UX Design Huddle (Design Huddle Podcast )

On this episode we talk to Zach Hill about design sprint best practices and how to become a more thoughtful designer. A design sprint is a time-constrained, five-phase process that uses design thinking with the aim of reducing the risk when bringing a new product, service or a feature to the market. 

Zach is a passionate design centered strategist that combines an obsession for user experience, product strategy, and process with a foundation in visual communication. Zach uses the experience from the variety of creative disciplines he has been involved in to inform his decisions as a consultant and strategist and inspire his visual solutions as a design communicator. Zachary is currently the head of strategy at Toi, a design and innovation agency that specializes in user experience and digital product design. He has had the opportunity to work with several businesses and brands that include the University of Chicago Medical Center, Verizon, Waste Management, Sennheiser, and Clifton's LA.

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A UX design process typically follows something similar to a design thinking approach, which consists of five basic phases: Empathize with the users (learning about the audience) Define the problem (identifying the users' needs) Ideate (generating ideas for design). The UX process is an iterative method that helps you to continuously improve and polish your designs with user feedback. Also, one thing you should know is: A UX process can be different from one UX designer to another, organization to organization, and sometimes depending on the project. 

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The psychology of waiting, loading animations, and Facebook Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two Googlers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse. Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this eposide, Brandon and Ryan discuss the new Apple car concept, Razer's super cool N95 mask, and discuss how robots are taking over. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this episode, Mustafa and Ryan talk about the history of interfaces with Lego and how they break down their designs. We also take a look at David Hockney's redesign of the London Metro System station signs and finally explore how brands have changed their tone of voice during Covid. 

Sites; 

https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/hockneys-london-artwork 

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/brands-tone-of-voice/

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In this episode Ryan & Brandon get into what has gone over well for us in 2019 and what we are looking forward to moving into in 2020. You can find us online here:  📲Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/designhuddletime. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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James Martin shares with us his back story, how he got into branding & logo design, as well as starting his own agency BabyGiant Design Co. - 🖥 Find James online: Instagram: https://instagram.com/made.by.james?igshid=1xjd89j8vopjn - Website: https://www.baby-giant.co.uk/ - You can find us online here: 🖥Website: ALMOST DONE! 📲Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/designhuddletime - 📗Shop Our Book List: https://amzn.to/35RNbz1 - ✅Instagram Course: https://brandongroce.teachable.com/p/instagram-course --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

User Experience, or UX for short, is the term used to describe an innovation process that uses a deep understanding of user needs to help create products and services that provide meaningful experiences to our customers. UX uses a set of design methods to unlock actionable insights that help to define products. It takes these insights to design and develop the behavior of the products we create, organize the workflow for interacting with them, and to connect them with our brand.  User experiences are created in stages over the course of a product’s development. UX teams engage end-users to discover insights; they design and prototype concepts and work them into detailed solutions; they implement the final product and evaluate how customer and users respond to release after release. Every product requires its own approach based on local constraints, but these stages represent a healthy UX process that can bring exceptional user experiences to life.

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The 5 Main Ingredients of UX: Psychology, Usability, Design, Copywriting, and Analysis. Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce Support this Podcast: bit.ly/support-designhuddle ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, states that 80% of results in a system come from 20% of the causes. Its origins stem back to Vilfredo Pareto, an economist who noticed 80% of Italy's land was owned by 20% of the population.  The original observation was in connection with population and wealth. Pareto noticed that approximately 80% of Italy's land was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on a variety of other countries and found to his surprise that a similar distribution applied.

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In this episode we discuss our first jobs, how to kickstart your design career, and how to be more teachable.  Jesse Showalter is a full stack designer who focuses on providing thoughtful solutions to user based problems. He specializes in brands, web design, UI and UX design and of course... front-end development. He is one of the most personable and down-to-earth designers out there. Please subscribe and leave us a review! 

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Ryan has created this reading list for anyone that works on a product, at a start-up, or is simply looking to get inspired. This list includes some classics and some of the newest books out in 2019. Happy reading! 

Full List: Read Now 

Kit: Additional Books to Read 

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Welcome to the design huddle, a podcast where two internet friends breakdown what’s new in tech and design.

Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some hilarious candid interviews with creative professionals, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the pending robot apocalypse.

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One of the most popular UX Instagram handles - UX Bites explains his brilliant content strategy. We discuss how to grow your Instagram account and how to create better content that people will share.  @uxbites is based on a devoted product designer’s finding in UX design. You can find UX Research, learn about the process of an efficient UX design, find out more about user testing in daily bite sized form. + Some fun stuff along the journey.   If you have requests of new files, want to chat about your ongoing project or about anything else, write Gabriel at uxbites@gmail.com. Let's be friends. Connect with us - @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce.  If you got any value from this podcast share it with a friend or become a supporter: bit.ly/support-designhuddle.  The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

UX writers write the words we read or hear when we use a digital product. Every user needs some help while using a website, an app, or a software. UX writing bridges a gap between the visual layout and the usability, between the product and its users. On this episode we dive into what UX writers actually do and tips on you can be a more effective UX writer. 

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Resources:

• https://uxdesign.cc/best-ux-writing-portfolios-2019-update-7e6a066631af
• https://uxplanet.org/16-rules-of-effective-ux-writing-2a20cf85fdbf
• https://uxplanet.org/the-rise-of-the-ux-writer-8beb836c13f1

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Adam Romano is a Creative Director at Jam3 in Toronto Canada. - He and his team have the pleasure of working with brands such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Adidas, Postmates. Today, Adam shares his story of becoming creative, his struggles, challenges and how he overcame them, to be where he is today. - Join us in this amazing story of hustle from Adam Romano, a college drop and self-taught designer turned creative director at Jam3. 

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This week we are talking about the Top 10 design best practice for travel sites. Topics we cover; 'call to action' design tips, discuss the negative impact of dark patterns plus many more.  

About the hosts  

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. 

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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This week Ryan and Mustafa look at UX portfolios and take a look at some of the best of 2021. They also cover tips on what to focus on and how you can scale your skillset. 

Top 21 UX Designer Portfolio Websites in 2021

https://www.casestudy.club/journal/ux-designer-portfolio

Sites reviewed

http://www.jonathanpatterson.com/

http://lifeofpai.com/

https://www.kysondana.com/

https://www.lizvwells.com/

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

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This week we are covering the top design news stories from around the world. 

The Stories we covered are;

1. https://www.designboom.com/design/10-winners-from-if-design-award-2021-creatively-respond-to-the-pandemic-06-11-2021/
2. https://www.creativebloq.com/features/best-and-worst-web-design-trends-2021
3. https://www.robertcreative.com/blog/typography-trends-in-2021
4. https://thecxlead.com/topics/5-common-mistakes-when-deciding-to-build-a-customer-journey-map/
5. https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/hamburger-menu-and-ux-design/
6. https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/7-13-june-2021/beatport-rebrand/
7. https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/7-13-june-2021/typographic-accessibility/
8. https://uxmag.com/articles/what-are-ux-errors-of-omission-and-commission
9. https://dribbble.com/stories/2021/06/01/inclusive-design-tips
10. https://www.creativebloq.com/news/fusion-footballs-euro-2020

About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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In this episode Ryan discusses 8 ways to be a more effective project manager.

The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The primary constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary – and more ambitious – challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives. The object of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives.

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In this episode Ryan 'The War Ender' Warrender and Mustafa 'The One Who Escaped' Kurtuldu discover our origins (or rapper names), origins of the web, and how we got started in tech.

We take a look at Input Magazine's data visualization of the web and how they present the design in a slideshow design, factual design, and accessibility. From there we speak about how design needs to revolve around the people and not the other way around.

We also discuss San Diego's new logo, typeface, and poster design and how brands need to adapt to a digital world.

References:

• This psychedelic data viz shows the wild evolution of the internet
• Ingenious new San Diego Zoo logo will make you look twice

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Anfisa Bogomolova shares her journey from traditional “pixel pusher” to UX Strategist, how teaching makes you a better designer, and the pros and cons of being a Freelancer vs working at a 9-5 job.

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Brandon and Ryan reflect on the Entrepreneur article: "10 Lessons From Billion-Dollar 'Unicorn' Startups - Entrepreneur". 

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Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two Googlers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse. New co-host! Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design. Topics:  McDonalds Packaging Redesign  Influencers Instragram selfies are putting gorillas at risk  Carbon Footprint of Your Website  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

Creative professionals often find themselves in the middle of everything and everyone. Therefore, you should prepare yourself to convince a room full of people that your design is right. 

Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic way of reaching an agreement between all members of a group. Instead of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group getting their way, a group using consensus is committed to finding solutions that everyone actively supports, or at least can live with. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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This week we are covering the Apple launch event, the good, the bad and the downright silly. We also ask if a $19 polish cloth is a branding marvel or just plain ridiculous. 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

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Brittni Bowering is the head of media at AJ & Smart.  AJ & Smart helps companies build better products faster. Brandon and Brittni discuss creative advertising strategies, creating a brand, and social media growth. AJ&Smart started with the philosophy “Solve Problems, then Decorate.” As the antithesis of the traditional Design Agency, AJ&Smart has been lean and digital from day one. AJ&Smart is dedicated to creating the best products and services, without wasting their client's time or budget. Learn more about AJ & Smart - https://ajsmart.com/about-ajs/

Featured Guest: Brittni - @brittnibow

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Recommended Reading: Don't Make Me Think 

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Brandon discusses some common mistakes people make when designers apply for new jobs. Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce Support this Podcast: bit.ly/support-designhuddle ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★ The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this episode, Brandon Groce & Ryan Warrender discuss the outlandish 2020 Design Trend Neumorphism. What it is, what’s wrong with it, and where to go from here! ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

This week we speak with Servando Sanchez, Creative Director at Regex, SEO talks about SEO, web design, and what it takes to be a self-made designer in our industry. We also looked at his early beginnings with MySpace and how that grew into a real job. 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

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Ryan and Brandon interview Melinda Livsey. As the founder and brand strategist of Marks and Maker, Melinda unites over ten years of professional design experience with a penchant for thoughtful customer service. Melinda’s experience with notable names like Oakley, Paramount Pictures, and Loot Crate, coupled with her passion for creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, creates the perfect cocktail of impeccable workmanship, exceptional brands, and happy clientele. Not only is Melinda a rockstar entrepreneur she is the works for for The Futur as a Co-host on the Process. If you want to learn to be a better team consultant, strategist, or team member this episode is for you. 

Featured Guest: Melinda Livsey 

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In this episode Ryan and Mustafa review the winners of the Awwwards.com website. Awwwards.com, as the name suggests, awards the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world. 

The sites we looked are:
https://www.waxpoetics.com/
https://www.pola.com/wecaremore/
https://flipaclip.com/

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This week we cover tips and tricks on excellent UX design CVs, looking at some brilliant examples of a designer who designed their resume to look like Spotify when applying for a job there.

We cover customization, format and also go into things to look for in a job interview.

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

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This week Ryan and Mustafa look at interior design trends and how they can be applied to UX and digital design. They also talk about the perfect working environment and the meaning of design.  About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this episode Mustafa takes us through the history of branding, which he has written about on his blog.

The term branding comes from the Old Norse “Brandr” which means to burn. Cattle, slaves, timber and crockery were burnt or branded with the markings or symbols of the owner using a hot iron rod. The concept of branding was essentially to depict ownership, in particular things which had value, this practice dating back to 2000BC. The transition from “This belongs to me, so leave it…” to “This was made by me, so buy it” started to evolve in the 1800’s.

Article
https://www.designtoday.info/brand-new-the-history-of-branding/

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In this episode of Design Huddle we discuss the business side of design, ways to uplevel your personal brand, and some career advice from our amazing guest - Michael Janda. Michael Janda is an executive-level creative leader with more than 20 years of experience in both in-house creative departments and agencies working with some of the greatest brands in the world. He has earned some of the most coveted awards in the industry including Webbys, FWA, Awwwards, AIGA and Addys. Learn more about UX design with Michael Janda, the creator, and presenter of the course, “UX Design: The Processes of Creativity and Crafting User Experiences.” He is also the author of the book, Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don’t teach you in design school, but should. You find him on the web at @morejanda.

