Design Details

For episode 44 we caught up with Haraldur Thorleifsson, a designer and agency founder leading the amazing team at UENO. In this show we chat about Haraldur's background and journey to starting UENO, the state of web design, Apple Watch, burnout and more.

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!

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5:00 - What are you working on?

13:00 - How did you get big clients as a freelancer?

22:00 - Is the web becoming a series of boxes?

35:00 - What's your toolkit these days?

40:00 We chat UENO, Apple Watch, burnout and more

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.

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

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...

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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4:00 - What are you working on?

20:00 - We dig more into Peek

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

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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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?

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?

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

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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3:50 - What are you working on?

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?

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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3:50 - What are you working on?

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

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?

36:30 - How are products designed at Facebook?

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

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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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

35:00 - Global differences in design/dev culture

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.

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.

In case you haven't noticed, we were nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate a vote!

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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