I spent some time observing and understanding how to meaningfully integrate AI to improve the product experience, and I’ve shared my insights in this blog. I also wrote about how to approach AI implementation from a design perspective—so that AI features remain human-centric. Read the full post

Exciting AI Updates from Google I/O Impressed by the latest wave of AI projects. If you’re into AI agents, these two are worth checking out: • Project Astra – Designed for building AI assistants. • Project Mariner – Focused on creating autonomous agents for the web.

WWDC25 group labs and sessions are now open to register https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/sessions-and-labs/

LLMs are actually a great medium for note-taking. I usually drop in my notes, ideas, and helpful links—and whenever I need them, I just ask the AI to retrieve the information. I can also see this being a helpful way to document design decisions, build knowledge bases and references. No more w

Step tracker exploration.

Step tracker.

In AI-native products, multimodal interactions are becoming more important than ever. I just wrote a blog diving into why multimodal interaction matters right now—and the tools that help designers explore and prototype these experiences. Give it a read #AI #design

Figma needs an AI feature that auto-assigns variables. Manually applying them is so tedious.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I designed personalities for AI agents. Read more here: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrodrigues/p/designing-personalities-for-ai-agents?r=9e818&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #AI #design #AIagents

Unfortunately didn’t get picked for WWDC25 💔 but will be around town for meetups and events. Maybe will host a visionOS design meetup. #wwdc2025

Design is like playing music — we sequence the right chords to create harmony. Similarly, in design, we sequence information through different forms to create value.

ChatGPT 4o Studio Ghibli style

Creating characters and rigging them with GenAI. Pretty fun! Tool : Meshy. ai

Today, I'll be speaking at Design for America about building a career in Product Design. If you're interested, you can register here. www.linkedin.com/events/dfaca...

In this blog, I share how to design and build your first visionOS app. If you're curious and interested, check it out here. open.substack.com/pub/hyphenxr... #AppleVisionPro #visionOS

Had the pleasure of attending 'Create Interactive Stories for VisionOS' at the Apple Developer Center. Feeling inspired after meeting so many creatives, designers and developers building amazing things.

If you are interested in designing and developing for Apple Vision Pro, I have put together a roadmap and a list of resources to help you get started in this blog. Feel free to give it a read! hyphenxr.com/p/roadmap-to... #Applevisionpro #VisionOS #XR

Figma's split view is very helpful when maintaining different pages for your components. With split view, you can reference the components while working on the main screens. Also here a sneak peek of Design Quest App in making. #Figmatips

Great talk on virtual reality by Caitlin Krause ( Author of MindWise®, Educator at Stanford ) and Angel Say ( CEO of Resolve ) at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality event. I also had a great time exploring XR demos by designers and developers. Got to to try a AVPro game Huy Le.

If you plan to design spatial experiences for the upcoming AndroidXR by Google, I have put together this two-part video series on Spatial UI design principles for AndroidXR. Watch the videos here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEZ...

I had the pleasure of attending the Design with SwiftUI talk by Philip Davis and Will Danner in person at the Apple Developer Center in Cupertino.

The next exciting space for designers and engineers is the interaction of AI and spatial computing. You can start seeing a focus from major companies like Apple, Google, and Meta:

Fidget Card Effect with SwiftUI: Studying the rotation3DEffect modifier and drag gesture interaction. Tutorial from Philip Davis's course. #Interactiondesign #iOS #SwiftUI

In November 2024, I had the pleasure of attending “Build Great Spatial Computing Apps for VisionOS” at the Apple Developer Center in Cupertino. In this blog, I’ve curated the resources and insights I gathered during the event. Feel free to check it out: johnrodrigues.substack.com/p/design-for...

Happy New Year 🎉

Thank you for being part of my 2024 journey and connecting with me through the things I create.2024 has been a great year, with all its ups and downs. Here are some highlights:

Innovation in AI is impacting how we design and the products we use. Here is an article I penned down on how AI is impacting product design; feel free to read johnrodrigues.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-... #AI #UX #design

Found a good cafe in Palo Alto. It’s couver coffee!

Merry Christmas ❄️

Happy Monday!

Making some progress on my SwiftUI app: adding app sheets and scroll effects to the guides. #SwifUI #iOS

Exploring different scroll effects in SwiftUI! #swiftui #iOS

Hello new friend! #Applemacmini

Fun hangouts! 📍Cupertino

I made some progress with the iOS app I’m building: • Created a splash screen. • Designed the home screen with a guide and tab navigation. Next, I’m exploring how to code the notebook view instead of using a png. I want to dynamically switch the book color based on dark and light mode.

Prompt engineering is nothing but designing with words.

It will be nice if @AppStore had a feature to create a waitlist for upcoming apps. So that developers don’t have to create another website for their upcoming apps.

I designed a new navigation structure for my portfolio and organized all my resources in one place. Previously, 70% of visitors didn’t scroll past 50% of my portfolio. I redesigned it to address the problem. Check out my portfolio: https://buff.ly/3VvP9jO”

Happy Monday! What are you designing and building this week?

Working on the portfolio redesign

AI Summary Interaction Exploration. #SwiftUI #prototyping

Being able to prototype design concepts with code can be truly eye-opening. It helps gain clarity on solutions early on and identifies use cases that a static design could never reveal. The best UX metric for a business is when users say "this feels obvious" and "this feels good to use."

Exploring drag gestures. Made with #SwiftUI Tutorial credits: Design+Code by Meng To

In this Design with SwiftUI blog post, I share about what variables are and how they can be used while prototyping. Learn more about it here open.substack.com/pub/swiftuiq... #SwiftUI #iOS #productdesign #Appledesign

Side projects have been a great way for me to keep my creative spark going and build my craft as a designer while growing in my career. In this blog, I'll share a few thoughts on the power of side projects. Feel free to read from here : open.substack.com/pub/johnrodr...

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Design Quest App I’ll be building this iOS app with SwiftUI. It’s exciting to be able to code your own designs. This app will be about helping designers get unstuck in their design career quest. Will launch a fancy waitlist page made in Framer soon! #buildinpublic

Met Samantha Francisco @topseykret.bsky.social at the Apple Developer center during the VisionPro event.

Good Morning!

Prototyping with SwiftUI making impact. A course I made to help designers to prototype with code and communicate their ideas in an effective. All the best kunal. You