The Power of Prototyping in Design

Gavin Nelson is currently designing the Linear mobile app in addition to the best app icons on the internet. So this episode is a deep dive into prototyping and interaction design:

• Gavin’s journey learning SwiftUI
• How Gavin got into designing app icons
• How to design physics-based interactions
• What it’s like designing for power users at Linear
• Why interaction design is so important for mobile apps
• Why Gavin uses code almost exclusively for prototyping now
• When it makes sense to prototype at the beginning of your process
• The interplay between custom and stock components in mobile design

• Things by Cultured Code
• Janum shows interactions in the Netflix mobile app
• Episode with Brian Lovin (who Gavin worked with at Github)
• Episode with Alex Cornell (who started the design of the Linear mobile app)
• Parallax effect from the Linear onboarding screen