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Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two Googlers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse. Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design. This week we talk NFTs. NFT stands for "non-fungible token." This kind of token is like Bitcoin, except while you can trade Bitcoin and have more of the same thing that represents real money at a varying market value, each NFT is unique. You possess the token that says you own something, like an art piece, and you can trade it, but if you do, you'll be getting an entirely different piece. To keep all the parts in place, there's enforced (artificial, but isn't everything?) scarcity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

Matthew Encina is a creative director and brand strategist at Blind. He has created interactive experiences & video content for brands, tech, and video games. He is also a content creator at The Futur, where he teaches about creativity, pitching and motion design. He creates videos regularly on their YouTube Channel and writes articles on Medium. He's had the privilege to share his story as a speaker around the world. Including a TEDx talk about the interactive music video he created for Coldplay.

Featured Guest: Matthew - @matthewencina

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This week Ryan and Mustafa talk about the best practice for e-commerce websites, how you can improve your search results, and tips on reengaging with your customers so they do not end up on a dead-end. 

Good eCommerce web design is crucial for turning website visitors into customers. Ideally, the design elements of your website should make the shopping experience and purchase process as quick, easy, and stress-free as possible. Learn more and subscribe. 

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In this podcast we discuss UX Prototyping best practices.  

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. There are many kinds of materials that can be involved during this iterative phase, from whiteboards to paper prototypes. As the interaction framework establishes an overall structure for product behavior, a parallel process focused on the visual and industrial designs. The visual design framework defines the experience attributes, visual language, and the visual style.

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On this episode Ryan discusses how to start a podcast, why podcasting is growing, and learnings from starting Design Huddle. 

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In today’s episode we have a special guest Ioana Teleanu the UX expert behind the instagram account @UXGoodies, which has over 210k followers.. Ioana is a senior UX Designer with a super impressive design background working in RPA, Healthcare, Financial Services and Banking. She is a phenomenal  mentor and educator. She is also the cohost of Honest UX Talks. 

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In this episode of Design Huddle, Tony Daussat (Creator of the XD Podcast and HiredUX.com )and Brandon Groce talk about happy accidents in the life of creative and entrepreneurs. 

Tony Daussat shares with us his ups and down, triumphs and failures through his years in the design and tech industry, as well as how he dealt with his losses and turned those losing situations into the energy he needed to kick start his amazing career at Bottle Rocket and amazing digital agency as well as create the amazing XD Podcast, where he interviews MANY of the leading thought leaders in the design industry today. 

🔥HiredUX.com Website: - HiredUX.com 📩 Where to Find Tony Daussat: https://www.xdpodcast.com/links. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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This week we are speaking to Jason Pamental, a design strategist, author, speaker, UX leader, technologist, an expert in web typography, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group.

He has worked with many organizations including Adobe, Audible, Condé Nast, GoDaddy, IBM—and given presentations and workshops at conferences all over the world. I also publish a newsletter on web typography.

Responsive Typography Book
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/responsive-typography/9781491907085/

Jason's website
https://rwt.io/
https://rwt.io/presentations
https://rwt.io/resources

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In this episode of Design Huddle the mastermind behind UXGoodies on Instagram (Ioana Adriana Teleanu) discusses UX best practices, how to get started, and how to grow your Instagram channel.

• Featured Guest: Ioana Adriana Teleanu,  UXGoodies!
  
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• Topics: Growing on Instagram, UX Design, FinTech, Career Advice, Research

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In this episode Ryan discusses practical ways to prepare for jobs of the future. He discusses soft skills that can accelerate your career and jobs of the future. 

Join the Design Huddle community and follow us Instagram at @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce. 

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In this episode John D Saunders shares his journey as a Digital Marketing Strategist with over a decade of experience helping SMBs, non-profits and Fortune 500 companies find success through online marketing. How he’s launched over 250+ websites for small & medium businesses WITHOUT Touching code at his award-winning boutique agency, 5four. In addition to how he’s been able to help teach over 3,000 students online & teach entrepreneurs in his online course “THE WEB DESIGN ACCELERATOR”, how to launch a profitable web design agency from anywhere. In just the past 2 years he’s built and sold 3 E-commerce businesses from scratch And runs one of the top financial literacy blogs for urban millennials, BLACK WALLET, that reaches over 1MILLION uniques visitors. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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In this episode, we look at super apps, which is an app that includes many functions all rolled into one—for example, having your streaming service, food delivery, and payments app collected together.

Some popular ones include China's WeChat and AliPay, India's Paytm, Singapore's Grab, Indonesia's GoTo, Vietnam's Zalo, and South Korea's Kakao.

