Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, whose ethnographic work in Second Life provides insights into how virtuality informs our lives in actual space. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/digital-anth... #Anthropology #VirtualWorlds #SecondLife

In a brand-new Design Notes, I sat down with SVP of Design for Expedia Group (and former colleague) Rachel Been. We talked about the importance of care in design as we move forward into a new chapter for the conversational surface. design-notes.show#the-era-of-t... #designsky

In this episode, Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/judith-donat... #HCI #Sociology #Podcast

New Design Notes and Doubleshot coming this week :)

Material Design founder Matías Duarte joins the show to explore the inception, evolution, and future of Google’s design approach. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/facing-our-i... #MaterialDesign #UIDesign #FutureOfDesign

📣 Calling all Design Notes listeners: What other design or creative podcasts do you listen to regularly? Let me know in the replies! #designsky

Liam speaks with Aline Borges, a Zürich-based floral designer who’s made the leap from fashion coordination for magazines to independent floral design and installations. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fearless-des... #FloralDesign #Creativity

Trying out a new format for podcast uploads on YouTube—a subtle animated background and the show transcript timed to the episode youtu.be/P6TEb_Fmflo

Liam speaks with Talbot & Yoon, a New York-based design firm focused on objects and furniture about the importance of play in design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/from-war-roo... #FurnitureDesign #IndustrialDesign

Can technical expertise be a creative trap? In a new Design Notes, Fabian Bircher explains how to break free of what's technically possible to make a greater creative impact. interfacecafe.com/other-than-e...

In this episode, Liam speaks with Conor Grebel about how lived experiences inform and are conveyed through creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/art-as-survi... #Art #Creativity #Storytelling #Podcast

In a 🆕 episode, Zürich-based designer Fabian Bircher talks about exposing unseen elements of the environment around us and his unique creative process which combines art and code. 📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#other-than-e... #designsky

In this episode, guest host Barbara Eldredge turns the tables, interviewing host Liam Spradlin about his own creative journey. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-we-can-... #Design #CreativeProcess #Podcast

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🆕 In this episode, type designer, instructor, and design coach Troy Leinster talks about the advantages of a tactile practice, and how learning type design makes you a better designer. 📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#design-cant-... #designsky

A new episode is out next week. Subscribe so you don’t miss it 📻 💛 design-notes.show

Adrian Secord, who describes himself as a “roving engineer” joined the show to talk about Material's evolution. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/breaking-sil... #DesignSystems #Engineering

A new episode is out next week. Subscribe so you don’t miss it 📻 💛 design-notes.show

This special episode digs into the latest evolution of Google’s design system: Material 3 Expressive. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/design-notes... #MaterialDesign #DesignSystems #UI #UX #Podcast

Today’s Doubleshot newsletter explores what distinguishes generation from creation, and the irreplaceable role of the human mind in expression. Here are a couple of Design Notes eps that follow that theme: 1️⃣ Rob Giampietro on Notion Faces and hand-drawn assets design-notes.show#the-user-bri...

Enjoying the show? Leave Design Notes a rating on your favorite podcast platform! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you leave a review, you’ll get a shoutout on the next episode 💌 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/498069S...

In a new episode—Rob Giampietro returns to the show for a case study on @Notion.com Faces. Rob and I cover: • The irreplaceable joy in hand-drawn assets • The role of expression in #UX • How to ship ambitious design projects 📻 Tune in:

A 🆕🆕🆕 episode of the Design Notes #podcast goes out next week! Tune in and dive into a special case study with me and one of the most influential designers I’ve ever worked with. 📻

To go along with this week’s Doubleshot newsletter on @interfacecafe.com, take some time to revisit this episode with Cameron Koczon, in which Koczon explains the importance of designing tools—products that simply facilitate user intent.

“...The curator asked, ‘Who do you think will buy your paintings?’ And I was like, ‘Maybe someone who’s awkward and lonely and, you know, vulnerable.’ And she said, ‘Oh, you mean everybody?’” Qianqian Ye on exploring vulnerability through art and code. design-notes.show#vulnerabilit... #designsky

Type permeates our world, but the work behind it is often invisible. In this episode, @davelab6.bsky.social joined me to talk about • The importance of free fonts • How digital type speeds up globalization, and • How variable type shifts fonts from object to system #designsky #design

Revisiting this episode with Harvey Moon on making your own tools and how machines can help us reveal unseen aspects of the world around us.

