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20: Soft Computer Hands (feat. Dustin Senos)
Design Details
English - April 27, 2015 15:00 - 1 hour - 28 MB - ★★★★★ - 361 ratingsTechnology Arts Design product design ui design software design ux design design design details technology brian lovin marshall bock Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we caught up with Dustin Senos, the lead designer at Medium for the past 3 years who has spent his professional career traversing the worlds of design and engineering. We dig into Dustin's background and how design has shaped Medium into the product it is today.
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Dustin on the Web:
Twitter
Medium
Dribbble
Instagram
Show Notes:
2:00 - Dustin tells us about his transitions between engineering and design.
7:00 - Should designers code?
11:00 - How did you end up at Medium?
17:00 - How was Medium approached as a design challenge?
The hyphen, n-dash and em-dash
21:00 - How would you describe the aesthetic of Medium today? How did the agency work shape that aesthetic?
Teehan+Lax
@dannpetty
Teehan+Lax Medium case study
30:00 - We chat about the culture at Medium and their experience with holacracy
How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers
Holacracy
Evan Williams on Building a Mindful Company
Buffer's no-managers setup
43:00 - We diverge into a chat about diversity in design.
Design Details Ep. 13 with Mo Woods
45:00 - How did you approach hiring at Medium?