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This week we finally caught up with our friends at Google, Jean-Marc Denis and Sebastien Gabriel. In this episode we chat Material Design, designing invisible interfaces, current design tools and moving from France to the US. Last week we also announced Spec, a new podcast network for designers and developers! We hope you'll check it out and follow @specfm on Twitter for new shows and updates! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox Iconfinder - use the promo code 'ROBOT' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Sebastien on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Instagram VSCO Jean-Marc on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Medium Instagram Sketch Design Show Notes: 5:00 - What are you working on? Chrome Google Cardboard Glen Murphy Google Inbox 14:00 - We chat about designing interfaces. Sebastien on Dribbble Redesigning Chrome for Android Google Design Kennedy Project Marshall Bock Design Details 41: Heart For You (feat. Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz) Material Design Lite MDL Components 35:00 - What design tools do you use? Sketch Meng To Ben De Cock Design Details 36: 10x (feat. Meng To) Sketch Beta Tim Van Damme Design Details 10: Tiny Nuggets of Delight (feat. Tim Van Damme) Maya Material Design Jobs 46:00 - On designing error pages. Chrome T-Rex 52:00 - We dig into Jean-Marc and Sebastien's backgrounds. Roxane Clediere How I Joined Google Material Design Colors Design Details 41: Heart For You (feat. Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz) Exportify Rdio Apple Music Google Cardboard Oculus People Over Heroes

It's been a week since Apple Music launched giving us the perfect reason to have a round-table discussion about the new app with Marshall Bock and Michael Schultz. We bounce around this episode sharing our thoughts on Apple Music and streaming services in general - we hope you have fun listening! You all got us nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate if you would vote for us, or share the show with a friend! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox Adobe (and check out What's New in CC 2015!) Marshall on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Instagram Blog Michael on the Web: Twitter Website Medium Instagram Dribbble Iodine Show Notes: 5:00 - So Apple Music came out... Apple Music Beats 1 Rdio Spotify Steve Jobs: People Don't Want Music Subscriptions Steve Jobs Official Trailer Sorkinisms Exportify Mvsic The Kollection 2007 WWDC Keynote Mr. Robot Polygon on YouTube Gaming

Today we sat down with Gabe Valdivia and Kyle Ryan to talk about design at Facebook, the progress of their side project, Peek, and the value of obviousness in design. You all got us nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate if you would vote for us, or share the show with a friend! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Iconfinder - use the promo code 'ROBOT' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Dropbox Gabe on the Web: Twitter Dribbble Website Peek Episode 5 of Design Details Kyle on the Web: Twitter Show Notes: 4:00 - What are you working on? Peek 20:00 - We dig more into Peek Ello Ello iOS Facefeed Design Details with Allison House 48:00 - How do you recruit an engineer to help you build a project? Modern Design Tools: Using Real Data Josh Puckett Origami That car startup Cat Chat

On this episode we caught up with Mike Essl: designer, artist, Mr. T memorabilia collector. We talk about Mike's personal story as a designer, Cooper Union, and yes, we chat comics. You all got us nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate if you would vote for us, or share the show with a friend! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox Mike Essl on the Web: Twitter Dribbble Website Cooper Union Show Notes: 2:30 - What are you working on right now? DC Comics Mule Design nerduo Robb Irrgang The Battle 80sTees 1.21 jiggawatts 5:00 - F'ing Sandman The Annotated Sandman Vol. 1 The Annotated Sandman Vol. 2 The Annotated Sandman Vol. 3 DC Comics Action Figure Archive 8:00 - Essl shares his other projects And I'm a PC App for That Mat Honan Jason Kottke 14:00 - How do you balance your time with all these projects? The Cooper Union 22:00 - Why did you ignore everone's advice to not go to art school? Mike Monteiro Erika Hall on Design Details Graphic Design by Milton Glaser 41:00 - Mike's dream work Watching the Watchmen Issues Podcast The eBay Promo video Mr. T and Me 1:06:00 - What are you taking back from San Francisco? Jeffrey Zeldman 1:10:00 - What's the difference between design and art? Is Graphic Design Art? Jenny Holzer

