035: A Portrait of the Contemporary Interactive Designer with Jay Fanelli

10/12/16 • 44 min

Jay Fanelli, co-founder of Cotton Bureau, joins Gary Rozanc to discuss the skills necessary to be a contemporary designer such as designing micro interactions, and design systems (not style guides). Jay also discusses the specifics on the need to produce high fidelity prototypes before getting too far along in the visual design process. Finally, the conversation goes into what a designer’s portfolio should like, what it shouldn’t, and how non visual design choices can say more about the portfolio than the work itself.

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034: The Challenges of Teaching Responsive Web Design in a Single Class with Chris Hallahan

Chris Hallahan, User Experience Designer and Design Educator at Kent State University, joins Gary Rozanc to discuss the nuts and bolts of teaching responsive web design in a single class including different strategies for teaching HTML and CSS, User Experience, and Visual Design. We also touch on how that class fits into a larger curriculum and what an idea set of courses or program would look like.

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036: The Ins and Outs of Email Design and Development with Shannon Crabill

Shannon Crabill, Email Developer at T. Rowe Price, joins Gary Rozanc to discuss the design of emails for a global investment management firm. Shannon goes in-depth on the need to research and understand the purpose and goal of sending emails to inform the visual design. Shannon also shares tips for designing calls to action with the body of an email, and she reveals the struggles to code emails for all the different email clients.