For this week, we have a collection of small designs (in size but not in impact, as we always chase in design work) ranging from an Apple Music design almost smaller than your thumb to a macOS System Settings design actually smaller than your thumb.
WWDC draws ever, ever closer. Less than two weeks!
I hope you find something here that you can mix into your own design work. Thank you for reading UI Designer Weekly. —S
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Tiny Thumbnails
The Wallpaper section in System Settings shows a small preview of each wallpaper in an added wallpaper folder. It even changes the shape of the preview based on how many wallpapers are in the folder. I think this is a wonderful way of embedding content directly into a design—the cycle symbol is more specific here with the small thumbnails.
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Under My Thumb
A new, smaller notification design appears in Apple Music after interacting with a song. Besides being smaller and out of the way, I was struck by the less see-through treatment and all the spacing.
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Thumbing Through Wallpapers
The Wallpaper section in iOS Settings features a new design that shows pairings of Lock Screens and Home Screens and the wallpaper selections for each. I think this is a great example of adding in buttons and labels for parts out of our designs that are more complicated, like the button for “Set as Current”.
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Two Thumbs Up
A new welcome screen design in Final Cut Pro for iPad. The top area shows a video montage and cycles through other messages like “Built-In Pro Camera Mode”. I think this is a nice reminder that sometimes it can be worth it to create an explanation area ahead of something people will use, and this shows us Apple’s latest standard for a design like this.
Thank you for reading UI Designer Weekly. See you next week.