Designer & Designer is a podcast about design. Each episode dives into a design topic with candor and humor, exposing the rarely talked about challenges that designers face, and what it takes to create great design.
The New Design Enlightenment
Ep 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to PrisonR/workreformThe Need for Climate OptimismThe Economy, StupidThe Strauss-Howe Generational TheoryYou’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job DoneHow the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel BadLibrary of Congress, Cartoon CollectionThe Electric Wire PanicN/N: “AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years”Jakob’s Law Frutiger AeroPainter Bill BraunThat Dickhead VC Dude Song Credit: “Auld Lang Sign” Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-75https://lightintheattic.net/products/wheedles-groove-seattles-finest-in-funk-soul-1965-75
2/22/2024 • 50 minutes, 13 seconds
The Dark Age of UX
LinkedIn People who talk about this topic:Hang Xuhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/Peter Merholzhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/Manuel Limahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/Erika Hallhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/-Indeed UX Job Reporthttps://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023Joe’s Small Jobs, Small Dreamshttps://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams-7ed46faf46b0Facebook is Chairshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNARunway AI Motion Genertationhttps://runwayml.com
10/20/2023 • 42 minutes, 4 seconds
Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us AllAmerican 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 EnvironmentsThis research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and people’s attention to detail) in a conventional laboratory setting and an approximately identical ...Visual Thinkers Online TestBuy Temple's book here!
5/4/2023 • 51 minutes, 11 seconds
Layoffs!
Show NotesWorkism Is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/Some decent Job Boardshttps://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 portfolio review, email us! [email protected] strong out there ❤️
3/27/2023 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
Weirdos
Mentioned in this episode:Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast
12/31/2022 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
A View from the C-Suite with Gina Trapani
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.
12/13/2022 • 48 minutes, 4 seconds
Are The Tools Driving Us?
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?
11/15/2022 • 53 minutes, 21 seconds
Quick Hits
Adobe buys FigmaMissing Kara Swisher contentA simple way to make HTML websitesOrg Design for Design OrgsWhy Designers QuitWhy corporate America broke up with design thinkingThe T-Shaped Designer
11/2/2022 • 51 minutes, 45 seconds
Is IA Eating The World?
Kelli Goto's Web ReDesign:https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differentlyhttps://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-gen-z-searches-for-contentEli Parser's Filter Bubbles TED Talk:https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=enJames Burke's The K-Webhttp://k-web.org/O'Reilly's Information Architecture (The Polar Bear Book)https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/information-architecture-4th/9781491913529/Ask A Librarian:https://ask.loc.gov/Stuart Brand's How Buildings Learnhttps://www.powells.com/book/-9780140139969/17-4Jessie James Garret's The Elements of UXhttp://www.jjg.net/elements/#:~:text=Jesse%20James%20Garrett%20gives%20readers,create%20a%20successful%20user%20experience.Edward Tufte:https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
1/29/2022 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
Why Do You Do What You Do?
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?
11/9/2021 • 38 minutes, 3 seconds
'How are we doing out there?' with Dave Miller
Find Dave at designcitizen.comDave's Original Linkedin PostJared Spool Tweet
4/15/2021 • 48 minutes, 28 seconds
Ego & Empathy
Mentioned in this episode:Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul BloomStop Whining About Big Government by Kara Swisher featuring Mariana Mazzucato/r/learnart & /r/drawing
3/25/2021 • 31 minutes, 48 seconds
The Craft of Design with Aaron Draplin
Draplin Design Co.Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James DraplinField NotesPick up Draplin Design Co. merch
2/16/2021 • 42 minutes, 21 seconds
What is the Role of the Designer?
Mentioned in this episode:Amanda Gorman's inaugural poemEpisode 1: Design ThinkingThe Highly Sensitive PersonEpisode 21: Observation in Design
1/28/2021 • 34 minutes, 38 seconds
The Check-In
Brian and Joe check-in with some designer friends and see how they’re holding up in this never-ending zoom call.
1/14/2021 • 33 minutes, 41 seconds
Semiotics with Josh Glenn
Find more information about Josh Glenn and his work in semiotics at http://semiovox.com
11/24/2020 • 48 minutes, 25 seconds
Design Tools
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.
10/22/2020 • 38 minutes, 25 seconds
Iterations with Jacob Covey
You can find more about Jacob Covey and his work at https://www.unflown.com
10/7/2020 • 36 minutes, 57 seconds
Black Lives Matter
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 DiangeloAdditional resources:- Black Lives Matter & Black Lives Matter Seattle- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates- Anti-racist reading list for designers- Resources In Defense of Black Lives- What Not To Say To Your Black Colleagues Right Now- Blacks Who Design- Support Black Owned Businesses
6/10/2020 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
Observation in Design
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).
3/17/2020 • 41 minutes, 53 seconds
What does it take to create a design-led company?
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 itSpecial thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
3/10/2020 • 38 minutes, 53 seconds
Can We Design A Better Future
Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
3/3/2020 • 29 minutes, 23 seconds
How to Talk About Race & Design with Bekah Marcum
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.
2/24/2020 • 27 minutes, 19 seconds
Burnout
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.
2/13/2020 • 32 minutes
Design For Good
Mentioned in the episode:- Design Gigs for GoodRecorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
2/6/2020 • 37 minutes, 26 seconds
How Do You Get Started?
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
1/21/2020 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
Can Anyone Be A Designer?
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
1/15/2020 • 35 minutes, 37 seconds
Data vs. Intuition
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
1/9/2020 • 28 minutes, 57 seconds
Everything is on Fire: A Guide to Product Management
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
12/18/2019 • 35 minutes, 4 seconds
Defending Your Design
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
12/10/2019 • 30 minutes, 36 seconds
Mistakes
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
12/3/2019 • 32 minutes, 32 seconds
A Designer&Designer Thanksgiving
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
11/25/2019 • 19 minutes, 4 seconds
How Deep Does Design Go?
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
11/19/2019 • 37 minutes, 51 seconds
What is Good Design?
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
11/12/2019 • 29 minutes, 3 seconds
Imposter Syndrome
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
11/2/2019 • 35 minutes, 15 seconds
What is IA, UX, and UI?
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
10/11/2019 • 27 minutes, 49 seconds
The Design Interview
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
9/27/2019 • 37 minutes, 37 seconds
Make the Web Weird Again
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
9/13/2019 • 24 minutes, 31 seconds
Failure
Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.
8/31/2019 • 35 minutes, 34 seconds
Design Thinking
Mentioned in this episode:- Natasha Jen's talk "Design Thinking is Bullsh*t"- Design thinking origin story by Jo Szczepanska- Khoi Vinh's "In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible"Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.