- Project Type: iOS App
- Role: Designer, Developer
- Client: Old English Wordhord
- Completed: 2021
word-hord, n.n: a word-hoard, a store of words.
The Old English Wordhord is not a dictionary — it’s a museum exhibition in your pocket that you can digest in bite-size chunks. Every day a new Old English word appears in the app along with its description, written and audio pronunciation, and often images of medieval manuscripts.
The content for the app is written by the creator of the Old English Wordhord (and my wife) Hana Videen. She has been tweeting an Old English word since 2013 and the entire back-catalog is available in the app. Users can browse by category and also save their favourites. The word of the day can also be seen right on the Home Screen in the form of a widget.
This was the first mobile app I developed in SwiftUI and after the launch I released some of its components as open source Swift packages (Links to related projects below)
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- LookingGlassUI
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