313: Design Process Automation

This week, we answer a couple listener questions—which design automation tools we use and how to efficiently look for a job—and rattle off a few things we'd like to see announced at the September Apple Event. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a 64-button mashup and a state-of-the-art mouse.

Follow-up:

Rafa and Kevin are back from summer vacation with a new episode of Layout!

Apple Event Preview:

Whoops! Marshall goofed; the Micro LED screen was rumored for the 2020 Apple Watch, not the 2020 iPhone Pro
We've known for a while the iPhone 11 Pro would have three cameras
It'd be cool to see Apple's Tile equivalent

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We know we won't see the 16" MacBook Pro at this event, but we're looking forward to it arriving eventually
Apple's supposed to be dropping 3D Touch for Haptic Touch on the new iPhones
Maybe we'll see Apple's over-the-ear headphones, but probably not

You may remember the Apple iPod HiFi from many years ago

Listener Questions:

Q: Cameron Stark asks, "What is the best way or most efficient way to look for and find job opportunities?"

A: Although it's not the most efficient method, we've found the following to be an effective way of finding work: develop your skills, insert yourself into whichever community you'd like to be a part of, make friends, do good work, learn from your peers, and hope you have the right skills in the right place at the right time when one of them knows about a job opening.

Q: Nikita Voloboev asks, "Do you use any tools to automate your design process?"

Karabiner is "a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS"
Alfred "boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more"
A: We like the following tools and plugins:

Keyboard Maestro helps you "automate virtually anything"
Figma plugins are great, and you can even write your own!
Yoink helps you "simplify and improve drag and drop on your Mac and speed up your daily workflow"
Artboard Manager "automatically arranges the position of all Artboards in your Sketch document, to snap them to rows & columns"
Layer Tools is "a box for random useful sketch commands meant to make work with layers easier"
Runner helps you "perform Sketch actions quicker with your keyboard"
Symbol Organizer helps you "organize your symbols page alphabetically (including layer list) and into groupings determined by your symbol names"
Renamer helps you "select multiple layer(s)/group(s)/artboard(s) and rename all of them with just a single click or a quick shortcut"
Rename It helps you "keep your design files organized, batch rename layers and more"

Have your own suggestions you'd like to share? Add them to the issue!

One Cool Thing:

Marshall shared "Burnt Rice" and "Marble Soda" by Shawn Wasabi

Watch Acai sightread the Guitar Hero chart for the mashup song "Baby I'm Back", which reminded me that Shawn Wasabi makes good music
Midi Fighter 64 is "the best controller for finger drumming"
Here's the backstory (video) on Shawn's prototype Midi Fighter 64
Brian mentioned "Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup)" (video)

Brian shared the Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse, "the most advanced Master Series mouse yet – designed for creatives and engineered for coders"

Logitech Flow gives you "cross-computer control and file sharing"
Logitech MX Keys is "the first ever MX keyboard – designed for creatives and engineered for coders")

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