Designer & Designer

Ep 40 Show Notes 

• CZ is Going to Prison
• R/workreform
• The Need for Climate Optimism
• The Economy, Stupid
• The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory
• You’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job Done
• How the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel Bad
• Library of Congress, Cartoon Collection
• The Electric Wire Panic
• N/N: “AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years”
• Jakob’s Law 
• Frutiger Aero
• Painter Bill Braun
• That Dickhead VC Dude
   
• Song Credit: “Auld Lang Sign” Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-75
  https://lightintheattic.net/products/wheedles-groove-seattles-finest-in-funk-soul-1965-75

LinkedIn People who talk about this topic:

Hang Xu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/

Peter Merholz
https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/

Manuel Lima
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/

Erika Hall
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/

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Indeed UX Job Report
https://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023

Joe’s Small Jobs, Small Dreams
https://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams-7ed46faf46b0

Facebook is Chairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA

Runway AI Motion Genertationhttps://runwayml.com

Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All
American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers.

A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on Cognitive Performance in Real-World and VR Environments
This research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and people’s attention to detail) in a conventional laboratory setting and an approximately identical ...

Visual Thinkers Online Test

Buy Temple's book here!

Show Notes

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/

Some decent Job Boards
https://www.ixda.org/jobs/
https://www.uxjobsboard.com/
https://dribbble.com/
https://www.earlystagedesignjobs.com/
https://www.krop.com/creative-jobs/ux-ui-designer/
https://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/jobs/

If you ever want a portfolio review, email us! designer@designer.fm

Stay strong out there ❤️

Mentioned in this episode:

• Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast

• Adobe buys Figma
• Missing Kara Swisher content
• A simple way to make HTML websites
• Org Design for Design Orgs
• Why Designers Quit
• Why corporate America broke up with design thinking
• The T-Shaped Designer

Kelli Goto's Web ReDesign:
https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335

Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differently
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-gen-z-searches-for-content

Eli Parser's Filter Bubbles TED Talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en

James Burke's The K-Web
http://k-web.org/

O'Reilly's Information Architecture (The Polar Bear Book)
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/information-architecture-4th/9781491913529/

Ask A Librarian:
https://ask.loc.gov/

Stuart Brand's How Buildings Learn
https://www.powells.com/book/-9780140139969/17-4

Jessie James Garret's The Elements of UX
http://www.jjg.net/elements/#:~:text=Jesse%20James%20Garrett%20gives%20readers,create%20a%20successful%20user%20experience.

Edward Tufte:
https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

• Find Dave at designcitizen.com
• Dave's Original Linkedin Post
• Jared Spool Tweet

Mentioned in this episode:

• Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
• Stop Whining About Big Government by Kara Swisher featuring Mariana Mazzucato
• /r/learnart & /r/drawing

• Draplin Design Co.
• Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin
• Field Notes
• Pick up Draplin Design Co. merch

Mentioned in this episode:

• Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem
• Episode 1: Design Thinking
• The Highly Sensitive Person
• Episode 21: Observation in Design

Find more information about Josh Glenn and his work in semiotics at http://semiovox.com

You can find more about Jacob Covey and his work at https://www.unflown.com

Mentioned in this episode:

- Black Designers of Seattle

- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

- Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein Show

- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo

- White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo

Additional resources:

- Black Lives Matter &  Black Lives Matter Seattle

- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

- Anti-racist reading list for designers

- Resources In Defense of Black Lives

- What Not To Say To Your Black Colleagues Right Now

- Blacks Who Design

- Support Black Owned Businesses

Mentioned in this episode:

- Joe's Original Post, Observation As A Prerequisite For Design (https://formidable.com/blog/2019/design-observation/)

- Ira Glass on the Taste Gap (https://vimeo.com/85040589)

- History of the Ampelmann (https://www.ampelmann.de/en/a-brand-with-a-history/)

Recorded at Cloud Studios in Seattle (www.cloudstudiosseattle.com).