002 - Side Projects

In this episode: Geof constantly (and shamelessly) plugs his own side project (airlookout.com), Ben reminds everyone that we're way over time, Adam confesses he has a graveyard of dead side projects in his backyard, Jim (acting as audio engineer) tunes into our own live Periscope and Brijan tells some whippersnappers to get off his lawn. And everyone unintentionally ignored any questions that came through Periscope.

We are looking to hear about your side projects! Hopefully we can get a few to showcase before each episode. These side projects could be anything from small and simple to a more complex project you're trying to get started! Just send them with a short paragraph description to [email protected].

# Mentioned and discussed on the show

- Air Lookout - http://airlookout.com

- A side project that took over a year to make and is selling on the app store for $1.

Do designers need to program in order to turn their side projects into something real?

What are too many side projects?

- The side project graveyard

- Balancing work and side projects

How to finish side projects?

Value in learning from side projects?

- Designing and building layouts in iOS

- The value of making mistakes

Selling ideas to clients vs. trying ideas in side projects

Thinking about layouts for flexibility and responsiveness

On red lines…

On constraints…

- https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppKit/Reference/NSLayoutConstraint_Class/

Responsive web design…

- Are websites looking the same?

What's an appropriate side project?

- The least appropriate?

- If you critique you can't be the critique-er… huh?

- Design and build something that's different

- Side projects could be a way to explore, expand and learn new things.

- Goals for side projects.

- Staying in the trenches…

- Marc Hemeon (@hemeon)

Facilitating design vs designing

Will design become a job to just make money?

- Being surrounded by passionate people

- Are there designers "just doing it for the money"?

- Reaching out to senior designers…

The Action Satisfaction slack team:

- https://actionsatisfaction.slack.com

- Reach out to @brijanp for more info

Hating your work… but in a good way.

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# Brijan Powell

- Freelance Interactive Designer working out of the Rally office and motorcycle riding hellion.

- @brijanp

# Ben Cline

- Part owner, designer and string cheese consumer at Rally Interactive.

- @yocline

# Adam Luptak

- Developer at Rally interactive and Indian food eating extraordinaire.

- @_luptak

# Geof Crowl

- Designer at Rally Interactive and connoisseur of fine italics.

- @rectangular