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224: Maybe It's The Carrots? (feat. Courtland Allen) Nov 29, 2017

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Today we caught up with Courtland Allen, the creator of Indie Hackers. In this episode we dig into Courtland's background in engineering, design, and product building, how he ended up creating Indie Hackers, the journey to the Stripe acquisition, and so much more.

We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

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.design - Porkbun is running a promotion on .design domain names - get your non-premium .design domain for $35 today, with promo code 'SPEC'
Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android. Use the promo code 'dd' to save 70% off the professional plan!

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223: Demystified Denim (feat. Jessica Karle) Nov 15, 2017

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Today we caught up with Jess Karle, the head of digital design at Everlane. In this episode we dig into Jess's work at the intersection of retail and e-commerce, hiring a design team, navigating startups to big-co, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Figma - Figma is hiring product designers, a community manager, and a content writer. Join this team and build the future of design tools!
Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android. Use the promo code 'dd' to save 70% off the professional plan!

Jess on the Web:

222: Almost as Good as Cheese (feat. Fiona Rolander) Nov 08, 2017

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Today we caught up with Fiona Rolander, a designer currently doing work at Spotify. In this episode we dig into Fiona's journey to becoming a designer, the ups and downs of freelancing, nomading, cheese, and so much more!

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Figma - Figma is hiring product designers, a community manager, and a content writer. Join this team and build the future of design tools!
Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android. Use the promo code 'dd' to save 70% off the professional plan!

Fiona on the Web:

221: Rate The Fire (feat. Chikezie Ejiasi) Nov 01, 2017

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Today we caught up with Chikezie Ejiasi, a designer currently working on Daydream at Google. In this episode we dig into building for VR, moving from softwared to hardware to virtual reality, design tooling, career navigation, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Webflow - Webflow has launched Interactions 2.0! Now with features like parallax scrolling, sequenced and scroll-based animations, it's never been easier to build a responsive website without touching a line of code.
- Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android. Use the promo code 'dd' to save 70% off the professional plan!

Chikezie on the Web:

220: Turtle Tiles (feat. Melody Quintana) Oct 25, 2017

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Today we caught up with Melody Quintana, a designer and writer currently working at Dropbox. In this episode we dive into Melody's work on Dropbox Home, moving from content strategy to design, finding the Goldilocks company size, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Webflow - Webflow has launched Interactions 2.0! Now with features like parallax scrolling, sequenced and scroll-based animations, it's never been easier to build a responsive website without touching a line of code.
Figma - Figma is hiring product designers, a community manager, and a content writer. Join this team and build the future of design tools!

Melody on the Web:

219: Artisanal Iceman (feat. Patrick Wong) Oct 18, 2017

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Today we caught up with Patrick Wong, a design manager currently working at Lyft. In this episode we dig into Patricks journey into design, transitioning into management, preserving culture as a design team scales, working with design systems, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Webflow - Webflow is gearing up to launch Interactions 2.0 which adds features like parallax scrolling, sequenced and scroll-based animations, and much more.
Figma - Figma is hiring product designers, a community manager, and a content writer. Join this team and build the future of design tools!

Patrick on the Web:

218: How Dutch Can I Go? (feat. Owen Williams) Oct 04, 2017

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Today we caught up with Owen Williams, a writer, developer, marketer, and most recently, full-time freelancer. In this episode we dig into building side projects with profitability in mind, making the leap to freelancing, being a generalist, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sponsor:

Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android.
Simpler. Faster. Use the discount code 'dd' to save 70% on Fuse Professional.

Owen on the Web:

217: Mystery Lifestyle (feat. Tyler Thompson) Sep 27, 2017

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Today we caught up with Tyler Thompson, a designer and artist currently working at Stripe in San Francisco. In this episode we dig into Tyler's background as an artist, creative direction, job titles, escaping tech, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Tyler on the Web:

216: Topo Geeko (feat. John Rodriguez) Sep 20, 2017

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Today we caught up with John Rodriguez, aka J-Ro, a brand and marketing strategist currently working at Stage Two. In this episode we dig into the world of building hardware, brand and product marketing, working with early stage startups, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

J-Ro on the Web:

215: Shared Coolness Mood Board (feat. Salih Abdul-Karim) Sep 13, 2017

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Today we caught up with Salih Abdul-Karim, an experience and motion designer at AirBnb and a member of the team that created Lottie, an open source tool to easily add animations to native apps. In this episode we dig into Salih's journey into motion design, moving from NYC to SF, freelancing versus big co work, and so much more.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!