We’ll be using our app Lita as an example throughout this post. Apps have been carefully allowed to seep into the OS itself. IOS has been on a path since its inception to allow apps to become more than just a world hidden behind an app icon.
There are lots of good tidbits on dark mode in What’s New in iOS Design from WWDC ‘19.ĭesigning and Developing for Siri Shortcuts
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Sounds obvious, but I find it helps a lot to set your Mac to dark mode when designing for dark mode. This lets your pick a device and see mockups for it in either dark or light mode. If you use Zeplin to share your designs, you can shift-click tags to combine them. You can’t assume that the user has a dark mode on only during night time, but some will, and I find it fun to swap photos or train illustrations for ones that depicts the same location during night time, and giving that train lit up windows and headlights.
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Apple TV app does it wrong, where as Books gets it right. Instead, use a darkened gradient that matches your light mode.
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Examples of this are the Safari Privacy mode which in iOS 13 has a black tint and dark elements as opposed to a full dark mode, and the Lock Screen Do Not Disturb banner which is now a light element instead of a dark one.ĭon’t just invert gradients, that will make them look like they’re indented. If you have dark elements in your light theme, you may want to change them to be light, and keep the dark look for the dark mode. In certain cases having as low a contrast ratio as 2.75, where a white color would have scored 10.11. Users can often tell by placement alone if something is tappable, or you can show that in other ways, such as with a disclosure arrow or a button shape. Not only is it a strong UI trend adopted by apps like Instagram and Apple Wallet, it will make dark mode a lot more straight forward. Possibly reduce your use of color overall. For us, that meant that highly saturated colors stay the same, and pastel colors are overlaid on black rather than white. If there’s any, I’d say go for what feels the same with the dark background. There’s no easy rule for how you translate your colors from light to dark. There’s always the brand excuse - that your brand and app was meant to be dark. Even Apple is at fault here Calculator, Activity and Clock are examples of apps that only provide a dark mode. I feel strongly that if the user has chosen to use the light mode, you should provide that for them. You may pick one or the other, or have it go dark during night time to avoid that retina blasting white screen in a dark room. Plantry went white and got its new name.Ĭome iOS 13, it’s no longer up to us to choose one look for you. Designed for the new OLED of the iPhone X, having the background blend with the hardware and recipe photos pop off of that screen was too tempting to resist.Īfter a while the novelty wore off and we wanted a less heavy handed look. Plantry started out with a different name and a true black look. Designing Plantry for Dark Mode in iOS 13
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