For episode 38, we were joined by Geoff Teehan, a super-talented Canadian designer who is at least partially responsible for several of our favorite products. He has not only worked on some amazing projects for companies like Medium, Google, and now Facebook - he has also built some really great resources for designers. You all got us nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate if you would vote for us, or share the show with a friend! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Iconfinder - Use promo code 'ROBOT' for 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro! Adobe (and check out What's New in CC 2015!) Geoff Teehan on the Web: Twitter Medium Dribbble Show Notes: 3:50 - What are you working on? Teehan + Lax 6:20 - How do you see the trend of designers moving from small agencies to product companies? 10:00 - Getting work and creating products as an agency Medium case study Hyperlapse Jon Lax The Dog Conference Prismatic case study Dann Petty Dustin Senos Leigh Taylor Ev Goldberg Obvious Corp. T+L Labs Bags of milk D.I.G.I.T. Touch Vision ASCII Street View iOS GUI Templates Digg Amazon AWS Rackspace "The Photo" Finn O'Hara Tyler Howarth 40:00 - How did you get into design? CorelDRAW ModaMedia 50:00 - Talking about the Apple Watch... again. 58:00 - Why Facebook?

For episode 37, we were lucky enough to get to spend some time with Julie Zhuo! We're both huge fans of her writing on Medium and the way she thinks about design and especially that she shares that with the entire community. Speaking of sharing with the community, you all got us nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate if you would vote for us, or share the show with a friend! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox imgix Julie Zhuo on the Web: Website Twitter Medium Show Notes: 3:50 - What are you working on? Cap Watkins DD27: Socialist Design (feat. Cap Watkins & Kim Bost) 9:15 - What have been the hardest parts of scaling a design team? MPK20 14:50 - The Year of the Looking Glass The Year of the Looking Glass on Medium How to Be That Designer The Imposter Syndrome Sheryl Sandberg Lean In 22:00 - What keeps you excited about working at Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg Internet.org 24:30 - How is design perceived inside Facebook? HHVM 36:30 - How are products designed at Facebook? Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull Whatever's Best for the People, That's What We'll Do Mike Matas Facebook Lite 51:00 - What do you want to do next? Oculus Rift

For episode 36, we got to spend some time with Meng To discussing what makes a great product, how to get started with design and development, and what it takes to build a thing. Meng's an incredibly talented creator and we're grateful he was able to take a break from helping people get started in our industry to hang out with us for an hour or so! In case you haven't noticed, we were nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! There's about 2 weeks left and we would love it if you'd take a minute to vote for us! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Adobe (and check out What's New in CC 2015!) Iconfinder Meng To on the Web: Twitter Website Blog Medium Dribbble Show Notes: 4:00 - What Meng's working on Shadowness The Matrix StarCraft 9:30 - What are you excited about in design? Sketch Invision Pixate Slack Design + Code Xcode Swift 15:00 - Should designers write production code? Macaw Dreamweaver Framer AngularJS MeteorJS NodeJS Codecademy Material Design Snapchat 24:30 - Creating free content vs paid content Spring library Apple Watch GUI 32:00 - WWDC expectations UXKit rumors 35:00 - Global differences in design/dev culture Alipay 40:30 - Learning development and gaming as a gateway to the tech industry udemy Super Smash Bros. SoundBlaster 16 for Windows 3.11 DOTA Warcraft III Heroes of the Storm World of Warcraft Hearthstone Wilson Miner DD 3: I'm Tired of Looking at Apps (feat. Wilson Miner) Stone Librande DD 12: Kleenex Testers (feat. Stone Librande) 50:30 - The elements of a really compelling product Marc Edwards Bjango Actions sketch-measure Zeplin 55:00 - Don't give up. Just do something crazy.

