EPISODE · Nov 28, 2018 · 54 MIN
274: Well... It's Free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
from Design Details · host Spec
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. Sponsor: This week's episode was brought to you by DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo helps you take back your privacy with their private search engine, mobile apps, and browser extensions. And right now they're hiring remote positions for Senior Product Designers! Make the internet a safer place, designing new products at DuckDuckGo. 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 7:34 for a rundown on the thought process behind the window strokes and shadows in Mojave 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 Design Details on the Web: We are @designdetailsfm Brian is @brian_lovin Marshall is @marshallbock @Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are Join the conversation on Spectrum or leave us a review on iTunes BYEEEEEEE!
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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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