apple-design

name	apple-design
description	Router for Apple platform design: navigation, search, typography, visual accessibility, Liquid Glass/iOS 26, brand identity, app icons, App Intents/Shortcuts, HIG lookup, and chart experience. Use for HIG/current-spec questions or Apple design decisions. Implementation/platform craft → swiftui; web counterparts → web-design. Read one named reference.

Apple Platform Design

Sources/gaps: references/sources.md maps the local Apple source corpus; references/coverage-gaps.md lists platform areas that need live HIG/doc verification before becoming reusable rules.

Read exactly one reference file below; each carries the full distillation for its area (deeper worked examples, sources, and code live in a same-named subdirectory next to it).

• Navigation & layout — structuring tabs vs sidebar, push vs modal, sheet/menu rules, destructive confirmations, iPad-native layout and iPadOS 26 windowing, the pointer: references/apple-navigation-design.md
• Search — where search lives and how placement signals scope, suggestions, recents, scope bars, tokens, no-results states: references/apple-search-design.md
• Typography — the San Francisco family, optical sizes, text styles, full Dynamic Type support incl. custom font scaling, fixing truncated/clipped text: references/apple-typography.md
• Visual accessibility — auditing/adding a11y: Bold Text, Increase Contrast, Differentiate Without Color, Reduce Motion, 4.5:1 contrast, colorblindness, Smart Invert: references/apple-visual-accessibility.md
• Liquid Glass & the 2025+ design system — the material (lensing, Regular vs Clear, tinting, never glass-on-glass), shapes/concentricity, toolbars, scroll edge effects, migration playbook: