28: I Never Learn My Lessons

In this episode: learning illustration as a UI designer, API version upgrades, compsci tests, naming projects, and Sam's new side project!

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at [email protected], or join our Slack team!

Hired

Topic 1: My job consists primarily of UI design work but I want to get more into visual design to become more well rounded as a designer (i.e. icon design, illustration). What are some good resources to start polishing those skills?

Jeremy Goldberg
Figma
Spectate
Michael Schultz
The Noun Project
Iconfinder
Dribbble

Topic 2: How do you handle API version upgrades for live apps? example: app v1 is live on the store. You want to release app v2, which depends on API v2. v1 app doesn't work with v2 and vice versa. Just pushing an update and migrating the DB will break the app for existing users. But unmigrated, it won't work for reviewer. or do you just completely avoid getting into this situation?

Topic 3: How do you deal with compsci interview tests like dynamic programming, divide and conquer etc?

nth Fibonacci
Sidewire is hiring
Canvas is hiring

Topic 4: What’s your process for coming up with product/company names Every time a see Nothing Magical or Spec I think of how great those names are.

Nothing Magical
Spec
Jonathan Cutrell
Developer Tea
Design Details
Noah Stokes
Vicarious
Bryn's Pokemon list
Editor's Note: The Butterfree was later renamed "PaulaDeen"
Privatize
Editor's Note: I don't really have any mockups or anything for Shuttle or Angle anymore... Save your files, people.
Angle Icons
Marshall Bock
Ryan Putnam

Topic 5: Journeying

Editor's Note: Journeying is now called Expedition.Earth
Exposure
Strava
Roon
Wander
Gear episode
Old Sport
Addison
StarWars.com
Daniel Mall