Eighteen

Eighteen is a one-person design and engineering studio. Mac apps, web apps and UI libraries, from first sketch to shipped release.

Native Mac apps

Menu-bar and keyboard-first software in Swift and SwiftUI.

Blink: hold a key to see the things you check all day, over a board of clocks, a dashboard, reminders and a calendar Open ↗ BlinkHold a key to glance at what you check all day. The right person, now: a crowd of grey Kin characters with one in colour, marked Texting now, still down for sunday? Open ↗ KinPress ⌃K, say hi. A launcher for the people in your life. MemeMe: a panel of reaction images, searched by the face you are making Open ↗ MemeMeMake a face, get the meme.

Design engineering for the web

Web apps where the interaction is the hard part.

Grove: a game-world wiki with a page tree and the World Overview page open Ask about it GroveA wiki for game worlds, in development. The Tandem video editor with three collaborators: media, preview, inspector, comments and a timeline Open ↗ TandemThe open-source multiplayer video editor. Minesweeper Co-op in pixel type over a shared board, with four players’ cursors Open ↗ Minesweeper Co-opOne shared board, played with friends in real time.

Design systems and UI libraries

Tokens, components and their documentation, published as packages.

A Buoy island reading Link copied hangs from the top edge, above the Buoy wordmark, its tagline and npm i buoy-ui Open ↗ BuoyA morphing island for notifications and background tasks. A mosaic of pipkins, small flat animal avatars, sorted by colour from red through green to violet, beside the pipkins wordmark Open ↗ pipkinsAnimal avatars that breed and fuse.

About. I’m Michael. I design products and then build them myself, so nothing gets lost between the mockup and the release. Most of what’s here is open source, so you can see how it’s built.

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