WWDCScholars
Aether Aurelia (Jones)20
Manchester, United Kingdom
design engineer & software engineering student @ university of chester. prev apple maps design intern. i work at the intersection of design & engineering—building intuitive, visually refined experiences across mobile & web. currently making @KyoSchoolApp & open-sourcing problems i didn’t wanna solve twice. 2025 swift student challenge winner.
Scholarships
Aether has been awarded a WWDC scholarship in 2025. Here is the submission that got him there.
In 2025, applicants were tasked with creating an interactive app playground on the topic of their choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Aether describes his winning submission.
Deco is a fun, wallpaper customization experience that lets users transform their device's LockScreen by layering stickers (Emoji/Genmoji, Text) on their background and on/behind the subject, or use it's tools to create entirely new ones, with the goal of allowing them to express and reflect themselves on their device