26: Chill Out and Listen with Brad Frost

Brad Frost is the author of Atomic Design, renowned speaker, and consulting designer. Chantastic asks him about his recent experience learning React and the difficulty he found entering the realm of React. They talk about team communication, developing portable solutions, organizational therapy through design, and creating a virtuous cycle between product, design, development, and systems creating. They address the challenges of learning UI design in an industry being consumed by JavaScript, the importance of listening and the value of finding nuance in communication.

Brad Frost — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

Atomic Design — A methodology for creating design systems.
Pattern Lab — Build thoughtful, pattern-driven user interfaces using atomic design principles.
Creative exhaust, the power of being open by default: Brad Frost at TEDxGrandviewAve
my struggle to learn react — Brad's thoughts on the difficulty of learning React
i dunno — Brad's thoughts on getting impaled for detailing his struggle to learn React
dumb react — A collection of dumb React components that are used to stitch together a website screen