When Everything Looks Like Good Design

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When Everything Looks Like Good Design

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Oct 8, 2019

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Design critics Jessica Helfand and Emily Heyward, founder of Red Antler, discuss what's at stake when everything looks the same -- and what designers can do about it.

Released:

Oct 8, 2019

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A podcast about the stories behind interaction design. For UX/UI designers, graphic designers, and the design curious. Hosted by Adobe principal designer Khoi Vinh. Brought to you by Adobe and Gimlet Creative.

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Good Design is Good Civics: The Boston Mayor’s Office wanted more people to report problems through 311. Would they be able to transform their human-operated phone line into an automated mobile app? by Wireframe
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Covid-19 is changing how designers think: With our first episode, we tackle the Covid-19 pandemic question directly: how has it affected designers and the work they do? Our episode explores the changing nature of work from a designer's perspective. We also examine what it means to design during a pandemic - and how our anxieties and concerns intersect with the responsibilities UX designers already have in making technology work better for us. by Wireframe
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BONUS: What Good Design Sounds Like by Wireframe
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Sounds Like Good Design: Design is more than how it looks, it’s also how it sounds. From an annoying buzz, to a pleasant ding, we explore audio notification design, and what happens in the brain when we interact with these alerts. by Wireframe
21 min listen
Privacy, Trust, and Good Design: The more time we spend online, the more personal data we share with companies and governments. In order to use everyday digital services, we’re giving up our privacy. How can designers help users understand what they’re agreeing to - before they agree? by Wireframe
27 min listen
Independently Good Design: Live from Adobe MAX: An in-house design job at a big company can seem really sexy - but some of the biggest ideas in design are still coming from independent studios and agencies. by Wireframe
21 min listen
A Prescription for Good Design: Design begins with the client, but what happens with doctors aren't the client for new health record systems? by Wireframe
21 min listen
Coming Soon: Wireframe Season Two: Wireframe, from Adobe and Gimlet Creative, is back for a second season. by Wireframe
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Inclusivity is a Recipe for Good Design: What closed captions and Xbox controllers teach us about inclusive design. by Wireframe
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When Everything Looks Like Good Design: In the effort to establish best practices and streamline user experience, have designers lost their originality? by Wireframe
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How crowdfunding design makes it easy for us to give: As the pandemic created health and employment crises, a lot of people found themselves in urgent need of financial help. As a result, crowdfunding platforms are proving more popular than ever. They create personal connections between those of us asking for help, and those of us with money to give. We look at how platforms like GoFundMe, Kickstarter, Patreon and Chuffed deploy different strategies in their UX design to encourage us to give, and give more. by Wireframe
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Faking Good Design: Access Denied. Access Denied. Access Granted. Fantasy user interfaces have become tropes on the small and silver screen. On this episode of Wireframe we talk to the designers tasked with creating the futures we see in our favorite films. by Wireframe
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Does Burger King's new logo make you nostalgic?: When Burger King launched its new logo and branding identity this winter, a lot of people said the new look felt retro, even nostalgic. But was that really what the King had in mind for its new brand? In our season launch episode, host Khoi Vinh and producers Pippa Johnstone and Dominic Girard investigate the creative upsides and the pitfalls of using nostalgia to inform your design choices. by Wireframe
27 min listen
Why can’t dad unmute himself on Zoom?: Your dad’s dog is barking in the background, but he doesn't know how to mute his video chat. Your uncle can’t get Netflix working on his new SmartTV. And grandma still can’t find where her favorite songs are stored on her tablet. Why is your family always depending on you for tech support? Sometimes design, technology, and getting older doesn't add up. And if design is failing older generations, it will eventually fail us all. by Wireframe
27 min listen
Falling in Love with Good Design: Are dating apps really designed to help you fall in love forever - or to keep you swiping forever? by Wireframe
29 min listen
Season 3: The UX of life has changed: With the pandemic, the user experience of life has changed. It has affected how we feel, how we communicate, how we think and how we entertain ourselves. This season, we examine how good UX design can help technology support some very current anxieties. Can design help us sleep? Can it encourage us to be more charitable? Can it solve our family tech support conundrums? Can it entertain us with better online content? And come November, can it help us vote? by Wireframe
2 min listen
Why We Love to Hate Comic Sans and the Return of Fonts with Personality: If Comic Sans showed up at a house party, would it be welcome or shown the door? In this episode, the Wireframe team parties down with a wild array of fonts, good and bad, to learn about the rise of novelty typefaces like Comic Sans and the proliferation of the now all-too-familiar geometric sans serif typeface. They’ll find out what the popularity of these fonts says about how we think about the role of typography in today’s world. by Wireframe
28 min listen
Hilton Carter and Kyle Webster Help Plant Man P Design for a Split Audience: Jon’s business, Plant Man P, is a melding of his two passions: streetwear and houseplants. It’s a unique combination, but it means that Jon’s audience is fractured: the houseplant crowd don’t resonate as much with his streetwear posts, and vice versa. As a result, Jon is stumbling through efforts to design great content. Should he try to please everyone, all the time? Or can we help him find a design strategy to hone in on his target audience? by Wireframe
22 min listen
$Hilton Carter and Kyle Webster Help Plant Man P Design for a Split Audience: Jon’s business, Plant Man P, is a melding of his two passions: streetwear and houseplants. It’s a unique combination, but it means that Jon’s audience is fractured: the houseplant crowd don’t resonate as much with his streetwear posts, and vice versa. As a result, Jon is stumbling through efforts to design great content. Should he try to please everyone, all the time? Or can we help him find a design strategy to hone in on his target audience?$
Why are elections so hard to design well?: The fundamental design feature of a democratic society is a citizen's right to vote. But ensuring that every person is able to vote is not as easy as it seems. Everything from how you design a paper ballot, build an electronic terminal, process a mail-in ballot, engineer a public space for private voting, and so on, brings hundreds of complicated design decisions. We look at how design choices are sometimes at odds with political ones. by Wireframe
30 min listen
How streaming services design interfaces to keep us watching: On just one day this Spring, at the height of global stay-at-home orders for Covid-19, Americans watched 27 billion minutes of streaming video. Dozens of online streaming services court us with an ever increasing amount of television and film content. And yet, more streaming services are coming online. But in the battle to win over subscribers (and our subscription dollars), how much of a role can good UX interface design play in crowning a video streaming champion? Does the best interface matter, or is content truly king? by Wireframe
30 min listen
Design, creativity, and a new season of Wireframe: Wireframe is back with a fresh season all about design and creativity. by Wireframe
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How do designers use data visualization to take the numb out of numbers?: Do you know what “flatten the curve” means? If so, it’s likely in part due to the hard work by data visualization designers over the last year. Our society is now more data driven than ever; as everything is quantified, counted, and dumped into spreadsheets, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by numbers. Data visualization designers work to sort through the numbers using both science and creativity to find the stories they have to tell, and help us understand the world a little better. But what goes into designing an effective data visualization, and how do you balance the art and the science of it? by Wireframe
21 min listen
How can designers support the fight for racial justice?: The Black Lives Matter movement has mobilized countless people all over the world in the urgent fight for true racial justice and equality, one of the most important issues of our time. In this episode, host Khoi Vinh and producers Dominic Girard and Pippa Johnstone examine the intersection of BLM and the world of design and creativity. They unpack the challenge of building a brand around an expansive social movement, investigate the role that art, craft, and design can play in the struggle, and bring to light the role bias can play in the underpinnings of the design profession itself. by Wireframe
28 min listen

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When Everything Looks Like Good Design

When Everything Looks Like Good Design

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Titles in the series (52)

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