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1 Chance's app icon
1 Chance is a game for iOS from indie developer Taiwo Omisore. It's a very unique app where you play a series of mini games, but you can only play it once. A small detail I really love is the app icon – it's a number 1 which is partially fading from the top. It's a playful way to show the premise of the app.
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Pedals on the Volkswagen ID.2all GTI
Way back in issue 1 of Design Details I included the pedals in Volkswagen's ID range of electric cars, where the brake and accelerator are branded pause and play icons respectively.
VW recently previewed a sporty ID model, and a detail I love is that the play icon has been replaced with a fast forward icon. It's a fun way to subtly differentiate the car from the less-sporty models.
Image credit: Fully Charged Show on YouTube
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Marimba in the Apple event
Apple recently held their annual event to launch the new iPhone and Apple Watch. In one of the transitions, the scene changed via a label on a box of apples. The apples are labelled as coming from Marimba Ranch, which is a reference to the original iPhone's default ringtone, Marimba. What's more, the music played during the scene transition included an interpolation of the same ringtone.
Image credit: Apple Event on YouTube (go to 00:47:53 in the video for the scene in question)
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Not-so-nice details
Notifications in the Reddit app
Reddit recently killed off third party clients, meaning people now have to use their official app.
The app is fine for the most part, albeit a huge downgrade from Apollo, but it does one thing in particular that really downgrades the user experience.
Almost all the time, it displays a big red badge on the Inbox tab making it look like you have a message. When you check it, it's actually a recommendation from a subreddit you follow.
At this point this would be just about acceptable if Reddit made it easy to opt out of these recommendations that you never opted into, but they do not. To stop receiving recommendations, you need to tap your profile icon, hit Settings, then your username, Manage notifications, scroll down to Community alerts, and then switch off notifications for each subreddit you follow. In my case, that's hundreds of subreddits, so opting out of them all would take forever. Usually in cases like this you'd include a user friendly Select all button to make this easier, but unsurprisingly Reddit doesn't.
Opting users in to notifications they don't want and making it too burdensome to switch them off is a dark pattern for sure. Be better, Reddit.
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And finally
That's all
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