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Design Notes, 67 episodes.

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Jarrett Fuller, Author, Graphic Designers After Graphic Design

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There Is No Neutral Design: Megan Kasselberg, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Material Design

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Beyond the Text Field: Louise Macfadyen, Author of Designing AI Interfaces

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The Era of the Generalist: Rachel Been, SVP of Design for Expedia Group

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Other Than Expected: Fabian Bircher on Combining Art, Architecture, and Code

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Design Can't Rely on Logic: Troy Leinster on Type Design and Human Perception

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The User Brings the Confetti: Rob Giampietro on Scaling a Human-Centered Brand

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True is Better Than New: David Reinfurt on Evolving Graphic Design Education

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Material Design Gets Expressive: Inside Google's Emotion-Driven UX Update

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Beauty Across the Board: Rich Fulcher on Making Beauty a UX Priority at Google

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Breaking Silos (and Metaphors): A 'Roving Engineer' on Design & Engineering Collaboration

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Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche on Engineering as 'Creativity with Constraints'

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Fab Components: Bethany Fong on Designing Material's Signature Floating Action Button

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Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte on the Future of Individualized Design

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Designing Better Code: How Google Engineers Make Coding a Creative Practice

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How Fonts Change the World: Dave Crossland on Digital Type and Emotional Expression

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Coding (and Decoding) Social Spaces: Judith Donath on the Future of Life Online

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Fearless Design: Aline Borges on Composition and Creative Career Changes

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⏮️ How Machines Help Us See Ourselves: Harvey Moon on Art Made Through Machine Collaboration

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The Impact of Shared Space: Ignacio Ciocchini on Designing NYC's Public Furniture

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⏮️ Learning From Your Virtual Twin: Kerry Murphy on Digital Fashion and Virtual Embodiment

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Digital Anthropology: Tom Boellstorff on How Virtual Worlds Shape Our Actual Lives

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Welcome Back to Design Notes: Season 2 Trailer

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[SF Design Week] Julian Zigerli on Expressive, Un-Gendered Fashion Design

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Theming with Moooi: Creating an Immersive Digital Flagship (2020 Material Design Awards)

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Dark Theme with KAYAK: How Dark Mode Revolutionized a Brand's Approach to Color (2020 Material Design Awards)

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Motion Design with Epsy: Using Meaningful Motion for Better Health Outcomes (2020 Material Design Awards)

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The Surprising Poetry of AI: BJ Best on Teaching Computers to Create Art

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The Magic Question for Creativity: Laurie Rosenwald on Making Mistakes on Purpose

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Learning From Your Virtual Twin: Kerry Murphy on Digital Fashion and Self-Actualization

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A Prompt for Creative Renewal: David Reinfurt on A New Program for Graphic Design

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Reflectly: Pushing the Boundaries of Material Motion (2019 Material Design Awards)

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Ruff: Building an Expressive Brand Identity with Material Theming (2019 Material Design Awards)

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Trip.com: Designing a Universal Travel App for Global Users (2019 Material Design Awards)

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Scripts: Using Creative Interactions to Make Learning Feel Accomplished (2019 Material Design Awards)

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The Psychedelic Spark: GMUNK on His Aesthetic and the Importance of Creative Discomfort

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Vulnerability, Technology, and Art: Qianqian Ye on Creative Coding and Shared Futures

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How Machines Help Us See Ourselves: Harvey Moon on Collaborating with Technology for Art

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Art as Survival: Conor Grebel on Using Creative Work to Heal

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I Hate Music Videos: Bayonet Records on Sonic Design and Releasing Music on Your Own Terms

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What We Can Learn From Our Work: Host Liam Spradlin on the Themes of Design Notes

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The Most Transformative Job in the World: MoMA's Rob Giampietro on Design's Unseen Impact

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"What Do You See; How Do You Feel?"—Vanity Fair's Clinton Cargill on Visual Storytelling

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Owning Your Values: Ksenya Samarskaya on How Typography Encodes and Decodes Identity

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You Cannot Be What You Cannot See: Panimation on Building Community in Motion Design

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Material Design Awards 2018: Winners from Lyft, Anchor & More on Building Expressive Products

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"We Should Do Something Together"—Ateljé Sotamaa on the Importance of Friction in Design

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The Music of Design: Marko Ahtisaari on How Finnish Social Values Shaped Nokia

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[LIVE] AI, Identity, and Storytelling: Stephanie Dinkins on Befriending a Robot

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What It's Like to Really Know: James Bridle on Agency in an Age of Complex Technology

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Asking, "How Does It Make You Feel?"— Isabelle Olsson on Designing Google Hardware

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Everything Is a Lesson: Jesse Reed on Preserving Historic Brand Standards

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The Aesthetics of Overload: Ryan Snelson on Redesigning MySpace and Experimental UI

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Hidden Design: Sang Mun on Creating the ZXX Typeface to Explore Digital Privacy

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Design, Humor, and Social Change: Libby VanderPloeg on Illustration and Going Viral

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Can Robots Be Curious?: Madeline Gannon on Taming and Reframing Industrial Robots

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Cardboard Carpentry: Alexandra Lange on How Toys and Playgrounds Shape Independent Kids

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Design More Tools: Cameron Koczon on Product Design and Owning Your Content

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Failure as an Art Form: Nathan Martin of Deeplocal on Innovation and Punk Rock Design

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Throw Away the Settings Menu: Bennett Foddy on Frustration as a Game Design Pattern

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When Buildings Get Bored: Molly Wright Steenson on the Parallels Between Architecture and AI

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Design Like a Jazz Musician: Mitch Paone on Intuitive vs. Analytical Creativity

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How Games Taught Us to Teach: Luis von Ahn, Founder of Duolingo and CAPTCHA

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Wearable Art: Lizzy & Darlene Okpo on Persona, Identity, and Expressive Fashion Design

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Material Design Awards 2017: Winners from NPR One, Eventbrite & More on Brand Expression

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From War Room to Playroom: Talbot & Yoon on Making Play a Central Design Tenet

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