This week Jaclyn & Kyle catch up on streamlining UI, building landing pages in Hubspot CMS, first impressions of Tailwind, and auto-layout in Figma. Also, we reminisce as we say adieu to Kyle and his tenure on Tentative. 👋🥲
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Adekunle Oduye, UX Engineer at Mailchimp, discusses working on a design-system team, setting goals for 2021, storing documentation in Figma, and conducting user research for design systems.
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Ryan Rumsey, founder & CEO of Second Wave Dive, discusses building programs that solve systems problems through design thinking, and struggling with critique.
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","summary":"Senongo Akpem, author of Cross-Cultural Design, joins the show to discuss design in civic-tech, ways to include cross-cultural design thinking into short engagements, staying dedicated to long-term projects, and memories of Dreamweaver.","date_published":"2020-10-23T00:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/c6bb6a15-1f24-4e05-bdad-7c6d7c25acc2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43024261,"duration_in_seconds":2688}]},{"id":"74950045-7875-4593-bf12-bbb18cf01063","title":"99: Organic Backlog Gardening (Erin May & JH Forster)","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/99","content_text":"From User Interviews, Erin May (VP Growth & Marketing) & JH Forster (VP Product) join the show to discuss hiring during Covid, onboarding remotely, using GitHub for documentation, backlog management, managing team morale while remote, and work on diversity & inclusion initiatives. \n\n\nUser Interviews\nAwkward Silences- User Interviews Podcast\nBeing There\nRemo\nThe UX Research Flex Stack\nRocket Emoji App\nJH on Twitter\nErin on Twitter\n\n\nBecome a Sponsor of Tentative!","content_html":"From User Interviews, Erin May (VP Growth & Marketing) & JH Forster (VP Product) join the show to discuss hiring during Covid, onboarding remotely, using GitHub for documentation, backlog management, managing team morale while remote, and work on diversity & inclusion initiatives.
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","summary":"This week Kyle discusses his iterative approach to everything, and Jaclyn discusses take-aways from her Lightning Design Jam. Also, a design-thinking escape room, life lessons learned from previous jobs, and human corn.","date_published":"2020-06-19T00:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/25aa0e75-6231-4f96-a7e1-a3f56b6446ba.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25575598,"duration_in_seconds":1598}]},{"id":"bc1bc600-3244-4db6-8eb6-642449c9efd0","title":"90: Seeking Strengths (Gareth Burrowes)","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/90","content_text":"We are pushing back our normally scheduled podcast in support of the protests this week and the Black community as a whole. To give space for their words, their actions, and all of the grieving caused by the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Too many members of the Black community have lost their lives through racial injustice. \n\nFor those that are mourning and those that are fighting for equality: we see you, we love you, and we support you. Black culture matters. Black communities matter. Black lives matter.\n\nThe systemic racism that plagues our nation NEEDS to come to an end. We've included a short list of resources in the show notes of ways each of us can take action. We ask everyone to research ways to get involved in a way they feel they can have the biggest impact.\n\nWhat follows is an episode from our sister podcast, Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots with Gareth Burrowes, focusing on removing unconscious bias from the hiring flow and the importance of diversity at every level of a company.\n\nFighting for equality falls on each of us, regardless of race or position, to work together to fight racism and unequal treatment.\n\n\nGiant Robots: Seeking Strengths (Gareth Burrowes)\nBlack Tech Twitter\nBlack Tech Pipeline\nBlack Lives Matter\nResources provided by Diversify Tech\n\n\n\n\nOriginal Notes from Giant Robots Episode 312\n\nGareth Burrowes, Co-Founder & Head of Product and Marketing at The Tech Connection, discusses employment screening focused on candidate strengths, removing unconscious bias from the hiring flow, and the importance of diversity at every level of a company.\n\n\nThe Tech Connection\nGareth on Twitter\n","content_html":"We are pushing back our normally scheduled podcast in support of the protests this week and the Black community as a whole. To give space for their words, their actions, and all of the grieving caused by the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Too many members of the Black community have lost their lives through racial injustice.
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\n\nFighting for equality falls on each of us, regardless of race or position, to work together to fight racism and unequal treatment.
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\n\nBecome a Sponsor of Tentative!
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\n\nSee open positions at thoughtbot!
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\n\nBecome a Sponsor of Tentative!
