

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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Feb 10, 2016 • 1h 19min
103: Sacrifice for Pixels (feat. Drew Wilson & Dann Petty)
In another special roundtable episode of Design Details, we caught up with Drew Wilson and Dann Petty, the creators of the Valio Con and Epicurrence design conferences. We dig into the ethos of their creations, the hardest parts of pulling together a community, and what it takes to create a physical experience for hundreds of people.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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
Dann on the Web:
Behance
Dribbble
Twitter
Medium
Instagram
Epicurrence
Drew on the Web:
Website
Twitter
Dribbble
GitHub
Plasso
Show Notes:
Design Details ft. Drew Wilson
Design Details ft. Dann Petty
Epicurrence
Montues
Valio Con
Pictos
Mike Davidson
Josh Hemsley
Marc Hemeon
Tobias van Schneider
Daniel Burka
Design Details, Epicurrence Live
Design Inc.
Design Details ft. Gene Ross

Feb 8, 2016 • 1h 8min
102: Sick Ajax Skills (feat. Adam Michela)
This episode with Adam Michela was soopa fun; Adam is a designer at AirBnb, previously at Last, Facebook and Gowalla among others. We caught up to talk about Adam's background as a designer, building style guides at scale, the impact of engineering on user experience, and more.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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!
Adam on the web:
Twitter
Website
Medium
GitHub
Show Notes:
Karri Saarinen
Epicurrence Montues
Mike Rundle
Khoi Vinh
Koi Vinh on Design Details
Jeffrey Zeldman
Designing with Web Standards
Mike Davidson
Capital Factory
Gowalla
Foursquare
AFNetworking
Alamo Fire
Josh Williams
Flame Wheel Pokémon move
Keegan Jones
Scott Raymond
Blinksale
Pack Rat facebook game
Jack Dorsey
Beluga
Tim Van Damme
Holly Burns
Phil McAllister
Facebook Paper
Mike Matas
Pop on GitHub
AsyncDisplayKit
Brandon Walkin
Kimon Tsinteris
Daring Fireball
Accidental Tech Podcast
Soleio
Soleio on Design Details
Wilson Miner
Wilson Miner on Design Details
Lift
The Last Guide Company
Soma water filter

Feb 3, 2016 • 1h 15min
101: Everyone's Thirsty (feat. Katie Zhu & Tara Mann)
In another roundtable episode of Design Details, we caught up with Katie Zhu and Tara Mann to chat about social media, personal brands, new media, storytelling and our favorite undiscovered apps!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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:
Front Conference - Use the promo code 'designdetails' to get $50 off!
UENO
Katie on the Web:
Twitter
Medium
Instagram
Website
pamplemousse
Tara on the Web:
Website
Instagram
Twitter
Show Notes:
Peach
Threads for dummies, i.e. Brian
Kt's Email Newsletter
Tobias van Schneider
Gary Vaynerchuk
Call Your Girlfriend
fuckjerry
Jerry of the Day
Not Jony Ive
Daring Fireball
Nuzzel
Input
Pinpoint
Caleb Davenport
Lickability
List App
Old Sport
Delectable
@uberbryn
Rumsfeld Solitaire
Mike Isaac

Feb 1, 2016 • 1h 6min
100: Goldilocks Fidelity (feat. Daniel Burka)
Episode 100! We made it - thank you so much to everyone has listened to an episode, shared the show with a friend or reached out to us on Twitter this past year; we wouldn't be here without you. For this special episode we caught up with Daniel Burka to talk about his background, process, critique, what keeps him up at night and more. Enjoy!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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!
Daniel on the Web:
Twitter
Website
Instagram
GV Profile
Medium
Show Notes:
GV
Google Ventures Rebrand
Dribbble
Irene Au
John Maeda
Jared Erondu
GV Design Team
silverorange
Jon Hicks on Firefox Branding
Kevin Rose
Pownce
Stewart Butterfield
Slack
Milk acquisition
Sprint Book
Design sprints how-to

