375: Reconsidering Consistency

<p>This week, we talk about the tradeoffs and considerations of designing for consistency. In The Sidebar, we share tips and strategies for starting a podcast.</p><hr /><h3><strong>Latest VIP Patrons:</strong></h3><ul><li>Ashish Negi</li><li>Alyssa Zhang</li><li>Tiffany C Yu</li><li>Aleksandra Strączek</li><li>Richard Picot</li><li>Sam Olendi</li><li>Kamil Lafere</li><li>Jackie Carr</li><li>Joaquin Kunkel</li><li>Fabian Valkenberg</li><li>Belén Lozano</li><li>Ruobing Chen</li><li>Ryhan Hassan</li><li>Jesse Box</li><li>Thomas Bishop</li><li>Oscar Newman</li><li>David Bill</li></ul><hr /><h3><strong>The Sidebar:</strong></h3><p>The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to full episodes going forward! Sign up at <a href="https://patreon.com/designdetails">https://patreon.com/designdetails</a>.</p><p>In this week's Sidebar, we share tips and strategies for starting your own design podcast. We need more!</p><hr /><h3><strong>Follow up:</strong></h3><ul><li>Jay Sowell brought up a great point on Patreon about the current shortcomings and limitations of widgets in the Apple ecosystem. We speculate about their future.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/tgarder/status/1331737228813492224">Tobias Gärder tweeted</a>: <i>After an unexpectedly easy transition to android from forever iphones I actually tried to switch to PC a year ago, nooot as easy, but been on it since. First hard to find hardware that felt good enough (went for Surface Laptop 13") but Windows.. yikes.</i></li><li>We have more design tricks to <a href="https://designdetails.fm/episodes/kyGys20W">save people from themselves</a>:<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/divyatakart/status/1329525814799437824">Divya Tak</a> mentioned a pattern where users have to confirm the name of the thing they are deleting, like when you delete a repository on GitHub.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/havanatweets/status/1331639691427385344">Havana Nguyen</a> mentioned three:<ul><li>"Don't sh