We’re all about the Google hardware this episode, plus Ben wants to take his jumper off…

It’s episode 46, and we have the great pleasure of welcoming Jamie back to the show!

This week we decided to make a video recording of our podcast, or “vlog” as some people might call it.

Dave has been working on a pattern library, Ben offers help and explains a few of the tooling that his team uses.

We discuss our helpful tips when working, to keep our minds healthy.

Ben and Dave chat about their first experiences in the design & development industry, and what their first contributions were to the web.

Without giving too much away, we mentioned web banners. They’re back!

Ben explains Pokémon Go and how it was initially created. Dave talks about No Man’s Sky and colleagues project to help document the large universe.

A quick round up of what’s new and popped up on our radar:

Ben is still working away on his React project on iOS. We nicely cross it over with a nice React web project, Checkland Kindleysides.

We discuss the taboo subject that is audio in web interactions. Good idea or bad idea? It must have it’s place, right?

A little chat about what might help when you’re trying to get your ideas across to your team. A combination of presenting your ideas in a believable way, and some open mindedness from the others, can go a long way.

We tried really hard to smoothly transition from quite serious development tools to casual chat about games, I think we did pretty well. Topics for this episode were:

We return to our typical form of web design and development news, with a bit of gaming on the side.

This weeks episode was recorded live at Render! We found a quiet (ish) spot to record half way through day 1 with a special guest and then once we returned home from a long day, recapped the afternoon’s talks. Enjoy!

Thanks to all the speakers, everyone at Render, Simpleweb and Basekit for sending us there!

Here’s the full list of the speakers and their talks from day 1: