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Our review of Kite Compositor, the Electron uprising on the desktop and whether or not Stories is a format.

• We missed our 50th birthday?
  • Episode 1: I Wish I Could Force Touch This
  • Kevin’s Apple Watch that never was…
  • Kevin’s iOS app that will be: Photo Edit

• Kite Compositor
• The web is swallowing the desktop whole and nobody noticed, by Owen Williams
  • Electron
  • Nylas’ UI
  • Changelog: The Story of Atom
• Is Stories a format?
  • Messenger Day

Our thanks to Guilherme Silva for editing this episode 🔥

• Competing Against Luck
• More Life — Drake
  • Apple Music
  • Spotify

This week Rafa and Kevin talk about rolling out a gradual redesign, the new Offscreen magazine, rumored new iPads and share their Apple software wishlist.

• Nintendo Switch painful launch
• Cel Shading
• Bread Time on Switch
• Sam Soffes also hasn't played a Zelda game before

• Introducing a New Design System — Netlify Blog
• New GitHub Navigation
• Offscreen Magazine
• Rafa was on Offscreen #8
• Kai Brach
• New iPad Rumors
• Break This Safe
• Nike+ Run Club
• AirPods firmware update

• Love (2016)
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Kite Compositor
• Westworld (2016)

Following up from last week, we continue the discussion of IC vs Manager, and what comes with the manager hat.

• Shopify Hack Days
• How I, a designer, learned to code and released GAget in 4 months

• What does a manager actually do?
• Layout #15: Hiring a person, not a portfolio

• Sound of my Voice
• Nocturnal Animals
• Horizon: Zero Dawn

Going from Individual Contributor to Manager/Lead. Also, Oscars' screw up and the winner of our Sketch Handbook giveaway.

• We announce the winner of the Sketch Handbook

• Kevin had to fill a paper form
• The Oscar's terrible card design
• The Gap by Ira Glass

• Away Carry-on
• Little Big Lies
• GAget app

Abstract, the “new” MacBook Pro, setting up new computers and Kevin's adventures in San Francisco.

• Abstract: The Art of Design
• High Resolution Podcast
• Sketch Handbook — Giveaway
  • Mention @layoutfm on Twitter and let us know what do you like about the show.
  • Sketch Handbook
  • Christian Krammer
  • SketchTips
• Kevin got his new tiny MacBook Pro 😻
  • MacBook Pro
  • MacBook Adorable
• Setting up new computers
  • Kevin’s dotfiles
  • Backblaze
  • 1Password
  • TextExpander
  • Tower, git client
  • GitHub for Mac
• GitHub’s dark navigation
  • GitHub
  • Mark Otto’s tweet

• Kevin’s adventures in SF
• William Bout
• David Klein

• Riverdale (2017)
• Breadtime
• Planet of the Apps
• Carpool Karaoke
• Eddy Cue interview

Being good at one thing vs being ok at a lot, the new Framer.com and the original iPhone.

• Lutron Caseta dimmer

• The new Framer.com
• T-shaped skills
• Animation Sound Design: Ben Burtt Creates the Sounds for Wall-E

• Split (2016)
• Marc Edward’s icon design workflow

Presenting and selling your work. Also, Dribbble gets acquired, Juventus's new logo, Shopify Summit and Slack threads.

• Tiny (Metalab) acquires Dribbble
• Juventus new logo (as recommended by listener Adolfo Ferreira on Slack)
• Shopify Summit
• Slack Threads
• Presenting & selling your work

• Resident Evil VII
• Swift Playgrounds
• Lutron Caséta Wireless

This episode was edited by Guilherme Silva.

Feeling tired, and feeling guilty of feeling tired. Also: the crazy expectations of the Bay Area and Imposter Syndrome.

• Immutable 71
• Design Details 177: Chocolate Soul Cup
• Design Details 118: The Helena Price

• Paper for Mac
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Last Guardian
• Nike+ Run Club app

This episode was edited by Guilherme Silva.

This week we go over our plans and resolutions for this new year, and HealthKit and Home Automation.

• Crazy laptops announced at CES
• Cognitive Energy Chocolate Cup
• New Year resolutions:
  • Gyroscope
  • Fitbit's Aria
  • Apple Watch Nike+
  • Headspace
  • Kevin's 2015
• Elon Musk: Inventing the future
• The Last Guardian

We end the year with our grand annual LAYOUTIES, an award show in which we present awards to the best of the year.

• Rafa: Blonde – Frank Ocean
• Kevin: Coloring Book – Chance The Rapper
• Honorable Mention: The Color in Anything – James Blake

• Kevin: The Lobster
• Rafa: Arrival
• Honorable Mentions:
  • Rogue One
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane

• Rafa: Westworld
• Kevin: Stranger Things
• Honorable Mentions:
  • Black Mirror
  • The Night Of
  • Suits
  • Easy

• Kevin: Budget Cuts
• Rafa: Uncharted 4
• Honorable Mentions:
  • Firewatch
  • Inside
  • Secret Hitler

• Rafa: Best PewDiePie video
• Kevin: Adele Carpool Karaoke
• Honorable Mentions:
  • Sara Dietschy
  • Man Punches Kangaroo in the Face
  • Geraldine Loves Star Wars

• Kevin: Reconcilable Differences
• Rafa: Imaginary Worlds
  • This last episode, in memory of Carrie Fisher is a very good place to start
• Honorable Mention: Hello Internet

• Rafa: @GK3
• Kevin: @vanschneider (Note: this episode was recorded before a series of controversial tweets and polls were posted)

• Kevin: Instagram
• Rafa: Gyroscope
• Honorable Mention: Castro

• Rafa: Final Cut Pro X
• Kevin: Framer
• Honorable Mentions: Paste

• Kevin: iPhone 7
• Rafa: Playstation VR
• Honorable Mention: DJI's Osmo Mobile

• Rafa: Boosted Board
• Kevin: Olympus OMD EM10 Mark II
• Honorable Mentions:
  • Côte & Ciel Nile Rucksack
  • Côte & Ciel Isar Rucksack

• Kevin: Transitioned from an IC to a Design Lead
• Rafa: Design Lead at Netlify
• Honorable Mentions:
  • IP's 30 under 30
  • Launching Break this Safe

• Rafa: Stop Calling the iPhone a Phone (With Special Guest Tim Van Damme)
• Kevin: I Have Velcro Shoes and Pokemon