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385: Raising Your Team’s UI Bar
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30 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2021
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This week, we talk about strategies and tactical tips for elevating a team’s bar to design high quality interfaces. In The Sidebar, we talk about how to transition from web to mobile design.Golden Ratio Supporter:A huge shoutout to Copilot, the best app for budgeting and tracking your personal finances. It’s our favorite tool for categorizing our spending, having our net worth available at a glance, and getting monthly (and yearly!) digests of all your spending.Get the app at copilot.money.Latest VIP Patrons:Marcel mcvVarada GavaskarAnas KAFede Sánchez SaorínStevanus SatriaEugeneCarlo FrancoSingYu LamSiegsSam WitheyRachel JinStephen CadyFelix ShinJon LeeRafał ZiółekMitchell WattsRemi ChuNancy ZuoThe Sidebar:The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to full episodes going forward! Sign up at https://patreon.com/designdetails.In this week's Sidebar, we talk about things to learn and new mental models to adopt in order to transition from web to mobile design.Follow up:Vincent van der Meulen tweeted a very nice note: Best thing I did early on was spend hours listening to @designdetailsfm interviews. It taught me how to talk about my work and reflect on it long before I had any skills. I got my first internship by answering the interview Qs like I thought a designer on Design Details would ?Thanks so much for your note! This makes it all worth it ? Main Topic:sallythat asks us on GitHub: What to do when the design team’s bar for UI is low?We discuss some tips and strategies for communication and finding leverage in systems to raise the bar for a product’s UI.Cool Things:Brian shared CleanShot X, a fantastic alternative to the default macOS screenshot tool. Highlights: auto-copy to clipboard and place window screenshots perfectly centered on your wallpaper.Marshall shared r/thatsabooklight, a subreddit about props in movies or shows that were repurposed from everyday household items.Design Details on the Web:? We are @designdetailsfm? Brian is @brian_lovin? Marshall is @marshallbock? Don't have Twitter? Email us at designdetailsfm@gmail.com? Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunesByeee!
Released:
Feb 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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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