iOS SwiftUI Design Language

A reusable design language for SwiftUI apps that produces a calm, premium, dark-first and image-forward look (inspired by apps like Luma) while staying as native as possible. The aesthetic is the goal; native SwiftUI is the means.

Prime directive: native first

Reach for a built-in SwiftUI component or modifier before writing a custom view. Only build a custom component when the platform genuinely cannot express the design — and when you do, build it as a ButtonStyle, ViewModifier, or small composable View, styled from the shared tokens, not as a one-off.

This keeps apps accessible (Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, Dark Mode), free, and automatically modern as iOS evolves (e.g. Liquid Glass on iOS 26 arrives for free on native bars, toolbars, and tab views). See references/native-components.md for the full "use this native API, not a custom view" mapping — read it before building anything.