Design Details

Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
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Nov 30, 2016 • 1h 11min

174: Lava Lamp Nail Salon (feat. Noah Levin)

Today we caught up with Noah Levin, a design manager at ClassPass, previously building the Google app for iOS, and before that a designer at NASA. We dig into Noah's origins, wireframing and visual design, navigating design at a big company, stigmas in therapy, imposter syndrome, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 6,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Noah on the web: Website GitHub Dribbble Twitter Show notes: ClassPass Braden Kowitz Braden on Design Details Google Ventures COBOL Arc90 Readability Design Details: Google for iOS Austin Bales Framer Koen Bok Jorn van Dijk Koen and Jorn on Design Details Jeremy Goldberg Jeremy on Design Details ValioCon Nicholas Jitkoff Arif Huda Jon Wiley Rashi Birla The Dip Seth Godin The One Minute Manager
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Nov 23, 2016 • 1h 12min

173: Grammar Different (feat. Leigh Taylor)

Today we caught up with Leigh Taylor, a freelancing designer previously building AI design systems at The Grid. In this conversation, we dig into chasing people versus jobs, predictability and consistency, design patterns, living like you're retired, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 6,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Leigh on the web: Behance Twitter Dribbble Medium Website Show notes: Jenny Johannesson and her portfolio Jon Gold Jon on Design Details Aaron Stump Thinking, Fast and Slow The Social Animal Derren Brown Design Driven AI The Grid Adam Morse Adam on Design Details Tachyons Brent Jackson Brent on Design Details Dustin Senos Dustin on Design Details Dan Tocchini Phi Specifics 002: Typographic Scales Quadrivium Sapiens
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Nov 16, 2016 • 1h 2min

172: That Sweater Life (feat. Tegan Mierle)

Today we caught up with Tegan Mierle, a designer at Sense, living in SF by way of Toronto. We dig into Tegan's origins, how she built her own business, the fears around sharing work, maintaining balance, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 6,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Tegan on the web: Twitter Instagram Website Dribbble Show notes: Sense HQ Drake's eyebrows Pilot Interactive Tegan on Instagram Good Day Hairshop
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Nov 9, 2016 • 1h 21min

171: Never Not Crunched (feat. Sarah Marie & Marshall Bock)

Today was a different kind of episode, featuring return friends of the show Marshall Bock and Sarah Marie. We had a more casual conversation, digging into topics like shutting down side projects, giving up, accountability and motivation, time management, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Sarah on the web: Twitter Website Pinterest Instagram Marshall on the web: Twitter Website Dribbble Instagram Blog Show notes: Jenny Johannesson Sarah on Design Details Marshall on Design Details Reading Rainbow YouTube Gaming Vicarious Joshua Sortino Better Elevation Roman Mars on TED Sam Soffes Sam on Design Details Ep. 1 RunPee Pixel Pong
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Nov 2, 2016 • 1h 8min

170: #BringBackThePipes (feat. Majd Taby)

Today we caught up with Majd Taby, the founder of Darkroom who previously built products at Instagram, Facebook and Apple. We dig into his story as a software engineer and designer, hiring at tech companies, being scrappy, emotion in building products, finding work that matters, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Majd on the web: Website Twitter Medium GitHub Darkroom Show notes: Displaced Darkroom Janum Trivedi Adam Michela Adam on Design Details Wilson Miner Wilson on Design Details VSCO Cities: Skylines
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Oct 26, 2016 • 1h 10min

169: Invisible Unicorns (feat. Maykel Loomans)

Today we caught up once again with Maykel Loomans, a designer on Facebook's Search team and previously at Instagram. We dig into what Maykel has been up to this past year, building a career as a designer, mentorship, photography, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Maykel on the web: Website Flickr Twitter Instagram Blog Dribbble Show notes: Maykel on the show in 2015 Maykel's photos Wilson Miner When We Build Merlin Mann
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Oct 19, 2016 • 1h 15min

168: Auto Goats (feat. Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk)

Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, co-founders of Framer, discuss building a startup in Amsterdam, the future of design tools, helping designers level up, and more. They also touch on the challenges of building a team, the surprising market for design tools, and the shifting landscape in the prototype space.
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Oct 12, 2016 • 1h 2min

167: Daisy Chained Brains (feat. Payam Rajabi)

Today we caught up with Payam Rajabi, a designer at Shopify working on design systems and product development. We dig into Payam's background, building design systems, designing with content and form, learning how to work remotely, and so much more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Payam on the web: Website Twitter Medium YouTube Show Notes: Shopify Kit Flexography Coursera Remote by 37signals Brent Jackson John Willshire: Strategy is Dead - Long Live Meta-strategy Payam on Medium
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Oct 5, 2016 • 1h 13min

166: Ambient Struggles (feat. May-Li Khoe & Andy Matuschak)

May-Li Khoe and Andy Matuschak discuss fear, learning how to learn, designing with convictions, working on the right problems, and more. They explore the power of ambient struggle, living with fears and pursuing passion, developing custom learning activities in mathematics, and the ethical dilemma of maximizing user clicks. They also reflect on their experiences at the XOXO festival and the importance of understanding in the design process.
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Sep 28, 2016 • 1h 10min

165: Whitespace Friends (feat. Lori Kaplan)

Today we caught up with Lori Kaplan, a designer with 30 years of experience at companies like Apple, Netscape, Netflix, Motorola, and Groupon (among many others). We chat about Lori's journey into design, what it takes to design organizations, navigating job changes throughout a career, writing the Macintosh human interface guidelines, beating imposter syndrome, and more. Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO and on Twitter and on Instagram and on Dribbble Managed by Q Lori on the web: LinkedIn Twitter Show Notes: LendingClub Good product design portfolios macOS HIG iOS HIG tvOS HIG watchOS HIG Duolingo

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