Apple design web

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Apple-grade design skill family for Claude Code & Codex — 9 confidence-labeled skills (HIG, Liquid Glass, motion, scrollytelling, OS surfaces, delivery, a11y) with a restraint × surface discipline. One installer links into both ~/.claude/skills and ~/.agents/skills.

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Use when building an apple.com-style marketing/product page — the landing-page formula (sticky translucent nav, product-as-hero, full-bleed feature sections, bento grids, fat footer), scroll-driven storytelling, plus the interaction inventory that makes a flagship page feel ALIVE (continuous damped scroll-progress, theme morph, sticky-stack pinning, text wipe, ambient float), the hero media pipeline (video scrub, image sequence, asset sourcing), and Apple's front-end engineering (progressive enhancement, vanilla JS, perf discipline). Part of the apple-design family. Keywords: apple.com, marketing page, landing page, hero, scrollytelling, video scrub, interaction inventory, cross-section theme morph, sticky-stack, chaptered pinning, ambient float, canvas image sequence, createImageBitmap, WebGL 3D viewer, parallax, animation-timeline, scroll-driven animation, IntersectionObserver, progressive enhancement, srcset lazy load, frosted nav, media assets, device frame, CC0, asset sourcing.

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Apple Design — Web (apple.com language · scrollytelling · engineering)

Recreating apple.com: the page formula, the signature scroll effects, and how it's actually built.

When to use

Building a premium marketing/product landing page.
Implementing scroll-driven animation (frame-scrub, pinning, parallax, reveals).
Deciding the front-end architecture for an Apple-grade page.

Core rules

Light-first (do this before anything else). apple.com is predominantly light (#f5f5f7/white); a dark hero is the exception, used for ≤1 purposeful moment — never the default. Show the real product in a real device frame (a real screenshot), never an abstract placeholder. Restraint > gratuitous effects — see apple-design's references/restraint-and-antislop.md.
Commit to motion on flagship pages (motion IS the substance here). On a flagship/marketing/product surface, a page with only static one-shot fades is a dead template, not Apple-grade. Commit to the interaction inventory — continuous damped scroll-progress transforms (the #1 differentiator), sticky-pinned choreographed scenes, cross-section theme morph (light↔dark), and ambient float so it breathes when scrolling stops. This does NOT weaken light-first/real-product/restraint — both must hold: alive AND tasteful. The motion budget scales by surface (utility surfaces get far less); see the inventory at the top of references/scrollytelling-techniques.md and the surface axis in apple-design's references/restraint-and-antislop.md.
The formula: slim sticky translucent nav (~44–48px, blur, chapter-adaptive color) → big centered product hero (name + one tagline + "Learn more ›"/"Buy ›") → alternating full-bleed feature sections, one idea each → bento feature grid → tech specs → fat multi-column footer.
Scrollytelling decision tree (current apple.com is VIDEO-first): cinematic hero clip → video currentTime scrub (what apple.com ships — preload=none + lazy scroll-triggered src + static start/end-frame JPEG fallback + reduced-motion→static frame; mobile-Safari scrub flaky → ImageBitmap hybrid); interactive 3D product the user rotates → WebGL-3D scroll viewer (three.js + GLTF, KTX/Basis textures — Apple's own product-viewer pattern); many crisp frames / frame-exact at low count → canvas image-sequence (the classic pre-2022 alternative — preload, draw on rAF, sliding-window createImageBitmap decode + .close()); continuous element motion → damped scroll-progress (lerp a shadow-scroll value; engine in apple-design-motion); light↔dark chapters → cross-section theme morph (IO discrete-snap default, rAF-lerp or animation-timeline variants); chaptered card deck → sticky-stack (CSS position:sticky staggered top + ascending z-index, JS recede enhancement); simple reveal/parallax → CSS animation-timeline: view()/scroll() with @supports + IntersectionObserver fallback. The reusable damped-scroll + pointer-reactive engine lives in apple-design-motion; this skill composes it into page-level scenes. Media sourcing, encoding, frame-decode + delivery → references/media-assets-and-delivery.md.
Engineering: apple.com is progressive-enhanced HTML/CSS/vanilla JS (observed: Browserify ac-* bundles), not a heavy SPA. Responsive <picture>/srcset, loading="lazy", content-hashed immutable assets, deferred JS.
Never scroll-jack, never ship huge unoptimized frame sets, always guard motion with prefers-reduced-motion.

References

File	Use for
`references/web-applecom-language.md`	Page anatomy + measured specs; nav/hero/feature/footer HTML+CSS recipes
`references/scrollytelling-techniques.md`	The apple.com/iphone interaction inventory (ranked alive behaviors, must-consider core vs flourishes) + working code: canvas scrubber, sticky scene, IO reveals, CSS scroll-driven animation, cross-section theme/background morph, sticky-stacked chaptered cards
`references/web-frontend-engineering.md`	Observed apple.com architecture, image/font/perf strategy, PE patterns
`references/media-assets-and-delivery.md`	How current apple.com delivers hero media (video-first reverse-spec, WebGL-3D viewer, content-hash URLs) · updated technique decision tree · licensed code patterns (provenance + LICENSE) · asset-sourcing IP may/may-not + ship-only-our-own guardrail · encoding/caching/frame-decode (`createImageBitmap`, sliding window, video keyint=5)

Common mistakes

Cluttered hero / multiple competing CTAs; weak whitespace; busy backgrounds behind product.
Shipping a heavy framework for a static marketing page; render-blocking JS; unoptimized images.
Janky non-rAF scroll handlers; no reduced-motion fallback; content hidden behind animation.
Under-animating a flagship page — only static one-shot IO fades = a dead template. On a marketing/product surface, commit to continuous damped scroll-progress + theme morph + ambient float (the inventory). Equally: over-animating a utility surface — match the motion budget to the surface axis.

Related: the damped-scroll + pointer-reactive engine → apple-design-motion · type/color/grid → apple-design-foundations · the nav glass → apple-design-materials · CDN/image delivery → apple-design-backend · copy & persuasion → apple-design-tactics.