29: Bananagrams (feat. Ryan Putnam & Nick Slater)

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29: Bananagrams (feat. Ryan Putnam & Nick Slater)

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May 27, 2015

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In this episode of Design Details we had the pleasure of catching up with Ryan Putnam and returning-guest Nick Slater! We chat about illustration, designing a company culture, mixing mediums and finding our spirit animals.

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May 27, 2015

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A weekly conversation about design process and culture. Hosted by Marshall Bock and Brian Lovin.

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0: Design Details Teaser: This is a little teaser recording for us to test our equipment, set up our feeds and get the website up and running. You can subscribe to the podcast by heading to http://designdetails.fm and following on iTunes, RSS or email! The first Design Details epi by Design Details
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3: I'm Tired of Looking at Apps (feat. Wilson Miner): Another Monday means another episode of Design Details! This week we caught up with Wilson Miner, an insanely thoughtful and talented designer well-known for his work at Apple, Rdio and Facebook. In this episode we talked with Wilson about game design, hi by Design Details
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1: How Nerdy of an Answer Do You Want? (feat. Sam Soffes): The first episode of Design Details has arrived! For our opening show, we sat down with designer and developer Sam Soffes to talk about his latest project (Whiskey), building in public, brag-driven development and his interest in working as a designer. by Design Details
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13: Eating Horse (feat. Maurice Woods): We had an amazing conversation this week with Maurice "Mo" Woods, a senior visual designer at Yahoo and founder of the Inneract Project. We chat about what he's doing in design education, diversity in design and how his background as a pro basketball play by Design Details
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12: Topsoil Decisions (feat. Ryan Sims): This past week we sat down with Ryan Sims, the former head of design at Rdio. We caught up with him about his latest career change as he heads to Adobe, what it was like growing the design team at Rdio and what it means to have a design mentor. This was a by Design Details
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7: VP of Unnecessary Redesign (feat. Cap Watkins): This week we caught up with Cap Watkins, the recently-appointed VP of design at BuzzFeed. We picked Cap's brain about hiring designers, A/B testing, beard-growing, East Coast design and more. Oh, and robo-horses! by Design Details
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4: Meatspace User Onboarding (feat. Kristy Tillman): This week we caught up with Kristy Tillman, a former designer at IDEO who now leads the design charge at Society of Grownups. We had a great time chatting across a huge range of topics, from diversity in tech to meatspace user onboarding! by Design Details
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14: Unless You're Dumb (feat. Jared Erondu): This week we hung out with Jared Erondu for an hour or so. He has put out an extremely impressive body of work in a very short time - from his work at Lift, to Omada, to co-founding The Industry with Drew Wilson, to his current role as Creative Director a by Design Details
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Bonus Episode: Apple Watch Watch 2015: Today we're excited to release a special bonus episode of the Design Details Podcast! After today's Apple Watch event we grabbed Sam Soffes to chat about the implications for us as designers and what the watch means for app design going into the future. by Design Details
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10: Tiny Nuggets of Delight (feat. Tim Van Damme): This week we caught up with Tim Van Damme, an amazing designer who has been a part of some of our favorite products including Instagram and Dropbox. For this hour we chat about Tim's past experience in design, working on Mailbox, Dribbble and the future o by Design Details
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5: Squeeze in Some Meat with Your Candy (feat. Gabriel Valdivia): This week we had a chat with Gabriel Valdivia, a Product Designer at Facebook. He's a close friend and a remarkable designer best known for his work at Automatic. We had a great time chatting about a lot of Gabe's favorite things - from prototyping to Ser by Design Details
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8: Deathly Allergic to Avocado (feat. Chloe Park): Episode 8 everyone! This week we sat down with the lovely Chloe Park, an experience designer making things happen at OpenTable. We chat about everything from the design process at OpenTable to Chloe's biggest problems with relationships in tech. This was by Design Details
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2: So Vanilla (feat. Nick Slater): Here we go, episode two of the Design Details Podcast! This week we caught up with Nick Slater, an insanely talented designer and illustrator doing wonderful work at Palantir. by Design Details
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24: Open Source Religion (feat. Kevin Rose): This week we sat down with Kevin Rose - he's a product creator and VC who has had a prolific presence in the tech community for several years. We chat about the things he's loving right now, watch culture, health and cooking, hiring and so much more! by Design Details
