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- Apple
254: Milanese Battery Belt
This week we go over what we think Apple will announce at WWDC and capture our thoughts on Apple's much-rumored upcoming VR headset, ahead of the event in two weeks.
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253: Designer to Artist, with Frederique Matti
This week, Rafa is joined by special guest Frederique Matti, to talk about her move away from tech into art.
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252: Adventures Learning 3D
This week, Kevin talks about his experiences learning 3D modelling and switching from Cinema 4D to Blender.
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251: A Love Form
This week we talk about the vibe shift in the technology industry, how it affected us and our advice for designers.
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250: How Do We Feel About AI?
This week we talk about our feelings about AI and ChatGPT.
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249: Wear Those Numbers as a Badge of Honor
We're back! This week we catch up on what happened in our lives since the last episode and talk about our plans for season 3 of the show.
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248: Easter Egg Driven Development
This week is launch week for Rafa! We talk about all of the details behind the new version of Hand Mirror.
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247: No Teddy Bears Were Harmed in the Making of This Layout
This week we talk about Kevin's camera purchase, Panic's Playdate and Rafa gives us an update on Handmirror.
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246: The Porcelain Expanded Universe
2 weeks makes the world of a difference. We share our updated takes on the ongoing Twitter saga, Kevin continues to obsessively research cameras and Rafa talks about his work on Hand Mirror.
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245: You Haven’t Finished Your Caprese
This week we inevitably talk about Twitter, discuss Rewind—the search engine for your life, and finally briefly touch on why seemingly everyone hates Humane.
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244: It Takes Me 5 Minutes, But I Can Read
This week we talk about our experience hanging out together in person in Portugal last week, discuss the ideal camera now that we're spoiled by iPhones, in a shocking turn of events Rafa gets a new Apple product and finally we discuss the Sketch layoffs.
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243: My UI Doesn’t Jiggle Jiggle
This week we deep dive into designing for the Dynamic Island and discuss our thoughts on the Google Event announcements.
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242: Figma x Adobe
This week we talk about Figma being acquired by Adobe, and give our thoughts on the new iPhone 14 Pro after using it for a few days.
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241: Dynamic Hole
This week we talk about Apple's latest announcements: the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 Pro.
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240: Dementors Are Just Misunderstood
This week we discuss the new Gmail Redesign and Kevin gives his review of After Steve.
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239: Free Range Baby
This week we talk about launching Along and give an update on Kevin's adoption of lock screen widgets.
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238: Stage Manager, First Impressions
As promised, this week Rafa gives us his first impressions of Stage Manager in macOS Ventura.
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237: Launching Until
This week we dive deeper into the launch of Until, Kevin's newly released app for iOS and watchOS.
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236: Shame Driven Development
This week we go through some of the details that we missed in our WWDC episode, and Kevin has a special announcement!
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235: Big Dub Dub Energy, with Joey Banks
This week, we are joined by special guest Joey Banks to talk about Apple's WWDC 2022 announcements: iOS 16, watchOS 8, macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16, and the newly designed M2 MacBook Air.
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234: Designing Auto Layout, with Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson
Kevin is out this week, so Rafa is joined by special guests Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson from Figma to talk about their work designing Autolayout V4.
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233: This One Is The Ewwest
This week we celebrate the life of the iPod by ranking our favorite and least favorite iPod industrial designs.
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232: Gridients, Because We’re So Clever
This week we talk about our first impressions of the new Figma features introduced at Config 2022, and what they mean for us as designers.
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231: Chewable UI
This week we continue our discussion on app icons and go deep on the icon picker UI Rafa designed.
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230: Aladdin’s Magic Rug
This week we talk about Kevin's foray into designing something for work, then get an update from Rafa about some of his furniture decisions, and Rafa shares his explorations for Along's app icon design.
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229: Center Stage of Attention
This week we talk about spending in-person time with your team, one of us has an official statement about the Studio Display, and we check in on Until, Kevin's side project. We also discuss our thoughts on Severance, the best show on Apple TV+.
