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This article touches on _what_ knobs you have to control in a visual design, but a beginning designer often struggles to put these to service in a bigger contex

This article touches on _what_ knobs you have to control in a visual design, but a beginning designer often struggles to put these to service in a bigger context. I really enjoyed this talk from Apple's conference this year—it gives a great overview of the sort of conceptual framework a designer has when making specific choices: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/802/ https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/802/

tdeck 9y ago
Anyone know of a way to watch this video without Safari or the WWDC app?
- rbritton 9y ago
  I did not try it, but it looks like you can download it under the Resources tab.
- amrrs 9y ago
  Ideally should work in Microsoft Edge in Win 10. Anyone tried?
- ajscanlan 9y ago
  You can stream it via VLC player
- newscracker 9y ago
  You could go to ClipConverter [1], download the format/size you want and then watch it offline. Sometimes it may take a while to retrieve the video (preferable not to choose any conversion options there). As an aside, ClipConverter works for YouTube, Vimeo and many other sites with embedded video. No Java runtime/applet installation required (unlike many other video download sites). [1]: http://www.clipconverter.cc/ http://www.clipconverter.cc/
edsheeran 9y ago
Can someone please explain to me what the _underline_ at the beginning and end of a word is supposed to mean? I'm sure it's not proper writing or rule of grammar but I see it frequently in sites where there's a high concentration of techies. Is it some carryover from coding? If so it's bad practice outside of code. Don't stain the standards.
- deleted 9y ago
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- jaredsohn 9y ago
  It adds italics in Markdown. Try it out here if you want: https://stackedit.io/editor https://stackedit.io/editor It works in Slack and other chat apps, too.
- deleted 9y ago
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- mdorazio 9y ago
  It's to emphasize a word since not all sites allow basic text formatting like italic and bold. As a result, people will use asterisks or underlines to indicate that a particular word is important.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  > Is it some carryover from coding? If so it's bad practice outside of code. Don't stain the standards. Nah, it's sort of carryover from old days of plaintext e-mails, except we still communicate with plaintext a lot, so it's still relevant. It originates from the same space that gave you ALL CAPS = SHOUTING and emoticons. Typical emphasis characters are underscore and asterisks. Many software will recognize them. Like Markdown parsers. Or like HN, wich italicizes text between asterisks. Or Skype, which responds both to asterisks, underscores, and then probably some more. Complaining about this is kind of like complaining about using punctuation in an English sentence. It's not the users who are the problem - it's the other crowd, that doesn't know the rules and traditions of the medium.
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tdeck 9y ago

Anyone know of a way to watch this video without Safari or the WWDC app?

rbritton 9y ago
I did not try it, but it looks like you can download it under the Resources tab.
amrrs 9y ago
Ideally should work in Microsoft Edge in Win 10. Anyone tried?
ajscanlan 9y ago
You can stream it via VLC player
newscracker 9y ago
You could go to ClipConverter [1], download the format/size you want and then watch it offline. Sometimes it may take a while to retrieve the video (preferable not to choose any conversion options there). As an aside, ClipConverter works for YouTube, Vimeo and many other sites with embedded video. No Java runtime/applet installation required (unlike many other video download sites). [1]: http://www.clipconverter.cc/ http://www.clipconverter.cc/

edsheeran 9y ago

Can someone please explain to me what the _underline_ at the beginning and end of a word is supposed to mean? I'm sure it's not proper writing or rule of grammar but I see it frequently in sites where there's a high concentration of techies. Is it some carryover from coding? If so it's bad practice outside of code. Don't stain the standards.

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jaredsohn 9y ago
It adds italics in Markdown. Try it out here if you want: https://stackedit.io/editor https://stackedit.io/editor It works in Slack and other chat apps, too.
deleted 9y ago
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mdorazio 9y ago
It's to emphasize a word since not all sites allow basic text formatting like italic and bold. As a result, people will use asterisks or underlines to indicate that a particular word is important.
TeMPOraL 9y ago
> Is it some carryover from coding? If so it's bad practice outside of code. Don't stain the standards. Nah, it's sort of carryover from old days of plaintext e-mails, except we still communicate with plaintext a lot, so it's still relevant. It originates from the same space that gave you ALL CAPS = SHOUTING and emoticons. Typical emphasis characters are underscore and asterisks. Many software will recognize them. Like Markdown parsers. Or like HN, wich italicizes text between asterisks. Or Skype, which responds both to asterisks, underscores, and then probably some more. Complaining about this is kind of like complaining about using punctuation in an English sentence. It's not the users who are the problem - it's the other crowd, that doesn't know the rules and traditions of the medium.
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