But why haven't they been popular in the West, and what can app developers do to promote their success?

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

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Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation or instilling moral values. 

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There’s a recurring debate in our industry over whether or not designers should write code. Brandon and Ryan debate the pros & cons of learning to code as a designer.  

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In this episode we are interviewing 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. 

Mandys Type Experiments: https://codepen.io/mandymichael

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mandy_Kerr 

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In this episode, Mustafa & Ryan discuss UX best practices with writing. We discuss how users read websites, the two types of readers, Scanners and Methodical, and how you can design your website to improves its readability. We also talk about User Fudged Experiences, which are observations of users who do weird and wacky things with your products, what it means, and how you can innovate to support them achieve their goals. References: Eye-Tracking Study You Won’t Finish This Article Jakob Nielsen study --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

This week Ryan and Mustafa try out a new trend of 'Would you rathers', looking at the fun yet the odd world of weird alternative scenarios. As per usual Mustafa tries to hack his way through. 

About the hosts 

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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Jeff White, Cofounder @ Kula Partners & Previous UX & Design Professor at NSCAD, shares with us what has propelled designers to create amazing careers for themselves and what the most important thing are to truly focus on in ones early career, whether you decide to go to school, or not. - You can find Jeff White online here: 🖥Website: Kulapartners.com 📲Twitter: twitter.com/kulapartners. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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This week we are speaking with Karl Salisbury, a product designer working at the payment processing company Adyen. Adyen serves enterprise clients such as Uber, Wise, Spotify, eBay, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to name just a few.

Before that, he was at Booking.com, joining during the company's hyper growth phase of 2017 and the crisis of 2020 with Covid. Having worked on both the customer and supply sides, Karl has a lot of experience regarding how travel sites and apps are designed. In this episode, we talk about the design process and the UX dark patterns. 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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User flow is the path taken by a prototypical user on a website or app to complete a task. The user flow takes them from their entry point through a set of steps towards a successful outcome and final action, such as purchasing a product. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two UX designers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse.

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Topics:

• How Well Do You Know UX Principles? - Discuss the pros and cons of being a self taught UX Designer 
• Travel Remotely - Travel site with a twist, imagine if you could visit a city from the comfort of your own home. Created by John Ornelas
• Why a cardboard shortage is driving innovation in packaging design - Online shopping, office closures and Brexit have all impacted cardboard supplies. Material innovation and smarter packaging design could provide a solution. As well as being light, easy to rip up and cheap, cardboard has sustainable advantages. It contains a high percentage of recycled material – sometimes up to 80%.
• Genius airline design - The concept of travel might be a distant memory for many right now, but while we're all waiting for the world to return to normal, one ingenious airline poster has recently resurfaced online. The internet is currently going wild for Norwegian Airlines' clever way of communicating its various destinations, and we're loving the smart and simple execution.

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Jacob Cass shares with us how he’s built his business from the ground up, worked with brands such as NINTENDO, NIKE, Red Bull, Disney, Powerade, VitaminWater and how he and you can build a passive income stream as a creative. • Find Jacob Cass On Instagram: https://instagram.com/justcreative. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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Anchor allows anyone to record or upload high-quality audio, host unlimited episodes, and distribute everywhere with just one click. On this episode we talk to the most down to earth CEO of all of time...Michael Mignano. Michael tells us how him and his co-founder took the idea of Anchor and developed it into a multi-million dollar startup. We were also joined by Anchor's brilliant lead product designer Emmi Hintz. Emmi tells us how she prioritizes a users needs, tells us about the most important UX skills to develop, and what is next for Anchor. 

This podcast is a conversation, we'd love to hear from you. 

Featured Guests - Michael - @mignano & Emmi - @digitalgogetta

Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender 

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Recommended Reading: Don't Make Me Think 

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Reference: 

Crunchbase

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In this episode Brandon and Miriam Issac discuss UX careers and prototyping best practices. Let's be friends. Connect with us - @misaac85,  @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce.   If you got any value from this podcast share it with a friend or become a supporter: bit.ly/support-designhuddle.  The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this episode we cover the logo design news and trends, from logo mashups to rebrands. 

