ios-ui-craft
iOS UI Craft
Create distinctive, Apple Design Award-worthy iOS interfaces. This skill produces real, working SwiftUI code with exceptional attention to aesthetic details and creative choices that avoid generic AI-generated aesthetics.
The user provides iOS requirements: a screen, component, view, or interface to build. They may include context about the purpose, audience, or technical constraints.
Design Thinking
Before writing ANY code, understand the context and commit to a BOLD aesthetic direction:
- Purpose: What problem does this interface solve? Who uses it?
- Tone: Pick a direction: calm/serene, playful/energetic, premium/refined, utilitarian/focused, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw, warm/organic, cold/technical. Commit fully.
- Inspiration: Which Apple apps set the bar? (Weather, Health, Fitness, Notes, Apple TV, Journal)
- Differentiation: What makes this UNFORGETTABLE? What's the one thing users will remember?
- Glass Philosophy: Is glass framing content or would it compete with it?
CRITICAL: Choose a clear conceptual direction and execute it with precision. Bold maximalism and refined minimalism both work—the key is intentionality, not intensity.
Then implement working SwiftUI code that is:
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