Building Foundation in Programming for Beginners without Technical Background

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