Design Details

Today we sat down with Jacob Thornton, co-founder of Bootstrap and previously an engineer at Twitter and Medium. Jacob tells us all about his magical experience with Snoop Dogg, the history of CSS and the free software movement.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - Introductions and Snoop Dogg

11:00 - Free software

23:00 - Bootstrap

33:00 - CSS

Today we caught up with Sahil Lavingia, the founder and CEO at Gumroad. We chat about building an audience online, the challenges of being a designer, engineer and founder, and what the hiring process looks like at Gumroad.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - Introductions

6:00 - Building audiences

46:00 - Design challenges

Today we sat down with Malthe Sigurdsson, the current Head of Design at Stripe. Before joining Stripe, Malthe was the VP of Product at Rdio, and before that he was the Creative Director at Skype. In this episode we dig into Malthe's journey through these amazing companies, diving deep into hiring and scaling design teams and how to think like a product designer.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

5:00 - Introductions

7:00 - Design at Stripe

12:00 - Malthe's history

35:00 - Growing a design team

It's teaser time! This episode we caught up with Sam Soffes and Marshall Bock, two upcoming hosts on the Spec Network! In this show we chat about the future of Spec and dive deep into some Sketch pro tips.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - Who are you?

6:00 - New Spec shows!

17:00 - Message us on Twitter (@specfm) with your email address to join our Slack Team!

21:00 - Marshall shares his story.

33:00 - Sam's working on things.

38:00 - Sketch talk.

For our 50th episode we sat down with Steph Monette and Liam Campbell, developers at Mule Design, to chat about CSS, startups versus agencies and the state of tech in San Francisco.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

3:00 - NPR

5:00 - Introductions

6:00 - What are you working on?

12:00 - Hyphens vs. Underscores

26:00 - Startup culture

51:00 - What are you excited about?

Today we sat down with Anand Sharma, founder of Gyroscope and an insanely-talented designer/developer. We caught up about his work on Gyroscope, the future of health tracking and how the quantified self is changing the world.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - What are you working on?

Happy Monday! Today we caught up with Floris Dekker, senior design manager at Etsy and founder of Little Big Details! In this show we chat about Little Big Details, management as a design problem, gardening and what Floris is excited about in the world of design.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - What are you working on right now?

10:00 - Designing around the world.

14:00 - We learn about Little Big Details

29:00 - Management as a design problem.

45:00 - What else are you excited for in the design world?

49:00 - What's a strong opinion you have right now?

Today we caught up with Mark Otto, the creator of Bootstrap and designer at GitHub. We go deep into the CSS/front-end world on this one, we hope you enjoy listening!

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

3:00 - What are you working on?

14:00 - We learn more about Boostrap

24:00 - More about the current state of the front-end

40:00 - Burritos

47:00 - Getting into our backgrounds

Today we caught up with Josh Sortino, designer at Teespring, startup advisor and photographer. We chat about design and communication, the design world in San Francisco, photography and how designers can get a seat at the table.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

4:00 - What are you working on right now?

9:00 - How did you start advising startups?

20:00 - How did you get into photography?

30:00 - What do you do outside of work?

40:00 - Design + Communication

It's time for a break from the normal conversations we have here on Design Details; today we stepped back to try and see the bigger picture with Elle Luna. Elle is a writer, designer, artist, entrepreneur and life adventurer, and in this episode she helps us navigate some of the bigger questions in our lives and in our careers.

If you missed it, we recently 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!

If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!

5:00 - What are you working on?

14:00 - We chat about design, art and utility.

41:00 - More about side projects and careers