Ep 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to Prison R/workreform The Need for Climate Optimism The Economy, Stupid The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory You’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job Done How the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel Bad Library of Congress, Cartoon Collection The Electric Wire Panic N/N: “AI: First New UI Par…

LinkedIn People who talk about this topic: Hang Xu https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/ Peter Merholz https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/ Manuel Lima https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/ Erika Hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/ - Indeed UX Job Report https://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023 Joe’s Small Jobs, Small …

Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers. A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on Cognitive Performance in Real-World and VR Environments This research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities …

Show Notes Workism Is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Some decent Job Boards https://www.ixda.org/jobs/ https://www.uxjobsboard.com/ https://dribbble.com/ https://www.earlystagedesignjobs.com/ https://www.krop.com/creative-jobs/ux-ui-designer/ https://j…

Mentioned in this episode: Stephen Gates Crazy Ones PodcastBy Designer & Designer

Brian and Joe talk to Gina Trapani, CEO of the digital product shop Postlight. Postlight has been unlocking solutions for clients for the past 10 years, and we ask Gina to let us in on the insights of a running a successful design and engineering business. We talk about moving from a Doer to a Leader, the importance of Discovery, and why it’s impor…

Joe and Brian discuss the dispiriting trend of the current tech stack driving how products are built. What does it mean when a product is designed not for the user, customer, or output, but for ease of technical deployment? What will the future hold if that trend continues? Should try and stop it?By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Adobe buys Figma Missing Kara Swisher content A simple way to make HTML websites Org Design for Design Orgs Why Designers Quit Why corporate America broke up with design thinking The T-Shaped DesignerBy Designer & Designer

Kelli Goto's Web ReDesign: https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335 Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differently https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-gen-z-searches-for-content Eli Parser's Filter Bubbles TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en James Burke's T…

Brian and Joe break down whether creative work is calling, or just a job? Can a creative person be just as happy keeping their creative work to their hobbies? Is making money as a creative part of what being a professional creative is? And where do blenders come in to all of this?By Designer & Designer

Find Dave at designcitizen.com Dave's Original Linkedin Post Jared Spool TweetBy Dave Miller

Mentioned in this episode: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom Stop Whining About Big Government by Kara Swisher featuring Mariana Mazzucato /r/learnart & /r/drawingBy Designer & Designer

Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin Field Notes Pick up Draplin Design Co. merchBy Aaron Draplin

Mentioned in this episode: Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem Episode 1: Design Thinking The Highly Sensitive Person Episode 21: Observation in DesignBy Designer & Designer

Brian and Joe check-in with some designer friends and see how they’re holding up in this never-ending zoom call.By Jay Fienberg, Chez Gledhill, Bekah Marcum

Find more information about Josh Glenn and his work in semiotics at http://semiovox.comBy Josh Glenn

It's a Design Tools “Ball of Death” Match! Brian & Joe compare the pros and cons of common design tools like Sketch, Figma and Photoshop. They share their experiences of finding the right tool for the job and their preferred tools for getting sh*t done.By Designer & Designer

You can find more about Jacob Covey and his work at https://www.unflown.comBy Jacob Covey

Mentioned in this episode: - Black Designers of Seattle - Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein Show - So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo - White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo Additional resources: - Black Lives Matter & Black Lives Matter Seattle -…

Mentioned in this episode: - Joe's Original Post, Observation As A Prerequisite For Design (https://formidable.com/blog/2019/design-observation/) - Ira Glass on the Taste Gap (https://vimeo.com/85040589) - History of the Ampelmann (https://www.ampelmann.de/en/a-brand-with-a-history/) Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle (www.cloudstudiosseattle.com…

Mentioned in this episode: - Are you asking enough from your design leaders? - Design Maturity Model by InVision - Future of Design in Start-Ups - There's no guarantee your product strategy will work. Here's how to de-risk it Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.…

Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Connect with Bekah Marcum on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahmarc/ And if you are a black designer in Seattle, be sure connect with Bekah's group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13668366/ Special thanks to Catleah Cunanan for producing this episode. Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Bekah Marcum, Brian Fling

Mentioned in this episode: - Frank Chimero's Burnout List is a great primer for this discussion - The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by John Gruber - Second Wave Gentrification by Charles Mudede - Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why? Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Mentioned in the episode: - Design Gigs for Good Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling, Sarah Fathallah, Mollie Ruskin

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Chez Gledhill, Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio, Jay Fienberg

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Mentioned in this episode: - Natasha Jen's talk "Design Thinking is Bullsh*t" - Design thinking origin story by Jo Szczepanska - Khoi Vinh's "In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible" Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle.By Joe Alterio, Brian Fling