Alexander Deplov, AI artist, product designer

At the moment, I’m working on my own window manager for FreeBSD, called Asterwm.

This is my FreeBSD music collection.

The FreeBSD and Apple logos are quite similar.

I turned a Panasonic KX-T2315 desk phone into a physical menu for my FreeBSD server.

Before the advent of smartphones, constant connectivity simply did not exist.

On FreeBSD, YouTube seeking feels instant: click anywhere on the seek bar and playback resumes immediately.

macOS has a long-standing bug that persists in macOS Tahoe.

I stopped using dark mode on my macOS.

My grandpa passed away many years ago, but I remember spending time with him fixing a broken chair.

Font rendering settings Keyboard and mouse settings Interface settings Turn on TearFree Wallpapers macOS theme for Mate Spotlight replacement As I mentioned earlier, I noticed similarities between FreeBSD and macOS—after 20 years of using macOS, returning…

After installing FreeBSD 14.2 fresh on my Beelink SER5 5560U, I installed the GPU driver and enabled the TearFree option for better desktop usage by following these steps: 1.

As a designer I’ve been using macOS since 2005, but with each new update, I dislike the direction Apple is heading in.

If you need to create an iOS app icon design or a mockup with various app icon size and want to ensure the corner radius is accurate, use this simple formula: corner radius = icon width × 2/9 For example, for a 1024x1024 px icon (the standard size for iOS

In the 90s, before even the Internet existed in our area, I was lucky to be part of Fidonet.

I’ve always believed that computers should handle repetitive tasks better than humans.

TL;DR I put my €1800 MacBook Pro M1 Pro head-to-head with a €300 mini PC and found the cheaper option surprisingly fast.

I have always been a HUGE Apple Watch fan.

Text version Inspired by the Product Psychology Masterclass, I did an analysis of the Opera browser onboarding to find the peaks and valleys in the journey.

Inspired by that tweet, instead of saying “Here’s what our product can do” you can shift to “Here’s what you can do with our product”.

Throughout my career, I have created several iOS app icons.

With the latest release of iOS 18, Apple continues to emphasize design harmony throughout the operating system with Dark Mode for app icons.

Once I was reading a tutorial about color and the article was about “there are a bunch of color schemes, like monochromatic, analogous, complementary, etc.”, with all the description how to create each one.

Knowing your target audience is critical to creating a product that truly resonates with your users.

As a product designer with a passion for innovation, I embarked on a journey to create my own product.

The Problem You have a paid iOS app that you want to publish to the App Store, or it’s already published, but sales are dropping to zero.

Project goal As a side project I wanted to create a game that could be used to entertain toddlers.

Project goal A friend and client of mine — Tinrocket — asked me to create a new Mac app icon for the new Waterlogue Pro app.

First computer in our family was bought when I was about 11-13 years old.

When working with dark UI and custom colors, you need to think about how the content will appear on the screen, not only from top to bottom, but also from far to near.

Lately you may hear a lot of talk about AI going wild and deciding to destroy humans and how dangerous that can be.

If you are working on an app interface, you need to know very well how people are using your app.

Introduction Sometimes, when you’re building a UI or trying to analyse competitors’ apps, you notice that something is wrong with the UI, but you can’t say for sure what it is.

Introduction When you create icons for the user interface of an app, you should remember that the icon should be easy to read.

Introduction One of my favorite product design podcasts is the Quick Coffee.

While researching old operating systems I decided to try an experiment and re-created old UIs with modern components.

Apple Watch itself is so beautiful, but also its pairing screen.

For many years, I developed only paid iOS apps.

You probably know that apps can sometimes be harder to use than physical objects.

Introduction If you’re a designer or developer you probably working with icons a lot.

The Old Newspaper app released on App Store.