iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Little behind the scenes, but one fun thing of working on a feature all about taking pictures, is that you end up with a lot of pictures during development… do recommend.

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If you unlocked Hand Mirror Plus you get to be in the credits! Also, you can always click on the mirror icon to turn it into… a mirror.

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This started out as a joke and then I had to keep it going — click the "Hand Mirror Plus" label and it changes it EVERYWHERE in the app… every menu, label… Right click to "clear this nonsense".

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That Snaps UI is bonkers, so I had to account for you moving the window, you resizing the window, aspect ratio, how much space there is available below, above it, to the left, right 🫨

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There's a new "Meet the developer" easter egg where I come out and say hi 👋 If you keep spamming that button I'll just deactivate it though…

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The "What's New" window, replicating a real-life-old-school software box 👨‍🦳

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Rafa @rafa.design · 09/01/2026

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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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

Thank you so much Peter!

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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

Built this in just two days, after realizing we didn’t bring our kids’ night clock, and my son was up at 5 AM ready to go play. We need that green light at 7 😂

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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

Miss you mate 🥲

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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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Final result: a modern  iSight 4K Camera ✨

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3D printer to the rescue: got a main shell for the components, a little ring to keep the lens in place, and some fake FireWire plugs to make it work with the original base…

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This meant that I could probably make it fit my iSight camera body and have a 4K, plug and play camera (and upgrading my old PiSight project) 👀

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Rafa @rafa.design · 16/06/2025

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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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 · 04/06/2025

Aww thank you so much for saying that ❤️

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Rafa @rafa.design · 03/06/2025

All of these animations are randomized, so every time I see them they're slightly different. For this one I took the super cute illustration from @raphaellopesph.bsky.social, isolated some elements like the background blobs and shines, and then replaced them in code

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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

aww, thank you Marcel!

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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 · 25/04/2025

Mate, this bug is infuriating 😂 I’ve talked to people at Apple and I think this is ultimately a Screen Time bug?

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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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Pay for shipping and I can send you one. It’s really really rough 😂

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What am I selling? 😂

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Went with a Bambu Lab P1S

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I did, but in the director’s cut that I posted everywhere else, Bluesky’s 60s limit is brutal haha

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