In the latest episode of Design Huddle we interviewed Mandy Michael, a Front End Developer, previously a Development Manager for the news organization Seven West Media in Western Australia. She now works as a Senior Software Engineer at Hireup. She speaks at conferences and events locally and internationally sharing her work and experiments with new and old technology. Mandy gave an introduction to variable fonts, her type experiments, how she used creativity to reignite her passion for coding, and what it is like to be famous.

In this Episode, we speak to Liam Spradlin, a designer on Google’s Material Design System, Speaker, author, and host of the famous Design Notes Podcast. We spoke about designing a design system, the difference between Android and iOS, and how he went about designing several typefaces. You can also checkout the videos on our YouTube Channel; See more from Liam Design Notes: https://designnotes.fm/ Liams Typefaces: https://iamli.am/work

This article was inspired by a conversation I had with Ryan Warrender on our Podcast Design Huddle. There is also the old joke of a kid seeing a floppy disk for the first time and asking his Dad why he has a 3D printed version of the save icon. Well…

How to design for weird user behavior. — This article was inspired by a conversation I had with Ryan Warrender on our Podcast Design Huddle. User Fudged Experiences are when users do something unexpected with our products or service, usually in a hacky way. Here are some examples. Story 1: McDonald’s Milkshakes The Golden Arches were trying to increase the sale of…

This week its all about NTFs and the UX challenges around them — We have launched a bunch of videos for our Podcast, Design Huddle, featuring me and Ryan Warrender. This week we talk NFTs. NFT stands for “non-fungible token.” Similar to a Bitcoin token, you trade it for real money at a varying market value. However, unlike Bitcoin, each NFT is unique. The token that says you own something, like an art piece, you trade it, however, if you do, you’ll be getting an entirely different piece. It is essentially enforced scarcity, which in turn is supposed to drive up value.

Interview with: Brendan Kearns, a designer who has worked at Twitter, InVision, and Google — Introduction I have joined podcast, Design Huddle, as a co-host with Ryan Warrender. The premise of the show; We breakdown what’s new in tech and design. …

I have just launched my first ever course on skillshare.com titled “Basics of Mobile UX: Design and Prototyping”. The course leads you through the creation process of a mobile app that allows you to order coffee on the go. Think of it as Uber but for coffee lovers. You can see the course here bit.ly/mobileUXdesign and also get two months off on their premium accounts by using this link: https://buff.ly/2U2wA8H. Enjoy!

This article covers the process and the lessons learned when designing a PWA and the things we learned. — NOTE: This article was inspired by a conversation I had with David East, A Firebase Developer Advocate at Google, for our YouTube series “Designer vs. Developer”. …

Google hosted a panel discussion on these topics regarding designing for speed and the need to think about slowing down an experience. — NOTE: This article was inspired by a conversation I had with Adrienne Porter Felt, Software Engineer and Lead at Google Chrome, for our YouTube series “Designer vs. Developer”. …