With Muse for Mac on the horizon, the team convenes to discuss the merits of native apps versus web technologies like Electron. Discussion points include the conflict between brand identity and apps that feel true to the OS; “proudly native” apps like Sketch and Nova; and the lost art of designing using system components. Plus: the business case for and against building native apps, and why great native apps tend to come from smaller companies.

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Show notes


The road to Muse 2
Electron
DMG file
URL
widgets
GTK
/usr
the JVM and write once, run anywhere
Java servlet, Flash
React Native, Cordova
transpiler
browser quirks
siren’s song
Audacity
Flutter
Things
principle of least surprise
Twitter on iOS non-native share sheet
Material Design
Google’s iOS apps retiring custom widgets
WeChat
Microsoft antitrust case in the late 90s
how the web broke Microsoft’s monopoly
Steve Jobs visiting Xerox PARC
Alto, Lisa, Macintosh
Metamuse episode with Weiwei Xu
V for Wikipedia
Twitter’s custom typeface, Chirp
ScreenFlow, Sketch, Nova
Sketch’s proud-to-be-native article
WebAssembly in Figma
Sublime Text
Finda’s 16ms goal
Microsoft CEO deemphasizing the Windows business
Obsidian, Superhuman, Linear
1Password’s switch to Electron and subsequent outcry
video games and colorblind mode
Game Maker’s Toolkit — Designing for Disability

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