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29: Bananagrams (feat. Ryan Putnam & Nick Slater): In this episode of Design Details we had the pleasure of catching up with Ryan Putnam and returning-guest Nick Slater! We chat about illustration, designing a company culture, mixing mediums and finding our spirit animals. by Design Details
62 min listen
22: Poor Man's Pokemon (feat. Cennydd Bowles): This week we caught up with Cennydd Bowles over Skype for a truly fascinating discussion about cross-OS design, the future of wearables, what it means to be a junior vs. senior designer, and why sound design will be the next big trend. by Design Details
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6: Down the Stuffed Rabbit Hole (feat. Marissa Louie): This week we hung out with Marissa Louie - a rather prolific designer, activist, and creator who has worked on many of our favorite products at places like Apple, Yahoo, Ness Computing, and Wanelo, among others. We discussed everything from teddy bears to by Design Details
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9: When Did the Marketing Department Get Here? (feat. Paul Stamatiou and Avi Cieplinski): For Episode 9, we had our first chat with two guests! This time we caught up with Paul Stamatiou and Avi Cieplinski, from the Photo and Video Team at Twitter. We covered a lot this week - chatting about prototyping, wearables, design process and what it's by Design Details
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15: Her Left Me (feat. Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg): This is our first time to have a second episode scheduled for the week! We're excited to try out this new format, kicking things off with two guests: Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg. We chat about design at Facebook, their journeys as designers and h by Design Details
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26: Beep Beep I Like Ferns Beep (feat. Sebastiaan De With): This week we sat down with Sebastiaan de With to chat about everything design (and motorcycles)! We caught up on his evolving career in design, what it's like building a new agency, how to work with international clients and the power of giving design res by Design Details
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17: Ptotes Pterodactyl (feat. Divya Manian & Bradee Evans): This week we hung out with Divya Manian and Bradee Evans from the Photoshop team at Adobe. This was a really, really fun episode to record and Divya and Bradee were amazing guests. We got to talk about everything from important issues around diversity to by Design Details
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11: Artisanal Fitness (feat. Erika Hall): This week we caught up with Erika Hall, co-founder of Mule Design and author of Just Enough Research. We dive deep into a handful of topics, from user research to gender in tech, from the Apple Watch to the evolution of San Francisco culture - we had a lo by Design Details
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23: Brains are Stupid (feat. Christophe Tauziet, Jeremy Goldberg, and George Kedenburg): This was the most impromptu episode we've ever done. We were just out to dinner with these guys and we were having so much fun debating design things that we decided to record our first-ever 3-guest episode. We made a lot of references to George and Jerem by Design Details
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36: 10x (feat. Meng To): For episode 36, we got to spend some time with Meng To discussing what makes a great product, how to get started with design and development, and what it takes to build a thing. Meng's an incredibly talented creator and we're grateful he was able to take by Design Details
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19: Super-Dinky Hodinkee (feat. Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh): This episode, we dug into our concerns after all the Apple Watch reviews came out with a couple of our favorite iOS developers: Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh. This episode was completely ridiculous and fun (even moreso if you caught the Periscope livestr by Design Details
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25: Arbitrary Head Chef (feat. Danny Trinh & Chris Kalani): This episode, we had two designers building their own companies by building some awesome products that we're super excited about - Chris Kalani of Wake and Danny Trinh from Free. We took a bunch of questions from people watching on Periscope and these guy by Design Details
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16: Extravagant Shallowness (feat. Khoi Vinh): This week we caught up with Khoi Vinh, an insightful and talented designer making Wildcard in New York City. In this Skype chat we talked about designing for the tablet, honesty on the web and how Khoi manages to maintain so many projects! by Design Details
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18: Kleenex Testers (feat. Stone Librande): This week we broke up our regular string of web designer guests to chat with Stone Librande, lead designer at Riot Games. Stone was also the lead designer of Diablo 3, SimCity and Spore; he's an incredibly talented creator who shared so much insight with by Design Details
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49: Space Dinosaurs (feat. Anand Sharma): Today we sat down with Anand Sharma, founder of Gyroscope and an insanely-talented designer/developer. We caught up about his work on Gyroscope, the future of health tracking and how the quantified self is changing the world. by Design Details
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