Design

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS

It's time to up your input game: Learn about the latest improvements to virtual and physical game controllers for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Meet the virtual on-screen controller, which turns touch input into game controller input, and find out how to add controller sharing features to your...

• WWDC 2021

Fascinated by aerospace engineering and fighter jets from the age of 11, MIT graduate Tiera Fletcher followed her passion. At 22, she landed her dream job working on NASA's Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket created in history. Learn what it's like to design components of a...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover how you can deliver inclusive apps that can foster amazing experiences for everyone who uses your software. We'll take you through best practices for creating and empowering diverse teams and explore how inclusivity influences every stage of the design and development process.

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

An inclusive app or game is not only usable by different people, but also welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Discover how you can design inclusive content for your interface, language, imagery, and marketing materials and support the broadest possible range of people with...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover how you can incorporate SF Symbols into your SwiftUI app. We'll explore basic techniques for presenting symbols, customizing their size, and showing different variants. We'll also take you through the latest updates to symbol colorization and help you pick the right tool for your app's...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Tour the latest updates to the SF Symbols app — our interactive library for iconography. Learn how you can use the library to design accessible and inclusive apps that look incredible: We'll take you through changes to the app and symbols search, explore previewing and custom symbol management,...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Explore the latest updates to SF Symbols, Apple's iconography library. Designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco — the system font for Apple platforms — SF Symbols can help you create beautiful and consistent iconography for your app while supporting accessibility features like Dynamic...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover how you can create custom iconography with the latest rendering modes in SF Symbols 3. We'll help you learn how to draw, edit, and annotate symbols, as well as explore more advanced techniques to improve the design process. For a primer on working with custom symbol templates, we...

• WWDC 2021
• watchOS

Discover how Apple creates products that work well for everyone. Learn from a few of the engineers and designers who helped build Apple Watch as they share stories that highlight our approach to accessible design, constant iteration, and community engagement.

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Discover how you can create interactive, memorable experiences to onboard people into your app. We'll take you through discoverable design practices and learn how you can craft explorable, fun interfaces that help people grasp the possibilities of your app at a glance. We'll also show you how to...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, watchOS

Actions are the building blocks of shortcuts. They allow people to take advantage of your app's functionality even when they're not looking at your app's interface. We'll show you how to design actions that are useful, easy-to-use, and can be incorporated into powerful multi-step shortcuts...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, watchOS

Discover the principles for creating intuitive physical interactions between two or more devices, as demonstrated by Apple designers who worked on features for iPhone, HomePod mini, and AirTag. Explore how you can apply these patterns to your own app when designing features for Apple platforms,...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS, tvOS

Learn how you can design your app to support SharePlay experiences. We'll show you how you can bring people together in your app using the Group Activities framework, and adapt your design to focus on group-first content sharing. And we'll explore ideas and iteration around apps and functions you...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS, macOS

Meet Safari 15: redesigned and ready to help people explore the web. Discover how you can approach designing websites and apps for Safari, and learn how to incorporate the tab bar in your designs. We'll also take you through features like Live Text and accessibility best practices, explore the...

• WWDC 2021
• iOS

Discover how you can deliver rich app experiences that include animation, sound, and haptics on iPhone. Learn key concepts for designing multimodal experiences within the Core Haptics framework. We'll take you through our sample HapticRicochet app — where haptic and sound feedback is designed in...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Intelligence is a core part of building a great modern app. App extensions, Siri suggestions, voice, widgets, App Clips — we've designed all of these features to help make everyday tasks easier for people who use our platforms. Learn about the origins of the intelligent system experience, and...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Learn how extensibility is key to surfacing the most important features of your app into new entry points of the operating system. And discover how — by breaking out of the constraints of a monolithic container — your app can see increased engagement through suggestions on the lock screen, in...

• WWDC 2020
• iOS

Create iPhone and iPad apps that look great and help people move quickly and directly to the information they need. Discover how you can integrate menus into your app for quick access to actions and settings, and learn where and when you should use them in your app. We'll also walk you through...