For episode 35, we finally convinced the Motherfuton himself, Mr. Noah Stokes, to come hang with us for a bit and talk about lazy web design, ornamentation vs utility, design education and so much more. It was super fun to pick his brain for an hour or so and he brought up some frequently overlooked shortcomings of how we build the web today. In case you haven't noticed, we were nominated for Podcast of the Year at The Net Awards! If you can spare the time, we would very much appreciate a vote! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Adobe Dropbox Noah Stokes on the Web: Twitter Website Blog Dribbble Show Notes: 4:30 - What Noah's working on Creative Market AutoDesk AutoCAD 6:30 - Moving from client services to an in-house design team "End of An Era" Happy Cog Teehan+Lax BOLD Garrett St. John Derek Nelson Zach McNair Weightshift Paravel SuperFriendly Bigge cranes 16:45 - Life before BOLD and how Apple has changed PalmOne LifeDrive Palm Treo iPod Mini 17" PowerBook Apple's WWDC 2015 Keynote 1Password How to Pronounce Helvetica Neue 28:15 - How responsive design made the web boring Stripe Dashboard Page Material Design Bill Labus Malthe Sigurdsson Ben De Cock PrototypeJS Scriptaculous John Resig Sam Stephenson SASS LESS @fat PostCSS BEM BEM Nesting (+ Mixins!) in SASS Facebook Instant Articles Facebook Lite John Gruber Gruber on Instant Articles 46:00 - UI for pure utility vs UI ornamentation Stripe Dashboard App Sebastiaan De With SCSI cable VGA connector 50:00 - Web education and regulation Healthcare.gov Treehouse Execute iOS Sam Soffes MeteorJS Sacha Greif React Native George Kedenburg NPM ioJS logo thread The Motherfuton News on YouTube The Motherfuton News on Spoken

This week we hopped on a call with the one-and-only Allison House! Allison currently lives in Austin, exploring her way through 3D art and design - in this episode we chat about her background in design, her transition into 3D and what she's excited for in the future. We're also in the running for Podcast of the Year! If you're enjoying the show, we'd love your support - Vote for Design Details. If you have feedback or suggestions please don't hesitate to reach us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm or email us directly! Sponsor: Iconfinder Allison on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Instagram Allison's Newsletter Tumblr Show Notes: 3:00 - What in the world are you working on? Allison's Tumblr Cinema 4D The Bomb Greyscalegorilla 9:00 - Have you felt new clarity after leaving SF? 11:00 - What got you started in design? Treehouse Carsonified Ryan Carson Codecademy Jason Fried Gary Vaynerchuck 19:00 - Why Dropbox? Morgan Knutson Soleio 20:00 - How do you identify the next place to grow as a designer? Dropbox on Dribbble 22:00 - Allison shares her process for the Tweedy video. Tweedy video Cinematic Storytelling 28:00 - How do you incorporate expression into design? Slack 30:00 - What are other products you're excited about right now? Giphy Allison on Giphy Tim Reynolds Society6 (Allison's store) 35:00 - What's your take on the state of Dribbble and design credibility? Allison on Dribbble The Dribbblisation of Design Morgan on Dribbble Adobe MAX Conference 39:00 - Allison explains her learning process. Ryan Putnam Ryan's Cactus Allison's animated cactus 44:00 - What's the big picture goal for you as an artist and designer? Brooklyn Beta Designer Fund 47:00 - What are the common struggles for designers moving from freelance to full time? Allison's newsletter Allison's website

The epic conclusion of our first ever two-parter! Marc and Russell were kind enough to come back for round two to discuss Apple's WWDC Keynote, Marc's weird workflows, optical alignment, PDF assets and more! We're also in the running for Podcast of the Year! If you're enjoying the show, we'd love your support - vote for Design Details! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: Dropbox Marc Edwards on the Web Twitter Dribbble Bjango Russell Ivanovic on the Web Twitter Website ShiftyJelly Show Notes: 4:00 - "What'd you think of the Apple Keynote?" Full Keynote Jimmy Iovine El Capitán Sam Soffes Caleb Davenport Daring Fireball SFNSDisplay Search Settings 20:30 - Marc's shameful admission Alfred Marc's 34" display 25:00 - iOS announcements Episode 9 30:00 - Open Source Swift and the only hardware announcement at WWDC Skala View Skala Federico Viticci Myke Hurley Stephen Hackett Chris Martin Square Apple Pay Reader 34:00 - iOS Usability Jean-Marc Denis 38:30 - Apple Music "It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" Apple Music Beats One Zane Lowe Nilay Patel's piece on music DRM Workflow App "If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps." Graham Clarke Kiss FM Silicon Valley Loren Brichter Dann Petty 49:30 - Optical Alignment Cat's tweet Soulver "Using Soulver for Design" on Bjango "The PLAY Button is Not Optical Alignment" on Medium 57:00 - PDF Assets on iOS PaintCode Bjango articles Bjango actions Keyboard Maestro iStat Menus