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iOS Product Designer | Sharing about Product Design & AI 👉 johnrodrigues.substack.com My Portfolio : https://john-rodrigues.com/

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 7

I had the pleasure of attending the Design with SwiftUI talk by Philip Davis and Will Danner in person at the Apple Developer Center in Cupertino.

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · May 26

I spent some time observing and understanding how to meaningfully integrate AI to improve the product experience, and I’ve shared my insights in this blog.
I also wrote about how to approach AI implementation from a design perspective—so that AI features remain human-centric.

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · May 21

Exciting AI Updates from Google I/O

Impressed by the latest wave of AI projects.

If you’re into AI agents, these two are worth checking out:

• Project Astra – Designed for building AI assistants.

• Project Mariner – Focused on creating autonomous agents for the web.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · May 21

WWDC25 group labs and sessions are now open to register

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/sessions-and-labs/

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · May 15

LLMs are actually a great medium for note-taking.
I usually drop in my notes, ideas, and helpful links—and whenever I need them, I just ask the AI to retrieve the information.

I can also see this being a helpful way to document design decisions, build knowledge bases and references.

No more w

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 18

Step tracker exploration.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 18

Step tracker.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 14

In AI-native products, multimodal interactions are becoming more important than ever.
I just wrote a blog diving into why multimodal interaction matters right now—and the tools that help designers explore and prototype these experiences.

Give it a read

#AI #design

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 9

Figma needs an AI feature that auto-assigns variables. Manually applying them is so tedious.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 8

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I designed personalities for AI agents.

Read more here: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrodrigues/p/designing-personalities-for-ai-agents?r=9e818&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#AI #design #AIagents

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 4

Same here. See you in town

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Apr 4

Unfortunately didn’t get picked for WWDC25 💔 but will be around town for meetups and events.

Maybe will host a visionOS design meetup.
#wwdc2025

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 30

Design is like playing music — we sequence the right chords to create harmony. Similarly, in design, we sequence information through different forms to create value.

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 29

Done 😃 keep up the good work.

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 26

ChatGPT 4o
Studio Ghibli style

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 22

Creating characters and rigging them with GenAI.
Pretty fun!

Tool : Meshy. ai

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 13

Looks fun

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 11

Today, I'll be speaking at Design for America about building a career in Product Design. If you're interested, you can register here.
www.linkedin.com/events/dfaca...

DFA Career Conversation with John Rodrigues | LinkedIn

On Tuesday, March 11 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT, DFA will host John Rodrigues, a Senior Product Designer at JP Morgan Chase, for a DFA Career Conversation: "Building a successful career in Product Design".

www.linkedin.com

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Mar 10

In this blog, I share how to design and build your first visionOS app. If you're curious and interested, check it out here.
open.substack.com/pub/hyphenxr...

#AppleVisionPro #visionOS

Build your first VisionOS app

Introduction to building apps for Apple Vision Pro

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 28

Got to see frameworks like 'Feel, See, Do,' storyboarding, level design, and more come together experiences for Apple VisionPro.

Excited to dive deeper into designing for VisionOS!

#Applevisionpro

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 28

You don’t always get to see behind the scenes of creating such memorable experiences Apple designs, but in this session, we got a glimpse of how multiple disciplines come together to create products.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 28

I gained some valuable insights on how to design and prototype for Apple Vision Pro.

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 28

Had the pleasure of attending 'Create Interactive Stories for VisionOS' at the Apple Developer Center. Feeling inspired after meeting so many creatives, designers and developers building amazing things.

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 25

If you are interested in designing and developing for Apple Vision Pro, I have put together a roadmap and a list of resources to help you get started in this blog. Feel free to give it a read!

hyphenxr.com/p/roadmap-to...

#Applevisionpro #VisionOS #XR

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John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 23

Figma's split view is very helpful when maintaining different pages for your components. With split view, you can reference the components while working on the main screens.

Also here a sneak peek of Design Quest App in making.

#Figmatips

John Rodrigues @johnrodrigues4.bsky.social · Feb 23

Great talk on virtual reality by Caitlin Krause ( Author of MindWise®, Educator at Stanford ) and Angel Say ( CEO of Resolve ) at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality event.

I also had a great time exploring XR demos by designers and developers. Got to to try a AVPro game Huy Le.