Design Details

283: Timefoolery

Episode Summary

This week, we answer a couple listener questions, including how to reliably align text to a baseline grid, and how to use data to learn from the features you ship. In News, Marshall extols the virtues of a little feature in the recently-released Sketch 53 update. And as always, we share a couple cool things, like a mind-bending Netflix show and an accessibility-focused pull request.

Episode Notes

This week, we answer a couple listener questions, including how to reliably align text to a baseline grid, and how to use data to learn from the features you ship. In News, Marshall extols the virtues of a little feature in the recently-released Sketch 53 update. And as always, we share a couple cool things, like a mind-bending Netflix show and an accessibility-focused pull request.

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Follow-up:

• For last week's One Cool Thing, Marshall shared LG's 65-inch Rollable 4K OLED TV (video), and go figure, it actually DOES resize to 21:9 (video). Whoops!
  • Mea culpa is a very fancy Latin phrase meaning "my fault"
• Ramon Gilabert suggested a couple secure ways of time-tracking and network control
  • Timing is "the best automatic Mac time tracker for productive professionals and freelancers"
  • Little Snitch "makes your Internet connections visible and puts you back in control"

News:

• Sketch 53 is available now
• Sketch Blog: "Better overrides, a brand new Fill Popover and faster prototyping in Sketch 53"

Listener Questions:

• Andreas v.d. Griendt asks "How do you work with developers to get your 8pt grid designs implemented? This is easy for placing a button. But if you actually would align text to a 4pt baseline, this is very challenging. Easy to do in Sketch, but super difficult for developers to implement/understand. For web this would be even more difficult than for native. But dynamic font sizing can be a challenge as well with this approach. What is helpful to do? How do you balance enforcing this?"
• Kevin Gutowski asks "Data is, of course, very important. How do you actually learn from the features that you ship? What hard metrics / soft metrics are recorded? How are they being recorded and by whom?"

One Cool Thing:

• Marshall shared Russian Doll, a Netflix Original co-created by and starring Natasha Lyonne
• Brian shared a pull request by Jaochim that makes Security Checklist more accessible

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