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In another special roundtable episode of Design Details, we caught up with Drew Wilson and Dann Petty, the creators of the Valio Con and Epicurrence design conferences. We dig into the ethos of their creations, the hardest parts of pulling together a community, and what it takes to create a physical experience for hundreds of people. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO Dann on the Web: Behance Dribbble Twitter Medium Instagram Epicurrence Drew on the Web: Website Twitter Dribbble GitHub Plasso Show Notes: Design Details ft. Drew Wilson Design Details ft. Dann Petty Epicurrence Montues Valio Con Pictos Mi

This episode with Adam Michela was soopa fun; Adam is a designer at AirBnb, previously at Last, Facebook and Gowalla among others. We caught up to talk about Adam's background as a designer, building style guides at scale, the impact of engineering on user experience, and more. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Adam on the web: Twitter Website Medium GitHub Show Notes: Karri Saarinen Epicurrence Montues Mike Rundle Khoi Vinh Koi Vinh on Design Details Jeffrey Zeldman Designing with Web Standards Mike Davidson Capital Factory Gowalla Foursquare AFNetworking Alamo Fire Josh Williams Flame Wheel Pokémon move Keegan Jones S

In another roundtable episode of Design Details, we caught up with Katie Zhu and Tara Mann to chat about social media, personal brands, new media, storytelling and our favorite undiscovered apps! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: Front Conference - Use the promo code 'designdetails' to get $50 off! UENO Katie on the Web: Twitter Medium Instagram Website pamplemousse Tara on the Web: Website Instagram Twitter Show Notes: Peach Threads for dummies, i.e. Brian Kt's Email Newsletter Tobias van Schneider Gary Vaynerchuk Call Your Girlfriend fuckjerry Jerry of the Day Not Jony Ive Daring Fireball Nuzzel Input Pin

Episode 100! We made it - thank you so much to everyone has listened to an episode, shared the show with a friend or reached out to us on Twitter this past year; we wouldn't be here without you. For this special episode we caught up with Daniel Burka to talk about his background, process, critique, what keeps him up at night and more. Enjoy! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! Daniel on the Web: Twitter Website Instagram GV Profile Medium Show Notes: GV Google Ventures Rebrand Dribbble Irene Au John Maeda Jared Erondu GV Design Team silverorange Jon Hicks on Firefox Branding Kevin Rose Pownce Stewart Butterfield Slack Milk acquisition Sprint Book Design sprints how-to

Today we sat down with Ian Silber, a designer (and design manager!) at Instagram. We dig into his background, talk about taking bets on young designers, his key learnings in management, briefly diverge into cooking, and return back to his process for hiring at Instagram. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsor: UENO Ian on the Web: Twitter Dribbble Website Medium Instagram GitHub Show Notes: typeracer 37signals Campaign Monitor anotepad.com Intab Cookie Clicker AdVenture Capitalist! Josh Puckett Steven Walker Ryan O'Rourke Soleio Soleio on Design Details Josh Puckett on Design Details Hyperlapse Layout Boomerang Chr

For episode 98 we sat down with Marc Hemeon and Joshua Taylor to talk about their new company, Design Inc. We also dig into their biggest advice for young designers, what they would learn if they could start again, soul vs. ego and what it takes to surround yourself with the best people. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! Marc on the Web: Twitter Website Medium Art Dribbble Instagram Josh on the Web: Website Twitter Dribbble Website Instagram Show Notes: Design Inc. Evernote Watchville Kevin Rose TeeFury Design by Humans iOS HIG Material Spec Marc on Design Process

In today's episode of Design Details we brought the Vicarious crew, Marshall Bock and Josh Sortino, over to have a round table discussion about design leadership. This is a different format from our usual shows, so ping us on Twitter @designdetailsfm with your thoughts and feedback! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! Sponsors: UENO Josh on the Web: Website Medium Dribbble Twitter Unsplash Instagram Marshall on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Instagram Blog Show Notes: Josh on the State of Design Leadership Teespring YouTube Gaming Josh on Instagram Vicarious Podcast Geoff Teehan Julie Zhuo Cap Watkins Daniel Burka Kim Bost Ben Cline Mike Matas @vicarious_fm on Twitter

Today we caught up with Kerem Suer, a product designer at Operator. We've been itching to chat with Kerem for the past year, and it was so fun to finally get to catch up! In this episode we talk about Kerem's background as a designer and sailor, career progression, side projects, and the dumbest domain names we've ever bought. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 3,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Epicurrence Montues Kerem on the Web: Website Dribbble Twitter Instagram Show Notes: Operator Fitbit Jonathan Lieberman Design Details ft. Robin and Roxane Clediere Kerem's file naming structure Omada Health

For our first new recording in 2016 we caught up with Brian Benitez, a designer who built Collective Ray over the past 5 years and has just recently joined the team at Weebly. We chat about his origins as a designer, making the switch to Weebly, moving to SF and, of course, sandwich art. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,900 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Ueno Epicurrence Montues Brian on the Web: Twitter Website Dribbble Show Notes: Weebly Collective Ray Jeff Broderick Disqus Magic Digit Principle Flinto Collective Ray on Dribbble Focus Lab Oculus Rift Preorder Pokemon Go Ready Player One Rogie King Morgan Knutson Juan Arreguin

For the next two weeks we're taking some time off with our friends and family - to tide everyone over, we've compiled four episodes with some of our favorite clips of 2015. We hope you enjoy listening back and re-discovering some of our earliest content, and we'll be back with new interviews in 2016! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,700 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Design Details on the Web: @designdetailsfm on Twitter @specfm Slack Show Notes: 81: It's Complicated... (Live at Etsy, feat. Joel Califa, Jessica Harllee & Justin Edmund) 73: Feedback Friends (feat. Katie Dill) 74: Itchy Feet (feat. Diana Mounter) 70: Nothing's Sacred, Not Even Goats (

