Halide 1.5

A camera app designed from scratch for iPhone X

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A camera app designed from scratch for iPhone X

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Halide 1.5 has been an insane labor of love over the last few months. When we saw the iPhone X, we decided we wanted to make a new UI for it that played to its strengths. We redesigned the UI to be completely usable with one hand. The viewfinder is completely unobstructed. The 'ears' are used for functional readouts. This is made for X. :)

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second

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Camma

How did you guys approach designing for hardware you didn't have? Do you expect to have to revisit your assumptions once you're using it for a bit in the wild?

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9yr ago

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Maker

@uffel @sandofsky can answer this in more detail, but we did a lot of simulating. This is obviously hard (we can't do it in the simulator! No camera!) so he actually built an X UI INSIDE of the iPhone 8 screen to test our new design. For product shots we had to 3D-render phones, as we couldn't photograph our shots... it was interesting!

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9yr ago

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Maker

@uffel @sdw Yup. I think faking out the UI on an iPhone 7 Plus helped answer a few questions we had around the UI, like whether shifting the toolbar to the bottom would interfere with users trying to swipe to change exposure. It led to us rerouting tap in certain situations, to help reduce user mistakes. While running an X UI on an 8 screen still required a little imagination, holding real hardware in your hand makes a huge difference.

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9yr ago

Harvy

By far one of the best use cases I've seen of embracing the new iPhone X design styles. Nicely done 🤙

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9yr ago

Fixmoji

Hands down, this is the best pro-camera for iOS

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9yr ago

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Maker

@rv1raj Thanks so much Raviraj 🙏

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