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22: Poor Man's Pokemon (feat. Cennydd Bowles) May 04, 2015

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This week we caught up with Cennydd Bowles over Skype for a truly fascinating discussion about cross-OS design, the future of wearables, what it means to be a junior vs. senior designer, and why sound design will be the next big trend.

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Cennydd on the Web:

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5:00 - What are you working on these days? How did you get started at Twitter?

16:00 - We talk mobile design, Windows and the OS landscape.

27:00 - Cennydd has more experience with wearables than most.

36:00 - What are your hunches about the future of design for wearables?

39:00 - Cennydd shares his thoughts on the toxic MVP.

48:00 - Thoughts on the process of creation and iteration, junior vs. senior designers.

Letter to a Junior Designer

21: Startup Lubricant (feat. Bin Chen) Apr 29, 2015

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This episode, we talked tea with Boba Guys and Tea People co-founder Bin Chen! He's had one of the most unique design careers we've ever heard of and he tells a really great story - which made this episode especially fun for us. Hopefully, you'll dig it too!

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Bin on the Web

Show Notes:

3:30 - Beer!

5:00 - What are you working on?

15:30 - Tea People and Boba Guys' Culture

26:30 - Differences between digital design and brick and mortar

37:00 - How Bin got into design...

53:00 - Generalism vs Specialty

59:00 - Managing vs Individual Contribution

1:07:00 - Scaling in digital vs physical space

20: Soft Computer Hands (feat. Dustin Senos) Apr 27, 2015

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This week we caught up with Dustin Senos, the lead designer at Medium for the past 3 years who has spent his professional career traversing the worlds of design and engineering. We dig into Dustin's background and how design has shaped Medium into the product it is today.

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Dustin on the Web:

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2:00 - Dustin tells us about his transitions between engineering and design.

7:00 - Should designers code?

11:00 - How did you end up at Medium?

17:00 - How was Medium approached as a design challenge?

The hyphen, n-dash and em-dash

21:00 - How would you describe the aesthetic of Medium today? How did the agency work shape that aesthetic?

30:00 - We chat about the culture at Medium and their experience with holacracy

43:00 - We diverge into a chat about diversity in design.

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45:00 - How did you approach hiring at Medium?

19: Super-Dinky Hodinkee (feat. Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh) Apr 22, 2015

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This episode, we dug into our concerns after all the Apple Watch reviews came out with a couple of our favorite iOS developers: Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh. This episode was completely ridiculous and fun (even moreso if you caught the Periscope livestream featuring the inimitable Marc Hemeon). We discuss the models that each of us pre-ordered as well as Amazon Dash and our most-hoped-for features of the Apple Watch when it finally comes out!

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4:00 - We discuss the Apple Watch pre-orders

9:00 - California vs Not California

13:00 - Technical Difficulties of the Apple Watch

21:00 - Amazon Dash

Poppy by Quirky

23:30 - ...aaaaaand back to the Watch

18: Kleenex Testers (feat. Stone Librande) Apr 20, 2015

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This week we broke up our regular string of web designer guests to chat with Stone Librande, lead designer at Riot Games. Stone was also the lead designer of Diablo 3, SimCity and Spore; he's an incredibly talented creator who shared so much insight with us on this episode of Design Details!

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Stone on the Web:

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6:00 - We catch up with Stone on his current work as a game designer.

9:00 - Stone shares his journey to becoming a game designer.

Blizzard North

20:00 - Stone shares some of the more specific challenges he's faces as a game designer.

24:00 - You also build lots of physical games?

28:00 - What has been your favorite game to design?

54:00 - Stone talks about the games he's enjoying at the moment.

57:00 - How do feel about the broader trend of DLC and in-app purchases?

1:07:00 - Stone shares his thoughts on virtual reality and augmented realitigy games.

17: Ptotes Pterodactyl (feat. Divya Manian & Bradee Evans) Apr 15, 2015

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This week we hung out with Divya Manian and Bradee Evans from the Photoshop team at Adobe. This was a really, really fun episode to record and Divya and Bradee were amazing guests. We got to talk about everything from important issues around diversity to just making dumb jokes about pterodactyls and unicorns. We hope you enjoy it half as much as we enjoyed recording it.

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Bradee on the Web:

Show Notes:

2:00 - Bradee's Second Career & Explicit Ratings for Podcasts

4:00 - What's up with female representation in tech?

7:30 - Making mistakes in big products

16:00 - "Uncle Photoshop"

Marc Edwards

20:00 - What's it like working on Photoshop?

