Design vs Dev

This week Drew is joined by the one and only Joseph Beaty who created the music and sound effects for Dune Trivia, our work in progress Flutter application. The two talk about sound design for phone apps, web apps, and Joseph’s creative process.

Check out Joseph Beaty’s A View From Here, used in Dune Trivia. His other music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

PM us on twitter if you’d like to beta test the new application. Drew is @noltedesign, and Andrew is @profnahlik.

This week Drew is joined by David Doran of Oneupweb to discuss their new strategy for telling the customer’s story. Based on the workshop by Donald Miller, StoryBrand, Dave discusses how it’s helped their own marketing company convert and how to integrate this customer-centric story telling with web design and visuals.

If you have any questions or comments about today’s episode find Drew at @noltedesign.

Dave, well, Dave is a social media ghost, so contact him at @oneupweb.

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week, Andrew and Drew talk about how they built their core quiz mechanic for Dune Trivia. Andrew talks about future-proofing the mechanic by adding variables for EVERYTHING!

Exciting news, the Dune Trivia app is now in Beta on both iOS and Android! We’re giving away some Dune swag as well. To throw your name in the running for a ‘Litany Against Fear’ broadside, and some Dune Funko Pop figures, sign up for Beta! Just email drew at [email protected] or PM him on twitter at @noltedesign to join the Beta.

You can also enter the drawing by suggesting a Dune Trivia question here.

We have our own Dune Trivia music released by Joseph Beaty. Buy the mini album for $3 on bandcamp here!

Another big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to structure their flutter files in the Dune Trivia application. Exciting spoiler, they cribbed from a Ruby on Rails MVC scaffolding structure.

Find the test app here: Dune Trivia

PM us on twitter if you’d like to beta test the new application. Drew is @noltedesign, and Andrew is @profnahlik.

Also, we have our own Dune Trivia music released by Joseph Beaty. Buy the mini album for $3 on bandcamp here!

Another big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to handle data in their new Dune Trivia application. From caching, csv, to settling on a Database that is built by calling on the WordPress JSON API.

Find the test app here: Dune Trivia

Shoot questions at comments to Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik.

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our new intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week Andrew and Drew talk about taking the free online flutter crash course by AppBrewery taught by Andela Yu. Both highly recommend it based on their experiences. There is also a paid version with more in-depth sections. Check out a full course resource list here.

Part of the course is creating apps that you can customize and expand on. Andrew and Drew both added to the MiCard section of the course:

Find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik.

Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, and educator. Skilled in Economics, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Programming, Data Visualization, and extensive education in both Economics and Computer Science. 

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our new intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week Andrew and Drew tour Android Studio. They talk about set up with the Flutter plugin, the pros and cons of the IDE to help you get familiar with the tool.

Andrew talks about his git and developer centric set up, and Drew discusses the tools he uses to help with the visuals and layout.

Andrew’s Android Studio Set Up

Drew’s Android Studio Workspace

Find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik.

Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, and educator. Skilled in Economics, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Programming, Data Visualization, and extensive education in both Economics and Computer Science. 

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our new intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

This week Drew is joined by Daniel McBrayer, the Director of Engineering at THIRDHOME to discuss product design and drink some whiskey in the afternoon. Drew and Daniel discuss their basic product design process and how design fits in a product team with a developer focus.

Notes

Daniel McBrayer is a former lawyer turned self-taught developer and startup founder. Currently he works full time at THIRDHOME, a luxury home exchange, but also serves as the CTO of a lean startup Vestigo, which focuses on performance enhancing team experiences.

Daniel’s Drink: https://www.highlandparkwhisky.com/en-us/product/12-year-old

Drew’s Drink: https://farnorthspirits.com/craft-distillery-minnesota-whiskey/

If you have any questions or comments about product design, find Drew at @noltedesign.

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

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This week Andrew and Drew discuss why they chose Flutter and the installation process on both Mac and Windows.

Following the basic get started, flutter combined with Android Studio had a fairly simple set up process on both platforms:

https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/installhttps://developer.android.com/studio

Find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik.

Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, and educator. Skilled in Economics, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Programming, Data Visualization, and extensive education in both Economics and Computer Science. 

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our new intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.

Design Vs Dev is back after years of silence with a new series. This time around Drew will be joined by Andrew Nahlik and they’ll be documenting their journey of learning to design, code, and deploy apps with Google’s Flutter UI kit. Along the way they’ll be creating a simple trivia app as well as an interactive novel with puzzle and choose your own adventure aspects.

We’ll also be hosting our classic ‘Versus’ episodes with guests from marketing departments and agencies, product teams, writers, and rails developers.

You can find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik.

Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, and educator. Skilled in Economics, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Programming, Data Visualization, and extensive education in both Economics and Computer Science. 

A big thanks to Joseph Beaty for our new intro music. His music can be found online at josephbeaty.com and @josephbeaty.