October 09, 2019

317: Designing for Dark Mode

49 minutes

In this week's episode, we dive deep into the murky depths of Dark Mode, discussing everything from OLED smearing and halation to tinting and elevation. Plus we read the results of the Twitter poll in which we asked you about your preferred dark background color. And as always, we share a some cool things like a crazy creative talk, a painting app for iPad, and a ridiculous illustrator.

Golden Microphone Patron:

Sisu is looking for a thoughtful and data-savvy designer to help build the next generation of analytics software. You can find out more at sisu.ai.

Follow-up:

You might recognize Sisu from our interview with Michie Cao

Shoutout to our newest patrons!

Alec Sukoski

Derek Graham

John Wood (Day One Patron!)

Justin Allen

Lisa Pesok

Manuel Solera

Sam Bernhardt

Brian updated designdetails.fm, and it's very nice. You should check it out :)

Thanks to listener and patron Derek Graham for the kind and helpful email :)

Keaton Taylor was also born too early for Pokemon and Spongebob

Sahil loves the move to being listener-supported

Listener Question:

Brandon Moore asks, "How do you feel guys feel about using a true black color (#000) for dark mode?"

Article: "Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones"

Note: Since recording, Instagram has updated their app with a dark mode!

We asked what you thought in a poll on Twitter, and you let us know :)

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared "Choosing Idea Vessels for Your Creations," a talk by Alex Cornell at the awwwards conference

Alex was featured back on episode 181: 5,000 Tickets Gets The Gum

Marshall cheated and shared three things:

Vexx, a ridiculous illustrator on YouTube who mostly uses markers and colored pencils but occasionally does large murals

Inktober, a drawing challenge in which "artists all over the world do one ink drawing a day the entire month"

Procreate for iPad, which "gives you the power to create beautiful sketches, inspiring paintings, and stunning illustrations wherever you are"

Paper, whose "perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, type, paint, draw — wherever your thoughts take you"

Design Details on the Web:

📻 We are @designdetailsfm

🎙 Brian is @brian_lovin and [email protected]

🎙 Marshall is @marshallbock and [email protected]

🎚@Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are

🙌 Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️

❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)

⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunes

BYEEEEE!

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October 09, 2019

317: Designing for Dark Mode

49 minutes

Golden Microphone Patron:

Sisu is looking for a thoughtful and data-savvy designer to help build the next generation of analytics software. You can find out more at sisu.ai.

Follow-up:

You might recognize Sisu from our interview with Michie Cao

Shoutout to our newest patrons!

Alec Sukoski

Derek Graham

John Wood (Day One Patron!)

Justin Allen

Lisa Pesok

Manuel Solera

Sam Bernhardt

Brian updated designdetails.fm, and it's very nice. You should check it out :)

Thanks to listener and patron Derek Graham for the kind and helpful email :)

Keaton Taylor was also born too early for Pokemon and Spongebob

Sahil loves the move to being listener-supported

Listener Question:

Brandon Moore asks, "How do you feel guys feel about using a true black color (#000) for dark mode?"

Article: "Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones"

Note: Since recording, Instagram has updated their app with a dark mode!

We asked what you thought in a poll on Twitter, and you let us know :)

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared "Choosing Idea Vessels for Your Creations," a talk by Alex Cornell at the awwwards conference

Alex was featured back on episode 181: 5,000 Tickets Gets The Gum

Marshall cheated and shared three things:

Vexx, a ridiculous illustrator on YouTube who mostly uses markers and colored pencils but occasionally does large murals

Inktober, a drawing challenge in which "artists all over the world do one ink drawing a day the entire month"

Procreate for iPad, which "gives you the power to create beautiful sketches, inspiring paintings, and stunning illustrations wherever you are"

Paper, whose "perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, type, paint, draw — wherever your thoughts take you"

Design Details on the Web:

📻 We are @designdetailsfm

🎙 Brian is @brian_lovin and [email protected]

🎙 Marshall is @marshallbock and [email protected]

🎚@Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are

🙌 Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️

❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)

⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunes

BYEEEEE!

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