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See open positions at thoughtbot!
Become a Sponsor of Tentative!
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Chris Schnaars joins Kyle to discuss computational design, creative control, design vs art, and the nature of design tooling.
Skipper Chong Warson, Design Director of thoughtbot San Francisco, joins Kyle to discuss the psychology of podcast recording, overcoming awkwardness in communication & public speaking, and avoiding proxies when engaging with clients.
Live from New York, it's Keiran King & Tyson Gach! They join Kyle to discuss designing apples, comparing and contrasting jobs-to-be-done to other frameworks, and defining 'customer success'.
Jaclyn is taking a break for a little bit and Kyle sets a course for happiness. We talk about embracing change as an opportunity to define yourself, and having a similar mindset to build good habits between projects. Also, experimenting with and evolving process, and reflecting on the importance of collaboration.
See open positions at thoughtbot!
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\n\nThis episode of Tentative is sponsored by Indeed Prime
\n\n\n\nSee open positions at thoughtbot!
\n\nBecome a Sponsor of Tentative!
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\n\nKyle deals with a "dentist situation" and writes a blog post, while both he & Jaclyn return to IC design work. Also, manager training, partnering with an offshore development team while on a tight deadline, and the "good problems" of a large design sprint.
\n\nJaclyn goes on a ski trip, Kyle eats cake on the microphone (sorry). Also, de-stressing techniques, Austin weather (surprise), daylight savings time, the UI of car clocks, making the most of small gaps in your schedule, enriching collaboration with developers, clarifying the title of "designer", and iterating on podcast recording. Plus, the introduction of a new segment "good, bad, and ugly".
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\n\nJaclyn and Kyle discuss remote interview methodology, skillset tracking, Design Sprint 101™️, and Kyle's skills as a Beer Ninja.
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\n\nJaclyn wraps up a project to hand off to a client's design team, Kyle looses his voice after giving a design sprint presentation, plus personal habits to pursue before speaking engagements or while in Product Design Sprints, design patterns in children's apps, and screen-time controls in iOS.
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\n\nJaclyn & Kyle discuss disrupting a good flow state, quitting coffee, balancing support & client work, and negotiating a healthy work/life balance.
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\n\nDawn & Sam take the reigns this week and discuss designing filter systems, World Emoji Day, a11y in Emoji, and how 'design goals' should merge with 'business goals'.
\n\nJaclyn and Kyle are joined by Robert Indries of DG Studio to discuss applying design principles to other industries, deadlines (and procrastination), as well as the importance and difficulty of communication.
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\n\nThis week we discuss the importance of keeping a tight feedback loop on communication, and allowing time for experimentation & validation. Also, are retro notes helpful?
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\n\nThis week, we discuss approaches to prototypes in User Testing, Sharpie preferences, how Batman arrived at the final design of his utility belt, and defining thoughtbot's design values.
\n\nWhile recovering from SxSW Kyle & Jaclyn discuss design experiences in day-to-day life, and surviving conferences / networking events.
\n\nKyle & Jaclyn discuss weather apps, maintaining focus in User Interviews, tips for managing frequent contexting switching, and documentation during a design sprint.
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\n\nOther tangents include: sleep, traveling to NYC, the weather, spelling & pluralization techniques, the annoyance of advertisements, Netflix confessions, misadventures with torrenting, Kyle's new voice-acting career, and motivational speaking.
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\n\nJaclyn and Kyle ponder their past lives and spirit animals, and manage to squeeze in some design talk about condensed sprints, tips for managing remote user testing, reinforcing best-practices, and time management.
\n\nKyle & Jaclyn are back for 2018! This week they discuss Die Hard, designing on an iPad, the importance of community to creation, and embracing the flaws in your art.
\n\nKyle & Jaclyn chat about Stranger Things, design approaches to personal sites, using improv to build better trust & communication on a team, & the importance of naming and language.
\n\nBrenda and Dawn talk about early experiences with tech, CSS DevConf, code review, performance considerations around the world, and refactoring legacy sketch files.
\n\nJaclyn and Kyle talk about ways to start a design career, as well as what happens when you're deep in the trenches building products.
\n\nReda & Kyle discuss color consistency across tools and devices, as well as the inefficiencies of design workflows.
