On Judo and No-Handoff

Hey everyone

As I’m going through my “iOS and SwiftUI for Beginners” learning path and building out the Bullseye game, one question in my head became more and more pressing: is there a better way to turn a visual design into working SwiftUI code? In this learning path, one thing that needs to be done time and time again is to translate an app design made in Figma into actual, working, SwiftUI code. This is done by looking at the design in Figma and then looking at all sorts of properties of text, distances between elements, and so on, and then, in SwiftUI, getting closer and closer to the intended design. While I understand that “that’s how this works”, it’s also very time consuming and well, quite inexact, to be honest, and made me wonder… “is there a better way?”

Then I stumbled on this article: https://ntfromchicago.medium.com/judo-the-future-of-swiftui-design-866daaf1ab80

It’s a great read.

The app they mention, Judo, frankly looks amazing and exactly like the answer to my earlier question “Is there a better way?”

I think Kodeko should have a course on how to use Judo effectively.

Have any of you used it before and, if so, what is your experience with it?