

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 25, 2016 • 1h 7min
124: Dazzle (feat. Jeremy Goldberg)
Today we caught up once more with Jeremy Goldberg, a designer at Facebook working on Messenger and bots. We dig into designing for AI/bots, critique, process, trust, and more. Oh, and we coin a fun new term for designers.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,000 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
Freshbooks
Jeremy on the web:
Website
Dribbble
Twitter
Show Notes:
Design Tee-Tails
Messenger Bots
Quip
Dropbox Paper
M by Facebook
Epicurrence
Spring
Quartz Design Details
Sprint
Michael Leggett
David Marcus
Austin Bales
BuzzFeed Product Design Roles 2.0
Dann Petty
Anthony Smith
Carolyn Zhang
Dustin Senos

Apr 20, 2016 • 1h 14min
123: Live @ Github (feat. Carolyn Zhang, Heather Phillips, Mo Woods & Diana Mounter)
This is it! Our first live episode recorded at GitHub in SF - thank you so much to GitHub for hosting and to everyone who was able to make it out! We had a blast in this episode talking with our four panelists about design mentorship, education, critique and more.
If you weren't able to make it to the live show, you can catch the video on our Twitch stream. We'll be hosting more live events soon, so stay in touch on Twitter.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,000 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
UENO
Mo on the web:
Twitter
Inneract Project
Diana on the web:
Website
Twitter
Dribbble
GitHub
Carolyn on the web:
Dribbble
Instagram
Website
Twitter
Heather on the web:
Website
Designer Fund
Twitter
Medium
Show Notes:
GitHub
Mark Otto
Mark on Design Details
Michael Schultz
Michael on Design Details
Spec.fm
Kristy Tillman
Kristy on Design Details
Josh Taylor
Josh on Design Details
Inneract Project
Pentagram
Diana on Design Details
Design Details Live @ Etsy
Jacob Berlow
HaraldurThorleifsson
Chronicle Books
Joe Gebbia
Designer Fund
Enrique Allen
Ben Blumenfeld
KPCB Fellowship
The Illusion of Life
Cemre Güngör

Apr 18, 2016 • 1h 18min
122: Lookin' to Cookin' (feat. Josh Puckett & Justin Pervorse)
Today we regrouped with the JPs - Justin Pervorse and Josh Puckett! We dig into cooking, definitions, titles, critique, management and so much more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,200 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!
Sponsors:
Freshbooks
Dropbox
Josh on the web:
Dribbble
Website
Twitter
Justin on the web:
Dribbble
Website
Twitter
Show Notes:
Design Details Tees
Chef's Table
Cooked
Justin on Design Details
Josh on Design Details
Dann Petty
Dann on Design Details
UENO
Schloss Post
Even
Jeff Holden
Figma
Framer
Koen Bock
Our Mutual Friend Brewery

Apr 13, 2016 • 1h 10min
121: Web Trauma (feat. Bill Labus and Benjamin De Cock)
Today we caught up with two members of the Stripe design team, Bill Labus and Benjamin De Cock. We dig into their roles as UI designers, collaborating in code, critique, process and tools at Stripe, working remotely, origin stories, and more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,200 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!
Sponsors:
UENO
Dropbox
Bill on the web:
Twitter
Dribbble
Website
Ben on the web:
Twitter
Dribbble
GitHub
Show Notes:
Stripe
onfleet
Khoi Vinh
Khoi on Design Details
Malthe Sigurdsson
Malthe on Design Details
Ludwig Pettersson
Stripe on Dribbble
Stripe Relay
Stripe Bitcoin
Stripe Atlas
Stripe Connect
Michaël Villar
Kickoff