“Any design work that stops me, it stops me because it includes some dissonance. It’s not too smooth, it’s not invisible.” Catch up on this conversation with David Reinfurt about his new book and the myths of invisible design.

“One big impetus is the question: Now that we can render anything with the level of quality and craft that you might have in print — what should we render? I think that’s the most interesting frontier.” —Matías Duarte, VP Design, Google

“Design doesn't really have a subject matter of its own. It only comes into being when it touches some other discipline.” In the latest episode, David Reinfurt unpacks design education and the centrality of the designer’s perspective in an evolving landscape.

In this episode, artistic director Marko Ahtisaari discusses the early days of the internet and how the pursuit of a “beautiful everyday experience” shapes Finnish design. design-notes.show#the-music-of... #designsky #podcast

“We share. We make. It’s about as democratic as it gets ... basically what I’m saying is we’re creating a jazz solo out of the creative process.” Creative Director Mitch Paone describes design as a musical composition in this ep from the catalog.

Today’s new episode is a follow-up to our 2020 conversation about his book, A *New* Program for Graphic Design. Catch up on the previous episode where he breaks down the “carnival-esque” classroom environment that led to the book:

Today, I’ve got a new interview with friend of the show David Reinfurt, covering “A *Co–* Program for Graphic Design” Join us as we dig into the co-llaboration, co-llectivism, and co-operation inherent in design: design-notes.show#true-is-bett...

A 🆕🆕🆕 episode is coming next week! Subscribe on your favorite platform and be the first to hear it. 📻 design-notes.show #design #podcast

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Back in 2019, my colleague Barbara Eldredge swapped places with me on Design Notes. If you ever wanted a look behind the scenes of the show, I break it down in our interview.

Since moving to Zürich, I've had the chance to meet a lot of fascinating creative practitioners working in the region. Fashion designer Julian Zigerli spoke with me about how his work un-genders clothes, Swiss cultural influence, and more. interfacecafe.com/julian-ziger... #podcast #design

Now that the show’s new identity has rolled out, I took some time to write about the new system, all the details, and a peek inside our figma file 📻🧑‍💻 interfacecafe.com/designing-th... #podcast

"What I’ve realized is, do not ask, ‘what do you think?’ Ask, ‘what do you feel?’ You get completely different answers." Hear from Google VP of Design for Home and Wearables Isabelle Olsson in this interview from SPAN 2018. interfacecafe.com/asking-how-d... #designsky

“It’s expression as usability, it’s expression as accessibility, and ultimately it’s expression as beauty, for a purpose.” Learn what it takes to build a design system at Google scale in the new episode: design.google/library/desi... #designsystems

The built environment is an interface, too. 📻 In this episode, public furniture designer Ignacio Ciocchini breaks down the UX of shared space, and the material realities of building in the city. interfacecafe.com/the-impact-o... #designsky

As design tools continue to change and multiply, it's good to get a grasp on how they can augment human skills. Revisit this episode with new media artist Harvey Moon, whose work explores how machines can reveal unseen elements of the world around us. interfacecafe.com/how-machines... #designsky

🆕 A new episode is out, going behind the scenes of the Material 3 Expressive update. 📻 Hear from creative direction, UX research, and product how emotive design goes from idea to billions of users. Listen and subscribe: pod.link/designnotes #designsky #podcast

What happens when robots collaborate with each other on art and remixes? In 2020, I sat down with @bjbest60.bsky.social‬ to unpack the surprising poetry of his ArtyBots network.

Excited to be featured on the Design Notes podcast! Liam Spaldin and I discussed the evolution of design at Google, the importance of beauty in tech, the impact of 10 years of Material Design, and even a pinch of game design. Listen to our conversation here: goo.gle/40q8ZQI #M10 #MaterialDesign #UX

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“Working on components felt very much like mechanical engineering to me. I would actually have pictures of mechanical objects in the back of my mind, imagining how they would translate into z-space.” — Bethany Fong Listen + Read 📻✨ design.google/library/mate... #designsky

“Digital interfaces can be anything. The constraints are all in perception – in the human mind.” — Facing Our Interfaces: Design Notes with Matías Duarte Listen + Read: design.google/library/mati... #designsky