The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner

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Episode #9: Katie Dill This week on the podcast we had a great discussion with Katie Dill, the director of experience design at Airbnb, one of the few companies in the world that’s truly disrupting an industry.

In this conversation we discuss managing designers as a design experiment, how craft and hustle go together, and why the user experience should be important to every employee.

Noam Liss joined us as a guest host on this episode and had some great questions for Katie.

Key points from this episode:

• This episode was brought to you by our amazing sponsor, WooCommerce - the most customizable eCommerce platform for building your online business. Completely free to set up, and no monthly fees.
• Learn how Katie went from studying history to finding her dream job of product design through a show about reinventing the shopping cart.
• Katie gives some insight on how rapidly things change in the startup world, and how two years is like seven years in Airbnb days.
• Understand what goest into designing for differences from city to city as a global company, and how to identify and work with those “universals”.
• What does it mean to be “a startup in big company’s clothing”, and how can you continue to have an entrepreneurial spirit to carve new ground every day?
• Learn how to keep your team motivated, especially with long term projects and how seeing the purpose and the power of their work connects them back to the larger vision.
• Keeping a team in the loop and communicating is definitely more of a challenge as it grows. Understand how the tools, the method, and the culture can keep them connected.
• Katie shares the high level principles that guide the team at Airbnb in their decision making and even hiring process — high level of craft, humility, and hustle.
• How can a team with different individual “super powers” help to bring balance and diversity for a better overall composition in the end?
• Learn how understanding the “why” behind large quantities of user data can help your teams innovate through an on-going process of learning.Here are some follow up links from our talk:
• Katie’s Twitter: @lil_dill
• Katie’s LinkedIn
• Vooza — http://vooza.com, http://vooza.com/videos/storytelling/Want to read the transcript of this episode?

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About The Hacking UI Podcast, Season 1 - Scaling a Design Team The Hacking UI podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, a designer and developer who are also both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacking maniacs, and all around tech geeks.

In season 1, which we've called 'Scaling a Design Team', we meet with leaders from top notch companies, like Facebook, Apple, Invision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. We'll also be talking to them about design management, hiring, and culture. This is a chance for us to get an inside look at some of the best design teams out there and to understand how they do what they do in drastically different environments.

Episode #24: Chris Coyier It is our pleasure to present to you Chris Coyier. Chris started his journey writing blogs he didn't enjoy, and eventually realized that his passion was actually in coding the blogs and crafting the CSS behind them. He eventually closed down all of his blogs except one, and CSS-Tricks was born. His blog is now one of the largest front-end development blogs in the world and paved the way for his platform, CodePen, which allows developers to share demos of front-end code while inspecting the code at the same time.

Chris is also the host of the podcast, ShopTalk, speaks at conferences around the world, and this year he published his second book, Practical SVG, which is all about using SVG on the web. In this episode, Chris discusses his strategies for blog growth, valuable tips for monetization, the proper etiquette for sharing sponsored content, and much more.

This is the twelfth episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Side Project'. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire.

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn why Chris started blogging, and why he began with a huge network of many blogs and eventually ended up with one, CSS-Tricks.
• Chris found that it was a lot easier to write blog posts when he knew someone would be reading the content. Find out how that still holds true today.
• What was the most popular tactic to grow your blog back in the day? Chris reveals his tactics and how blogging strategies have changed drastically over the years.
• Chris discusses the value, as well as the pros and cons of having comments open on a blog today and why perspectives have changed.
• How does Chris find the time to manage old content while still creating new content? He believes that maintenance is just part of the job, and it is a necessary component.
• People treat blog posts as a bigger deal than they are. However, Chris believes that a blog post can be anything and that you should treat your blog like a drafts folder.
• Chris shares his advice for new bloggers considering using WordPress and the criteria to review before making your decision.
• Throughout the years, Chris used several strategies to monetize CSS-Tricks. He reveals how he was able to generate profit while still finding a balance of authenticity for the blog.
• One of the biggest changes that Chris has discovered in the last couple of years is that display advertising no longer performs well. Learn what his most effective type of advertising is today.
• What is the proper etiquette for sharing sponsored content? Today readers prefer to be disclosed to when content is driven by advertising instead of passing it off as authentic content.
• Learn how blogging relates to journalism, and why the same basic rules still apply.
• Chris shares how his idea for CodePen came about, and then he realized it would be more than just a blog and how the community became such a strong force behind it.
• Find out what Chris is working on for his next book, and why he feels that it is the book others truly want him to write.
• Learn who most inspires Chris in his work, and how they have motivated him to go through all the challenges in life and come out stronger on the other side.
• Chris shares his top podcasts to listen to, and his favorite books, for everyday inspiration and continuous learning.

