Mentioned Medium’s Snowflake Growth Tool (original GitHub repo) Stanford Product Design Rubric (Stanford Design Program) I, X and T shaped Designers Book: Radical Candor by Kim Scott Book: The Visual MBA (or Creative MBA — verify the exact title) Short Story: The Swimmer by John Cheever Newsletter: Good Work by Joe Alterio – goodwork.is Topics Disc…

Mentioned V0 by Vercel that generates front-end code Builder.io for creating UI flows from language prompts UXPilot for generating UI from specs Lovable for different design styles Perplexity as a tool that bypasses SEO spam Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? Jakob's Law of Internet User Experience 23:48 Brian says he didn’t do a great jo…

Mentioned Arthur C. Clarke did die in 2008. Brian has no idea what he saw now. The Tech Oligarchy Arrives Mark Zuckerberg's political shift Meta's Llama AI models versus other foundational models "Making the world a better place" from Silicon Valley TV show The world is not as bad as we think it is. HyperFixed: Kristen Has Doubts Alternative social…

Mentioned Oranssi Pazusu MIke Sugarman Blackgaze Context Collaspe Designing for the Pluriverse Enshittification ProSocial Media Kala, the Suburban Miner Topics Discussed How did we get to this place of totally siloed communal activity? Big Rooms and Small Rooms Where the Weird Still Is Making the web civic-minded again Ethan Link's Ethan's Personal…

Mentioned What Was the TED Talk?​ from our super smart friend Jay Fienberg (who you should hire!) Topics Discussed Why don't designers learn how to present design? Do's and Don't for design presentations To Neg or Not to Neg? That is the question. The exhausting reality of "performing" Pull Quotes "Amateur hour is when someone spends all their bull…

Burn Victims • FAANG as a validator • FAANG's lack of innovation • Armchair Logo Art Direction • Amateur hour in the design space • MAU/DAU is a broken concept • Uber is the ultimate example of enshittification • An attempt to not look at my phone •"Chimping" • Text messaging needs a reinvent • What's App is terrible • "Founder Mode" • Alegria Art …

Mentioned Mythic Quest episode: Dark Quiet Death The pram in the hall Tim Van Damme XOXO Festival Crazy Boat! Topics Discussed The delicate balance between following established patterns and advocating for innovative design solutions How life circumstances (family obligations, debt, financial security) fundamentally change our relationship with ris…

In this episode, Brian and Joe welcome back Dave Miller from Design Citizen to discuss the evolving landscape of design as a profession and what the future designer might look like. Dave shares insights from his recent LinkedIn article exploring design from 2025 through 2040, discussing how AI and accessible tools are transforming creative capabili…

The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect The Continuity Girl https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/continuity-girl/ Joe's Latest Web Comic, The Custodian https://goodwork.is/TheCustodian/ Design is Storytelling, by Ellen Lupton https://www.cooperhewitt.org/publications/design-is…

"Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral": https://lifehacker.com/tech/instagram-has-official-ai-accounts-and-they-are-weird AI2: https://allenai.org/ The Singularity Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/ Charles Baudelaire on Photography: https://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art109/readings/11%20baudelaire%20photography.htm Klout: http…

"Generative AI fuels creative physical product design but is no magic wand" https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/generative-ai-fuels-creative-physical-product-design-but-is-no-magic-wand "Graphic design among most at-risk jobs from AI – report" "https://www.designweek.co.uk/graphic-design-among-most-at-risk-jobs-from-…

Ep 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to Prison R/workreform The Need for Climate Optimism The Economy, Stupid The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory You’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job Done How the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel Bad Library of Congress, Cartoon Collection The Electric Wire Panic N/N: “AI: First New UI Par…

LinkedIn People who talk about this topic: Hang Xu https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/ Peter Merholz https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/ Manuel Lima https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/ Erika Hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/ - Indeed UX Job Report https://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023 Joe’s Small Jobs, Small …

Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers. A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on Cognitive Performance in Real-World and VR Environments This research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities …

Show Notes Workism Is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Some decent Job Boards https://www.ixda.org/jobs/ https://www.uxjobsboard.com/ https://dribbble.com/ https://www.earlystagedesignjobs.com/ https://www.krop.com/creative-jobs/ux-ui-designer/ https://j…

Mentioned in this episode: Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Designer & Designer

Brian and Joe talk to Gina Trapani, CEO of the digital product shop Postlight. Postlight has been unlocking solutions for clients for the past 10 years, and we ask Gina to let us in on the insights of a running a successful design and engineering business. We talk about moving from a Doer to a Leader, the importance of Discovery, and why it’s impor…

Joe and Brian discuss the dispiriting trend of the current tech stack driving how products are built. What does it mean when a product is designed not for the user, customer, or output, but for ease of technical deployment? What will the future hold if that trend continues? Should try and stop it?Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You c…

Adobe buys Figma Missing Kara Swisher content A simple way to make HTML websites Org Design for Design Orgs Why Designers Quit Why corporate America broke up with design thinking The T-Shaped Designer Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Designer & Designer

Kelli Goto's Web ReDesign: https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335 Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differently https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-gen-z-searches-for-content Eli Parser's Filter Bubbles TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en James Burke's T…

Brian and Joe break down whether creative work is calling, or just a job? Can a creative person be just as happy keeping their creative work to their hobbies? Is making money as a creative part of what being a professional creative is? And where do blenders come in to all of this?Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email u…

Find Dave at designcitizen.com Dave's Original Linkedin Post Jared Spool Tweet Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Dave Miller

Mentioned in this episode: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom Stop Whining About Big Government by Kara Swisher featuring Mariana Mazzucato /r/learnart & /r/drawing Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Designer & Designer

Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin Field Notes Pick up Draplin Design Co. merch Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Aaron Draplin

Mentioned in this episode: Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem Episode 1: Design Thinking The Highly Sensitive Person Episode 21: Observation in Design Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Designer & Designer

Brian and Joe check-in with some designer friends and see how they’re holding up in this never-ending zoom call.Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email usat [email protected] Jay Fienberg, Chez Gledhill, Bekah Marcum

Find more information about Josh Glenn and his work in semiotics at http://semiovox.com Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Josh Glenn

It's a Design Tools “Ball of Death” Match! Brian & Joe compare the pros and cons of common design tools like Sketch, Figma and Photoshop. They share their experiences of finding the right tool for the job and their preferred tools for getting sh*t done.Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email usat [email protected]…

You can find more about Jacob Covey and his work at https://www.unflown.com Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Jacob Covey

Mentioned in this episode: - Black Designers of Seattle - Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein Show - So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo - White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo Additional resources: - Black Lives Matter & Black Lives Matter Seattle -…

Mentioned in this episode: - Joe's Original Post, Observation As A Prerequisite For Design (https://formidable.com/blog/2019/design-observation/) - Ira Glass on the Taste Gap (https://vimeo.com/85040589) - History of the Ampelmann (https://www.ampelmann.de/en/a-brand-with-a-history/) Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle (www.cloudstudiosseattle.com…

Mentioned in this episode: - Are you asking enough from your design leaders? - Design Maturity Model by InVision - Future of Design in Start-Ups - There's no guarantee your product strategy will work. Here's how to de-risk it Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to …

Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Connect with Bekah Marcum on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahmarc/ And if you are a black designer in Seattle, be sure connect with Bekah's group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13668366/ Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You…

Mentioned in this episode: - Frank Chimero's Burnout List is a great primer for this discussion - The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by John Gruber - Second Wave Gentrification by Charles Mudede - Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why? Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us…

Mentioned in the episode: - Design Gigs for Good Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Mollie Ruskin, Joe Alterio, Sarah Fathallah

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling, Chez Gledhill

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Jay Fienberg, Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle. Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected] Brian Fling, Joe Alterio