Michael Sacca - Looking into Design Discipline and Design Community

Michael is the General Manager at Dribbble. He started his career 15 years ago as a Product Designer, eventually founding a cutting-edge product agency that built applications for Scholastic, GE, Nike, Siemens, Kobe Bryant and more. He was the President at Crew, the freelance design and development marketplace, and former parent company of Unsplash, the popular stock photo website. At Crew he secured key partnerships with Squarespace and the BDC before leading the company through it's acquisition by Dribbble in 2017. In this episode he discusses the key design trends he has seen over the last decade as well as demystifying the design world’s terminology and the challenges he has faced in trying to grow Dribbble.

“We were clubhouse before clubhouse” - Michael

Timestamps:

1.51 - How did Michael’s journey begin

4.34 - Michael reveals the design trends he has seen in the last decade

7.02 - Michael demystifies the terminology in design

17.18 - Find out why Michael created Dribbble

22.22 - What are the challenges Michael has faced?

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• Rocketship.fm Podcast - https://rocketship.fm/

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Resources:

>>>Check out Whimsical for getting started with wireframing - https://whimsical.com/wireframes

>>>Check out Balsamiq for more detailed wireframing - https://balsamiq.com/

>>>Find designers on Dribbble - https://dribbble.com/featured-designers