427: Tools for Thought ft. Mark McGranaghan and Adam Wiggins

This week, we sat down with Mark McGranaghan and Adam Wiggins to talk about building creative tools, designing across devices and platforms, creating career capital, starting design podcasts, and more.

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This week, we sat down with Mark McGranaghan and Adam Wiggins to talk about building creative tools, designing across devices and platforms, creating career capital, starting design podcasts, and more.

• Mark McGranaghan on Twitter (website)
• Adam Wiggins on Twitter (website)
• Muse
• Metamuse Podcast
• Ink & Switch
• The Twelve-Factor App
• Go by Example
• The future of iPad
• Obsidian
• Roam Research
• Andy Matuschak
• Craft

Cool Things:

• Brian shared Vampire Survivors, a fun little indie roguelike that is easily worth the price for many hours of chilled-out vampire evasion.
  • Hollow Knight
  • Dead Cells
  • Warm Snow
• Marshall shared Agent to the Stars, a fun and different approach to the alien visitor genre.

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