Ryan McLeod

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

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

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.

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@jipvandervelde @michelelings So crazy. Congrats!!

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

Congrats man! Grug feels so anti-AI slop, great example of the tools being used the way they should be to extend creativity rather than replace it :)

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take that shit down.

A landmark University of Delaware study (Frick and Tallamy, 1996) counted nearly 14,000 insects killed by residential bug zappers over a single summer.

Mosquitoes were 31 of them. A mere 0.22%.

The other 99.78% were moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and the night-shift pollinators your yard depends on.

Mosquitoes don't navigate by light. They find you by your carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is invisible to them and lethal to almost everything else.

Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against bug zappers because they may increase mosquito populations by killing the predators that eat them.

What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside.

Bug zappers are 1970s technology built on a 1970s misunderstanding of mosquitoes. It's time to take it down.

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@asallen @allenylau @notboring So cute

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@asallen @notboring Yes yes yessss

[Elí Guerrón @eliguerron]

When I was at Apple, I loved working on micro interactions that you see all over the OS. Now that I’m not an apple I still like to solve for these little problems that really annoyed me. In this case, I designed a backspace button with a speed controller, so by just pressing it you can delete by letter and then immediately by word as you stretch it, without having to wait (like it usually does on the OS) and then if you stretch a little more, you can speed delete through words… I’m also working on another one where you can repair the words if you over-deleted it by accident 😜 (it also has haptic feedback, which makes it really fun)

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@kamibox_ph Wow

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@klemensstrasser @tryswiftconf Not this time 🥲

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@klemensstrasser @tryswiftconf The FOMO begins 😭

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

This is art

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@jwegener This is geniuuuss

[Edward Sanchez @edwardsanchez]

Pinching to zoom on text while keeping your reading position.

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@SamuelBeek @schematikio We need a link! :)

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

I'd like to take this moment to apologize to anyone whom I might have said "Icon Composer isn't that bad" to

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@SamuelBeek It took me four times to type it right 😆

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@helm_app @klemensstrasser Thhhe beessst

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

The Netherlands is one of the most sci-fi places on earth

The Dutch deserve a new word: hydropunk

Over centuries, they have created & maintained one of the most advanced water management systems on the planet

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

@stalmico @devonzuegel They are

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@thiago_peres Would love to try it!

[Ryan McLeod @warpling]

I am convinced that 99% of people who make translation apps have never needed to use one daily before. 🤏 This close to making my own…