

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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