All Episodes

464: AI Grab Bag

463: Design Medley, Vol. 1

462: Refactoring a Design System

461: Config and WWDC 2023

460: Arc Boosts ft. Gabriel Valdivia

459: What Is Humane?

458: How Do You Simplify a UI?

457: How to Find Focus

456: Should Designers Name Their Layers?

455: Shift Happens ft. Marcin Wichary

454: Is UI Design Actually That Important?

453: Building a Type Stack

452: Design Trends for 2023

451: The Whole Twitter Thing

450: Designing Hefty Interfaces

449: Google Pixel 7 Event

448: News Desk, Vol. 5

447: Stranded on Dynamic Island

446: Grab Bag, Vol. 3

445: Designing the Perfect Desk

444: Writing Effective Self-Reviews

443: Design Systems Interviews

442: It Doesn't Have to Be Right

441: WWDC 2022

440: Don’t Call It a Design Critique

439: Config 2022

438: Dissecting Substack’s Podcast Player

437: Scaling Design Critique

436: Reclaiming Your Focus

435: New Feature Launch Checklist

434: News Desk, Vol. 4

433: Making a Case for Icons

432: Traits of a Good Manager

431: Transitioning from Industrial to Digital Design

430: Design File Sanity and Breaking Navigation Patterns

429: Better Remote Onboarding

428: Teaching vs Micromanaging

427: Tools for Thought ft. Mark McGranaghan and Adam Wiggins

426: Senior++ Designer Expectations

425: Overengineering Variants

424: The Art of Unsolicited Redesigns

423: What We Learned in 2021

422: The Complainisode

421: The Future of Remote Design Teams

420: The Pointer Cursor Debate

419: Teaching Design at Work

418: Fictional User Interfaces

417: The Side Project Prophecy

416: UI Reviews and QA

415: News Desk, Vol. 3

414: Memorable Software Moments

413: Design Mentorship

412: Side Project Perfectionism

411: Follow-upisode

410: Agency vs In-House Design

409: Twitter’s Follow Button

408: News Desk, Vol. 2

407: Pixel 6

406: Who Leads UI Design?

405: News Desk, Vol. 1

404: Visual Design and Craft ft. Justin Stahl

403: The Confidence Gradient

402: Margin Considered Harmful

401: Three Dots

400: Is Software Ever Finished?

399: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

398: Proof of Curiosity

397: Customer Feedback vs. Team Intuition

396: Career Cheat Codes

395: Config 2021

394: Open Source Design ft. Joey Banks

393: The Not-So-Humble Button

392: Becoming a Strategic Designer

391: Portfolio Review Tips for Senior Designers

390: Building Design Infrastructure ft. Kathryn Gonzalez

389: Better Design Reviews

388: Design Tips and Tricks, Part 2

387: Design Craft Tips & Tricks

386: Designing with Grid Systems

385: Raising Your Team’s UI Bar

384: Finding Time for North Star Design

383: Invisible Design

382: Designing Phygital Experiences

381: Scope Creep

380: Designing WhatsApp ft. Priyanka Kodikal

379: Shipping Personal Projects

378: 2020 Clipstravaganza!

377: Future-Proof Designer

376: Shipping Quality UI

375: Reconsidering Consistency

374: End of the Mac Era?

373: Designer or Developer?

372: Saving People from Themselves

371: A Culture of Excellence

370: Designing for One Hand

369: Shallow Design Culture

368: Teaching Design Fundamentals

367: Effective Brainstorming

366: Closing the Gap to Senior

365: UX Research ft. Danae Holmes

364: How to Design Better Settings

363: How to Talk to Users

362: What Do Designers Even Do All Day?

361: Building Things You Use

360: Measuring Success in Interface Design

359: Design Systems and Creativity

358: Design and Venture Capital

357: GPT-3 and the Future of Design

356: Becoming a Product Manager ft. Cemre Güngör

355: Should I Be a Product Manager?