\n\nKyle & Reda discuss search engines, documentation searches, reminisce about Photoshop Slices in Dreamweaver, and question Reda's Google-Fu.
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\n\nDawn and Kyle talk about Dawn’s recent experience running usability tests, and what learned from running them. Kyle discusses how he's using Jobs-to-be-done theory to build a marketing landing page. Finally, how they approach which resolution screen to design for first.
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\n\nWe talk about the dichotomy of perfection in design, versus shipping something that is 'good enough'. Reda discusses how he is keeping track of the places in the app that he wants to improve while trying to hit deadlines. Also, recent experience jumping on print design and branding projects, and the different tools used when tackling them.
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\n\nKyle is joined by Dawn Delatte to discuss the different tools and methodology employed in tackling a remote design sprint. They cover some of the success and failures of a recent sprint and how they split up work afterwards.
Dawn talks about diving into JavaScript which leads to a discussion on how they learn new technology and design techniques. Kyle is back on a rails app and is enjoying planning out the product.
They're back! Reda and Kyle team up for a new season of Tentative. In this episode we discuss the thought process, tools, and execution plan for goals and resolutions in the new year. Plus, books for Reda to read over the coming year, and the importance of reading not only as a designer but also as a person.
\n\nUsing Instagram’s redesign as an example, we discuss the new wave of apps that are starting a trend of black and white UI. This leads to a debate on having concrete style trends, and why it doesn’t always make sense to follow them (but why it might make sense for Instagram).
\n\nReda and Kyle talk about how Kyle is tackling a branding project for a fantasy sports app. They then dig into how both are planning for upcoming design sprints, and the methodology behind their different approaches.
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\n\nThis 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.
\n\nReda 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.
\n\nOn 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.
\n\nCheerful 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.
\n\n","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2016-04-04T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/5f3df5a4-838e-4f29-b514-b92aef6d4b58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":40920134,"duration_in_seconds":2557}]},{"id":"97cd8d16-252f-43bb-a6c6-db8091ee1ca3","title":"22: Best of Both Words","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/22","content_text":"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.\n\n\nGiant Robots\nReda’s iOS posts\n\nBuilding iOS Interfaces: A Custom Button\nBuilding iOS Interfaces: Views\nBuilding iOS Interfaces: A Primer\n\n\n\nReda’s blog\nReda’s Smashing Magazine Retina Article\nBlurred lines\nKyle’s personal blog\nSix years\nMedium\nDesigner news\nEvernote\nSublime Text\nMarkoff: A Free Markdown Previewer for OS X\n","content_html":"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.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\n","summary":"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.","date_published":"2016-02-26T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/41d59df1-b2d3-4dd2-a982-fadb5af8a5cf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":29864695,"duration_in_seconds":1866}]},{"id":"333679e2-0c7b-4d4d-b308-5a2dc710e3ed","title":"20: Minimal Viable Design","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/20","content_text":"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.\n\n\nPlaybook\nDesign sprint\nDesign sprint tentative episode\nHow we use Trello\nReplacing The User Story With The Job Story\nConverting To Jobs Stories\nHigh voltage\nTest-Driven Product Design\n","content_html":"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.
\n\nDuring 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.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2016-01-22T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/823ca5d4-76b0-4697-a64c-8a61a703e61f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":43033753,"duration_in_seconds":2689}]},{"id":"6af51ae6-f772-4920-b513-eb80841b4477","title":"18: It's Not Satisfying Unless You Blow Into the Cartridge","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/18","content_text":"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.\n\n\nThe Dribbblisation of Design\nAgency Landing Pages\nHistory of trends in graphic design\nBig Spaceship\nScrolljacking\nBraun\nDieter Rams\nDribbble\nApple TV Behance App\n","content_html":"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.
\n\nDuring 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.
\n\n","summary":"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.","date_published":"2015-12-24T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/e214a0af-41a1-4651-94b5-29fb7b11f7ed.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31094837,"duration_in_seconds":2589}]},{"id":"cc60752f-04f0-4a72-be7a-9fd9f902f94e","title":"16: Master of IE","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/16","content_text":"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.\n\n\nBrowserstack\nIE blog post\nIE Setup\nFeedback episode\n","content_html":"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.
