Tentative
Episodes
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27: Rollercoaster of Feelings
June 10th, 2016 | 27 mins 29 secs
This episode Reda and Kyle start off by talking about podcasting competition and Reda's childhood psychology. Then they talk about how both are tackling SVG and walk away with different feelings about it. Reda wraps up by bashing HAML while Kyle tries to defend its pros.
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26: Vector of a Tack
May 27th, 2016 | 41 mins 36 secs
This week Reda and Kyle talk about content and typography, how both apply to the web, and why they try to use real content as much as possible. Also, the problems that they run into when designing forms and the trade offs between usability and style.
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25: Everything's a Nail
May 13th, 2016 | 37 mins 46 secs
Reda and Kyle talk about the new thoughtbot.com. Kyle explains some of the reasons why they redesigned instead of iterating over the existing design. They talk about parts of their process and how tools like code and graphical editors fit in. They discuss the balance between shipping and getting pixel perfection. They wrap up talking about how they balance multiple projects and multiple tasks.
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24: Hunky Dory All the Time
April 22nd, 2016 | 38 mins 53 secs
On this episode Reda and Kyle rehash their conversation about Should designers code. They talk about teams and how design should fit in. They discuss design and design thinking at a high level in the company and design leadership in our community.
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23: Darkish-Gray Patterns
April 4th, 2016 | 42 mins 37 secs
Cheerful Reda and Kyle talk about ethics in their work. Discussion hovers around dark patterns in design. They talk about dark patterns with cable companies, airlines, and domain registrars. And how dark patterns can effect the long term sustainability of the business. Kyle talks about the technology he's been using on parental leave and his purchase of an Apple Watch.
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22: Best of Both Words
March 18th, 2016 | 40 mins 34 secs
Reda and Kyle talk about writing as a designer. What their process is for writing, what the process is like writing for thoughtbot, and how they differentiate posts on thoughtbot’s blog and their personal blog. Plus Reda goes on a rant against Medium.
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21: Snapchat For Design Feedback
February 26th, 2016 | 31 mins 6 secs
This week Reda and Kyle talk about tools for collaborative design feedback. They talk about how they’ve used tools at thoughtbot and what are the pros and cons of each of the tools. They also talk about how they use these tools to get feedback from other designers in different thoughtbot offices for more varied design feedback.
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20: Minimal Viable Design
February 12th, 2016 | 35 mins 13 secs
In this episode Red-A and Kyle talk about product design and development at thoughtbot. They go over how they use tools like Trello and Slack to communicate with their teams and their clients and how design fits into that process. They talk about how they validate design decisions and argue about the proper pronunciation of GIF.
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19: Death to GUIs
January 22nd, 2016 | 44 mins 49 secs
During this episode, Reda and Kyle talk about conversational user interfaces. They talk about popular implementations of conversational UIs, how they use these tools and what effect it has on the future of graphical user interface.
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18: It's Not Satisfying Unless You Blow Into the Cartridge
January 8th, 2016 | 44 mins 56 secs
In this episode Reda and Kyle talk about the homogenization in web design. How styles have evolved in the past and how they see style trends in graphic design evolving in the future. They discuss the issues and problems facing archiving application design. What they use Dribbble for and what kind of a tool it is now.
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17: Let's Talk About CSS Baby (Lets Talk About You and Me)
December 24th, 2015 | 43 mins 9 secs
During this episode, Reda and Kyle talk about their qualms with CSS. They talk about CSS naming conventions, how they tackle layout and the wonderful world of flexbox. Kyle tries to educate Reda on some early 90’s pop music and fails.
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16: Master of IE
December 4th, 2015 | 45 mins
In this episode Reda and Kyle talk about browser testing. They discuss how they approach testing each browser and operating system and devices. They talk about the differences in type rendering, browser user interface, and layout. Reda talks about how he approaches a simple fluid layout, Kyle talks about his most recent project and some layout challenges and they talk about using CSS for layout.
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15: X is bad for Y
November 13th, 2015 | 42 mins 37 secs
In this episode Reda and Kyle discuss iteration and design process. They talk about the differences between how a junior designer takes on a project and how a senior designer takes on a project. Kyle talks about how jobs to be done fits into his design process. They also go on a few tangents of tracking personal data and posting articles on medium.
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14: Photoskop and Other Tools
October 23rd, 2015 | 45 mins 43 secs
This week Reda and Kyle talk about the tools that they use during their design process. They touch on everything from graphical editors, color pickers and task list applications.
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13: Designing For Human Emotion
September 18th, 2015 | 36 mins 43 secs
This week Reda and Kyle talk about empathy in design and keeping in mind a users state of mind while designing. They give examples when when humor and playfulness are good to add into user experience and some cases when it isn't.
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12: How Many Questions Do You Ask?
September 4th, 2015 | 42 mins 4 secs
This episode Reda and Kyle talk about the thoughtbot hiring process for designers. They talk about what they look for in designers, what they look for in a portfolio, and details about each step in the hiring process.