Big surprise for iPhone app designers: iOS 17 Design Kit released on Figma
June 8, 2023
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Figma, which today is the starting point of interface design for many applications, has never hosted Apple’s official design kits. But Together with WWDC 2023 This situation eventually
Figma, which today is the starting point of interface design for many applications, has never hosted Apple’s official design kits. But Together with WWDC 2023 This situation eventually changed.
Apple joins the Figma community for the first time Resource design kit for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating systems published. The design kit includes many of the key design lines that make Apple Apple, from toolkits to icon layouts, font styles to colors and materials.
Moreover, it will not be just these two operating systems:
Apple in the coming weeks and months macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, tvOS 17 and the latest operating system visionOS announced that it will share the design kit in the Figma community.
There is, of course, a strategic reason behind Apple’s move to Figma. With the Vision Pro, the first mixed reality glasses, the company aims to make its ecosystem more compatible, its software run smoothly and, of course, have plenty of third-party apps and games.
Since the goggles will be released next year, it is necessary to share the most basic developer capabilities through the largest communities to have such a library in such a short time.
What’s in the design pack for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17?
Extensive set of components, from alerts to toolkits and everything in between
Templates for home screen and lock screen widgets
Notification design templates
Templates for tabbed apps, parent/child apps, split views, and pages
Full dynamic type table with accessibility dimensions
Built-in iOS colors, materials, text styles, and vibrance effects
You can reach the design kit published by Apple by clicking this link.
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