designer of @BlackboxPuzzles • all opinions are my employer’s
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined October 2007
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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.
ALT Ryan standing in apple store holding iPad running blackbox tutorial
ALT Ryan in apple store holding iPad running blackbox
ALT Ryan standing in apple store holding iPad running blackbox
Someone at @Pinterest is not only responsible for getting rid of the BEST radial context menu but also for replacing it with a non-native one that you can’t even slide your finger along to select an option!!
Do y’all use your own product??
This is THE interaction.
Ryan McLeod retweeted
More people are scaling their iOS dev workflows to multiple simulators and hitting the same RAM wall.
simslim is built specifically for that. It makes simulators use up to 4× less RAM so your agents can work on your apps in parallel.
github.com/MobAI-App/simslim
Love @CraigGrannell's summary of @BlackboxPuzzles:
"Your Duo has two touchscreens. Blackbox wants you to touch neither and instead solve puzzles by way of sensors you rarely think about and never use."
ALT Blackbox running on iPhone Duo
Very proud to have @BlackboxPuzzles as of the first deeply iPhone compatible apps celebrated on the @AppStore!
Https://apps.apple.com/us/ap…
ALT App Store: great games on iPhone duo
Ryan McLeod retweeted
If your company refers to engineers as the IT department, you have nothing to worry about. You were already breached last week.
I'm embarrassed to say how many years it's been but @BlackboxPuzzles just got it's 82nd challenge :)
Oh and full iPhone Duo support in any pose, orientation, split, fold, you name it ✨ More to come and a lot sooner than last time…
apps.apple.com/us/app/blackb…
ALT an ASCII image of an eye looking at Blackbox's new meta challenge
Ryan McLeod retweeted
If you're hearing about the lack of app support on the Duo and wagging your finger at the makers of your favorite app…
+ Duo is a complicated device—many poses & core UI changes.
+ Developers had 3 weeks before press units went out
+ Likely <1% were able to test on real devices
+ Expect many app updates to land before you get your device
+ Long term, it'll take time for new patterns to emerge
Lastly, app makers don't get any of the $2K+ you paid for this device and most won't make any additional $ off this work. So instead of wagging your finger, consider a hug.
God help me editing my App Store screenshots with Sonnet 5.5 until my tokens reset in 24 hours 💀
ALT Claude Code usage panel showing 99% of weekly usage used up and the Sonnet 5.5 model selected
Ryan McLeod retweeted
Incredible – he just made Labyrinth for iPhone Duo.
The best part is using the hinge to fling the marble into the air.
I saw the demo in-person on his test Android device
🌧️ I'm making a new app called Droog (Dutch for "dry")
But there's a catch… it's only for the Netherlands! So if you live here please try it out before I launch. I would love to hear what you think. Blijf droog! ☔
droog.is/in-beta
