Design Details

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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 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

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