[hurricanesugar]

This is significant because all previous iOS resources attempting this level of detail have been created by the design community. A designer named Joey Banks created widely adopted UI Kits for iOS 13-16[1]. Earlier iOS resources were created by an agency called Teehan+Lax[2] and some others I’m forgetting now.

All community-created design resources have historically been really good best guesses. Now they’re available directly from Apple.

Apple is letting design teams reveal what’s happening on the inside a little bit and this is one example.

[1] https://www.figma.com/@joey [2] https://teehanlax.com/tools/

[avree]

This is very, very not true.

https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

I ran a design agency 6 years ago and we used the official Apple Resources. The Teehan+Lax stuff and designers making it themselves was all pre-flat design, during the skeuomorphic age. Joey's stuff is because they didn't have the iOS13-16 resources for Figma.

[hurricanesugar]

Sure there are design resources but look at the resources themselves and compare them to Joey’s stuff.

I may be remembering incorrectly, but when I used Sketch the Apple design resources weren’t as comprehensive.

[marcellus23]

Hasn't Apple been providing Sketch resources for several years?

[filmgirlcw]

Yes. And Photoshop. And Adobe XD. I just checked and they still made those available this year too. I’m guessing Apple probably made previous libraries available for Figma too but I can’t say that for sure.

[perardi]

I don’t believe so—I distinctly remember searching their site last month for an official Figma UI kit, and they only had Sketch and Adobe.

The iOS 17 assets for Figma are new. Which, whew, thank you, Apple.

[hurricanesugar]

The linked Figma resources in the OP still aren’t available on https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

[haswell]

Where have they made these resources available in the past?

I was under the impression that the 3rd party projects were so popular because of a lack of such resources from Apple.

Is it just that the Figma-native assets are new?

[avree]

Yes, they have had these assets available for 5+ years https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

Figma is new.

[karaterobot]

Wow, that Teehan+Lax page takes me back!