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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. Build Phase Massimo Vinelli SVG episode Deal with it Glass case of emotion SMIL Gapplin Markoff Sassquatch HAML Sass Coffeescript

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. Brutalist websites WWDC

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. thoughtbot.com Last iteration of thoughtbot.com on wayback machine How we use trello Design sprint repo Design sprint guide Redpen Sketch Kromatic Trello Omnifocus Tools episode

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. Should designers code episode Julie Zhuo Medium Geoff Teehan Medium John Lax Medium Cap Watkins Blog

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. The Dark Side Apple Watch Darkpatterns.org

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. Giant Robots Reda’s iOS posts Building iOS Interfaces: A Custom Button Building iOS Interfaces: Views Building iOS Interfaces: A Primer Reda’s blog Reda’s Smashing Magazine Retina Article Blurred lines Kyle’s personal blog Six years Medium Designer news Evernote Sublime Text Markoff: A Free Markdown Previewer for OS X

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. Red Pen Invision Relay.io Hunie Hound Wake Buzzfeed: Snapchat Like The Teens NDA

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. Playbook Design sprint Design sprint tentative episode How we use Trello Replacing The User Story With The Job Story Converting To Jobs Stories High voltage Test-Driven Product Design

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.

In this episode Reda and Kyle talk about the homogenization in web design. How styles have evolved in the pas 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. The Dribbblisation of Design Agency Landing Pages History of trends in graphic design Big Spaceship Scrolljacking Braun Dieter Rams Dribbble Apple TV Behance App

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. Let’s talk about sex baby BEM Flexbox Neat OOCSS CSS Variables

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. Browserstack IE blog post IE Setup Feedback episode

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. Julie Zhuo on Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers Design sprints Jobs to be done Invision Marvel Blurred lines Medium

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. Text Editor Episode Photoshop Illustrator Sketch Chrome preference for change Affinity designer Brenda’s SVG Episode SVGo Sip Pixa Colour lovers Kuler ImageOptim Typekit Google Fonts Sublime Text Dash Text Expander El Capitan Evernote Simplenote Google Keep Yojimbo Omnifocus Things Wunderlist Clear Google Inbox Mailbox

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. Reda's tweet about Slack changelog Timehop on Valentine's Day Eric Meyer year on Facebook Eric Meyer on Designing for Crisis Children's pirate-themed scanner (In NYC not Philly!) Mailchimp party pooper mode Basecamp default profile photos

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. Blurred lines Organically designing the pathways around buildings The Feedback Episode Playbook hiring

Reda and Kyle follow up on SVGs, talk about differences between Chrome and new Safari's pinned tabs. They discuss some of the ways of allowing users control over design and themes of the app they are designing. Lastly they talk about how they design with real content or as close to as real as possible. BONUS: Kyle sings a line of Aerosmith. Trello inspiration Safaris new features Vimium MySpace default theme WWDC Session introducing NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter Sketch Data Populator Sketch Data Parser IE Mac 5.5

In this episode, Brenda Storer stands in for the vacationing Reda. Brenda and Kyle talk about Brenda's recent talk on SVG's. The in's and out's of her process of learning about them and talking about them. They also talk about giving talks. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links and Show Notes Slides from the talk Brenda's codepen account with a bunch of simple examples of SVGs to play with SVGO Sara Soueidan's 2014 CSSConf talk Jacob Jenkov's SVG Book online Chris Coyier's technique for using symbols as icons in svgs Jake Archibald's article on animating a stroke Iconic Icon Responsive Icons ManhattanJS website with animated clouds Brenda on Twitter

In this episode, Kyle and Reda tackle the 'should designers code' debate. They talk about the differences between designing vs implementing, what to look for in a good designer and if developers should know how to design. This episode of Tentative is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show Notes Between Screens with Kyle

In this episode, Kyle and Reda talk about vacation as a designer, some of the signs that they are burning out and how they deal with burnout. This episode of Tentative is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show Notes Between Screens Podcast with Kyle