Sessions
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Design and build apps for watchOS 10
8:00 a.m.Dive into the details of watchOS design principles and learn how to apply them in your app using SwiftUI. We’ll show you how to build an app for the redesigned user interface to surface timely information, communicate focused content at a glance, and make navigation consistent and predictable.
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Design for spatial user interfaces
8:00 a.m.Learn how to design great interfaces for spatial computing apps. We’ll share how your existing screen-based knowledge easily translates into creating great experiences for visionOS. Explore guidelines for UI components, materials, and typography and find out how you can design experiences that are familiar, legible, and easy to use.
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Design spatial SharePlay experiences
8:00 a.m.Explore the types of shared activities you can create in your visionOS apps and find out how your apps can use Spatial Persona templates to support meaningful interactions between people. Discover how to design your UI around a shared context, handle immersive content in a shared activity, and more.
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Make features discoverable with TipKit
8:00 a.m.Teach people how to use your app with TipKit! Learn how you can create effective educational moments through tips. We’ll share how you can build eligibility rules to reach the ideal audience, control tip frequency, and strategies for testing to ensure successful interactions.
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Meet watchOS 10
8:00 a.m.Discover some of the most significant changes to Apple Watch since its introduction as we tour the redesigned user interface and the new Smart Stack. Learn how Apple designers approached the design of watchOS 10 as we explore layout, navigation, and visual style, and find out how you can apply them to create a great app for Apple Watch.
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Principles of spatial design
8:00 a.m.Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion, and apply best practices for creating comfortable, human-centered experiences that transform reality. Find out how you can use these spatial design principles to extend your existing app or bring a new idea to life.
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What’s new in SF Symbols 5
8:00 a.m.Explore the latest updates to SF Symbols, Apple’s library of iconography designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco, the system font for Apple platforms. Learn about symbol animations: a collection of expressive, configurable animations that can make your interface feel more lively and improve user feedback. See how to draw for animation when creating your own custom symbols, and discover the latest additions to the SF Symbols library. To get the most out of this session, we recommend first watching “What’s new in SF Symbols 4” from WWDC22.
Labs
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Design lab
Tuesday @ 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Tuesday @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Tuesday @ 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
Activities
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Q&A: watchOS 10 design
Tuesday @ 11:00 - 12:00 p.m.Ask Apple designers and engineers about watchOS 10’s new layouts and elements in this hour-long text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on updating your app to use the new layouts, navigation methods, toolbars, and system materials; or learn from others.
Sessions
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Create animated symbols
8:00 a.m.Discover animation presets and learn how to use them with SF Symbols and custom symbols. We’ll show you how to experiment with different options and configurations to find the perfect animation for your app. Learn how to update custom symbols for animation using annotation features, find out how to modify your custom symbols with symbol components, and explore the redesigned export process to help keep symbols looking great on all platforms. To get the most out of this session, check out “What’s new in SF Symbols 5” from WWDC23.
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Design widgets for the Smart Stack on Apple Watch
8:00 a.m.Bring your widgets to watchOS with the new Smart Stack. We’ll show you how to use standard design layouts, color and iconography, and signal-based relevancy to ensure your app’s widgets are glanceable, distinctive and smart. When you’re ready to make your own, watch this code-along: "Build widgets for the Smart Stack on watchOS"
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Design with SwiftUI
8:00 a.m.Discover how SwiftUI can help you quickly iterate and explore design ideas. Learn from Apple designers as they share how working with SwiftUI influenced the design of the Maps app in watchOS 10 and other elements of their work, and find out how you can incorporate these workflows in your own process.
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Explore immersive sound design
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can use sound to enhance the experience of your visionOS apps and games. Learn how Apple designers select sounds and build soundscapes to create textural, immersive experiences. We’ll share how you can enrich basic interactions in your app with sound when you place audio cues spatially, vary repetitive sounds, and build moments of sonic delight into your app.
Labs
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Design lab
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Wednesday @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Wednesday @ 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
Activities
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Q&A: Spatial design
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.Join the Apple Design team in this 1 hour text-based Q&A on spatial design. Bring your questions about UI and UX best practices for creating a great experience on visionOS.
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Q&A: UX writing
Wednesday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Ask Apple UX writers for guidance on writing great copy for your app during this hour-long Q&A in Slack. Ask a question about a specific label or an area of your app, explore best practices, or learn from others.
Sessions
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Animate symbols in your app
8:00 a.m.Bring delight to your app with animated symbols. Explore the new Symbols framework, which features a unified API to create and configure symbol effects. Learn how SwiftUI, AppKit, and UIKit make it easy to animate symbols in user interfaces. Discover tips and tricks to seamlessly integrate the new animations alongside other app content. To get the most from this session, we recommend first watching “What’s new in SF Symbols 5.”
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Design Shortcuts for Spotlight
8:00 a.m.Learn about the latest updates to the visual language of App Shortcuts and find out how to design your shortcut to appear as a top hit in Spotlight. We’ll share how shortcuts can appear on iOS or iPadOS, and show you how to customize the visual appearance of a shortcut, personalize its order, select its correct behavior, and increase discoverability.
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Design dynamic Live Activities
8:00 a.m.Live Activities allow your app to display live information in key system locations on iOS and iPadOS. Learn the best way to create graphically rich layouts that update seamlessly on the Lock Screen, in StandBy, and in the Dynamic Island. Incorporate interactivity and animation to help people stay in touch with live updating events from your app as they navigate outside of your app.
Labs
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Design lab
Thursday @ 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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UX writing lab
Thursday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Whether you call it copy, strings, or text, choosing the right words to appear in your app’s user interface can be challenging. Apple’s UX writers are available for 25-minute sessions to provide feedback on the way you communicate in your app — whether in microcopy like buttons or labels, positioning like voice and tone, or any questions related to designing through the lens of language.
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Design lab
Thursday @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Thursday @ 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
Activities
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Q&A: Widgets in the Smart Stack on watchOS
Thursday @ 11:00 - 12:00 p.m.Ask Apple designers and engineers about widgets and the Smart Stack on watchOS during this hour-long text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others.
Sessions
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Design considerations for vision and motion
8:00 a.m.Learn how to design engaging immersive experiences for visionOS that respect the limitations of human vision and motion perception. We’ll show you how you can use depth cues, contrast, focus, and motion to keep people comfortable as they enjoy your apps and games.
Labs
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Design lab
Friday @ 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
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Design lab
Friday @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple designer for a conversation about the latest design conventions, patterns, best practices, and more. Get advice on making your apps simple to use and visually compelling. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Design labs are limited to one appointment request per day and one confirmed appointment for the duration of the conference. Cancelling a confirmed appointment won’t allow you to request another design lab appointment. You’ll get an email letting you know whether you received an appointment by 10 p.m. PDT. If you don’t receive an appointment, you can submit a request on another day.
Activities
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Meet the presenters: Design with SwiftUI
Friday @ 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.Meet the presenters of “Design with SwiftUI” and join a text-based watch party followed by a short Q&A. The watch party begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
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Q&A: Spatial design
Friday @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.Join the Apple Design team in this 1 hour text-based Q&A on spatial design. Bring your questions about UI and UX best practices for creating a great experience on visionOS.