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228: Focus Mode, for the Camera
This week we talk about Kevin's Studio Display woes, webcams and dive into roll out strategies for launching a new iOS app.
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227: I Think Most People Don't Care
This week, Rafa gives us an update on his talk proposal, which leads into a conversation about bringing delight into our work, we then get into more on the Studio Display and cable management.
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226: Honey I Shrunk The Designers
This week, we deep dive into Apple’s “Peek Performance” event, most notably the Studio Display.
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225: I Can See the Flexbox In My Head
This week we talk about strategies for bringing more dev into your design process... even when that's not expected of your role as a designer.
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224: Pleading My Case to the Figma Gods
This week we talk about bringing fun into your work.
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223: Babies Be Babying
This week we talk about Rafa's new hobby and Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone.
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222: Download an MKBHD
We're finally back after our extended holiday break! This week we catch up, talk about the challenges of interior design, and get into why you shouldn't feel bad if you don't get the job after an interview.
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221: 2021 Year in Review
This week we reflect on 2021, then get into a conversation about what we'd like to be known for and finally discuss how we'd like to grow in 2022.
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220: Figma's Redesigned Comments, with Ryhan Hassan
This week, we're joined by friend of the show Ryan Hassan, designer at Figma, to tell us all about how they've redesigned Comments.
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219: Great Auto Layout Responsibility
This week we follow up on all of the feedback we got about the "new" Layout website and then talk about how a tweet about autolayout ended up being way more controversial than we thought.
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218: Human Machine Learning
This week we nerd out about our new website. While things look mostly the same, we rewrote all of the code and are now using a CMS to make posting episodes easier.
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217: Are you a Kevin or a Rafa?
This week we talk about career paths and Kevin gets into his experience managing managers.
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216: MAX: Make Animals Xtinguished
This week we talk about learnings from our previous work experiences and then discuss a few macOS onboarding quirks.
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215: A Very Bond Villainy Thing To Do
Rafa got his new MacBook Pro, so of course we dive right into his thoughts on the new machine. We also talk about our favorite company swag.
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214: Do You Use A Computer? STOP
This week we follow up on our MacBook Pro orders, address the design drama of the day and get into a conversation about the future of design tools.
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213: Maxed Out M1 Max Mac
This week we briefly touch on Rafa's new job before jumping into our thoughts on the newly announced M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros.
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212: I’m Siri’s Cousin (BONUS)
We're back! We catch up on everything Rafa released since our last episode, and Kevin gives his first impessions on the iPhone 13 Pro.
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211: [chirpbirdiconbirdie]
This week we talk about Twitter's visual evolution and the drama surrounding 1Password's move to Electron.
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210: A Floaty URL Bubble
This week's episode is all about the iOS 15 Safari redesign (and the changes in the following beta builds).
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209: Just One Blog Away
We're back! Rafa not only has a new baby but also a new app in the App Store! We talk about some of the details of the app, touch on how side projects are different when you have a newborn and eventually talk about Until, the app Kevin has been working on but probably will never release.
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208: Filling Your Ears, with Joey Banks
This week we are joined by special guest Joey Banks to talk about Apple's WWDC announcements and give some of our thoughts on the design decisions behind these new releases of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and more.
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207: I Can Never See the Extra Ks (feat. David Darnes)
This week we welcome our reporter out in the field, David Darnes, to tell us about his hands on experience with the new iMac.
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206: Your Phone Talking to Pluto
This week is all about Google IO, Material You, Project Starline and more! We also share details about some subtle tweaks we've made to our website and artwork.
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205: PRAM For Your Baby
This week we catch up on a lot of follow up about Apple TV Calibration, AirTags, whether our thoughts about the new iMac have changed and finally open up the pandora's box of ponchos.
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204: Designing FigJam, with Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo
This week we are joined by Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo from Figma to talk about the behind-the-scenes of designing FigJam.
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