For the next two weeks we're taking some time off with our friends and family - to tide everyone over, we've compiled four episodes with some of our favorite clips of 2015. We hope you enjoy listening back and re-discovering some of our earliest content, and we'll be back with new interviews in 2016! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,700 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: UENO Design Details on the Web: @designdetailsfm on Twitter @specfm Slack Show Notes: 39: YoTube (feat. Mike Essl) 34: Second Shift (feat. Allison House) 37: Crisper Articulation (feat. Julie Zhuo) 29: Bananagrams (feat. Ryan Putnam & Nick Slater) 22: Poor Man's Pokemon (fea

For the next two weeks we're taking some time off with our friends and family - to tide everyone over, we've compiled four episodes with some of our favorite clips of 2015. We hope you enjoy listening back and re-discovering some of our earliest content, and we'll be back with new interviews in 2016! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,700 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! 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 'DESIGNDETAILS' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Iconfinder Custom Design Design Details on the Web: @designdetailsfm on Twitter @specfm Slack Show Notes: 61: State of Louisville (feat. Josh Puckett) 45: Year of the Snail

For the next two weeks we're taking some time off with our friends and family - to tide everyone over, we've compiled four episodes with some of our favorite clips of 2015. We hope you enjoy listening back and re-discovering some of our earliest content, and we'll be back with new interviews in 2016! Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,700 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox UENO Design Details on the Web: @designdetailsfm on Twitter @specfm Slack Show Notes: 63: More Nougat (feat. Jon Lax) 55: Wizards (feat. Wilson Miner and Ryan Sims) 7: VP of Unnecessary Redesign (feat. Cap Watkins) 38: Electronic Parties (feat. Geoff Teehan) 43: Freedom

In our last recorded guest episode of 2015, we were able to catch up with Dan Mall! We couldn't have asked for a more perfect episode to end our year - in this show Dan drops knowledge about freelancing, job titles, and helping people do the best work of their lives. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,600 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! 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 'DESIGNDETAILS' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Iconfinder Custom Design Dan on the Web: Website Twitter Writings Dribbble SuperFriendly Typedia Show Notes: Amtrak Writers Residency Jason Santa Maria Design Details with Jason Santa Maria SuperFriendly Da

In this episode we caught up with Justin Pervorse, a designer and illustrator at Dropbox, and previously at MailChimp. We dig into Justin's backstory, making vinyl toys at MailChimp, creating a custom t-shirt deli shop at Dropbox and the worst parts about living in San Francisco. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,500 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox UENO Justin on the Web: Dribbble Website Twitter Show Notes: MailChimp Ron Lewis MailChimp toy Justin as a puppet Linda Eliasen Linda on Design Details Josh Puckett Josh on Desgin Details Carousel Mailbox Dropbox Jobs Scooters Sandwich Shop

This week we caught up with Katie Zhu, an engineer and product manager at Medium. We pick Katie's brain about product management, holacracy and organizational structure, exploring new products, email newsletters, imposter syndrome and more. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,500 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! 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 'DESIGNDETAILS' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Iconfinder Custom Design Katie on the Web: Twitter Medium Instagram Website Show Notes: Medium 2.0 Dustin Senos Geoff Teehan Brad Simpson Epicurrence Bryn's mentorship post Medium iOS App Holacracy Where Good Ideas Come From pamplemo

In this episode we finally caught up with Meg Robichaud, a designer and illustrator traveling and freelancing around the world. We talk about her background as a creator, the nomad lifestyle, her illustration processes and some of her latest thoughts and writings. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,500 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox UENO Meg on the Web: Dribbble Website Twitter Behance Instagram Medium Show Notes: Teespring 404s Dann Petty Epicurrence Hacker Paradise Dann Petty on working for free Meg on Behance Meg on Dribbble Cintiq Meg's writing

This week we caught up with Susan Lin, an artist, designer and coder building things over at Treehouse. In this episode we dig into Susan's background as a creative, her process as a designer and developer, how remote work and flat organizations can maximize productivity, and the value of building a personal brand. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,500 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! 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 'DESIGNDETAILS' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Susan on the Web: Website Blog Shop Instagram Twitter Dribbble CodePen Show Notes: Treehouse Matt Spiel Chris Michel Open Table Susan's shop A Manufactory Ra

This is the last of our New York recordings with none-other than legendary type designer, Tobias Frere-Jones! Tobias recently released Mallory, his new company's first family, so the timing couldn't have been better. In this episode we learn about Tobias' design process, how he first became interested in type, and just what kind of details go into creating an entire family. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,500 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! If you have feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @designdetailsfm! Sponsors: Dropbox UENO Tobias on the Web: Website Mallory Wikipedia Font Bureau Profile Twitter Show Notes: Mallory Sasha Frere-Jones FontShop Font Bureau Dolores Note: MicroFocus renamed to MicroPlus Matthew Carte

Last month while in New York City we got to catch up with Aaron Moodie, a product designer at Etsy. We pick his brain about hustling, portfolio advice, moving around the world for new jobs and the future of apps. Come chat with us in our new Slack team! Over 2,300 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send you an invitation! 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 'DESIGNDETAILS' to save 50% off your first month of Iconfinder Pro Aaron on the Web: Dribbble Website Twitter Instagram Show Notes: Etsy Etsy sell page Design Details ft. Randy Hunt Design Matters with Randy Hunt Slime Atom Sketch Brent Jackson Digit Acorns Operator Magic Facebook M