Dock Pics

Photo and music sharing is fun again with Dock Pics

Dock Pics is a new Dock Party feature that allows you to share your currently playing Spotify or Apple Music track nearly instantly with anyone in your buddy list. The track will appear in your buddy’s Pic Parade view as an album cover Dock Pic. All they have to do is click to play the song in their preferred player, regardless of which player you sent it from.

One simple trick to make your Dock look bigger 😉

Welcome to the Mac Parade! The Pic Parade is the unique photo stream view that is central to Dock Pics. Dock Party’s music visualizers and colorful animations expand around the photos you’ve sent and received. And Dock Pics Aren’t just pics. The Dock Pics console makes it dead-simple to share the Spotify or Apple Music track you’re currently listening to with any of your Dock Pic buddies.

Dock Pics is the messaging system defined by what it doesn’t do:

No Like button. No Love button. No tapbacks. No more feeling obligated to acknowledge every frickin’ post.
No filters. No text. No stickers. Sharing a pic shouldn’t be a design project.
No videos. More importantly: no surprise audio.
No follower counts! Just one-to-one buddy connections with real email addresses.
No phones. Small screens are for small pics.
And I *actually* take your privacy seriously, not just on general principle, but because I truly don’t give a sh*t about your personal information. I don’t want your phone number, address, or age! I just want to sell a fun app, not your life history.

That’s a Big Pic

Dock Pics preserves received images at much higher quality and resolution than most social media services. Instagram and networks like it shrink every pic down to a maximum of 1080x1080, like it’s 1999, without the party.

They used to call me, “Mr. Glass”

Dock Party has been incorporating slick-ass transparency effects since long before Apple stole my design aesthetic (and mucked it up).