Tigran Sargsyan

Hey everyone! I m a product designer, most days I m in Figma working on dashboards, onboarding, and all the little things that make software easier to use.

Lately I ve been building a small Mac app on the side. It started with one of those I wish my Mac could do this moments. I thought I d spend a weekend on it, and then I got very particular about how a swipe should feel

I also teach design, so I always enjoy hearing how other people got into making things. If you ve ever built something just because you wanted it to exist, I d love to hear what it was.

I was one of those people who actually used the Touch Bar When I switched Macs, I missed having volume and brightness right under my fingers, so I tried a few trackpad shortcut apps.

That got me thinking about which gestures I d actually want to change from app to app. I d want volume to work the same way everywhere. But I could see myself using the same swipe to switch tabs in my browser and skip a song in Music.
I m curious whether that would feel natural after a few days or whether I d keep mixing them up.

If you ve set up gestures or shortcuts that change depending on the app, which ones actually stuck? Anything you ended up changing back?

Hey everyone I m Tigran, and I made a little Mac app called EdgeSlide.

I know the Touch Bar had its haters, but I actually missed it when I switched Macs. I liked being able to change the volume without looking for the right key. So I thought, why can t I just do that on the trackpad?

Now I slide a finger along the right edge for volume, use the left for brightness, and tap a corner to mute. All four edges and corners are customizable, so you can do things like switch tabs or skip ahead in a video. The shortcuts can change with the app you re using, too. And because I kept setting off shortcuts with my palm while typing in other apps I tried, I built in protection for that.

I m still figuring out what should be set up by default. What s one thing you do on your Mac all day that you d put on a trackpad edge? And is there an app you d want a preset for?