Links from the show

• Chris’ website
• Chris’ blog, CSS-Tricks
• Chris’ Podcast, ShopTalk
• His new book, Practical SVG
• Radiolab Podcast
• This American Life Podcast
• Planet Money Podcast
• Dinner Party Downlo...

Episode #32: Quincy Larson Today we had the pleasure of talking to Quincy Larson - Founder and educator at "

freeCodeCamp", where you can learn to code completely for free.

Quincy started out as a teacher and a developer, driven by the 'pay it forward' mentality, and helping others to succeed. He also has a background in journalism, which had him passionate about writing and creating content, to share it openly with the world.

Also, freeCodeCamp is an open source community, which is empowered by positive energy and empathy, has more than a million users and learners around the globe and also, it runs Medium’s largest technical publication. If you write about development, design, or data science — and are looking for an audience — this is a good place to get published and 'borrow' an audience of more than 1 million users.

In this episode, Quincy shared his insights on focusing passionately on one field, building communities and free education to everyone, on a scale that impacts the world massively even 20 years from now.

This is the seventh episode of the third season of the Hacking UI podcast - 'Scaling a Career'.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. Design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses that we admire, and we'll be sharing a new episode every Thursday.

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Links from the show

• Learn to code for free - freeCodeCamp.org
• A handful free Guide to get published on Medium.
• Twitter - @ossia

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• Find out how freeCode camp is powered by positive energy and empathy, and how that engage more than a million users to contribute and ...

Episode #18: Peter Nowell Our guest today is a super talented designer with an entrepreneurial fire burning in his veins. We are pleased to present to you Peter Nowell, a designer based in San Francisco. Currently, Peter is splitting his time between doing amazing endeavors, design work for high end clients, and running Sketch Master, his scaling platform of professional courses for Sketch. His course was quickly considered one of the greatest resources for designers to learn Sketch and improve their skills.

Peter works with clients big and small, ranging from Apple to the Juice Shop, and absolutely revels in the high-level design vision and the execution of every detail in each of his projects. Living by his ideals of simplicity, honesty, and intentionality, Peter continues developing his design brand and do the things he really believes in.

This is the sixth episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Side Project'. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire.

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn why Peter get’s the most out of long blocks of time, focusing on one thing at a time instead of many things over short sections of time.
• Understand why batching is important for the creative process and why these long periods of time can unlock more potential.
• What does it mean to be a successful creative in this era of social media and constant distractions, and how to combat this?
• Learn why Peter’s best piece of advice is to be defensive with your time, and how simply saying “no” more often has helped him succeed.
• Peter finds spending his time on vastly different projects brings him the most excitement. Why is that, and how does he implement that with his work?
• Find out what first motivated Peter to design his courses for Sketch and how that has changed the design world.
• Learn Peter’s top tips for batching to work on your side project while working a full time job.
• What was the best advice that Peter had and how reflecting on each project to find out what role you want business.
• Find out how Peter gained his following, and how Medium helped his content launch to a greater level of acknowledgement.
• What pushed Peter to launch Sketch Master? Find out how the launch was done by Sketch themselves.
• Understand the importance of having others test your product pre-launch and how that feedback is critical for success.

Links from the show

• Peter’s website
• Sketch Master
• Peter’s Medium
• Link to An Event Apart
• Peter’s Twitter (@pnowelldesign)
• (15% off) Discount on course

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