iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rafa @rafa.design · 17/06/2026

I am so incredibly honored to share that I will be working alongside the legend, the myth, the Underscore himself, as well as @ismh86.net, and @myke.social! Our brief collaboration on the latest Pedometer++ Apple Watch update was such a fun experience, can't wait to see what we do next ✨

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Rafa @rafa.design · 20/01/2026

Hand Mirror 4 is out now, you can take a Snap, draw on it, and save it to your Photo Library 📸 Here's some of my favorite UI details:

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Rafa @rafa.design · 09/01/2026

I was born too late and never got to design a physical box for my software, so I did a fake one for the “What's new" window in Hand Mirror. This update is almost ready, if you like to make videos or write about this stuff get in touch!

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Rafa @rafa.design · 08/01/2026

After 3 great years, it’s time for me to wrap things up at Sketch and look for a new thing 👀

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Rafa @rafa.design · 18/12/2025

I made a new app, Night Knight 🌙 It's a Night Light, a Noise Machine, and a Wake Aid that switches the color of the light at a certain time of day to let my kids know that it's “morning" and they can get off bed. It's also free: apps.apple.com/us/app/night...

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Rafa @rafa.design · 01/12/2025

It’s always fun when I get to take a break from product and hang out with marketing

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Sketch @sketch.com · 19/11/2025

We’ve got a biiiig update for you. A complete redesign of Sketch. Maybe you’ve tried the beta, maybe you’ve seen the teasers. Now you can update and try it all for real. And there’s more! 🧵 ↓

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Rafa @rafa.design · 19/11/2025

This design would have definitely been rejected if I wasn't building it on my own 🙈 Weird chromeless UI that renders outside the window, that you can resize, and move anywhere in the screen, with drawn annotations that you'll need to keep track of their position and scale… 💀

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Rafa @rafa.design · 18/11/2025

Having fun working on Hand Mirror again 📸

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Rafa @rafa.design · 11/11/2025

Favorite project of the year ✨

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Rafa @rafa.design · 15/07/2025

I decided to open up my Opal Tadpole webcam, because I was curious to see how they managed to make it so small… and to my surprise the camera was not installed directly to the board, but with a cable instead! 💡 I don’t know if you know where I am going with this…

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Rafa @rafa.design · 16/06/2025

If you're like me and are trying to study and inspect the new Liquid Glass effect, I've built a small utility app for you! Test Liquid Glass with all the different options, tinting, sizes, and backgrounds — only for macOS Tahoe for obvious reasons. 💾 rafa.design/glasshole

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Rafa @rafa.design · 03/06/2025

Here's some other details that I bet most won't ever notice, but (for the sake of my career) I hope some will _feel it_: We've added subtle animations to some of our illustrations, like this background and shines, as well as some hover effects on the cards that accept a click

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Rafa @rafa.design · 02/06/2025

Did you spot the Easter Egg? There's a hidden dusty corner where you can find @sketch.com 's original icon, back from when it was still called DrawIt 🧓💛

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Mike Stern @mikestern.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

For @sketch.com v102, we rebuilt our iOS 18 UI Kit to support stacks and frames! sketch.com/s/bb57439f-1... Download the "templates and guides" file, too! Has lots of pre-made symbol instances and UIs, color a material palettes, a dynamic type chart, and more: developer.apple.com/design/resou...

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Rafa @rafa.design · 27/05/2025

I gotta come clean, me joining the @sketch.com team was all part of a LONG CON, just so that I could ship a dynamic app icon — muhahaha, FOOLS!

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Rafa @rafa.design · 10/01/2025

Playing through #F1 24 career mode and having a blast — I’ve printed a F1 style wheel rim for my old Logitech G29, complete with swappable custom plates for when I switch teams 😂

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Rafa @rafa.design · 13/12/2024

New Naughty Dog IP. Directed by Neil Druckman. Music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. A Porsche spaceship? This looks perfect 💯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TV...

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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by Naughty Dog

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Rafa @rafa.design · 11/12/2024

They asked if I could do a 2024 recap video… and to “go crazy” (I hope they don’t regret it).

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Rafa @rafa.design · 11/12/2024

Being sick AND having to take care of a baby and a toddler is… very hard.

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Workspaces @workspaces.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

👉 @rafa.design is a Product Designer at @sketch.com and an independent app developer This is his workspace 👇 Full tour: www.workspaces.xyz/p/461-rafael...

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Rafa @rafa.design · 06/12/2024

Seriously, getting a 3D printer was a mistake

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Paulo @paulo.is · 02/12/2024

We’re working a stack layout feature for @sketch.com, and while we still have lots to do, here’s a sneak peek from yours truly: youtu.be/wK_OXZxakPQ Particularly pleased with how we’ve repurposed the existing alignment actions to override cross-axis alignment on items.

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Sneak peek: Stack layout

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Rafa @rafa.design · 26/11/2024

My 3D printer arrived last Friday and I’m having a blast, still learning the basics of 3D modeling but I was able to design three custom pieces:

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Rafa @rafa.design · 26/11/2024

First time doing this, but for the rest of the week Hand Mirror+ is only $2.99 (50% off) — it's a one time purchase, so if you get it now you'll still get all future big features, including the upcoming Snaps 📸 apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-...

Rafa @rafa.design · 25/11/2024

This is brilliant, and that icon ✨

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Rafa @rafa.design · 23/11/2024

Does everyone with a 3D printer feels like any time not printing is wasted time?

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Rafa @rafa.design · 22/11/2024

Going to my very first comic-con with my son this weekend ✨

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Rafa @rafa.design · 21/11/2024

Almost two years ago I started charging for extra features on my app Hand Mirror. I think the app would work quite well with a subscription, but I decided to risk a “Pay once, get updates forever. Price goes up with with every major update” — I’m surprised at how stable this has turned out!

Chart for proceeds since launch (almost two years ago). Theres an obvious peak at launch, but it stabilized quite fast and it’s been quite the same until today.

Chart for proceeds for the last year. There’s really no noticeable change whenever I increase the price, quite stable.

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Sketch @sketch.com · 20/11/2024

Do you like people? Do you like Sketch? Do you like a combination of the two? Then boy oh boy do we have a starter pack for you! go.bsky.app/EDmXNr9

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Rafa @rafa.design · 20/11/2024

We've had Macs with a notch for over 3 years and macOS will still just _hide_ your menu bar icons if it runs out of space. There's no visible truncation, no way to scroll, no way to even know that some icons are hidden — it's one of my most reported Hand Mirror “bugs” 🤯

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Rafa @rafa.design · 19/11/2024