Layout

This week, we deep dive into Apple’s “Peek Performance” event, most notably the Studio Display.

• Apple Peek Event
• Mac Studio
• Studio Display

• Severance
• Inventing Anna

This week we talk about strategies for bringing more dev into your design process... even when that's not expected of your role as a designer.

• Links to help Ukraine
• Queer Eye

• Austin’s Tweet

• Elgato Wave
• Bluey

This week we talk about bringing fun into your work.

• Shure SM7B
• Elgato Wave XLR
  • iPod Hi-Fi
  • MinimallyMinimal
• Rafa’s Tweet
• Airport Express
• 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon
• LunaTik & TikTok
• Fantastical Openings

Our thoughts go out to the Ukranian people. #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦💛

• Config
• Ken Kocienda
  • Ken’s book, “Creative Selection”
• Matthew Luhn
• Alex Cornell
  • “Choosing Idea Vessels For Your Creations”
  • “Alone in My Mind”
  • “The Inner Monologue of an Insecure and Distracted Designer”
• Rafa’s prototype with tapes and stuff

• Horizon Forbidden West
• LDShoppe
  • Woven Rattan Planter

This week we talk about Rafa's new hobby and Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone.

• Fantastical Scheduling

• Rafa's iSight Camera
  • PiSight Camera
  • Building a PiSight
  • iSight on MinimalyMinimal
• Tap to Pay on iPhone

• Tinder Swindler
• The Jinx on HBO
• Locket.camera

We're finally back after our extended holiday break! This week we catch up, talk about the challenges of interior design, and get into why you shouldn't feel bad if you don't get the job after an interview.

• Victor Kernes on who should play us in "Layout: The Movie"
  • Jake Gyllenhaal as Rafa
  • Hasan Minhaj as Kevin
• Our picks
  • Robert Pattinson as Rafa
  • Andrew Garfield as Kevin

• "Calendly Etiquette" Tweet
  • Calendly CEO's response

• Swan Song
• The Girl Before
• Chris Loves Julia
• Hasami

This week we reflect on 2021, then get into a conversation about what we'd like to be known for and finally discuss how we'd like to grow in 2022.

• Kevin's test app design in Play

• The Missing Guide for Mac Catalyst Apps
  • Designing Twitter Video
• Blender Guru
  • Gavin’s Tweet

This week, we're joined by friend of the show Ryan Hassan, designer at Figma, to tell us all about how they've redesigned Comments.

• Results of the "Are you a Kevin or a Rafa?" poll on Twitter

• Ryhan Hassan
  • Twitter
  • Website
• Honk
• 204: Designing FigJam, with Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo
• Figma Comments
  • Tweet, Design Details
  • Announcement Blog Post
  • Figma careers page

• Pioneer Stock Lever Belt
• Elgato Key Light
• Image2Icon
  • Image of Rafa's dock

This week we follow up on all of the feedback we got about the "new" Layout website and then talk about how a tweet about autolayout ended up being way more controversial than we thought.

• Netlify Functions
• Buzzfeed quiz “are you a Rafa or a Kevin?”
  • Take the poll on Twitter
• “Don’t read Dune”
• Lessons from the screenplay
• Why Is It So Hard to End A Trilogy
• Elgato LP Mic Arm
• Rating or Roasting Your Workspace Setups — Oliur

• Kevin’s tweet about autolayout
• Kevin's app design in Play

• Pixelmator Pro
  • Pixelmator's Youtube Channel
• Reconcilable Differences Episode 170
  • Direct Timestamp to 53:32

This week we nerd out about our new website. While things look mostly the same, we rewrote all of the code and are now using a CMS to make posting episodes easier.

• Austin Guevara spotted a few visual differences in our website

• Our website
• Next.js
• DatoCMS

• Elgato Wave Mic Arm LP
• Succession
• No Time To Die
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

This week we talk about career paths and Kevin gets into his experience managing managers.

• Kevin's app design in Play
• I don't like coffee. Can James Hoffmann change that?
• Spot the differences: Layout's "new" website

• Shadow Palette Generator
• Riveo