354: Designing on a Visa ft. Yitong Zhang

353: WWDC 2020

352: Building a Better Design Industry ft. Maurice Cherry

351: Accessibility Gut Checks

350: Designing Misused Features

349: Black Lives Matter

348: Getting Unstuck

347: Overcoming Skill Gaps

346: Quality Software

345: Developing Taste

344: Knowing When to Give Up a Fight

343: Over and Undervalued Design Skills

342: Critiquing Our Early Work

341: Counterintuitive User Experiences

340: Versioning and Handoff in Figma

339: The New iPadOS Cursor

338: Passive Income and How To Give Advice (feat. Meg Lewis)

337: The Metagame of Design

336: Learning by Doing

335: Giving Better Upward Feedback

334: Keylines and Scannable Designs

333: Writing an Effective Self Review

332: Creating layouts: Design vs Implementation

331: The Designer-Developer Handoff

330: Twitter Tips for Designers

329: Web vs Product Design

328: Thinking About 2020

327: Organizing Component Systems

326: Design Tools Today

325: Changing Roles in a Growing Company

324: Interface Design and the Physical World

323: Designing Social Proof

322: Designing App Onboarding Experiences

321: Illustrations and the Side Effects of Free Resources (feat. Meg Robichaud & Ryan Putnam)

320: The Path of a Generalist (feat. Pablo Stanley)

319: Content Strategy and Designing with Language (feat. Jonathon Colman)

318: Death of the Designer Unicorn

317: Designing for Dark Mode

316: The Convergence of iOS and Android

315: Building a Listener-Supported Podcast

314: Beauty, Vulnerability, and Doing Things That Matter (feat. Haraldur Thorleifsson)

313: Design Process Automation

312: Managing a Design Systems Team (feat. Diana Mounter)

311: Visuals in Product Design

310: Work, Culture, and Experimentation at a Product Design Agency (feat. Skyler Balbus)

309: Career Progression for Product Designers

308: Learning Design as a Developer

307: iOS 13 Beta

306: Is Ego Getting in the Way of Accessibility?

305: From Team to Solo Designer (feat. Michie Cao)

304: Interviewing the Interviewer

303: Building Design Teams (feat. Stacy La)

302: Designing Dark Patterns

301: Android vs. iOS

300: Looking Back on 300 Episodes

299: Balancing Management and IC Work

298: Designing a Design Curriculum

297: Day-to-Day Design Struggles

296: Google I/O

295: Public Critique and The Facebook Redesign

294: Designing UX for Games (feat. Tea Chang) (& Endgame Discussion)

293: Is AR a Gimmick?

292: Building Design Systems (feat. Linzi Berry)

291: Figma's UI Redesign and Public Critique

290: Transitioning to Product Design

289: Design File Hygiene

288: Articulating Design Rationale

287: A Peek Behind the Curtain

286: Bask in the Awkwardness

285: Deadly American Idol

284: Stone Soup

283: Timefoolery

282: Flow State

281: Steady Habit

280: Steve Jobs Shoulder Buddy

279: TWIGBY

278: Dice Gamble

277: Dribbble Stories (feat. Zack Onisko)

276: Hidden Shortcuts, Formal Educations, and "Builders"

275: Now, That's One Smart Home!

274: Well... It's Free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

273: Bespoke, Artisanal, Single-Batch Blog Post

272: Stupid Mountain

271: Principles of Design

270: Onward Into the Dark

269: The Ignorance-Is-Bliss Thing

268: I Want It That Way

267: Don't Wanna Yuck Anyone's Yum

266: Stay Warm Out There, Tauntaun

265: Travel Edition

264: Oven Mittens

263: News, News, and More News

262: Taste Acquisition (feat. Iheanyi Ekechukwu)

261: Reverse Midas

260: Mutual Admiration Society

259: Everything Is a Spec

258: A Foot in the Door

257: Here It Goes Again

256: DD_final_final_FINAL.mp3 (feat. Sam Soffes)

255: Design Caretaker (feat. Charlie Sutton)

254: The People's Champion (feat. Fabian Perez)

