Designer & Designer

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 Discussed  Growth ladders: how to define and measur...

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 job unpacking the confusion and buzz around “agentic...

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 platforms ( Bluesky , Glass , Pencil Booth ) St...

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 Website The Initiative for Digital Public Infrast...

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 bullets in the first minute... You got to keep some in...

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 is an abomination   Pull Quotes "I've seen incre...

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 risk The consulting advantage: why outside perspectiv...

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 capabilities and what skills tomorrow's designers will nee...

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-storytelling/ "Everyone thinks they have a sense...

"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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout A Gentleman in Mos...

"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-ai-report/" "Dieter - Your Virtual Head of Design"...

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 Paradigm in 60 Years” Jakob’s Law  Frutiger Aero Pa...

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 Dreams https://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams...

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 (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and...

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://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/jobs/ If you ever want a...

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 designer@designer.fm

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 important to do the work special to you on the weekend....

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 can always email us at designer@designer.fm

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 designer@designer.fm

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 The K-Web http://k-web.org/ O'Reilly's Information...

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 us at designer@designer.fm

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 designer@designer.fm

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 designer@designer.fm

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 designer@designer.fm

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 designer@designer.fm