Design Details

This week we sat down with Kevin Rose - he's a designer, product creator and venture capitalist who has had a prolific presence in the tech community for several years. We chat about the things he's loving right now, watch culture, health and cooking, hiring and so much more!

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5:00 - We catch up on Kevin's latest projects.

11:00 - Kevin shares more about his journey at Google+.

18:00 - We learn more about what working at Google Ventures was like.

23:00 - Where do you fall on the line of product or design?

26:00 - What are the startups you're really excited about right now?

30:00 - We talk watches.

34:00 - What do you bring back from outside of the US into the product and design world?

43:00 - Do you feel like you've gotten out of the rat race of the tech world?

46:00 - Flashback to Kevin's past roles in the media world.

48:00 - How do you spot that in the hiring process?

54:00 - Why do all the podcasts and shows?

57:00 - Would you encourage everyone to come to SF/Silicon Valley?

59:00 - We diverge, briefly, to chat about tattoos, Tokyo and cooking.

1:02:00 - A fake-out ending, we hear what Kevin is into these days.

1:12:00 - We talk health, nutrition and religion.

This was the most impromptu episode we've ever done. We were just out to dinner with these guys and we were having so much fun debating design things that we decided to record our first-ever 3-guest episode. We made a lot of references to George and Jeremy's last episode - so definitely go check that out. This was a really fun episode for us - hopefully it is for you too!

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4:00 - Apple's product strategy

16:00 - Modern services and stupid brains

30:00 - May predictions and how designers work (We recorded the show in mid-April)

52:00 - Designing original things and what makes a good brand

01:02:00 - Movie Talk

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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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.

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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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

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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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?

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.

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

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

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

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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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.

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.

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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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"

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

27:00 - Working on Web Standards

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

55:00 - Why diversity is important for creativity

58:00 - Art vs Design

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

1:03:30 - Quirks: Sketch vs Photoshop

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

1:15:00 - Magic UI

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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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.

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?

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.

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54:00 - What were your responsibilities while designing for the New York Times?

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A Farewell to the Times

1:00:00 - We dig in more to Khoi's journey since leaving the Times.

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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!

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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?

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.

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?