Crash course: Vision Pro for Devs (Part 1)
This is a whole new approach to computing productivity. There are important considerations that didn't apply to fixed, flat screens in the hand or on the desk.
Apple's latest platform is here. It dissolves the borders between the physical and digital more than anything that came before.
This has exciting implications for how we design products, but it also means we're sailing off the edge of the map. This transition requires new approaches to existing interaction patterns.
Luckily, building for this platform can leverage your team's existing iOS code and experience. The tough part is figuring out where to start.
Stay ahead of the curve with Vision Prototypes. You'll get a rapid, custom-built prototype of your product written with SwiftUI for visionOS.
We'll start by talking through your existing product and features, exploring how they can be adapted for this exciting new approach to user interaction.
Then we'll agree on a scope for the interactions and features you're most keen to explore and de-risk.
After that, you'll get a chance to review in-progress builds of the prototype and provide feedback. At the end of the sprint, you'll have an interactive demo session where we can talk about the results and discuss how to integrate the prototype findings into your planning.
You'll get real insights about how much work is in front of you to bring your product to visionOS. You'll also get a head start, with a prototype that can be used to guide your team's planning and resourcing.
I'm Danilo Campos. I began building for Apple platforms more than 16 years ago, with just a bookstore copy of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and a dream. Since then, I've had multiple products featured on the front page of the App Store, and my work on Hipmunk was featured in Apple Stores across the US. I've led mobile for multiple venture-funded startups, been a consultant for plenty more, and I know how to ship. My specialty is the cross-functional work, from design to code, needed to bring a technical product to life.
I'm excited to break ground with you on this new frontier of computing.
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