Designer & Designer

Ep 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to PrisonR/workreformThe Need for Climate OptimismThe Economy, StupidThe Strauss-Howe Generational TheoryYou’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job DoneHow the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel BadLibrary of Congress, Cartoon CollectionThe Electric Wire PanicN/N: “AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years”Jakob’s Law Frutiger AeroPainter Bill BraunThat Dickhead VC Dude https://lightintheattic.net/products/wheedles-groove-seattles-finest-in-funk-soul-1965-75

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 Dreams https://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams-7ed46faf46b0 Facebook is Chairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA Runway AI Motion Genertationhttps://runwayml.com

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 (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and people’s attention to detail) in a conventional laboratory setting and an approximately identical ... Visual Thinkers Online Test Buy Temple's book here!

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://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/jobs/ If you ever want a portfolio review, email us! designer@designer.fm Stay strong out there ❤️

Mentioned in this episode: Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast

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 important to do the work special to you on the weekend.

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?

Adobe buys FigmaMissing Kara Swisher contentA simple way to make HTML websitesOrg Design for Design OrgsWhy Designers QuitWhy corporate America broke up with design thinkingThe T-Shaped 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 The K-Web http://k-web.org/ O'Reilly's Information Architecture (The Polar Bear Book) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/information-architecture-4th/9781491913529/ Ask A Librarian: https://ask.loc.gov/ Stuart Brand's How Buildings Learn https://www.powells.com/book/-9780140139969/17-4 Jessie James Garret's The Elements of UX http://www.jjg.net/elements/#:~:text=Jesse%20James%20Garrett%20gives%20readers,create%20a%20successful%20user%20experience. Edward Tufte: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

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?

designcitizen.comDave's Original Linkedin PostJared Spool Tweet

Mentioned in this episode: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational CompassionStop Whining About Big Government/r/learnart/r/drawing

Draplin Design Co.Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James DraplinField NotesPick up Draplin Design Co. merch

Mentioned in this episode: Amanda Gorman'sDesign ThinkingHighly Sensitive PersonObservation in Design

Brian and Joe check-in with some designer friends and see how they’re holding up in this never-ending zoom call.

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

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.

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

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 - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Anti-racist reading list for designers - Resources In Defense of Black Lives - What Not To Say To Your Black Colleagues Right Now - Blacks Who Design - Support Black Owned Businesses

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).