Check out another insight from the people building the tool helping students realize their college ambitions.

In our second post for Building Raise Me, we learn from Jason Branch, a Senior Product Designer at Raise Me, who walks through the best principles for creating the dark mode version of your iOS app. By now you’ve seen a dark mode feature on your favorite app whether it be Twitter or YouTube. Referencing Apple’s User Interface guidelines and Google’s material design system Jason shows off the steps taken to create Raise Me’s new look and feel.

iOS designs in both light and dark mode.

‘Building Raise Me‘ is the Raise Me Design & Engineering blog! We’re starting to tell the stories behind the decisions that go into making the Raise Me product, features, and community. Here we’ll discuss technologies we use, challenges we face, the research we’re doing and how our ideas go from sketch to implementation.

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