253: Follow The Troll Flow (feat. May-Li Khoe & Chikezie Ejiasi)

252: Furniture Nomadic (feat. Mu-An Chiou)

251: Hip-Hop & Horses (feat. Steph Engle)

250: LIVE at Combine (feat. May-Li Khoe, Katie Dill & Soleio Cuervo)

249: Hi/Lo Technical (feat. Priyanka Kodikal)

248: OshKoshFigJosh (feat. Josh Dunsterville)

247: Give A Goat A Gobstopper (feat. Kyle Turman)

246: Cats & Design Systems (feat. Diana Mounter & Brent Jackson)

245: Sandwich Principal (feat. Tom Moor)

244: Peter Piper Pizza Party (feat. Claudio Vallejo)

243: Maximum Potassium (feat. Vlad Magdalin)

242: Traitor Joe (feat. Victor Kernes)

241: Toast, The Bread (feat. Meg Robichaud)

240: Proxima Nova Revolution (feat. Hardik Pandya)

239: Data Ultra (feat. Lin Wang)

238: Grocery Social (feat. Julie Delanoy)

237: Hoppy Borthdoy (feat. Hartley Miller)

236: TI-85 (feat. Charlie Cheever)

235: Incremental Correctness (feat. Guillermo Rauch)

234: Maximum Effort (feat. PJ Buddhari)

233: Recapisode #4 (Looking Back at 2017)

232: Recapisode #3 (Looking Back at 2017)

231: Recapisode #2 (Looking Back at 2017)

230: Recapisode #1 (Looking Back At 2017)

229: Graphic DeSpyner (feat. Christina Nguyen)

228: Empathy & Impostors (feat. Coleen Baik)

227: Hype Down (feat. Kathleen Warner)

226: Mood Lightning (feat. Rafael Conde)

225: D.D.P.D. (feat. Zach Johnston)

224: Maybe It's The Carrots? (feat. Courtland Allen)

223: Demystified Denim (feat. Jessica Karle)

222: Almost as Good as Cheese (feat. Fiona Rolander)

221: Rate The Fire (feat. Chikezie Ejiasi)

220: Turtle Tiles (feat. Melody Quintana)

219: Artisanal Iceman (feat. Patrick Wong)

218: How Dutch Can I Go? (feat. Owen Williams)

217: Mystery Lifestyle (feat. Tyler Thompson)

216: Topo Geeko (feat. John Rodriguez)

215: Shared Coolness Mood Board (feat. Salih Abdul-Karim)

214: Hot Weather Hugs (feat. Greyson MacAlpine)

213: 5,000 Horsepower (feat. Will Peng)

212: Extreme Portfolio Makeover (feat. Conway Anderson)

211: Sunshine In A Bag (feat. Mercedes Bazan)

210: Did I Write This? (feat. Jules Forrest)

209: Charmander++ (feat. Brian Lovin & Bryn Jackson)

208: Say More Things (feat. Josh Brewer)

207: Livin' The Target Life (feat. Alex Estrada)

206: Aspirational Open Mindedness (feat. Mills Baker)

205: New York Calls (feat. Robyn Kanner)

204: Happy Online Darkness (feat. Morgane Santos)

203: Pool Pod Improv (feat. Chantal Jandard)

202: Botpito (feat. Diogenes Brito)

201: Thrown Under the Self Driving Bus (feat. Max Schoening)

200: Karate Chop Feels (feat. Josh Williams)

199: The Ballad of Computer Boy (feat. Judson Collier)

198: Berry Ink For Bears (feat. Janum Trivedi)

197: Chillaphobia (feat. Rachel Been)

196: What is Button? (feat. Rafael Conde & Kevin Clark)

195: Weird Old Grandma (feat. Helen Tran)

194: That's So Hot Topic (feat. Kevin Smith)

193: Puppy Bears (feat. Laura Helen Winn)

192: One Stuff At A Time (feat. Joel Califa)

191: Triangle of Passions (feat. Will Newton)

190: Brain Drain (feat. Christine Røde)

