Edward Sanchez

Designing and developing independent products with a focus on native app experiences, product clarity, and design-forward tooling.

• Designing and developing an app for progress pictures using SwiftUI.
• Working on a native macOS tool for drawing SF Symbols.
• Contracting at startups.

Responsible for UI, UX, and iconography for Augment, an AI plugin for VS Code that helps developers code faster through AI chat and agentic workflows.

• Worked on a native macOS prototype to showcase text collaboration with LLMs.
• Helped design workflows for AI coding agents, code review, and remote agents.

Nearly a decade spanning internal tools for the Industrial Design team, major contributions to Xcode and Swift Playgrounds, and leadership in iconography and symbol systems.

Initial role in the Industrial Design team

• Led visual design and UX for web and mobile apps supporting the workflows of the Apple Industrial Design team.

Contributions to Xcode and Swift Playgrounds

• Primary designer for features across Xcode's Source Editor, Code Completion, Asset Catalog, Simulator, Interface Builder, and Source Control.
• Championed several key features that shipped in Xcode.
• Designed annual demo iOS apps for WWDC.

Leadership in iconography

• Created hundreds of native SF Symbols.
• Developed a method to programmatically render icons in various shapes and sizes, improving Xcode icon definition workflows.
• Helped refine SF Symbol and App Icon creation processes, including the effort toward a single required iOS icon.
• Led the effort to allow macOS document icons to be programmatically defined and documented in the Human Interface Guidelines.

• Designed the Remote Control app UI for iOS and Android.
• Maintained themes for the main TV platform.
• Created asset templates for multiple TV resolutions.
• Developed animated screen savers and iconography for Roku TV.

• Designed visuals and interactions for e-ink Kindles.
• Built expertise in legibility, typography, and optimal reading experience.

• Defined visual style for the core WebOS framework and main applications.
• Explored new mobile device interactions using After Effects for prototyping.

• Spent 8 years designing Flash websites as a freelancer.
• Founded a small web-app startup and led a team of 5 employees.
• Worked as a designer at Sencha (ExtJS), helping modernize the visual design of their web framework and website.