"The Humans are Dead" by Flight of the Conchords

27:00 - Working on Web Standards

38:00 - Sketch's effect on how Photoshop is built

55:00 - Why diversity is important for creativity

"How Diversity Makes us Smarter" - The Scientific American

58:00 - Art vs Design

Twitter Conversation

59:30 - Maintaining confidence when putting out an important tool to a large audience

1:03:30 - Quirks: Sketch vs Photoshop

Seth Clifford

1:11:30 - Running out of keyboard shortcuts and the move from hardware to software

1:15:00 - Magic UI

16: Extravagant Shallowness (feat. Khoi Vinh) Apr 13, 2015

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This week we caught up with Khoi Vinh, an insightful and talented designer making Wildcard in New York City. In this Skype chat we talked about designing for the tablet, honesty on the web and how Khoi manages to maintain so many projects!

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Khoi on the Web:

Show Notes:

5:00 - We catch up with Khoi and chat about his current project, Wildcard.

9:00 - Khoi tells us more about the specifics of designing at Wildcard, including why cards are the future of the web.

15:00 - How have you become such a prolific design writer?

20:00 - We learn a bit more about the process behind How They Got There.

How They Got There

26:00 - Khoi's also busy on other side projects and explorations - we learn more.

32:00 - What are the possibilities for tablets that are still untapped?

Paper

37:00 - We chat about what it means to be honest on the web.

47:00 - Khoi tells us about how he shares content and thinks about having a large following on Twitter.

Buffer
54:00 - What were your responsibilities while designing for the New York Times?
nytimes.com
A Farewell to the Times
1:00:00 - We dig in more to Khoi's journey since leaving the Times.
Kidpost

15: Her Left Me (feat. Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg) Apr 08, 2015

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This is our first time to have a second episode scheduled for the week! We're excited to try out this new format, kicking things off with two guests: Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg. We chat about design at Facebook, their journeys as designers and how they're growing within such a large organization!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don't hesitate to reach us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm or email us directly!

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George on the Web:

Show Notes:

1:00 - A beautiful story of a Periscope party.

5:00 - We catch up on the announcements at F8 and what's coming with 3rd party apps.

8:00 - What is the design process like for a product with 600 million users?

"Get real time shipping updates on your phone. Send to Messenger."

15:00 - So React Native is a thing!

18:00 - George shares what it's like to work at Parse, a startup-like culture within Facebook.

Facebook Camera

22:00 - Facebook just moved into a new office!

27:00 - Jared and George share some of their personal stories with us.

36:00 - George chat with Terry Crews on Twitter...

45:00 - Do you worry about feature bloat in Messenger?

51:00 - Jeremy shares his experiences with designing interactions and animations at Google.

55:00 - How are you pushing yourself to be a better designer every day?

14: Unless You're Dumb (feat. Jared Erondu) Apr 06, 2015

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This week we hung out with Jared Erondu, a designer well-known for his work at Lift, Omada Health, The Industry and his current role as Creative Director at Teespring. We covered a lot of ground – from the future of user interfaces to donuts to whether or not “UX designer” should be a job title anymore!

This was a great conversation and, for the first time ever, we have another one coming on Thursday where we discuss the announcements from the F8 conference with Facebook designers Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg!

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Jared on the Web

Show Notes:

4:00 - We catch up with Jared and the latest projects he's working on!

10:00 - Jared tells us about his journey of becoming a designer.

20:00 - How did The Industry become so popular?

31:00 - What do you think of Apple's first-party apps?

Twitter Conversation

32:00 - We talk about designers getting a seat at the table.

42:00 - What was it like moving from the East Coast to San Francisco?

50:00 - We dig a bit deeper into some of Jared's previous roles in design

1:00:00 - Donuts!

1:05:00 - Jared talks about a secret agenda...

Wake

1:11:00 - What does it mean to be a creative director?

Dann Petty
"The Creative's Mix" on Rdio

13: Eating Horse (feat. Maurice Woods) Mar 30, 2015

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We had an amazing conversation this week with Maurice "Mo" Woods, a senior visual designer at Yahoo and founder of the Inneract Project. We chat about what he's doing in design education, diversity in design and how his background as a pro basketball player has served him in his career as a designer.

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Mo on the Web:

Show Notes:

14:00 - We learn more about Mo's interest in design education for kids.

Inneract Project

20:00 - Mo gets into the details of what's going on at Inneract and why it's so important.

37:00 - Want to help with the Inneract Project? They need your help.

57:00 - The real reason design is so important for kids in underserved communities.

1:03:00 - We chat about diversity in design, tech and the hiring process.

Mo on LinkedIn

1:12:00 - Where are all the designers of color?

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