189: Done Goofed (feat. Max Stoiber)

188: Doodle Television (feat. Kathy Zheng)

187: Performance Enhancing Calculators (feat. Ryhan Hassan)

186: Bucket Heads (feat. Sarah Pease)

185: Orland & Portlando (feat. Matt Spiel)

184: Three Scarves (feat. Meredith Schomburg)

183: Vicious Soda Can (feat. Cat Noone)

182: Sugar Puppy (feat. Jenny Johannesson)

181: 5,000 Tickets Gets The Gum (feat. Alex Cornell)

180: Best of 2016 (Part 3)

179: Best of 2016 (Part 2)

178: Best of 2016 (Part 1)

177: Chocolate Soul Cup (feat. Jon Schlossberg)

176: Location Irrelevance (feat. Juan Arreguin)

175: Honeymoon & Humble Ping-Pong (feat. Claire Tauziet)

174: Lava Lamp Nail Salon (feat. Noah Levin)

173: Grammar Different (feat. Leigh Taylor)

172: That Sweater Life (feat. Tegan Mierle)

171: Never Not Crunched (feat. Sarah Marie & Marshall Bock)

170: #BringBackThePipes (feat. Majd Taby)

169: Invisible Unicorns (feat. Maykel Loomans)

168: Auto Goats (feat. Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk)

167: Daisy Chained Brains (feat. Payam Rajabi)

166: Ambient Struggles (feat. May-Li Khoe & Andy Matuschak)

165: Whitespace Friends (feat. Lori Kaplan)

164: Maximum Vignelli (feat. Lucas Smith)

163: Guardrails (feat. Ben Wilkins)

162: Gnarwhale (feat. Andy Chung)

161: Coming Soon (feat. Julia Khusainova)

160: Unicorn Farts (feat. Dr. Charles Pearson)

159: Twe-mail (feat. Lisa Sy)

158: D.R.E.A.M. (feat. Bob Baxley)

157: Walking Empathy Sponge (feat. Kory Westerhold)

156: Segue... (Feat. Alexandra Bond)

155: Duckicopters (feat. Athyuttam Reddy)

154: Dancing Baby Dior (feat. Irina Blok)

153: Khaleesi of the Couch (feat. Jeany Ngo)

152: Maniacal Easy-Bake (feat. Beth Dean)

151: 100-Armed Octopus (feat. Mackey Saturday)

150: Fantastic Digital Goo (feat. May-Li Khoe)

149: Melayoncé (feat. Melanie Araujo)

148: Verbal Punctuation (feat. Tim Quirino)

147: Editorial Spackle (feat. Jessica Collier)

146: Smell-o-vision (feat. Amber Cartwright)

145: Sinister Candybar (feat. Chris Downer)

144: Coca-Coolaid (feat. Stewart Scott-Curran)

143: Design Systems: So Hot Right Now (feat. Karri Saarinen)

142: Relax To Get Past (feat. Daniel Hooper)

141: Stardust Towers (feat. Pieter Omvlee)

140: Murky Waters (feat. Mike Davidson)

139: Story Time! (feat. Josh Austin)

138: SlickSlacks (feat. Chanpory Rith)

137: NBA Friends (feat. Christophe Tauziet)

136: All Bridge, No Apple (feat. Rasmus Andersson)

135: How Hard Can It Be? (feat. Jasper Hauser)

134: Bias Filter (feat. Braden Kowitz)

133: Follow the Gifs (feat. Sarah Jackson)

132: Outdoor Disrupt (feat. Justin Graham)

131: A Silicon Valley Eternity (feat. Joshua Taylor)

130: Ramen UI (feat. Linda Dong)

129: Respect the Craft (feat. Claudio Guglieri)

128: I Call Shotgun! (feat. Al Ingram and Ben Mingo)

127: F of X (feat. Luke Beard)

126: Hone Your Own (feat. Heather Phillips)

125: Back to the Drawing Board, Baby (feat. Vanessa Cho)

124: Dazzle (feat. Jeremy Goldberg)

