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This week the internet gods blessed us with a ton of design-related news just in time for our recording. We talk about Sketch's new funding announcement and what it means for the world of design tools, Twitter's new camera UI, privacy-focused social networks and the return of Mac apps.

• WTFaucet
• Sam's faucet
• Sketch Funding Announcement
• Twitter's new camera
• A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
• Panic Next

• Screen Guru
• Aspect
• SVGOMG
• Pinboard

This week we talk about org structures and how it affects us as designers. We also talk about the Revolut drama and Apple News' new upcoming app icon.

• Revolut drama
• ​​Internal Slack screenshot (why aren't you working on weekends?)
• Revolut CFO resigns
• Revolut workplace culture
• Apple News' new app icon
• Apple News' app icon looks a little less discernibly like anything in particular at all

• Spectre
• Kindle Paperwhite

This week we talk a bit more about foldable phones, how Slack is messing with our homescreen again, and then ultimately get into a big conversation about which things in our life we'd like to outsource.

​​- Foldable phones

• ​​Slack is messing with my homescreen
• The Innovator's Dilemma

• Emulsio
• Opener for iOS
• Zipped for iOS

This week we talk about growing up to become your parents, getting emotional, the pitfalls of fame, Samsung's foldable phone and more.

• Clockwise #282: Party Popper Dealy-Bob
• LG Ultrafine 5K Display
• Rams
• El Ten Eleven (band)
• The American Meme
• Cortex #80: Ice Fortress
• Samsung Galaxy Fold

• Moom
• What d'you call it

This week Rafa shares two lessons he's learned as a first time manager, then we talk about some recurring trends in design student portfolios.

• Andrew Rudmann: "This design shit is so much easier than y'all make it out to be."
• Dann Petty: "I use to feel unprofessional for not having a repeatable process"
• Does every idea deserve to be discussed?
• Am I following the wrong people?
• Would any design students like honest feedback on their portfolio?
• If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
• Calendly
• Google Maps AR First Look

This week we talk about Kevin’s experience giving a big talk and then we talk about our evolving relationship with social media.

• ​​How evolution really works
• ​​Kevin’s experience speaking at Shopify Summit 2019
• ​​Zara changes its logo
• ​​Zara logo meme
• ​​Nars
• ​​cantunsee.space
• ​​Quote this tweet and share your score!

• ​​On Margins with Lisa Brennan-Jobs
• ​​Sonos Beam

The wait is over! We know you couldn't wait for our takes on the new Slack logo and boy we've delivered. We also talk about the state of criticism on the Internet.

• Slack's announcement
• Pentagram's article on their Slack rebrand
• The original Slack branding by Metalab
• Tweaked version of their new logo that highlights the hashtag better
• Louie Mantia's take
• "Who the fuck calls it an app button?"
• The new Slack logo doesn't spark joy
• Generic logos
• Slack logo leak

• Kinto
  • USA Site
  • Europe
  • Six and Sons
• Autosleep

This week we talk about Rafa becoming the head of design at Netlify, setting expectations for a new role, CRMs for people, sonic toothbrushes and kitchen knives.

• ​​Bring AirPlay support to older LG TVs

• ​​Netlify
• ​​Messenger Design update
• ​​https://clay.earth

• ​​Burst ToothBrush
• ​​Sonic Toothbrush review video
• ​​Global Kitchen Knives

This week we eat breakfast. Lots of it. We discuss Rafa’s already obsolete TV, pos-purchase monetization and the impact on consumers, the death of privacy and Kevin finally gives an update on his new portfolio that was supposed to ship months ago.

• ​​Letterboxd’s 2018 Year in Review
• ​​LG’s 2018 TVs won’t get AirPlay 2 support
• ​​Post-purchase monetization of TVs and the impact of business models on TV support
• ​​Environmentally-lit UI: Watch face, browser, etc.

• ​​Update on Kevin’s portfolio redesign: Homepages are hard to design
  • Homepage A
  • Homepage B
  • Homepage C
• ​​Free private repos on Github (thank you Microsoft!)

• ​​Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse
• ​Todd Vaziri’s tweet
• ​​Homecoming
• ​​The Watch podcast with Sam Esmail