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why Japan's internet is weirdly designed

Use code ANSWER to get 10% off your Hostinger plan today (on top of ongoing offers like their Black Friday/Cyber Monday $1.99 for Premium Shared web hosting with a 48-month plan): https://hostinger.com/answer In 2013, an article suggested that Japanese web design looks different from the rest of the world. In this video, Sabrina uses an AI to figure out if that is true and, if yes, why. SUPPORT US ON PATREON https://patreon.com/answerinprogress SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter BIBLIOGRAPHY Check out my website (and the bibliography for this video) here: https://sabrinas.space/ STILL INTERESTED IN WEB DEV HISTORY? Check out Richard MacManus's blog that paints a really great view of the time: https://webdevelopmenthistory.com SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Melissa Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme CREDITS Video by Sabrina Cruz Video Editing by Joe Trickey Motion Design by Joe Trickey Sound Design by Joe Trickey Special Thanks to Richard MacManus, Jade Codinera, Melissa Fernandes, Manav Kaushal, Laksh Agarwal, Ysmael P, Bishesh Dhaubhadel, Elisa Fatini, Bhawna, NotDanielSmith, Tony Manish Howlett, Jane Manchun Wong, mellowdyyyy, Rahul Patel, Hubik, Anjali Sharma, Nabihah Ashari, Jeremy Ghinn, Shawlyyourekidding, Chloe, Katrina Mae Esposo, Akodaki MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today using our affiliate link. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress TIMESTAMPS 00:00 oopsie, i did a misinformation 00:34 what went wrong 01:45 i ruin my DMs for content 02:00 overcompensating for 60 seconds 03:07 is this a woman in STEM? 04:00 is Japanese web design different? 06:04 thank you Hostinger :) 08:07 figuring out why Japanese web design is so different 08:34 Japanese characters are built different 09:56 now THAT'S a woman in STEM 10:30 how technology shaped web design 13:39 why Japan didn't follow the rest of the world ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the joke under the fold! i forgot to write a joke please just comment. i just got off 7 hours of meetings. please let me live :'-)

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Juan

First of all, great video. One think that came to mind when you mentioned the fact that sites got more minimalistic to optimize for mobile devices is that images are way heavier than text, so wouldn't it work the other way around?

Ivo Popov

Hi the amount of work that went into this video is astounding. Thank you for blessing us with this. Now you chose screenshots as a means of comparing websites. since I have a very very small view of web design (basically how one can scrape websites): would comparing the html of the websites also work? Why or why not? My hypothesis is that the complexity/clutteredness could also be measured by the length/charactercount of the whole html file or the number of unique elements. Again my knowledge of HTML is very limited. Thank you again for giving us insight to your process.

CharcoalStyles

Any chance of releasing the data? 😉 I'd love to make an interactive vis of it. See if there isn't other stuff smart people can discover from it.

Luis

Yes generally speaking images are going to be more to load than text but I think by minimalism she wasn't talking about like images vs text but more about complexity of layout & how much information was displayed at once

John Rehwinkel

While Japanese does use the CJK ideographs, it also uses two phonetic alphabets (hiragana and katakana), adding to the complexity of analyzing their writing systems.

AJ

Great video! Not sure if this was answered before but I’m really curious about the background work that goes in into each video that the viewers don’t necessarily see. How long does it take to make one video? What is the process like from idea to a final video? Do you guys write each script together? Also, I assume you guys have concurrent videos that you guys work on- how do you keep track of all the ongoing projects?

Mitchell Bell

Was there any not video friendly website that really took you by surprise ? 😂