I have a significantly large amount of files on my computer that I need for work and/or future reference.
I am terrible at keeping them organized. My computer is a mess. I believe this is because I simply cannot find a good system to stick to. (I am super organized in the real world, where I have a good system.)
I have tried to find advice for a good organization system online, but haven't found any I could use– one specifically for designers.
Why is the default cursor an arrow when you hover over an HTML ? I always thought that arrows let you select stuff, but hands let you execute an action. Since buttons execute actions, shouldn't I override the default style to be a hand pointer?
button {
cursor: pointer;
}
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Buttons are a traditional desktop software UI control - a context where the hand pointer has never been used before the advent of internet.
When web pages started to use the same control, they just kept the button as it was in a desktop environment.
Our app has a 'Facebook' button that opens another user's facebook profile.
Based on the assumptions that: most people who network also have higher facebook privacy settings, and also people who use the native facebook app are never logged into facebook in their mobile browser, simply loading a webview of their facebook URL would not be optimal because the user would need to 'log in' in order to do anything.
So the next thought was to hook the native app, and use the webview URL as a fallback. The only issue with this is that it kicks the user out of the app and into the facebook app.
My initial solution to this was to give an alert or action sheet with something like: Open in Facebook // Cancel
Should kicking the user out of the app require confirmation? Or is adding another "Click okay to proceed" step an annoyance?
So I have a group of completely arbitrary objects in Inkscape that I want an outline around. 
Not around each individual object, but around the group as a whole. 
So I convert to paths, do a Union, and set my Stroke. Success! 
....Except I forgot to mention that I want the component objects to be autonomously movable for the sake of reuse and animation. 
The process I just detailed leaves everything as one consolidated image, defeating the reuse purpose.
Now, I obviously can't set a stroke on the group itself. That just sets the stroke on the components. But wait! Inkscape has cloning, right? So if I clone and Union the clones....
Oh.
Now, I suppose I could just eternally destroy my work and do it all over again. That is always an option. A horrible, horrible, option, but an option. All the possible workarounds I've seen or come up with myself in a day of searching fail at the point of remaining linked to the original, and some also eliminate the path that lets me do fun things like Path Effects. I do like playing with line width, but I suppose I could get over its loss if that's the only way to save time.
Are there any tricks I'm overlooking to be able to link an outline to a dynamic group of shapes?
I've noticed a lot of news websites, particularly on mobile, sometimes will cut off their story with a button you have to click to see the rest of it. I can understand why they'd do this if they wanted to make you pay for the rest of the article or shove an ad in your face, but sometimes the button just shows the story and does nothing else.
Here's an example of an article that does this on mobile.
To me, this seems like a really bad user experience. Making someone tap a button to continue browsing your site seems like a good way to lose their interest. Is there some hidden value in this interface design choice? Or does it serve some unrelated purpose (perhaps for analytics on user engagement?)
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(and sites may implement for one, some or all of these)
Robot defense. Content sites (e.g. news sites) sometimes use these buttons to provide a rudimentary defense against content scrapers. By showing only part of the content they prevent scrapers from loading the page and parsing the article. This is obviously very crude, but it is still effective.
Affirmation of user intent. Having a user click Read more provides a valuable confirmation of user's intent. For a site (e.g. news site) with a lot of links in sidebars or below the main article, it can be hard to figure out whether the user is reading the main article or scrolling down the page scanning the links or sidebars. The click isn't the best user experience but for a site providing you with free content, it provides valuable behavioral data for better analytics, ad targeting, etc.
Provide faster access to below-the-article content. There is always a chance that the content isn't relevant to the user and -- for one-page or news sites -- the user will want to scroll below the article to move on. The Read More button allows designers to hide bulk content to provide users with faster access to below-article content (and hopefully less reason to abandon the site before they find relevant content).
Faster page loads. For multimedia-rich content, whole page loads can be very slow. By loading only the top half of the article, the page loads faster. Sites can of course always lazy-load the content below the fold to achieve a similar effect, but designers may still elect not to do this because of the deferred rendering load or for #1 or #2 above.
None of these reasons is compelling in the general sense (which is why most sites don't do this), but one or more may be important enough to a particular site that designers elect to use the Read More button.
Since some of the newer cs versions of PS I got the problem that the Ctrl + left click stopped selecting layers directly when they're grouped in a folder. Instead PS simply selects the folder. If I right click inside the actual working space/viewport/image I get a somehow structured "tree" view with the folder name and the correct layer inside the folder. Is there a shortcut/mouse-keyboard click action that can directly select a layer inside the folder (again)?
Thanks!
Edit
The possible "solutions":
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When using most of the tools (except Move tool):
Cmd+Alt+Right-click
If you can temporarily switch to move tool by pressing
cmd, then this will work. For example if you are using theBrush toolthis will work, but if you are using theCrop tool, this will not work.
With move tool:
Cmd+Left-click or Alt+Right-click.
Left-click method and the right click method have one pretty interesting difference.
Left-click method does not select locked layers. Right-click method selects locked layers.
Another difference with these two right-click methods, is that you can't move a layer while clicking, where as if you use the Left-click method, that may happen accidentally.
Under the U.S.'s Copyright Law, would it be an act of copyright infringement if we were to change the color of another artist's image to black and white?
The answer to this question is provided below by Scott. For further information, please check out graphicsman post, which is also provided below.
This question was asked to make it clear for those who may think that by changing the color or the size of another artist's work, you did not violate the U.S Copyright Law, which is not true.
Instead of trying to manipulate another artist's image to entitle ourselves as the "original" owner, the right and proper action is to request the permission to use it.
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Yes. It's a derivative work and is infringement assuming the original has all rights reserved.