\n\n","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2015-12-04T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/4e6658fc-2b9d-4881-af66-c9f16ba05c6d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32430530,"duration_in_seconds":2700}]},{"id":"f7524473-6d05-42d8-a40c-5d0228ea1d86","title":"15: X is bad for Y","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/15","content_text":"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.\n\n\nJulie Zhuo on Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers\nDesign sprints\nJobs to be done\nInvision\nMarvel\nBlurred lines\nMedium\n","content_html":"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.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\nReda 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.
\n\nIn 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.
\n\nThis episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by:
\n\nLinks and Show Notes
\n\nIn 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.
\n\nThis episode of Tentative is sponsored by:
\n\nLinks & Show Notes
\n\n","summary":"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.\r\n\r\nThis 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.","date_published":"2015-07-17T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/8f38661d-c11b-4cf4-9937-a52230dfd2ed.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25981131,"duration_in_seconds":2163}]},{"id":"7ebac820-cfc9-467d-a365-ba610c6e480a","title":"8: Padding Rocks & Kerning Waves","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/8","content_text":"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.\n\nThis episode of Tentative is sponsored by:\n\n\nCode 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.\n\n\nLinks & Show Notes\n\n\nBetween Screens Podcast with Kyle\n","content_html":"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.
\n\nThis episode of Tentative is sponsored by:
\n\nLinks & Show Notes
\n\n","summary":"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.\r\n\r\nThis 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.","date_published":"2015-07-03T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/0d4585d4-fd20-46ac-a82f-b10f6e634540.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29408606,"duration_in_seconds":2448}]},{"id":"b2df34dd-939e-4ae3-a072-247ea2ddb6e6","title":"7: Hamburgers Are an Abomination","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/7","content_text":"In this episode, Kyle talks about his current project, Reda talks a lot about accessibility and how he designs for it, and Kyle trolls Reda into a rant about the Hamburger icon.\n\n\nWorld Accessibility Day\nColor Oracle is free Mac app to help you view your designs through the eyes of someone with color Blindness\nXscope has a bunch of utilities one of which can view colors from different types of color blindness.\nObvious always wins by Luke W\nNot mentioned but we recommend watching Web Accessibility Wilderness Guide\n","content_html":"In this episode, Kyle talks about his current project, Reda talks a lot about accessibility and how he designs for it, and Kyle trolls Reda into a rant about the Hamburger icon.
\n\nIn this episode, Kyle & Reda finally talk about design sprints, they discuss the process at thoughtbot, argue about prototyping and how they pick the right tool for the right job.
\n\n","summary":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda finally talk about design sprints, they discuss the process at thoughtbot, argue about prototyping and how they pick the right tool for the right job.","date_published":"2015-06-11T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/35d8983f-88d3-44bc-acd9-34747f53df4b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31553050,"duration_in_seconds":2627}]},{"id":"fe5a9c34-6b78-44cb-92ff-260134a77210","title":"5: It's Pronounced Al-u-minney-um","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/5","content_text":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda follow up about product focus, then move on to talk about designer job titles and experimentation in UI design.\n\n\nJTBD\nNew apple building\nDefinition of Product\nRototo\nLittle Big Details\n","content_html":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda follow up about product focus, then move on to talk about designer job titles and experimentation in UI design.
\n\n","summary":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda follow up about product focus, then move on to talk about designer job titles and experimentation in UI design.","date_published":"2015-05-22T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e7636971-47ab-4cf1-8c50-6a58dd0d47e2/a510be53-7f84-4625-b919-a3a010924161.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29343795,"duration_in_seconds":2443}]},{"id":"7a6872a9-2d86-45c3-b386-b75eb584efdf","title":"4: Leggo' My Ego","url":"https://www.tentative.fm/4","content_text":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda talk about giving design feedback to peers, and receiving feedback from clients and users.\n\n\nOn Design Feedback\nSassquatch- Use coupon code TENTATIVE for 25% off!\n","content_html":"In this episode, Kyle & Reda talk about giving design feedback to peers, and receiving feedback from clients and users.
\n\nIn this episode, Kyle & Reda talks about text editors, Sassquatch, and Sass.
\n\nIn this episode, Reda & Kyle—mostly Reda—talk about game design versus app design, juggling between projects, and creativity.
\n\nIn our inaugural episode, Reda & Kyle discuss the latest browser announcements, React Native, and buzzword pet-peeves.
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