By AJ Picard — founder of Chad & Self taught UI/UX designer.

Photo by Daniel Korpai on Unsplash

I’ve been hearing nothing but great things about Apples SwiftUI and there’s a lot of buzz on Medium about it.

Here’s one article I will be referencing to implement “messaging” into the app I’m currently building.

As a designer, I’ve been spending countless hours trying to learn how to code. Before I started dabbing into SwiftUI, I started documenting my journey learning React Native.

Over the past month, I’ve been able to code over 10 screens for my startup Chad! I’ve been able to do this by taking classes from Meng To at Design + Code, he’s one of the best teachers I’ve come across especially if you’re a designer looking to learn how to code!

I’ve been taking his SwiftUI course he just released last week and I can’t get over how easy to create beautiful animations.

The best part about SwiftUI is that it does the work for you, all you have to do is search for what you’re looking to add to the artboard and then click, drag and place.

Meng shows you how you can start creating seamless animations with just a couple lines of code.

This software is really powerful and more importantly easy to use.

I’m currently developing a side idea of mine to really see how powerful SwiftUI is. I want to get to know how to use this software, because of how easy it is to add animations.

If you’re a developer, I’d highly suggest looking into this it would be a great skill to have and more importantly I can see it saving you a lot of time.

I’m trying to build a new social media app that is focused on documenting a persons life/journey. A user can upload albums of pivotal moments in their lives, these moments can be good or bad.

I want people to be vulnerable, I can’t stand how there are so many people out there living fake lives on social media… it’s ok to go struggle, people, everyone does!

For now, users can only see their own Paths, I’m looking to add an explore page + messaging in case users wanted to see other users Paths.

The focus of Path is to encourage people to document their journey.

Are you becoming an entrepreneur, influencer, starting your own band, whatever it is Path gives you the opportunity to be perfectly transparent and to show people those times you did mess up or when you did succeed.

Here’s the home page so far:

I mean how nice is that “Blur Effect” after you drag or tap the cards? I love how it completely blurs out the rest of the content on the page.

Right now I only have 3 static cards that I’ve populated with my own static data. These cards are going to be your most recent paths, I will be adding other features that will allow you to toggle all your paths as well.

For now, I’m trying to get the layout/animation down and then set everything else up.

I would love for feedback below and if you have any videos you suggest I should watch on SwiftUI please put them in the comments!

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