Design Details 22: Poor Man's Pokemon (feat. Cennydd Bowles)
This week we caught up with Cennydd Bowles over Skype for a truly fascinating discussion about cross-OS design, the future of wearables, what it means to be a junior vs. senior designer, and why sound design will be the next big trend.
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Cennydd on the Web:
- Website
- A List Apart articles
- Undercover User Experience Design (The Book)
- The Pastry Box Project writing
- The Ethical Designer - Talk
Show Notes:
5:00 - What are you working on these days? How did you get started at Twitter?
16:00 - We talk mobile design, Windows and the OS landscape.
27:00 - Cennydd has more experience with wearables than most.
36:00 - What are your hunches about the future of design for wearables?
39:00 - Cennydd shares his thoughts on the toxic MVP.
- "Delighted that ‘MVP’ is starting to be seen as toxic."
- 4 Reasons MVPs Fail
- Minimum Lovable Product
- The Ethical Designer - Talk
48:00 - Thoughts on the process of creation and iteration, junior vs. senior designers.