News stories covered

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/combined-logos

https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/pro-guide-logo-design-21221

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/visa-rebrand

https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/logo-typography-guide 

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/wasps-logo

 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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In this episode, we talk with Scott Dasse on what propels young creatives to make major strides in their careers, get hired, grow their skill set and MUCH MORE. Scott Dasse is a principal at Upstatement where he leads the design department and maintains a hands-on approach to the work. His clients have included MIT, Harvard, Bloomberg, NPR, Penguin Random House, Steelcase, and of course Tito's Handmade Vodka. He brings brands and technology together to build platforms and experiences that users love. His work has won awards from AIGA, SPD, Fast Co, and The Webbys. Scott is a Massachusetts native with an MFA in Graphic Design from Boston University. 🔥Upstatement’s Website: - Upstatement.com 📩 Contact Scott Dasse: - scott@upstatement.com. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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First impressions matter.  Mobile users are very goal-oriented and super impatient. Avoid distracting a user from their goals. Keep your homepage and top landing pages simple. Be sure to have a clear call-to-action and a value proposition above the fold. A user should know what to do and why they should stay on your website in a moment’s glance.  

Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce

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Wireframing is a way to design a website service at the structural level. A wireframe is commonly used to lay out content and functionality on a page which takes into account user needs and user journeys. On today's episode Brandon and Ryan share their wireframing best practices. 

Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce

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In this episode, Ryan and Brandon discuss why Gamestop stock went to the moon, the new Virgin Hyperloop designs, and all the HBO movies that drop in 2021.  ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

Brandon and Ryan discuss the importance of doing the UX research up front. Ryan talks about his experience redesigning a GE customer support application and how to better put yourself in your user's shoes. The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.  In this episode we focus on user research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies. Mike Kuniaysky further notes that it is “the process of understanding the impact of design on an audience.”

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Ryan Hayward shares with us how he built his start up PitchProof in 3 days, created FrontRow 2019, one of the largest online design conference for designers, and shares with us a little bit behind the curtain how he does it all. 🔥Ryan’s Social Media: ✅Instagram: - Instagram.com/usepitchproof - Instagram.com/theryanhayward. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, generally all users have equal access to information and functionality. Today we help you get closer to crafting a more inclusive web experience.  

Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce

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The week we are speaking with Kevin Marshall. He has a background deep in a number of design roles and most recently laser-focused on UX design, Kevin is a true expert in the digital space. At The Basement, Kevin helps national clients achieve success across digital products. 

Kevin's talent lies within being a lifelong learner. Give him a package or technology and a few hours, and not only will I come back with a creation, but he'll also present it to the client and then show and teach all those around him on how to implement it. He has an extensive background in design theories including UX research and discovery, a desire to listen to the problem at hand, and then explore solutions via ideation. He believes that it just doesn’t end with all the creative, UX, product design stuff though folks. Kevin was awarded the honor of TechPoint's Top 25 in Technology in 2018.   


About The Basement:

• The Basement is a full-service integrated agency, founded by early pioneers of digital, bringing high-quality design and a media-first approach to branding campaigns via interactive storytelling. The agency works to deliver radical clarity to agile brands by leveraging modern storytelling and data acumen. Based out of Indianapolis, The Basement works with brands on the national stage like Schlage, NCAA, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, American College of Education, Transitions and more.

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Facebook has gone all Meta, but what does this mean for the company and how does its brand connect Facebook's other products? Listen to this episode to learn more. 

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/facebooks-new-name-is-meta

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

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Michael Janda breaks down what is expected from a designer who wants to progress in their career. In this episode, you will learn what skills need to be learned and what to focus on in order to progress from entry-level creative, executive-level creative, and business owner. 

Join the Design Huddle community and follow us on Instagram at @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce.

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The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies.

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User experience (UX) is all aspects of the end user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products. Customer Experience (CX) is how customers perceive their interactions with your company. In this ep we discuss the difference and why they matter more than ever. 

Join the Design Huddle community and follow us Instagram at @Ryan.Warrender& @BrandonGroce. 

