Design Details
Design Details
Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
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54 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2018 at 5:00 am.
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This week, we discuss sign-in walls and the design patterns behind offering free-ish content on the Internet. In News, we praise Samsung's new One UI for its strict adherence to Fitts' Law. And as always, we share a couple cool things, including a video game competition and a major update to a podcast app.
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Follow-up:
Green Bean Casserole makes Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, as far as Marshall's concerned
Our sincere apologies to Kevin Gutowski for the public shaming last episode. He replied with a link to the plugin pretty much immediately.
Get Kevin's Toggle Layers plugin if you want to set a different shortcut for Show/Hide ## Layers in Sketch
News:
Samsung One UI is designed to help you focus
Fitts' Law says that the closer and bigger a target is, the easier it is to hit
The top two-fifths of the screen is just the app name in system apps like Notes, Settings, and Messages
Video: "Samsung One UI walkthrough: Coming to Galaxy X"
Mojave puts a light stroke around windows in Dark mode
Video: "WWDC 2018: Introducing Dark Mode" — Seek to
Point/Counterpoint:
Dribbble has a sign-in wall, and we're not sure how we feel about that
One Cool Thing:
Marshall shared "The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained" by aGameScout, a breakdown of the professional Tetris competition
Video Playlist: "Classic Tetris World Championships 2018"
Brian shared Pocket Casts, a popular podcast app that's been nicely overhauled in v7.0
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