123: Live @ Github (feat. Carolyn Zhang, Heather Phillips, Mo Woods & Diana Mounter)

122: Lookin' to Cookin' (feat. Josh Puckett & Justin Pervorse)

121: Web Trauma (feat. Bill Labus and Benjamin De Cock)

120: Shout Out, Mom! (feat. Adam Polselli)

119: Dead Sea Scrollbar (feat. Yaron Schoen)

118: The Helena Price™ (feat. Helena Price)

117: The Cool Tools (feat. Dylan Field)

116: At Least There's Catan (feat. Connor McSheffrey)

115: Puppies, People, 'Puters (feat. Kelly Sutton)

113: Artist Formerly Known As (feat. Jeff Smith)

112: Turtleneck Tutorials (feat. Marshall Bock)

111: Claim to Flame (feat. Vicki Tan)

110: MAMP Patient Zero (feat. Joey Banks)

109: Vim Me Up, Scottie (feat. Dan Eden)

108: The Flopping Dead (feat. Brad Simpson)

107: Just Enough Wax: LIVE @ Epicurrence

106: Glorified Hustlers (feat. Mackey Saturday & Meg Robichaud)

105: Arbiter of Taste (feat. Ben Cline & Anson Schall)

104: All Good in the Hood (feat. Jen & Amy Hood)

103: Sacrifice for Pixels (feat. Drew Wilson & Dann Petty)

102: Sick Ajax Skills (feat. Adam Michela)

101: Everyone's Thirsty (feat. Katie Zhu & Tara Mann)

100: Goldilocks Fidelity (feat. Daniel Burka)

99: Internet Points (feat. Ian Silber)

98: Inhale the Flattery (feat. Marc Hemeon & Joshua Taylor)

97: Eleven Month Itch (feat. Marshall Bock & Joshua Sortino)

96: Granola Mogul (feat. Kerem Suer)

95: Sandwich Artist (feat. Brian Benitez)

94: Best of 2015 - Part 4

93: Best of 2015 - Part 3

92: Best of 2015 - Part 2

91: Best of 2015 - Part 1

90: Master Yodan (feat. Dan Mall)

89: Sh**s & Gigs (feat. Justin Pervorse)

88: Deuces, Coding (feat. Katie Zhu)

87: Chillustrations (feat. Meg Robichaud)

86: Adult Recess (feat. Susan Lin)

85: Lettering Liaison (feat. Tobias Frere-Jones)

84: Crochet Monotype (feat. Aaron Moodie)

83: It Depends (Live @Etsy, feat. Randy Hunt)

82: Salt Boogers (feat. Charlie Waite)

81: It's Complicated... (Live at Etsy, feat. Joel Califa, Jessica Harllee & Justin Edmund)

80: Helvetica, Helvetica, Helvetica (feat. Jason Santa Maria)

79: Fart Director (feat. Gene Ross)

78: Bob Ross Petty (feat. Dann Petty)

77: Pegacorns (feat. Drew Wilson)

76: Full Feltron (feat. Justin Edmund)

75: Gitway Drug (feat. Brent Jackson)

74: Itchy Feet (feat. Diana Mounter)

73: Feedback Friends (feat. Katie Dill)

72: No...Nope...Not At All (feat. Morgan Knutson)

71: Tomb Braider (feat. Maykel Loomans)

70: Nothing's Sacred, Not Even Goats (feat. Ash Huang)

69: Epicurrence Live (feat. Dustin Senos + Haraldur Thorleifsson)

68: Should Designers Cat? (feat. Trevor McNaughton + Katie Rinkevich)

67: Open the Kimono (feat. Soleio Cuervo)

66: Kittenish (feat. Ryan Hoover)

65: Meatwad Flip-Flops (feat. Linda Eliasen)

64: Get Tricky (feat. Alli Dryer)

63: More Nougat (feat. Jon Lax)

62: Pencil Mileage (feat. Alice Lee)

61: State of Louisville (feat. Josh Puckett)

