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Apple Pass Designer

563 points · 337 comments · soheilpro

  1. benatkin · · focus · HN ↗
    These are reminiscent of NFTs, they are things you can collect, mass generated.
    1. BryantD · · focus · HN ↗
      Huh. Doesn't remind me of those at all. For example, I used the other new Apple Wallet functionality yesterday to put my local library card into Apple Wallet and now I've got one less thing to carry around. Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.
      1. benatkin · · focus · HN ↗
        I mean this design aspect. To me it felt like it was a bit over the top, and I could imagine them to start making limited run series of them. Looking at it again, it says that there are templates, so maybe this art was made by designers, rather than AI images generated on the fly, but I imagined that they were the latter.
        1. MBCook · · focus · HN ↗
          It’s the same stuff they have always had. It’s designed to let you brand it with your store’s color and logo, and maybe a picture of the location it’s good at at the top. Stuff like that.

          Same kind of stuff you would see on a loyalty card.

          1. benatkin · · focus · HN ↗
            OK, NFTs are like loyalty cards too then. Because these digital wallets don't need to be like physical cards. That's just an artificial design constraint.
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