Apr 11, 2016 • 1h 1min
120: Shout Out, Mom! (feat. Adam Polselli)
Today we caught up with Adam Polselli, a product designer and design lead at Dropbox. We dig into current projects at Dropbox, Adam's background, rejection and navigating a career path, hiring designers, what keeps Adam up at night and more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,200 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
Etsy
Adam on the web:
Website
Dribbble
Twitter
Instagram
Show Notes:
Director X
Soleio
Soleio on Design Details
Wilson Miner
Wilson on Design Details
Josh Puckett
Josh on Design Details
Malthe Sigurdsson
Malthe on Design Details
Joshua Jenkins
Yi Wei
Morgan Knutson
Morgan on Design Details
Allison House
Allison on Design Details
Drew Houston

Apr 6, 2016 • 1h 7min
119: Dead Sea Scrollbar (feat. Yaron Schoen)
Today we caught up with Yaron Schoen, a designer at Compass living in New York. We dig into Yaron's background and path into design, the changing environment of client work, building style guides and shipping great work.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,000 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
UENO
Yaron on the web:
Website
About
Twitter
TGD
Dribbble
Show Notes:
Compass
Moviephone
Clarity Conf
In Defense of Homogeneous Design
Brian's response
The Unbearable Homogeneity of Design
Cap

Apr 4, 2016 • 1h 11min
118: The Helena Price™ (feat. Helena Price)
Today we were able to sit down with Helena Price, a photographer in SF who has been hard at work on the Techies Project (launching today!). In this show we dig into Techies, Helena's background in tech and path to becoming a full-time photographer, dealing with stagnation and more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 4,000 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
Etsy
Helena on the web:
Techies
Website
Blog
Twitter
Instagram
Medium
Show Notes:
Techies
The tweet
The call for subjects
Mark III
Stewart Scott-Curran
Juicero
Earnest
Haraldur Thorleifsson
Carolyn Zhang
UENO
Dann Petty
Laura Brunow Miner
Capture One

Mar 30, 2016 • 1h 9min
117: The Cool Tools (feat. Dylan Field)
Today we caught up with Dylan Field, the CEO and co-founder of Figma. In this episode we dig into Dylan's background, design tools an Figma, internships, opinionated design, design education and more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,500 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
UENO
Dylan on the web:
Twitter
Figma
Show Notes:
Figma
Figma Vector Networks
WebGL
O'Reilly
inDinero
DJ Patil
Flipboard
Evan Wallace
The Thiel Fellowship
Sarah Pease
Skala Preview
Irreducible Complexity
Craft
REST vs. CRUD
Adobe XD
Sandwich

Mar 28, 2016 • 1h 2min
116: At Least There's Catan (feat. Connor McSheffrey)
Today we sat down with Connor McSheffrey, a photographer and designer in SF most recently at Dropbox and VSCO. We dig into his background in programming and freelancing, making the leap to SF, photography and more!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,500 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!
Sponsors:
Dropbox
Etsy
Connor on the Web:
Website
Twitter
Instagram
VSCO
GitHub
Show Notes:
Jon Gold
Linda Eliasen
Jon + Linda on Design Details
VSCO
Kevin Rose
The New Screensavers
Ethan Marcotte
Jeffrey Zeldman
Dan Mall
Dan on Design Details
Jason Santa Maria
Jason on Design Details
Ryan Putnam
Ryan on Design Details
Connor on Instagram
Nikon D810

Mar 23, 2016 • 1h 1min
115: Puppies, People, 'Puters (feat. Kelly Sutton)
Today we caught up with Kelly Sutton, a software engineer currently leading product at imgix who is well-known in the design community for co-founding Designer News. In this episode we dig into Kelly's background, learn how to deal with a company shutdown and the story of Designer News, discuss tips for managing ICs and more!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,500 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:
Dropbox
UENO
Kelly on the Web:
Website
GitHub
Twitter
Show Notes:
imgix
Kelly on Immutable
AmazingSuperPowers
Lonely Sandwich
Hack College
LayerVault
Product/market Fit
Spec
Spec Slack team
Allan Grinshtein
The Flat Design Era
Josh Taylor
"Designers shouldn’t code. They should study business."
Design Details feat. Josh Taylor