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What it's like to work remotely, Rafa's shopping problem continues and... paperclips.

• Listener Ramy's tweet
• Listener Alex's tweet
• Appear.in

• Team Timezones tool for Slack
• LG 55UJ6300 on Amazon
• LG 55UJ6300 on Consumer Reports
• Apple TV 4K
• PS4 Pro

• Universal Paperclips
• Alias Grace

The main topic for this week: Meetings. And for our side dishes, we talk about how we feel about Stranger Things 2.

• Skype IRL
• Stranger Things
• Beyond Stranger Things
• Song Exploder episode 121: Stranger Things

• Cards Against Humanity Saves America
• Mr. Robot eps3.4_runtime-err0r.r00

What to do when you disagree with someone on your team and our first impressions of the iPhone X.

• Listener Sebastián's feedback:
  • On Episode #76
  • On Episode #77

• Dive Into Markdown — Gruber’s article on changing your mind

• Meng To’s wallpapers for iPhone X
• Coffee Table Typography Newsletter
• Zombie vs iPhone X Face ID

For our main topic we talk about feeling like time is running out — getting old, with some iPhone pre-orders for side dishes.

• Amazon Umbrella
• Super Mario Odyssey

Looking back at your old work, and hating what you see. Also, InVision Studio and the state of design tools.

• InVision Studio
• Rafa's not quite viral tweet
• Framer Exports

• Wearing Apple Watch upside down
• Tabletop Quality Control

This week we talk about process and try to pin down what makes certain processes good and others bad.

• Process: the good and the bad

• Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Amazon
  • iBooks
• Better

Our main topic this week is: How to make sure what you ship is not a crappier version of what you envisioned. We also talk a bit about the #MadeByGoogle event and Libraries in Sketch 47.

• What you ship doesn’t match your vision

• Google’s event
• Pixel 2
• Google Home Mini
• MKBHD's review of the Google Home Mini
• Sketch 47 and Libraries
• Sketch Libraries & Abstract: Per-project Libraries

• Inter UI
• Blade Runner 2049
  • The Outline’s review
  • Blade Runner (The Final Cut) on iTunes
  • Out West (Outline’s Westworld podcast) on Apple Podcasts

We've made the show better! More focus on design topics and a better onboarding for new users. Our main topic this week is how to receive design feedback. Of course, we also talked a bit about the Dropbox redesign.

• Layout Website
• New Layout Website Sketch File
• Netlify
• Layout episode 26: I Have Velcro Shoes and Pokémon
• Ira Glass: The Gap

• Evolving the Dropbox Brand
• Dropbox.com

• Rafa will be in Paris next week, Oct 12th, Algolia Search party
• Continue the discussion over at spectrum.chat/specfm/layout, suggest new topics, ask questions.

Our thanks to Guilherme Silva on Soundcloud for the theme song.

• The Big Sick (2017) - IMDB
• The Big Sick - iTunes
• Conduct AR

After two years of making weekly episodes, one full year with Spec, it's time to regroup and think of how we can improve our show. We have some exciting ideas in the works, but we would really appreciate it if you could spare a couple seconds to give us some feedback.

• Layout Feedback Survey 🙏

This week we cover the new iPhone X, iPhone 8, and all the goodies from the most recent Apple event.

• Steve Jobs theater
  • “Photos: What it was like to attend Apple’s iPhone X event — its first at the Steve Jobs Theater” by Dan Former at Recode
• Apple Town Squares™
  • Today at Apple
  • Jessica Hische
• Apple Watch Series 3
  • Spectrum Purple™ Sports Band
• Apple TV 4K
  • Disney Is the Only Major Hollywood Studio Not Backing Apple's Plan to Sell 4K Films at $20
  • Disney new streaming service
• iPhone 8 and 8 Plus
• iPhone X
  • Apple event playlist

• Scorekeeper XL

• Dreamer Stories
• Darkroom v3