For episode 35, we finally convinced the Motherfuton himself, Mr. Noah Stokes, to come hang with us for a bit and talk about lazy web design, ornamentation vs utility, design education and so much more. It was super fun to pick his brain for an hour or so and he brought up some frequently overlooked shortcomings of how we build the web today.


In case you haven't noticed, we were nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate a vote!


If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm!


Sponsors:

Adobe
Dropbox

Noah Stokes on the Web:

Twitter
Website
Blog
Dribbble

Show Notes:

4:30 - What Noah's working on

Creative Market
AutoDesk
AutoCAD

6:30 - Moving from client services to an in-house design team

"End of An Era"
Happy Cog
Teehan+Lax
BOLD
Garrett St. John
Derek Nelson
Zach McNair
Weightshift
Paravel
SuperFriendly
Bigge cranes

16:45 - Life before BOLD and how Apple has changed

PalmOne LifeDrive
Palm Treo
iPod Mini
17" PowerBook
Apple's WWDC 2015 Keynote
1Password
How to Pronounce Helvetica Neue

28:15 - How responsive design made the web boring

Stripe Dashboard Page
Material Design
Bill Labus
Malthe Sigurdsson
Ben De Cock
PrototypeJS
Scriptaculous
John Resig
Sam Stephenson
SASS
LESS
@fat
PostCSS
BEM
BEM Nesting (+ Mixins!) in SASS
Facebook Instant Articles
Facebook Lite
John Gruber
Gruber on Instant Articles

46:00 - UI for pure utility vs UI ornamentation

Stripe Dashboard App
Sebastiaan De With
SCSI cable
VGA connector

50:00 - Web education and regulation

Healthcare.gov
Treehouse
Execute iOS
Sam Soffes
MeteorJS
Sacha Greif
React Native
George Kedenburg
NPM
ioJS logo thread
The Motherfuton News on YouTube
The Motherfuton News on Spoken

Twitter Mentions