228: Empathy & Impostors (feat. Coleen Baik)

Today we caught up with Coleen Baik, an independent designer and advisor en route to NYC via SF. In this episode we talk about Coleen's path into design, her work at Twitter, the responsibilities of designing at scale, expanding perspectives by traveling to North Korea, and so much more. We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in. We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat! Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel! Sponsors: .design domains - porkbun is running a promotion on .design domain names - get your non-premium .design domain for $35 today, with promo code 'SPEC' Figma - Figma is hiring designers, design advocates, and content writers to help them build the future of design tools. Coleen on the Web: Website Twitter Medium Dribbble We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in. We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat! Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the SpecFM community, and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel! Sponsors: Fuse - Build native apps on iOS and Android. Use the promo code 'dd' to save 70% off the professional plan! Coleen on the Web: Website Twitter Medium Dribbble