This week we are speaking to Jason Pamental, a design strategist, author, speaker, UX leader, technologist, an expert in web typography, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group.

He has worked with many organizations including Adobe, Audible, Condé Nast, GoDaddy, IBM—and given presentations and workshops at conferences all over the world. I also publish a newsletter on web typography.

Responsive Typography Book

Jason's website

This week we are talking about running design reviews and how we like to run them. Ryan speaks about his consultancy experiences and how he likes to focus on a goal to improve a specific metric and Mustafa dives into a holistic way of running reviews. We also discussed the tools you can use to boost your reviews and quick wins that can help you build confidence. 

Tools mentioned in the Podcast;

About the hosts

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.  

This week Ryan and Mustafa talk about the best practice for e-commerce websites, how you can improve your search results, and tips on reengaging with your customers so they do not end up on a dead-end. 

Good eCommerce web design is crucial for turning website visitors into customers. Ideally, the design elements of your website should make the shopping experience and purchase process as quick, easy, and stress-free as possible. Learn more and subscribe. 

In this episode, Mustafa and Ryan talk about the history of interfaces with Lego and how they break down their designs. We also take a look at David Hockney's redesign of the London Metro System station signs and finally explore how brands have changed their tone of voice during Covid. 

Sites; 

https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/hockneys-london-artwork 

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/brands-tone-of-voice/

In this episode we are interviewing Mandy Michael, a Front End Developer, previously a Development Manager for the news organization Seven West Media in Western Australia. She now works as a Senior Software Engineer at Hireup. She speaks at conferences and events locally and internationally sharing her work and experiments with new and old technology. 

Mandy gave an introduction to variable fonts, her type experiments, how she used creativity to reignite her passion for coding, and what it is like to be famous. 

Mandys Type Experiments: https://codepen.io/mandymichael

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mandy_Kerr 

In this episode Ryan and Mustafa review the winners of the Awwwards.com website. Awwwards.com, as the name suggests, awards the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world. 

The sites we looked are:

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Ryan and Mustafa work for Google. The opinions expressed are solely our own and do not express the views or opinions of our employer.

In this episode Mustafa takes us through the history of branding, which he has written about on his blog.

The term branding comes from the Old Norse “Brandr” which means to burn. Cattle, slaves, timber and crockery were burnt or branded with the markings or symbols of the owner using a hot iron rod. The concept of branding was essentially to depict ownership, in particular things which had value, this practice dating back to 2000BC. The transition from “This belongs to me, so leave it…” to “This was made by me, so buy it” started to evolve in the 1800’s.

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