This episode we kicked Guoy out of the studio and have Esther join us to talk about product design, working with engineers & transitioning to being a product designer.

Esther Koon:

https://twitter.com/estherkoon

This episode we celebrate our 1 year anniversary, going through some data & analytics and answering questions and feedback submitted through the mailbox form.

This episode we talk about form design, why form design matters, good form design practices and just complaining about bad forms and banks in general.

Show Notes:

This episode we talk about testing pyramid and other testing shapes, test driven development and to not test against mocks.

Show Notes:

We are doing a mailbox episode for our upcoming 1 year anniversary episode. Send in any burning questions to the Google form below. Form closes 19th Sept GMT.

https://forms.gle/7JXmcRkZP9yDo47TA

This episode we talk about pair programming and gaining context through pairing, how to get started in pairing and trying hard to get potential sponsors.

This episode we talk about pull request reviews, picking up habits from other colleagues' commit messages formatting and also how pair programming might help with code review.

Show Notes:

This episode we were planning to talk about home offices and end up chatting about ergonomics, complain about internet speeds and how targeted ads sometimes help.

This episode Mehdi Zonjy joins us to talk about site reliability engineering (SRE), how SRE is essentially a form of product team and using Kubernetes to host blogs.

This episode we talk about networking, what’s the “objective” that people have when networking, how having pizza at meetups is really awkward & a certain audio-chat social app that is not sponsoring us.

This episode we talk about estimates, where the term ‘stories’ came from, how estimates are not good gauge of performance and adding a button can take forever.