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Peter Smart Head of Product at Fantasy.co shares with us: 1. His creative journey to Head of Product @ Fantasy & his challenges 2. How to find a mentor to excel 3. Why Experience will always beat theory 4. How to seek & take hold of job opportunities 5. How being open to change can open a lot of doors in your career 6. The power of being a “curious idiot” ✅ Peter Smarts Amazing talk at the Awwwards Conference: https://youtu.be/AonZeJFsaxc. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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On this episode we bring back one of our favorite guests - Melinda Livsey. As the founder and brand strategist of Marks and Maker, Melinda unites over ten years of professional design experience with a penchant for thoughtful customer service. Melinda’s experience with notable names like Oakley, Paramount Pictures, and Loot Crate, coupled with her passion for creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, creates the perfect cocktail of impeccable workmanship, exceptional brands, and happy clientele. Not only is Melinda a rockstar entrepreneur she is the works for for The Futur as a Co-host on the Process. If you want to learn to be a better team consultant, strategist, or team member this episode is for you.

Check out: https://www.marksandmaker.com/

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Matthew Mottola is a leading voice and entrepreneur building the ‘Human Cloud’, the remote and independent model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next five years.

As the author of #1 New Release The Human Cloud, he sets the standard for the Future of Work. As the CEO of Venture L, he enables freelancers and clients to execute remote outcomes at scale. As a Forbes Contributor, he shares the stories and operating insights driving our shift to the human cloud.

Matthew has led and transformed today’s leading companies. At Microsoft, in joint partnership with Upwork, he built the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit - the unlock for enterprises to embrace the human cloud at scale - bringing Microsoft from nascent to an industry leader in under two years. At Gigster, he built Ideation - connecting remote freelance developers, data scientists, and product managers with companies to consistently generate what should be built in the software development lifecycle. At Georgia Tech, he helped develop the entrepreneurship curriculum with Faculty of the Year awardee Arn Rubinoff and guest lectures.

Matthew is a recognized voice for leadership teams, public investors, and media. His work has been featured by Forbes and Fortune to name a few. He has been named a top 50 remote work expert to follow. He is an international keynote speaker, speaking at leading conferences Remote Work Summit and YPO’s Innovation Week to name a few. He advises through expert knowledge networks. He is the author of StartUp Not StartDown and contributor to leading industry reports.

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The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

See the GV site for more details: https://www.gv.com/sprint/

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

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Ana Santos is a UX Consultant, coach and educator, who shares with us her journey of working with global brands like Google to become a full time consultant and design educator, and how you can do the same 🔥. Trust me, this is not an episode you want to miss! Ana Santos Website: Ana-Santos.com Social: ➡️ Instagram.com/ux.by.ana. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

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This week we talk about the biggest flops and design fo-pars in tech history, from the Galaxy phone to Blockbusters rejection of Netflix.

About the hosts 

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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User research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies. Ryan and Brandon discuss the best questions to ask and how to establish more empathy for your users. 

Instagram: @Ryan.Warrender & @BrandonGroce

Support this Podcast: bit.ly/support-designhuddle

Recommended Reading: Don't Make Me Think 

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The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies.

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In this episode, we look at content creation and several great tools you can use to streamline and scale your content creation.

Tools we looked at;

• Veed.io is amazing for auto-generating subs
• conversion.ai - writes copy for you
• goodsalesemails.com - campaign templates
• Pixelhunter.io - resize photos for all platforms
• Grammarly - blog copy, spell check
• Descript - All-in-one audio & video editing, as easy as a doc.
• Riverside - Locally recorded, separate audio and video tracks.

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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Empathy is the ability to fully understand, mirror, then share another person's expressions, needs, and motivations. In UX, empathy enables us to understand not only our users' immediate frustrations, but also their hopes, fears, abilities, limitations, reasoning, and goals. 

The 3 Whats of User Perspective

A good design communicates 3 things:

1) What is this?

2) What is the benefit for the user?

3) What should they do next?

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In the episode of Design Huddle we talk with Goldie Chan the Oprah of LinkedIn. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

In this episode, Mustafa & Ryan talk about Zoom Fatigue, a condition that Stanford researchers have discovered that makes people feel tired due to the overuse of popular video chat platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk about tips you can use to mitigate tiredness. We also discuss Nike reveals hands-free GO FlyEase trainer, the laceless sneakers, which can be put on and taken off without using your hands to replace "antiquated" shoes with laces. References: Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes Team word game - https://draw.rknoll.at Nike reveals hands-free GO FlyEase trainer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

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.  Design Notes: https://designnotes.fm/ Liams Typefaces: https://iamli.am/work --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

Brandon and Ryan discuss the growing need to prioritize a work-life balance. They discuss how social media can impact your mental wellbeing, hustle culture, and ways to become more productive. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

It is easier than ever to pivot from being a graphic designer to a UX designer. 

