

Design Details
Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
A weekly conversation about design process and culture. Hosted by Marshall Bock and Brian Lovin.
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Apr 18, 2018 • 1h 11min
244: Peter Piper Pizza Party (feat. Claudio Vallejo)
Today we caught up with Claudio Vallejo, a product designer currently working at Managed by Q in New York. In this episode we dig into Claudio's current work as a designer solving meat-space problems, his journey from Mexico to the United States, self discipline and burnout, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Claudio on the web
Dribbble
Website
GitHub
Twitter

Apr 11, 2018 • 2h 2min
243: Maximum Potassium (feat. Vlad Magdalin)
Today we caught up with Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and CEO of Webflow. In this episode we dig into Vlad's history, moving from Russia to the US, his journey to Webflow, the challenges of starting up, raising money, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Vlad on the web
Twitter
Medium

Apr 4, 2018 • 51min
242: Traitor Joe (feat. Victor Kernes)
Today we caught up with Victor Kernes, a designer working on reversing type 2 diabetes at Virta. In this episode we dig into transitioning from marketing to design, working in the healthcare industry, advice to young designers, the traitor named Joe, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Victor on the web
Website
Dribbble
Twitter

Mar 28, 2018 • 58min
241: Toast, The Bread (feat. Meg Robichaud)
Today we caught up once again with our good friend Meg Robichaud. Meg draws things for money, and is currently doing so at Lyft. In this episode we dig into what she's been up to over the last two years, the journey to Lyft, freelance vs. in-house, moving to San Francisco, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Meg on the web:
Dribbble
Medium
Twitter
Instagram

Mar 21, 2018 • 1h 8min
240: Proxima Nova Revolution (feat. Hardik Pandya)
Today we caught up with Hardik Pandya, a product designer at Google in India, currently working on GSuite and Google Photos. In this episode we dig into Hardik's background and discovery of design, working from startups to Google, the design scene and tech landscape in India, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Hardik on the web:
Twitter
Medium

Mar 14, 2018 • 1h 10min
239: Data Ultra (feat. Lin Wang)
Today we caught up with Lin Wang, a product designer working on the Core Passenger team at Lyft. In this episode we dig into Lin's background, her journey from China to SF, moving from graphic to product design, and how she eventually landed a job at Lyft.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Lin on the web:
Twitter
Instagram

Mar 7, 2018 • 1h 8min
238: Grocery Social (feat. Julie Delanoy)
Today we caught up with Julie Delanoy, a product designer currently building things at Product Hunt. In this episode we dig into Julie's journey to Product Hunt, working remotely, designing for communities, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Julie on the web:
Dribbble
Website
Twitter

Feb 28, 2018 • 49min
237: Hoppy Borthdoy (feat. Hartley Miller)
Today we caught up with Hartley Miller, a product designer at Pinterest. In this episode we dig into what Hartley's working on, the ups and downs of not having a plan, finding meaning in work, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Hartley on the Web:
Dribbble
Website
Twitter

Feb 21, 2018 • 1h 5min
236: TI-85 (feat. Charlie Cheever)
Today we caught up with Charlie Cheever, the founder of Expo, an open source toolchain that helps people build native mobile apps (which we're using to build Spectrum!). In this episode we dig into the Charlie's path to working on Expo, including building calculator games, building Facebook Platform, co-founding Quora, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Charlie on the Web:
GitHub
Twitter
Medium
Quora

Feb 14, 2018 • 1h 40min
235: Incremental Correctness (feat. Guillermo Rauch)
Today we caught up with Guillermo Rauch, the founder of Zeit. We're huge fans of Guillermo's work, his contributions to the open source community, and the work that his team is doing at Zeit to make cloud computing more accessible. In this episode we dig into Guillermo's philosophies for building products, dive into the nitty gritty technical details of JavaScript and React, learn Guillermo's favorite mental models, and so much more.
We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.
We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!
Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel!
Guillermo on the Web:
GitHub
Twitter
Website
Zeit