308: Learning Design as a Developer
Design Details
English - August 07, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 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 answer a couple listener questions, including how to get started learning design as a developer and how to reconcile icons on different platforms. In News, we discuss the launch of Figma Plugins, and as always, we share a couple cool things, like gourmet junk food and vaporwave jams.
Follow-up:
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Divya Tak is Marshall's kindred internet spirit
Jeff Cannata got his start on the Totally Rad Show on Revision 3
Turns out our questions about iOS 13 Beta 4 were premature because—wait for it—it's a damn beta
Grouped TableViews on iOS6 vs iOS 12 vs iOS 13 Beta 4 and Beta 5
Screenshots: Safari Modes: Public/Private and Light/Dark
Nick Dika told us about Nielsen Norman Group's line of It Depends merch
Video: "Vanilla Ice denies ripping off Queen and David Bowie's Under 'Pressure'"
News:
Featured Plugins, built by the Figma community
Article: "Smart Distribute, Cloud documents and Sketch for Teams — What’s New in Sketch?"
FigPlug by Rasmus Andersson is "a small program for building Figma plugins"
Some notable plugins: Unsplash, Autoflow, Stark, Mapsicle, and Google Sheets Sync
Listener questions:
Q: "What advice do you have for a developer with no design experience getting started with design?" —Dolee Yang
A: "Listen to our "Principles of Design" episode, check out Laws of UX and Refactoring UI, then read the Apple HIG and/or the Material Guidelines, paying attention to the thinking behind the systems. When in doubt, fall back to system defaults. But most importantly, get into the mindset of a designer and, as you use products in your daily life, start asking, 'Why did they do it like this?'"
Q: "How do you reconcile icon systems between platforms? Do you have different icons for web, iOS, and Android? Or do you try to make them all consistent with a brand icon set?" —Anonymous
A: "Actually, both are valid strategies. If you use the default glyphs and styling for icons on each platform, you can have high confidence your users will understand them. If you have a strong brand identity, you can style those glyphs to fit in with your icon set. If you use unique glyphs, consider including labels to make their meaning clear to users who are only familiar with system glyphs."
One Cool Thing:
Marshall shared "Gourmet Makes", a video series on Bon Appetit's YouTube channel in which a pastry chef attempts to create gourmet versions of junk food
Brian shared Poolside.fm, which (according to The Verge) is "a retro digital oasis for your summer"
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