Proof Of Usability
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -Zach sits down with a new guest every other week to talk about building products on blockchain and the distributed web.
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Blockchain + Game Design with Rafael Morado from Dapper Labs
September 30, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MB“At the end of the day, games can facilitate learning and learning is one of the most satisfying experiences we can have.” This week I sat down with Rafael Morado to talk about Blockchain and Game Design. I love this episode for two reasons. First, because it made me smarter, dispelling a lot of my naiveté about building games on the blockchain and second, because it all sprung from a dumb tweet I made a few weeks ago (Read the tweet and initial convo here). Rafael is a consummate profess...
"Protocols are the ultimate hyper-object" - Talking Design Philosophy w/ Jessica Schilling and Jim Lee
September 16, 2020 15:45 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBI sat down with Jessica Schilling and Jim “Cake” Lee, designers and technologists working with Protocol Labs on their IPFS and FileCoin Slate projects. It was a banger. When designers “talk about design” a lot of times, it’s the shop top. The tools, the instruments. The systems. There’s a lot of content like that out there. In this episode we dug a lot more into the philosophy behind it, the why that goes into designing these meta-systems. This has been Proof of Usability. Be sure to che...
Building Market-Informed Products with Matt Cutler
September 04, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBFor the first official episode of Proof-of-Usability, I’m re-releasing my chat with Blocknative's Co-Founder and CEO Matt Cutler ( @mcutler) from back in March. Why should you listen to Matt about building products people want? Uh, because he’s a boss. Literally. Founder & CEO of Block Native. Multiple founder, 7 times over. He’s taken companies public, split them up, merged them together and has a just a really unique, seasoned perspective. He’s been building internet companies since 1994....
Kicking Things Off...
September 02, 2020 18:08 - 4 minutes - 6.06 MBWe kick things off with Proof-of-Usability, a limited series exploring Design in the Blockchain space. A special shout-out to MetaMedia who’s currently publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella. Be sure to check out their weekly live-stream, The Spicey Take, find them on Twitch at Meta_Media and Twitter @Meta_Media. I’m Zach Herring, I’m on Twitter, @zherring, DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff,...