47: Supposed Baby Steps
Immutable
English - July 19, 2016 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsTechnology News Tech News technology development design spec ios web development Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode: text sizes, hiring cutbacks in tech, generics in swift, managing time between side projects and "work", and selling the value of design to your team!
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Topic 1: Can you talk about the text sizes you would recommend to use in apps (body, title, nav bar etc) or if you use the apple text categories in the storyboard font element inspector in Xcode?
Topic 2: I keep hearing about hiring freezes and cutbacks at major companies in SF like Uber, Twitter, and Dropbox. Do you think this pattern is picking up speed? If so, how will it effect the industry and devs/designers?
Topic 3: Sam, you are quite a proponent of swift on #immutable and I like it much better than Obj-C, but there are some oddities I'm still on the fence about: specifically the way generics seem to work when compared to other languages (C++and C# are what I am most familiar with). This has caused me headaches when trying to write my own generic collection types and write extensions for existing types like Array. What are your thoughts on that design decision and how has that changed the way you write software?
Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
Protocol and Value Oriented Programming in UIKit Apps
Topic 4: You guys both talk about having side projects and "work", how do you manage the time between the two?
Topic 5: Really wanted your guys’ opinion on how one can go about establishing the importance of experience design, and actually thinking about the problem in a developer plus sales dominated workplace. Mantra here seems to be ’ship first, think later’.