295: Public Critique and The Facebook Redesign

This week, we discuss the usefulness of public design critiques, given Brian's eventful week of tweeting stuff. Then we dive deep on the new Facebook redesign, especially the details of the desktop version. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a financial app and a sneaker channel.

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Follow-up:

Portal 2 infers your Y-axis preference by asking you to look at the ceiling and floor
We shared a first draft of new cover art for the podcast
Chrish Dunne offered some good feedback on the cover art, and we're taking it
Jonathan Fisher added some visuals to the "bye" from last episode
We thought Tea Chang was a great guest, and so did you :)
Another thing Jonathan sent in is a haunting piano rendition of our theme song
Scriptnotes is a podcast that ends each show with a listener-submitted rendition of their theme song
Each episode of If I Were You from Jake and Amir starts with listener-made content

Industry Talk:

Facebook announced a bunch of stuff at this year's F8 Developer Conference
Brian tweeted that he had a lot of questions
Turns out, he actually had a lot of questions
Brian tweeted about a Kickstarter bug that ultimately wasn't their fault
The Brave browser runs on Chromium
Three open questions:
Where do we draw the line between having an opinion and being a bad participant?
Is it useful to ask rhetorical questions in a public setting?
Is it unfair to publicly call out a design team over something that could be improved?
Refactoring UI put together a list of design tips with examples for before and after
Can't Unsee is a fun design comparison quiz
We say wrench, but maybe you say spanner
Brian tweeted about a usability issue in Figma, and they fixed it

App Redesign:

Video: "New Facebook Redesign"
Article: "Defining the Problem of Elevator Waiting Times"
"Lickable"
Video: "It's not a wheel, it's a carousel"
Video: "Building the New facebook.com with React, GraphQL and Relay" and skip to 28:00 for the bit about the redesign

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared Rollie, "a simpler way to check your spending and balances"
Rollie uses Plaid, "the easiest way for users to connect their bank accounts to an app"
Marshall shared Seth Fowler, a YouTuber with an industrial design background who makes videos about sneakers full-time
In his "If I Designed" series, Seth renders reimaginings of classic shoes

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