Jan 28, 2016 • 1h 8min
99: Internet Points (feat. Ian Silber)
Today we sat down with Ian Silber, a designer (and design manager!) at Instagram. We dig into his background, talk about taking bets on young designers, his key learnings in management, briefly diverge into cooking, and return back to his process for hiring at Instagram.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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
Ian on the Web:
Twitter
Dribbble
Website
Medium
Instagram
GitHub
Show Notes:
typeracer
37signals
Campaign Monitor
anotepad.com
Intab
Cookie Clicker
AdVenture Capitalist!
Josh Puckett
Steven Walker
Ryan O'Rourke
Soleio
Soleio on Design Details
Josh Puckett on Design Details
Hyperlapse
Layout
Boomerang
Chris Connolly
Figma
Project Comet
Principle
Flour + Water
Soylent
Blue Apron

Jan 25, 2016 • 1h 4min
98: Inhale the Flattery (feat. Marc Hemeon & Joshua Taylor)
For episode 98 we sat down with Marc Hemeon and Joshua Taylor to talk about their new company, Design Inc. We also dig into their biggest advice for young designers, what they would learn if they could start again, soul vs. ego and what it takes to surround yourself with the best people.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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!
Marc on the Web:
Twitter
Website
Medium
Art
Dribbble
Instagram
Josh on the Web:
Website
Twitter
Dribbble
Website
Instagram
Show Notes:
Design Inc.
Evernote
Watchville
Kevin Rose
TeeFury
Design by Humans
iOS HIG
Material Spec
Marc on Design Process

Jan 20, 2016 • 1h 5min
97: Eleven Month Itch (feat. Marshall Bock & Joshua Sortino)
In today's episode of Design Details we brought the Vicarious crew, Marshall Bock and Josh Sortino, over to have a round table discussion about design leadership. This is a different format from our usual shows, so ping us on Twitter @designdetailsfm with your thoughts and feedback!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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!
Sponsors:
UENO
Josh on the Web:
Website
Medium
Dribbble
Twitter
Unsplash
Instagram
Marshall on the Web:
Twitter
Website
Dribbble
Instagram
Blog
Show Notes:
Josh on the State of Design Leadership
Teespring
YouTube Gaming
Josh on Instagram
Vicarious Podcast
Geoff Teehan
Julie Zhuo
Cap Watkins
Daniel Burka
Kim Bost
Ben Cline
Mike Matas
@vicarious_fm on Twitter

Jan 18, 2016 • 1h 1min
96: Granola Mogul (feat. Kerem Suer)
Today we caught up with Kerem Suer, a product designer at Operator. We've been itching to chat with Kerem for the past year, and it was so fun to finally get to catch up! In this episode we talk about Kerem's background as a designer and sailor, career progression, side projects, and the dumbest domain names we've ever bought.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 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:
Epicurrence Montues
Kerem on the Web:
Website
Dribbble
Twitter
Instagram
Show Notes:
Operator
Fitbit
Jonathan Lieberman
Design Details ft. Robin and Roxane Clediere
Kerem's file naming structure
Omada Health

Jan 13, 2016 • 55min
95: Sandwich Artist (feat. Brian Benitez)
For our first new recording in 2016 we caught up with Brian Benitez, a designer who built Collective Ray over the past 5 years and has just recently joined the team at Weebly. We chat about his origins as a designer, making the switch to Weebly, moving to SF and, of course, sandwich art.
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,900 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
Epicurrence Montues
Brian on the Web:
Twitter
Website
Dribbble
Show Notes:
Weebly
Collective Ray
Jeff Broderick
Disqus
Magic
Digit
Principle
Flinto
Collective Ray on Dribbble
Focus Lab
Oculus Rift Preorder
Pokemon Go
Ready Player One
Rogie King
Morgan Knutson
Juan Arreguin

Jan 11, 2016 • 58min
94: Best of 2015 - Part 4
For the next two weeks we're taking some time off with our friends and family - to tide everyone over, we've compiled four episodes with some of our favorite clips of 2015. We hope you enjoy listening back and re-discovering some of our earliest content, and we'll be back with new interviews in 2016!
Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,700 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!
Design Details on the Web:
@designdetailsfm on Twitter
@specfm
Slack
Show Notes:
81: It's Complicated... (Live at Etsy, feat. Joel Califa, Jessica Harllee & Justin Edmund)
73: Feedback Friends (feat. Katie Dill)
74: Itchy Feet (feat. Diana Mounter)
70: Nothing's Sacred, Not Even Goats (feat. Ash Huang)
84: Crochet Monotype (feat. Aaron Moodie)
4: Meatspace User Onboarding (feat. Kristy Tillman)
24: Open Source Religion (feat. Kevin Rose)
65: Meatwad Flip-Flops (feat. Linda Eliasen)