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This week we are talking about running design reviews and how we like to run them. Ryan speaks about his consultancy experiences and how he likes to focus on a goal to improve a specific metric and Mustafa dives into a holistic way of running reviews. We also discussed the tools you can use to boost your reviews and quick wins that can help you build confidence. 

Tools mentioned in the Podcast;
https://www.webpagetest.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.accessibility.auditor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faizmalkani.keylines 

About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.  

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What's the definition of “success” for a product/feature? Sometimes it can be hard to prove the value of your work. It is common to hear things like "user experience is hard to measure" or "how do we know if this design is working". On this episode we discuss some quantitative and qualitative ways to measure UX success. We cover frameworks, questions to ask, and breakdown some of the most common web metrics that you should monitor. 

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In this episode, we are speaking to Brendan Kearns, a designer who has worked at Twitter, InVision, and Google. He has recently set up his agency and now works with clients from Europe to Silicon Valley.  We discuss how he started as a Business Major at college, transitioned to agency life, and ended up in Silicon Valley. Brendan gives great advice to those who want to start their own design business and his ambitions as a founder of his agency.  We also talk about the time Trump advisor, Anthony Scaramouchi followed him on Twitter and the discussion they had via DMs concerning UX design.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

James is the Founder and Chief Designer of Known Unknown, a global design community. James is a brand design and marketing aficionado.

As former VP of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company, James has spoken at 200+ events in 30 countries about design, brand strategy, entrepreneurship and company culture. Those also happen to be 4 of the most requested topics to discuss on Design Huddle.

At Coca-Cola, James led Design Thinking, Brand Design execution of 40+ identities, designed the Coca-Cola One Brand Strategy implemented in 200+ markets and led partnerships with Disney, Marvel, Google and Star Wars.

https://knownunknown.co/ 

https://www.jamessommerville.co/

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

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Ran Segall is a full stack designer who helps early stage startups with everything from branding, product design, video and investor decks. He has worked with top teams working across a variety of B2C & B2B industries in Israel and across the globe. He is a conference speaker, Youtuber, and a rockstar designer. In this episode we discuss how to become a full stack designer,  work life balance, and owning your own career path.  Follow us on instagram at @RanSegall @Ryan.Warrender & @Brandon.Groce.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/designhuddle/support This podcast is sponsored by Anchor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

Unsung heroes: the best under the radar apps you should check out

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In this episode, Ryan and Brandon discuss Nike’s new shoe tech, How AI Dungeon-maker Latitude raises $3.3M to build games with ‘infinite’ story possibilities, and 2021’s Design Trends ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support

On this episode we guess Roque's journey of becoming a rockstar designer. 

Roque is a designer from Bogota, Colombia and now living in New York City. Before starting his own company Roque worked on the Google Translate app and the Facebook Messenger app. He tells us about his career, passions, and things he has learned along the way. 

Our Featured Guest: Roque - @thisisroque 

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Recommended Reading: Don't Make Me Think 

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David Martin is obsessed with websites. Making them functional. Making them beautiful. Making them fast. But most importantly, making them profitable for the people who run them.

After nearly a decade building online businesses for others, he founded UXHACKS - a consultancy that builds and optimizes websites to maximize their traffic's potential and explode conversions.

Having worked as a web designer, full-stack developer, and director of user experience in the past, he now shares his expertise on website best practices with his clients and on his YouTube channel where he streams every Friday at 1pm ET.

Website: uxhacks.com

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidMartinUX/

UX Audit Course: https://uxhacks.podia.com/website-ux-audit-course

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About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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This week Ryan and Mustafa are talking about Japanese design and how they have a persona that they present to the outside world, which is serene and straightforward, vs. their local style, which appears a lot more chaotic. They also look at other examples of international design that differ from our western styles and methods. 

Special thanks to Feedspot, who ranked our Podcast in the top 25 for design. Check it out here https://blog.feedspot.com/design_podcasts/ 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

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In this episode, Ryan and Brandon discuss Zune collectors, a home office built into the back of a car, and the Netflix shuffle feature.  ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designhuddle/support