

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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Sep 21, 2016 • 1h 14min
164: Maximum Vignelli (feat. Lucas Smith)
In this episode, we hung out the one and only Lucas Smith. We covered everything from design systems to fighting your CFO, and the hot new front-end framework, Haskell.
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
Managed by Q
Lucas on the web:
Website
Twitter
Dribbble
Show Notes:
Earnest
Marco Arment
Overcast
XOXO
Marco's Microphone Mega Review
M&D MW60 Headphones
Shure Beta 87a
Haskell
Mozilla
Perl
Tachyons
React
Modern Tribe
Designer Fund Bridge
Justin Pervorse
Jacob Thornton's 45-minute intro
Cennydd Bowles
Jon Gold
Wilson Miner
Massimo Vignelli
the "shovel" tweets
Unigrid
The 8-pt Grid
Karri Saarinen
Meredith Schomburg
Buffer
BassCSS
Spector
David Carson
Bret Victor
Bret Victor's climate post
Dune

Sep 14, 2016 • 1h 23min
163: Guardrails (feat. Ben Wilkins)
Today we caught up with Ben Wilkins, a design technologist building systems at Airbnb. We dig into what it takes to build design systems, coding as prototyping, the current world of design tools, 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
Managed by Q
Ben on the web:
Instagram
Website
Twitter
Show Notes:
Jon Gold
Jon on Design Details
Jeany Ngo
Jeany on Design Details
Citizen Engagement Lab
One Medical
Alex Schleifer
Adrian Cleave
Epicurrence
Vicki Tan
Vicki on Design Details
Meg Robichaud
Meg on Design Details
Jeff Smith
Jeff on Design Details
Sam Huskins
Karri Saarinen
Airbnb DLS
Principle
Flinto
Create React App
Dan Abramov
Unity
Framer
Origami
Declarative Design Tools

Sep 7, 2016 • 1h 5min
162: Gnarwhale (feat. Andy Chung)
Today we met with Andy Chung, a designer building Pattern, and previously working at Facebook. We dig into Andy's beginnings, designing at Facebook, understanding changes at scale, bringing Reactions to market, intuition-driven design, 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
Managed by Q
Andy on the web:
Website
Twitter
GitHub
YouTube
Show Notes:
Pattern
Raindrop
Andreas Pihlström
requireJS
jQuery
Francis Luu
Joey Flynn
Drew Hamlin
Bobby Goodlatte
Jorn van Dijk
Julius Tarnge
Mike Matas
Brandon Walkin
Brian Frick
Rooms
Seth Eckert
Julie Zhuo
Julie on Design Details

Aug 31, 2016 • 1h 2min
161: Coming Soon (feat. Julia Khusainova)
Today we sat down with Julia Khusainova, a designer at Shyp, previously at Twitter. We dig into Julia's background, leaving Russia, transitioning from engineering to design, designing onboarding experiences, facing burnout, balancing side projects, 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:
Managed by Q
Julia on the web:
Dribbble
Website
Twitter
Instagram
Show Notes:
Shyp
Daniel Burka
Micah Sivitz
Irina Blok
Irina on Design Details
Kurt Varner

Aug 29, 2016 • 1h 3min
160: Unicorn Farts (feat. Dr. Charles Pearson)
Today we sat down with Dr. Charles Pearson, a cultural anthropologist working at InVision. We dig into Charles' thoughts on anthropology, research in design and startups, exploratory design, personas, legacy, 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
UENO on Twitter
UENO on Instagram
UENO on Dribbble
Charles on the web:
Twitter
Medium
Show Notes:
Collective Ray
Brian Benitez
Brian on Design Details
Jeff Broderick
Pacific Helm
Brad Ellis
Louie Mantia
Jessie Char
Bjango
Skala
Marc Edwards
Marc on Design Details
Mule Design
Sarah Jackson
Lady Bird Johnson's Pickled Okra
Epicurrence #3 Episode

Aug 24, 2016 • 1h 1min
159: Twe-mail (feat. Lisa Sy)
Today we caught up with Lisa Sy, a designer working at Facebook, and previously building products at thoughtbot. We dig into Lisa's background, designing for privacy and control, internships vs. apprenticeships, design and code, multidisciplinary design, 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!
Lisa on the web:
Website
Dribbble
Twitter
GitHub
Techies
Show Notes:
Spec on YouTube
Lisa on Techies
Smashing Magazine
PSD Tuts
Abduzeedo
thoughtbot
JT Trollmman
Dan Eden
Dan on Design Details
Basscss
SF Zine Fest
Plurals and Noun

Aug 22, 2016 • 1h 24min
158: D.R.E.A.M. (feat. Bob Baxley)
Today we caught up with Bob Baxley, a designer in Silicon Valley. Bob formerly led design at Pinterest, and before that built products at Apple and Yahoo!. We dig into topics like med-tech, managing millennials, Pokémon GO and Gen-Z, design in big tech, 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
UENO on Twitter
UENO on Instagram
UENO on Dribbble
Bob on the web:
Website
Twitter
Show Notes:
Layout Podcast
Carrot Sense
Susan Kare
Alex Schleifer
Katie Dill
Katie on Design Details
Joe Gebbia
Margaret Stewart
Julie Zhuo
Julie on Design Details
Luke Woods
Bob at O'Reilly
John Maeda

Aug 17, 2016 • 1h 18min
157: Walking Empathy Sponge (feat. Kory Westerhold)
Today we sat down with Kory Westerhold, a designer at Facebook working on Newsfeed, who previously designed at Twitter, Apple, and more. We dig deep on video games, opinions in design, theater and story telling, portfolios, designing for newsfeed, carrying an Android phone, and balancing side projects.
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!
Kory on the web:
Twitter
Dribbble
Instagram
Website
Show Notes:
No Man's Sky
Tara Mann
Tara on Design Details
Geoff Teehan
Geoff on Design Details
Darrell Whitelaw
NeuBible
NeuBible on Design Details
NeuBible on FastCo
Julie Zhuo
Julie on Design Details
Jean-Marc Denis
JM on Design Details
Roxane Clediere
Roxane on Design Details
Jeremy Goldberg
Jeremy on Design Details
Ryan Morrison
Griffin McElroy
Robin Clediere
Robin on Design Details
Stammy
Stammy on Design Details
Simplenote
Alternote
Ulysses

Aug 15, 2016 • 1h 4min
156: Segue... (Feat. Alexandra Bond)
Today we caught up with Alexandra Bond, a design fellow at Sequoia Creative Labs and previously a designer at Pinterest. We pick her brain about her origins, friction in design, transitioning into a product role, navigating the job search, answering the why, 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
Alex on the web:
Dribbble
Twitter
Pinterest
Instagram
Show Notes:
Sequoia
PlanGrid
James Buckhouse
Google Sprint
Figma
Jen Wibowo
100 Days of Patterns
Elle Luna
Elle on Design Details
Klout
Colorkite
Justin Edmund
Justin on Design Details

Aug 10, 2016 • 59min
155: Duckicopters (feat. Athyuttam Reddy)
Today we sat down with Athyuttam Reddy, a designer-engineer intern at Figma. We cover so much in this episode, including engineer design hybrid roles, getting a design job as a new grad, landing meaningful internships, becoming jaded, diversity and inclusivity, 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!
Athyuttam on the web:
Website
Twitter
Show Notes:
Figma
Ryan Kaplan
Jessica Liu
GitHub
Medium
Jared Erondu
Jared on Design Details
Joshua Sortino
Josh on Design Details
Ryan Putnam
Ryan on Design Details
Hack@Brown
Men of Designer News
Jon Gold
Jon on Design Details