Design Details

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Episode Summary

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.

Episode Notes

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 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

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