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Desktop Neo, rethinking the desktop interface and Dribbble Playbook.

• Follow up:
  • We beat Tobias on Product Hunt ​🙌​
  • Recommendation from listener “Funny Quitto”
    • Introducing Silver
    • Prototyping with Xcode
• Desktop Neo — Rethinking the desktop interface for productivity.
• Dribbble Playbook — An instant portfolio, powered by Dribbble.
  • LiceCap
  • GIFBrewery
• Chapters — A great chapter app by listener of the show Thomas Pritchard.

• Attack the Block (2011)
• Susan Kare, John Gruber — Layers 2015
• Soroush Khanlou — Layers 2015

The future of Sketch and the story of how we got where we are today.

• The Past, Present and Future of Sketch – Interview with Pieter Omvlee

• What’s our background story?
  • Rafa’s Journey:
    • Rafael Conde
    • Think Orange
    • SketchCasts
    • Imaginary Cloud
    • Frames
  • Kevin’s Journey:
    • Kevin Clark
    • OKAM
    • Busbud
    • Shopify

• Design Life Podcast – A new podcast by two designers
• Marvel for iOS – The most delightful app Rafa has used in years
• Gyroscope
  • Gyroscope’s Year in Review

Designing in code, MacBook vs iPad pro as a secondary machine and Icon Design Awards.

• Design with CSS in Sketch
• Designing in code
• Rafa bought a new iMac
• MacBook vs. iPad Pro as a secondary machine
• We are going to be broke in 2016
• Graphic for iPad
• Icon Design Awards
• Instagram's "new" icon
• Louie Mantia

Figma and the future of design tools.

• Follow up:
  • Filtron
  • Building Filtron
  • Designing Filtron
• Figma:
  • Grid Systems for Screen Design
  • Figma aims to be Github for designers
  • Slack from the Start
  • Related: Update on Project Comet
  • Djay iPad app

The Force Awakens is finally here. We talk about the many things we liked, the few things that we didn't like and how we're so happy that Star Wars is back.

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
• The Incomparable Star Wars Feed
• Robot Chicken
• John Boyega on Jimmy Fallon

Design interviews, Mailbox officially shuts down, how we feel about personal websites and Apple's ugly new battery case.

• Pre-show:
  • Running design interviews
• Follow up:
  • Mailbox officially shuts down:
    • Dropbox's blog post
    • Tim Van Damme's tweet announcing he's leaving Dropbox
• Personal websites
  • Dribbble
  • iosup
• Rafa hates Instagram
• Apple's ugly new battery case
  • Nilay's theory
  • The year of ugly Apple accessories

This week we talk about the apps we use to get our work done.

• Follow up:
  • Photo editing apps for iOS:
    • Gui Seiz's tweet
    • Afterlight
    • Enlight
    • Filtron
• Tools that we use:
  • Safari vs Chrome
  • Calendar vs Fantastical
  • Mail vs Mailbox
  • Slack
  • Letterspace
  • iA Writer vs Byword
  • Framer vs Origami
  • SiteSucker
  • Final Cut Pro X
  • Logic Pro X
  • Motion
  • Affinity Designer vs Pixelmator
  • Codekit 2
  • Tower
  • Transmit
  • xScope
  • ImageOptim
  • Screenflow
  • Dash
  • Spectrum
  • Adobe Kuler
  • Slicy
  • Paste
  • Sip

• Unsplash book
• Wallcat
• Waitbutwhy

Public Speaking, Photo editing apps, using the iPad Pro to design and a eulogy to Rdio.

• Follow up:
  • Daniel Klopper reminded us of Inboard
• Kevin's talk at MacTech
  • Antifragile Design
• Photo editing apps for the iPad
  • VSCO and their inscrutable icons
  • Darkroom
  • Filtron
• Using the iPad Pro to design
• RIP Rdio
  • A eulogy
  • Important news from Rdio
  • The Rdio Sandwich Video
  • Wilson Miner's tweets
• Star Wars Battlefront
  • Trailer
  • Rafa’s PSN ID: RafaelConde
• Master of None

RIP Ember, Twitter favorites (err likes) and the new Apple TV UI

• Follow up:
  • RIP Ember
  • Want to help build an alternative? Shoot Kevin an email
• Twitter likes
  • Twitter's announcement blog post
  • Announcement tweet from a Twitter PM (looks like they removed the awful replies)
  • Twitter sees a 6% increase in "like" activity after first week of hearts
  • People complaining about the "new" Spotify green
• People hate change
  • Riding the Magic Escalator of Acquired Knowledge
• The new Apple TV
  • Apple's marketing page
  • tvOS HIG
• Rafael's Apple ID woes

Microsoft's autocomplete for animation, robots taking your job, and being a jack of all trades.

• Follow up:
  • Twitter Flight:
    • Jack Dorsey apologizes to developers
    • Listener @heriquitto confirms there's a light and dark mode on Twitter
    • TechCrunch has a good recap of what happened at Twitter Flight
• Millenials are terrible people (but not really)
• Microsoft debuts autocomplete for animation
  • Article on FastCompany
  • Microsoft's concept video for how it sees 2020
  • Humans need not apply
• Jack of all trades, master of none?
  • Tobias Van Schneider's email newsletter
  • Kevin's tweet about it