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This week, Rafa is back on Twitter and Kevin takes this opportunity to fill him in on all of the design news he missed like the Push Pin Emoji Detour meme, the horizontal Instagram feed debacle, a study on the impact of Flat Design and Pantone’s new color of the year. Oh and we also talk about Bandersnatch.

• Rafa is back on Twitter
• ​​Push Pin Emoji Detour: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• ​​​​Even the dictionary is making red pin memes on Twitter
• ​​The horizontal Instagram feed debacle
  • ​​Instagram making that new update like…
  • Update: it was an accident
• ​​Study shows that flat design means more cognitive load than traditional design
• ​​Prototype of a UI that reflects your actual environment - Bob Burrough
• ​​Pantone’s color of the year for 2019: Living Coral
• ​​Dead Coral 2043
• ​​New logo for Unsplash

• Writing copy for landing pages
• ​​A Simple Favor
• LG 4K OLED TV

• ​​Bandersnatch

It's a holiday miracle! As a special bonus episode for the Holidays, we play a zombie text adventure game. We're joined by special guest Débora Ribeiro.

• Débora Ribeiro
• Parsely text adventure games

Our third annual Layouties! We look back at some of our favorite things of the year and give them awards.

• Abstract
• Figma
• Contrast
• GDPR

• Pure black themes on mobile
• The Tiny Heads trend:
  • Tiny Heads at Evernote
  • Tiny Heads at Airtable
  • Tiny Heads at Procreate
• Everyone’s logo is the same
  • Nobel Prize
  • Burberry

• Modern Online Banking
  • Zach Meredith
  • Morgan Allan Knutson
  • Zero
  • Revolut
  • N26
• AR
  • Shopify AR
  • Magnolia App

• The Last of Us
  • Shout out to my friend Nicolas Bichon for lending me his copy of the game
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Rockstar’s Game Design is Outdated - NakeyJakey

• Black Panther
• A Quiet Place
• Honorable mentions:
  • Incredibles 2
  • Mission Impossible: Fallout

• Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Westworld
• Honorable Mention: Queer Eye
• Getting Curious Podcast

• CHVRCHES - Love is Dead
• Leon Bridges - Good Thing
• KIDS SEE GHOSTS
• James Bay - Electric Light

• Reply All #130: The Snapchat Thief
• Do By Friday: Bee. Wasp. Hornet.

• Layout #89: Shower Dingus
• Layout #106: Layout Redesign Your Website Month™

• Layout Stickers!
• Layout @ Loupe

• Rafa learned that he is way less chill about stress than he thought
• Kevin learned that he is better at dealing with uncertainty than he thought

• Rafa moved to Amsterdam!
• Kevin visited Portugal

• Rafa took over as Head of Design at Netlify
• Kevin set up the Checkout team to be independent to allow him to focus on building a new team

This week we talk about being busy & the impact it has on us, tech companies making custom typefaces and IRL accessibility problems.

• Affinity Designer
• ​​Ollie on Twitter: "even my weather app is trying to shoehorn in stories"
• ​​Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
• ​​Squarespace’s new font: IcoNYC
• ​​Kevin’s rant: IRL Accessibility

• ​​Arun Venkatesan's personal website
• ​​Creating delightful events from any budget - Jessie Char

This week we talk about approaching large scale design problems, Kevin's email rant, Facebook's Blueprint for Content Governance and Google's Night Sight.

• Ever wonder why the most popular apps are starting to look the same? It might be a good thing
• Gatsby
• Rafa’s procreate video

• Kevin’s rant tweets
• A Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement
• ​​Night Sight

• ​​If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be) - Leon Bridges ​​- Sky Walker (Recorded Live at Austin City Limits) - Miguel ​- ​Heard It In a Past Life: Maggie Rogers ​​- The Last Table (2018)

This week we talk about Rafa's totally predictable purchase, the growing realization that most design problems are actually content problems, pop songs getting more repetitive and Amazon employees buying condos in Long Island City.

• Luma Fusion
• Jonathan Morrisson editing a video entirely on the iPad
• The Student Hotel
• Montreal Design Club

• Gruber's tweet
• Are pop songs getting more repetitive?
• Millenial Whoop
• Bo’s Repeat Stuff (NSFW)
• The Web's Grain - Frank Chimero
• Amazon Employees Join the Rush to Buy Long Island City Condos

• Blakkklansman
• Molly's Game
• Aaron Sorkin
• Pokemon Lets Go: Pikachu

Kevin is back from San Francisco, so we finally talk about our first impressions on the new iPad Pro, the Detective Pikachu trailer and the new Leica Q-P.

• iPad Pro
• Realistic Pokémon are an affront to God
• Detective Pikachu Trailer
• Louie Mantia's tweet about Mr. Mime's shoulders
• The new Leica Q-P

• Up + Coming Podcast by Victor Kernes, Joey Banks, Alex Tran
  • RSS Feed
  • Apple Podcasts
• UniChar

This week we follow up on genderless pronouns in different languages (or lack thereof) and talk about what we would do if we weren't designers.

• Notion
• iA Writer
• Dropbox Paper
• Coda
• Pixel 3
• Follow up on the gender-pronouns in different languages:
  • Brazil tried to use X, instead of the gender identifier
  • There’s a movement to have a gender neutral in French
  • Swedish introduced a new pronoun
  • Italian has an abstract gender… but it’s not very versatile
  • in Vietnamese the gender is rarely explicit said, it’s set up at the beginning of a sentence
  • More on French, how it influences perception of objects
• More thoughts on Adobe XD
• Ricardo Magalhães
• Do By Friday
• Wall-E Sound Design
• Crazy Camera Work Tweet

• Kindle app
• HealthFit

This week we talk about the realities of traveling for work, Photoshop on the iPad, Adidas's 'new' webdesign style, the Palm phone and we have a very special upside down.

• Bobble water bottle
• Adobe XD updates

• Sara Vieira’s blog post
• Jessica Hische on cost of speaking
• Photoshop on the iPad
• Yung Series Adidas
• Make Front-End Shit Again
• The new Palm phone
• PS4 Pro
• Add RafaelConde on PSN

• iA Writer
• Leica Instant M

This week we briefly continue our discussion about design tools, then talk about custom Apple Watch Faces, the Habitat 67 architecture and of course, our recommendation of the week.

• Ian Roth
• Exploring Custom watchOS Watch Faces
• Hoyle's tweet
• Justin's tweet
• Billy's tweet
• Figma: Introducing Smart Selection
• Habitat 67

• Astrobot
• Forever