60: One Big Wrist Button (feat. Ayaka Nonaka and Sam Soffes)

59: Bay Curious (feat. Tara Mann)

58: Fat Cat Cat Chat (feat. Kyle Meyer and Charlie Deets)

57: DubDubDub (feat. Robin and Roxane Clediere)

56: Lego Bits (feat. Adam Morse)

55: Wizards (feat. Wilson Miner and Ryan Sims)

54: Cute Puppy Syndrome (feat. Jacob Thornton)

53: Solving the Shout Problem (feat. Sahil Lavingia)

52: Save the Prototype (feat. Malthe Sigurdsson)

51: Dopesick (feat. Marshall Bock and Sam Soffes)

50: #FF00FF (feat. Steph Monette and Liam Campbell)

49: Space Dinosaurs (feat. Anand Sharma)

48: Switzerland of Tumblr (feat. Floris Dekker)

47: Symmetrical Sandwich (feat. Mark Otto)

46: It Started With Neopets (feat. Joshua Sortino)

45: Year of the Snail (feat. Elle Luna)

44: Everything is a Beta (feat. Haraldur Thorleifsson)

42: Lonely T-Rex (feat. Sebastien Gabriel and Jean-Marc Denis)

41: Heart For You (feat. Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz)

40: Ace of Bass (feat. Gabe Valdivia and Kyle Ryan)

39: YoTube (feat. Mike Essl)

38: Electronic Parties (feat. Geoff Teehan)

37: Crisper Articulation (feat. Julie Zhuo)

36: 10x (feat. Meng To)

35: Senate Design Overcommittee (feat. Noah Stokes)

34: Second Shift (feat. Allison House)

33: The Rusty Theorem (feat. Marc Edwards & Russell Ivanovic)

32: Dethrone Marco (feat. Russell Ivanovic and Marc Edwards)

31: Jaded People (feat. Caleb Davenport & Sam Soffes)

30: Rewarding Holding Experience (feat. Didi Medina)

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

28: #TeamOneCircle (feat. Michael Schultz)

27: Socialist Design (feat. Kim Bost & Cap Watkins)

26: Beep Beep I Like Ferns Beep (feat. Sebastiaan De With)

25: Arbitrary Head Chef (feat. Danny Trinh & Chris Kalani)

24: Open Source Religion (feat. Kevin Rose)

23: Brains are Stupid (feat. Christophe Tauziet, Jeremy Goldberg, and George Kedenburg)

22: Poor Man's Pokemon (feat. Cennydd Bowles)

21: Startup Lubricant (feat. Bin Chen)

20: Soft Computer Hands (feat. Dustin Senos)

19: Super-Dinky Hodinkee (feat. Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh)

18: Kleenex Testers (feat. Stone Librande)

17: Ptotes Pterodactyl (feat. Divya Manian & Bradee Evans)

16: Extravagant Shallowness (feat. Khoi Vinh)

15: Her Left Me (feat. Jeremy Goldberg and George Kedenburg)

14: Unless You're Dumb (feat. Jared Erondu)

13: Eating Horse (feat. Maurice Woods)

12: Topsoil Decisions (feat. Ryan Sims)

11: Artisanal Fitness (feat. Erika Hall)

Bonus Episode: Apple Watch Watch 2015

10: Tiny Nuggets of Delight (feat. Tim Van Damme)

9: When Did the Marketing Department Get Here? (feat. Paul Stamatiou and Avi Cieplinski)

8: Deathly Allergic to Avocado (feat. Chloe Park)

7: VP of Unnecessary Redesign (feat. Cap Watkins)

6: Down the Stuffed Rabbit Hole (feat. Marissa Louie)

5: Squeeze in Some Meat with Your Candy (feat. Gabriel Valdivia)

4: Meatspace User Onboarding (feat. Kristy Tillman)

3: I'm Tired of Looking at Apps (feat. Wilson Miner)

2: So Vanilla (feat. Nick Slater)

1: How Nerdy of an Answer Do You Want? (feat. Sam Soffes)

0: Design Details Teaser