Designer & Designer
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDesigner & Designer is a podcast about design. Each episode dives into a design topic with candor and humor, exposing the rarely talked about challenges that designers face, and what it takes to create great design.
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Episodes
The New Design Enlightenment
February 22, 2024 17:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBEp 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to Prison R/workreform The Need for Climate Optimism The Economy, Stupid The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory You’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job Done How the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel Bad Library of Congress, Cartoon Collection The Electric Wire Panic N/N: “AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years” Jakob’s Law Frutiger Aero Painter Bill Braun That Dickhead VC Dude Song Credit: “Auld Lang Sign” Wheedle's G...
The Dark Age of UX
October 20, 2023 15:40 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBLinkedIn People who talk about this topic: Hang Xu https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/ Peter Merholz https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/ Manuel Lima https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/ Erika Hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/ - Indeed UX Job Report https://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023 Joe’s Small Jobs, Small Dreams https://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams-7ed46faf46b0 Facebook is Chairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA Runway AI ...
Visual Thinking
May 04, 2023 20:21 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBTemple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers. A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on Cognitive Performance in Real-World and VR Environments This research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and people’s attention to detail) in a conventional laboratory setting and an approximately identic...
Layoffs!
March 27, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBShow Notes Workism Is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Some decent Job Boards https://www.ixda.org/jobs/ https://www.uxjobsboard.com/ https://dribbble.com/ https://www.earlystagedesignjobs.com/ https://www.krop.com/creative-jobs/ux-ui-designer/ https://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/jobs/ If you ever want a portfolio review, email us! [email protected] Stay strong out there ❤️
Weirdos
December 31, 2022 17:56 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBMentioned in this episode: Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast
A View from the C-Suite with Gina Trapani
December 13, 2022 00:24 - 48 minutes - 44 MBBrian and Joe talk to Gina Trapani, CEO of the digital product shop Postlight. Postlight has been unlocking solutions for clients for the past 10 years, and we ask Gina to let us in on the insights of a running a successful design and engineering business. We talk about moving from a Doer to a Leader, the importance of Discovery, and why it’s important to do the work special to you on the weekend.
Are The Tools Driving Us?
November 15, 2022 21:51 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBJoe and Brian discuss the dispiriting trend of the current tech stack driving how products are built. What does it mean when a product is designed not for the user, customer, or output, but for ease of technical deployment? What will the future hold if that trend continues? Should try and stop it?
Quick Hits
November 02, 2022 05:08 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBAdobe buys Figma Missing Kara Swisher content A simple way to make HTML websites Org Design for Design Orgs Why Designers Quit Why corporate America broke up with design thinking The T-Shaped Designer
Is IA Eating The World?
January 29, 2022 17:32 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBKelli Goto's Web ReDesign: https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335 Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differently https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-gen-z-searches-for-content Eli Parser's Filter Bubbles TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en James Burke's The K-Web http://k-web.org/ O'Reilly's Information Architecture (The Polar Bear Book) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/information-architec...
Why Do You Do What You Do?
November 09, 2021 22:57 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBBrian and Joe break down whether creative work is calling, or just a job? Can a creative person be just as happy keeping their creative work to their hobbies? Is making money as a creative part of what being a professional creative is? And where do blenders come in to all of this?
'How are we doing out there?' with Dave Miller
April 15, 2021 04:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBFind Dave at designcitizen.com Dave's Original Linkedin Post Jared Spool Tweet
Ego & Empathy
March 25, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBMentioned in this episode: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom Stop Whining About Big Government by Kara Swisher featuring Mariana Mazzucato /r/learnart & /r/drawing
The Craft of Design with Aaron Draplin
February 16, 2021 06:04 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBDraplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin Field Notes Pick up Draplin Design Co. merch
What is the Role of the Designer?
January 28, 2021 17:02 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBMentioned in this episode: Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem Episode 1: Design Thinking The Highly Sensitive Person Episode 21: Observation in Design
The Check-In
January 14, 2021 23:28 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBBrian and Joe check-in with some designer friends and see how they’re holding up in this never-ending zoom call.
Semiotics with Josh Glenn
November 24, 2020 21:01 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBFind more information about Josh Glenn and his work in semiotics at http://semiovox.com
Design Tools
October 22, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIt's a Design Tools “Ball of Death” Match! Brian & Joe compare the pros and cons of common design tools like Sketch, Figma and Photoshop. They share their experiences of finding the right tool for the job and their preferred tools for getting sh*t done.
Iterations with Jacob Covey
October 07, 2020 18:30 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBYou can find more about Jacob Covey and his work at https://www.unflown.com
Black Lives Matter
June 10, 2020 15:51 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBMentioned in this episode: - Black Designers of Seattle - Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein Show - So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo - White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo Additional resources: - Black Lives Matter & Black Lives Matter Seattle - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Anti-racist reading list for designers - R...
Observation in Design
March 17, 2020 05:57 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBMentioned in this episode: - Joe's Original Post, Observation As A Prerequisite For Design (https://formidable.com/blog/2019/design-observation/) - Ira Glass on the Taste Gap (https://vimeo.com/85040589) - History of the Ampelmann (https://www.ampelmann.de/en/a-brand-with-a-history/) Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle (www.cloudstudiosseattle.com).
What does it take to create a design-led company?
March 10, 2020 06:24 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBMentioned in this episode: - Are you asking enough from your design leaders? - Design Maturity Model by InVision - Future of Design in Start-Ups - There's no guarantee your product strategy will work. Here's how to de-risk it Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Can We Design A Better Future
March 03, 2020 07:53 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBSpecial thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
How to Talk About Race & Design with Bekah Marcum
February 24, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBConnect with Bekah Marcum on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahmarc/ And if you are a black designer in Seattle, be sure connect with Bekah's group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13668366/ Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Burnout
February 13, 2020 06:05 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBMentioned in this episode: - Frank Chimero's Burnout List is a great primer for this discussion - The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by John Gruber - Second Wave Gentrification by Charles Mudede - Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why? Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Design For Good
February 06, 2020 04:55 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBMentioned in the episode: - Design Gigs for Good Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
How Do You Get Started?
January 21, 2020 16:10 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Can Anyone Be A Designer?
January 15, 2020 15:39 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Data vs. Intuition
January 09, 2020 06:08 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Everything is on Fire: A Guide to Product Management
December 18, 2019 14:59 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Defending Your Design
December 10, 2019 04:50 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
A Designer&Designer Thanksgiving
November 25, 2019 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
How Deep Does Design Go?
November 19, 2019 06:43 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
What is Good Design?
November 12, 2019 05:36 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Imposter Syndrome
November 02, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
What is IA, UX, and UI?
October 11, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
The Design Interview
September 27, 2019 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Make the Web Weird Again
September 13, 2019 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
Design Thinking
August 28, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBMentioned in this episode: - Natasha Jen's talk "Design Thinking is Bullsh*t" - Design thinking origin story by Jo Szczepanska - Khoi Vinh's "In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible" Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.