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42: Lonely T-Rex (feat. Sebastien Gabriel and Jean-Marc Denis) Jul 13, 2015

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This week we finally caught up with our friends at Google, Jean-Marc Denis and Sebastien Gabriel. In this episode we chat Material Design, designing invisible interfaces, current design tools and moving from France to the US.

Last week we also announced Spec, a new podcast network for designers and developers! We hope you'll check it out and follow @specfm on Twitter for new shows and updates!

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5:00 - What are you working on?

14:00 - We chat about designing interfaces.

35:00 - What design tools do you use?

46:00 - On designing error pages.

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52:00 - We dig into Jean-Marc and Sebastien's backgrounds.

41: Heart For You (feat. Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz) Jul 08, 2015

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It's been a week since Apple Music launched giving us the perfect reason to have a round-table discussion about the new app with Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz. We bounce around this episode sharing our thoughts on Apple Music and streaming services in general - we hope you have fun listening!

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5:00 - So Apple Music came out...

40: Ace of Bass (feat. Gabe Valdivia and Kyle Ryan) Jul 06, 2015

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Today we sat down with Gabe Valdivia and Kyle Ryan to talk about design at Facebook, the progress of their side project, Peek, and the value of obviousness in design.

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Show Notes:

4:00 - What are you working on?

Peek

20:00 - We dig more into Peek

48:00 - How do you recruit an engineer to help you build a project?

39: YoTube (feat. Mike Essl) Jul 01, 2015

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On this episode we caught up with Mike Essl: designer, artist, Mr. T memorabilia collector. We talk about Mike's personal story as a designer, Cooper Union, and yes, we chat comics.

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Show Notes:

2:30 - What are you working on right now?

5:00 - F'ing Sandman

8:00 - Essl shares his other projects

14:00 - How do you balance your time with all these projects?

The Cooper Union

22:00 - Why did you ignore everone's advice to not go to art school?

41:00 - Mike's dream work

1:06:00 - What are you taking back from San Francisco?

Jeffrey Zeldman

1:10:00 - What's the difference between design and art?

38: Electronic Parties (feat. Geoff Teehan) Jun 29, 2015

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For episode 38, we were joined by Geoff Teehan, a super-talented Canadian designer who is at least partially responsible for several of our favorite products. He has not only worked on some amazing projects for companies like Medium, Google, and now Facebook - he has also built some really great resources for designers.

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Show Notes:

3:50 - What are you working on?

Teehan + Lax

6:20 - How do you see the trend of designers moving from small agencies to product companies?

10:00 - Getting work and creating products as an agency

40:00 - How did you get into design?

50:00 - Talking about the Apple Watch... again.

58:00 - Why Facebook?

37: Crisper Articulation (feat. Julie Zhuo) Jun 24, 2015

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For episode 37, we were lucky enough to get to spend some time with Julie Zhuo! We're both huge fans of her writing on Medium and the way she thinks about design and especially that she shares that with the entire community.

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Show Notes:

3:50 - What are you working on?

9:15 - What have been the hardest parts of scaling a design team?

MPK20

14:50 - The Year of the Looking Glass

22:00 - What keeps you excited about working at Facebook?

24:30 - How is design perceived inside Facebook?

HHVM

36:30 - How are products designed at Facebook?

51:00 - What do you want to do next?

Oculus Rift

36: 10x (feat. Meng To) Jun 22, 2015

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For episode 36, we got to spend some time with Meng To discussing what makes a great product, how to get started with design and development, and what it takes to build a thing. Meng's an incredibly talented creator and we're grateful he was able to take a break from helping people get started in our industry to hang out with us for an hour or so!

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Show Notes:

4:00 - What Meng's working on

9:30 - What are you excited about in design?

15:00 - Should designers write production code?

24:30 - Creating free content vs paid content

32:00 - WWDC expectations

UXKit rumors

35:00 - Global differences in design/dev culture

Alipay

40:30 - Learning development and gaming as a gateway to the tech industry

50:30 - The elements of a really compelling product

55:00 - Don't give up. Just do something crazy.

35: Senate Design Overcommittee (feat. Noah Stokes) Jun 17, 2015

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For episode 35, we finally convinced the Motherfuton himself, Mr. Noah Stokes, to come hang with us for a bit and talk about lazy web design, ornamentation vs utility, design education and so much more. It was super fun to pick his brain for an hour or so and he brought up some frequently overlooked shortcomings of how we build the web today.

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Show Notes:

4:30 - What Noah's working on

6:30 - Moving from client services to an in-house design team

16:45 - Life before BOLD and how Apple has changed

28:15 - How responsive design made the web boring

46:00 - UI for pure utility vs UI ornamentation

50:00 - Web education and regulation

34: Second Shift (feat. Allison House) Jun 15, 2015

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This week we hopped on a call with the one-and-only Allison House! Allison currently lives in Austin, exploring her way through 3D art and design - in this episode we chat about her background in design, her transition into 3D and what she's excited for in the future. We're also in the running for Podcast of the Year!

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Show Notes:

3:00 - What in the world are you working on?

9:00 - Have you felt new clarity after leaving SF?

11:00 - What got you started in design?

19:00 - Why Dropbox?

20:00 - How do you identify the next place to grow as a designer?

Dropbox on Dribbble

22:00 - Allison shares her process for the Tweedy video.

28:00 - How do you incorporate expression into design?

Slack

30:00 - What are other products you're excited about right now?

35:00 - What's your take on the state of Dribbble and design credibility?

39:00 - Allison explains her learning process.

44:00 - What's the big picture goal for you as an artist and designer?

47:00 - What are the common struggles for designers moving from freelance to full time?

33: The Rusty Theorem (feat. Marc Edwards & Russell Ivanovic) Jun 10, 2015

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The epic conclusion of our first ever two-parter! Marc and Russell were kind enough to come back for round two to discuss Apple's WWDC Keynote, Marc's weird workflows, optical alignment, PDF assets and more!

We're also in the running for Podcast of the Year! If you're enjoying the show, we'd love your support - vote for Design Details!

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Russell Ivanovic on the Web

Show Notes:

4:00 - "What'd you think of the Apple Keynote?"

20:30 - Marc's shameful admission

25:00 - iOS announcements

Episode 9

30:00 - Open Source Swift and the only hardware announcement at WWDC

34:00 - iOS Usability

Jean-Marc Denis

38:30 - Apple Music

49:30 - Optical Alignment

57:00 - PDF Assets on iOS

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