325: Changing Roles in a Growing Company

Design Details

In this week's episode, we go to our patrons for a couple listener questions: one about adapting to shifting roles as a company rapidly grows, and one about the balance between creativity and meeting business needs. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a Star Wars series and privacy-based analytics.

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Follow-up:

• Last episode, we talked about skeuomorphism
  • Haptics have been a thing in video games for decades
  • In iOS 13, page sheets are the new default modal presentation

And we got some tweets:

• Joshua Taylor saved a bunch of highlights from our episode on Social Proof using his podcast-clipping product Parrot
• Sahil Chaturvedi is stealing Marshall's "Slow flow vs Pro flow" idea, and that's totally okay :)

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Listener Questions:

We asked our patrons if they had any questions for us, and we got a few:

Will Newton asks, "Can you talk about the ways in which the role of a product designer can change at a rapidly growing company, and some strategies for navigating those changes?"

Michael Knepprath asks, "At large companies, are designers and subject matter experts typically different people? Does it depend on the project? How does one effectively work with a subject matter expert and glean the info needed to create a good design for a domain that one wasn’t previously familiar with?"

And Kevin Bennett adds, "How do designers and design leads have to be more aware and sympathetic to the business needs when in a larger organisation? And do people stop that from effecting their creativity?"

• Facebook Paper was "a standalone mobile app created by Facebook, only for iOS, that intended to serve as a phone-based equivalent of a newspaper or magazine"
  • Mike Matas is "a user interface designer and icon artist," currently working on Lobe.ai
  • Brian documented the design details of Paper on the original Design Details blog

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One Cool Thing:

• Marshall shared The Mandalorian, a new series on Disney+ that follows "the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic"
  • Nando v Movies is one of our favorite YouTubers and a frequent reference on the show
• Brian shared Fathom (affiliate link that saves you $10), a "simple and private website analytics platform that lets you focus on what's important: your business"
  • Security Checklist is "an open-source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security"

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