20: Soft Computer Hands (feat. Dustin Senos)

This week we caught up with Dustin Senos, the lead designer at Medium for the past 3 years who has spent his professional career traversing the worlds of design and engineering. We dig into Dustin's background and how design has shaped Medium into the product it is today.

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Dustin on the Web:

• Twitter
• Medium
• Dribbble
• Instagram

Show Notes:

2:00 - Dustin tells us about his transitions between engineering and design.

• Acro Media
• LittleIpsum

7:00 - Should designers code?

• Flinto
• Framer
• Balsamiq

11:00 - How did you end up at Medium?

• @ev
• Medium
• Obvious

17:00 - How was Medium approached as a design challenge?

• The hyphen, n-dash and em-dash

21:00 - How would you describe the aesthetic of Medium today? How did the agency work shape that aesthetic?

• Teehan+Lax
• @dannpetty
• Teehan+Lax Medium case study

30:00 - We chat about the culture at Medium and their experience with holacracy

• How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers
• Holacracy
• Evan Williams on Building a Mindful Company
• Buffer's no-managers setup

43:00 - We diverge into a chat about diversity in design.

• Design Details Ep. 13 with Mo Woods

45:00 - How did you approach hiring at Medium?

• How to Impress an Interviewer by Julie Zhuo
• Calm