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How do you stay motivated by working on a mature and large project? How do you handle working in a language that isn't your native language? How do you decorate your apartment? This week we answer more listener questions!

• Layout Redesign Your Website Month™

• Nicolas Bichon's question
• Shelley Tran's question
• Quitto Nogueira's question

• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Tooth Fairy

Should your portfolio have long UX case studies or focus on lots of imagery? How do you know when you have too much on your plate and how do you push back confidently? This week we answer some listener questions, review some socks and finally talk about the Westworld finale.

• Layout Redesign Your Website Month™

• @AndyRSV on Twitter
• Ricardo's question
• Coffee Table Typography
• Kevin's pick: Darn Tough Performance Socks
• Rafa's pick: Darn Tough Running Socks

• Westworld: Windows XP edition

• Fig Newtons
• Jessie Reyez
• Solo: A Star Wars Story

This week we talk about the challenges with onboarding new designers onto your team, the official "Layout Redesign Your Website Month™" and episode 9 of Westworld season 2.

• Layout Redesign Your Website Month - Spectrum
• Darn Tough

• Deadpool 2
• Parcel JS
• Rains Zip Bag

This week Rafa redesigned his website, so we revisit the topic of personal websites, setting goals for side projects, todo list management techniques and Kevin's thoughts on museum design. We also discuss episode 8 of Westworld season 2.

• Orbitkey Ring
• Siri Shortcuts doesn’t let users input anything

• Rafa's new website
• Frank Chimero
• Things

• Designing Fluid Interfaces
• The Staircase

This week we're joined once again by special guest Tim Van Damme to talk about how UI design is fashion, and Apple's WWDC 2018 announcements: iOS 12, macOS Mojave and watchOS 5.

• Eryc Silva's tweet
• Darn Tough
• Bombas

• UI design = fashion
• Abstract
• iOS 12 preview
• macOS Mojave preview
• watchOS 5
• Safari favicons
• Iconfactory: Favicons. Finally.
• SmashingConf
• Break this Safe

• Framer Loupe
• The Happy Film

As promised, this is our special episode discussing episode 4 and 5 of Westworld season 2. We're joined by special guest Débora, Rafa's girlfriend.

• Episode 4 recap
• Episode 5 recap

This week Kevin join Rafa in person in Porto for this IRL episode. We talk about what's wrong with A/B tests and spend way too much time discussing socks.

• Designer News Feedback

• Kevin's tweets about A/B tests
• Dave Rupert
• Charles' tweet about socks
• Nike Elite Cushioned socks
• Nike Dry Cushion socks

• Castro 3
• Snapseed ‏

This week we talk about what qualifies a designer as a senior designer, how Google Duplex might not be that creepy after all, Jony Ive's controversial Hodinkee interview and of course, episode 4 of Westworld season 2.

• Duplex
• Vector episode with Brian Roemmele
• Jony Ive’s Hodinkee interview
• Day phone / night phone origin
• Path Talk

• Topo by ergodriven
• Reid Schlegel’s Instagram

This week we tackle the topic of learning design. We also talk about the swipe up gesture in instagram, opinionated design and episode 3 of Westworld season 2.

• Headspace
• Nike and Headspace Collaboration

• The Gap - Ira Glass
• Instagram swipe up tweetstorm
• The Grand Theory of Apple

• 368 - Casey Neistat
• Dan Mace
• Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe
• Good Things - Leon Bridges

Layout turns a hundred episodes old so we invited some listeners to join us to talk about sustaining side projects. We also talk about how the show started and of course: everyone's recommendations.

• Figma party

• And Co
• Victor Kernes on Dribbble
• Lion FG H-X1 Black Spray
• Nike Air Max 270
• Nike Epic React Flyknit
• Tobias Van Schneider's custom sneakers
• Paddy 2 Beta