Design Notes

Design Notes

By Liam SpradlinArtsVisual ArtsDesign
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Design Notes episodes

  • Trip.com: Designing a Universal Travel App for Global Users (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Trip.com is a travel app that won this year's award for universality by accounting for users around the world with over a dozen supported languages and custom imagery. The interview unpacks what it's like to build an app for the entire world, and what makes Trip.com a unique experience.

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    10 min
  • Trip.com: Designing a Universal Travel App for Global Users (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Trip.com is a travel app that won this year's award for universality by accounting for users around the world with over a dozen supported languages and custom imagery. The interview unpacks what it's like to build an app for the entire world, and what makes Trip.com a unique experience.

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    10 min
  • Trip.com: Designing a Universal Travel App for Global Users (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Trip.com is a travel app that won this year's award for universality by accounting for users around the world with over a dozen supported languages and custom imagery. The interview unpacks what it's like to build an app for the entire world, and what makes Trip.com a unique experience.

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    10 min
  • Scripts: Using Creative Interactions to Make Learning Feel Accomplished (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Scripts won this year's award for Experience, with creative interactions, navigation, and content presentation. In the interview, I spoke with the Scripts team about using a color system to create a unique experience while expressing identity, and building interactions that make users feel accomplished right away.

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    12 min
  • Scripts: Using Creative Interactions to Make Learning Feel Accomplished (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Scripts won this year's award for Experience, with creative interactions, navigation, and content presentation. In the interview, I spoke with the Scripts team about using a color system to create a unique experience while expressing identity, and building interactions that make users feel accomplished right away.

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    12 min
  • Scripts: Using Creative Interactions to Make Learning Feel Accomplished (2019 Material Design Awards)

    This episode is part of a special series of four interviews with the winners of this year's Material Design Awards, exploring what goes into creating an award-winning app.

    Scripts won this year's award for Experience, with creative interactions, navigation, and content presentation. In the interview, I spoke with the Scripts team about using a color system to create a unique experience while expressing identity, and building interactions that make users feel accomplished right away.

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    12 min
  • The Psychedelic Spark: GMUNK on His Aesthetic and the Importance of Creative Discomfort

    In this episode, Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, also known as designer/director GMUNK, unpacking Munkowitz's scintillating psychedelic aesthetic โ€” inspired by actual psychedelic experiences โ€” and why it's important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged, maintaining a healthy discomfort with one's own work.

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    31 min
  • The Psychedelic Spark: GMUNK on His Aesthetic and the Importance of Creative Discomfort

    In this episode, Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, also known as designer/director GMUNK, unpacking Munkowitz's scintillating psychedelic aesthetic โ€” inspired by actual psychedelic experiences โ€” and why it's important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged, maintaining a healthy discomfort with one's own work.

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    31 min
  • The Psychedelic Spark: GMUNK on His Aesthetic and the Importance of Creative Discomfort

    In this episode, Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, also known as designer/director GMUNK, unpacking Munkowitz's scintillating psychedelic aesthetic โ€” inspired by actual psychedelic experiences โ€” and why it's important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged, maintaining a healthy discomfort with one's own work.

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    31 min
  • Vulnerability, Technology, and Art: Qianqian Ye on Creative Coding and Shared Futures

    In this episode, Liam speaks with interdisciplinary artist and creative coder Qianqian Ye in her San Francisco studio. The duo traces her journey from wielding calligraphy brushes to building a hand-holding glove, unpacking the vulnerabilities we all share as humans, how creative intent is communicated, and the importance of imagining other futures.

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    27 min

About Design Notes

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Design Notes is a podcast about creative work and what it teaches us. Hosted by Liam Spradlin, a Senior UX Designer at Google focused on the philosophy of the user interface, the show features conversations with people from unique creative fields, uncovering what inspires and unites us in our practice. Tune in to learn how UX design connects to creative work across disciplines and around the world.