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Episode #35: Ran Segall

We are super excited to have with us today the inspiring Ran Segall - a full stack designer, a creator, and a vlogger. Ran started out as a designer, working with startups to create great products & brands. For the past 5 years, his been freelancing with 3-5 clients at any given time, and also, he's been sharing his journey on his youtube channel called 

Flux and has over 40,000 followers. 

He believes in constant learning and sharing knowledge, he was running the Nu-School - which was an online hub for people to learn freelancing and design, and later on, he built a product company called Prospero - a service for freelancers to create online proposals.

In this episode, Ran shared his amazing insights and knowledge on freelancing, value-based pricing, learning new skills, networking, putting yourself out there, achieving your goals and aiming higher.

This is the tenth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• Ran's website - ransegall.com
• His service for freelancers to create online proposals - Prospero
• His Youtube Channel - Flux
• Twitter - @ransegall

Recommendations for books & apps

• Recommendations for gear & books on Ran Segall's website
• The 7 habits of highly effective people - By Stephen R. Covey
• Design is a job - By Mike Montiero
• The 10x Rule - By Grant Cardone
• Radical Candor - By Kim Scott
• Toggle - (for tracking time)
• Audible - (for audio-books)
• Coda - (for managing projects)

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn about Ran’s background as a designer and how he developed himself into freelancing, building his own brand, vlogging and running his own businesses and company. [00:04:00]
• Learn about Prospero - his service for freelancers to create online proposals. [00:06:20]
• Ran shares his interesting insights about doing what you love, learning skills that will make you more valuable, and how every project is contributing to your success. [00:09:10]
• Find out why and how working with other people, networking, putting yourself out there to the world will help you to reach your true potential, and being successful in any career. [00:13:00]
• Ran shares his process with freelancing and how he manages dealing with all of his projects. [00:17:00]
• Learn about the 10x rule and how to push your goals higher and take massive action. [00:19:00]
• Learn about freelancing, pricing and how to work with value-based pricing. [00:27:20]
• Ran shares his methodology on talking with clients, startups and how to price according to the value that they get. [00:32:15]
• Find out how to measure the success of your work with clients and how to understand what they really value. [00:35:20]
• Get tips! for anyone who is just starting out in freelancing, and tips for designers who want to start vlogging. [00:40:20]
• The lightning round - get inspiring tips & recommendations from Ran, for ambitious achievers. [00:44:10]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season -...

Episode #34: David Kadavy

We are thrilled to have with us today the amazing David Kadavy - Bestselling author of The Heart to Start & Design For Hackers, a creative entrepreneur, and host of Love your Work Podcast. David started out as a curious web designer, working with startups and freelancing, he wanted to figure out a way to design smarter, for code, so he wrote about it in order to learn, and that eventually got him to write 

Design for Hackers and teaching others along the way. 

Later on, he got the writing and self-publishing bug and wrote his bestselling book of The Heart to Start and How to write a book, which got him to rethink what books are today in this new digital age, and how we can learn from that and use it to our advantage.

In this episode, David shared his inspiring perspectives and insights on self-publishing, connecting with our curiosity, creative resistance, forming habits and setting priorities for our goals. Wheather you're a creative, an entrepreneur, marketer or just starting out - this episode will give you tons of value and knowledge to reach your goals.

This is the ninth 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.

Attention! A very special announcement

This episode is different than any other episode we’ve done so far, because, besides being recorded for audio, this was also transmitted as a Facebook LIVE interview to a closed Facebook group of creative entrepreneurs called - Mindful and Ruthless - where I (Sagi), personally interview experts about building personal brands, online businesses, passive revenue streams, and much more!

So, if you liked the episode and the Hacking UI Podcast, I would LOVE to invite you to join  - “Mindful and Ruthless” on Facebook, where I’ll be launching a series of these kinds of interviews on FB LIVE videos once a week, and also, I’m happy to announce that this will be my new podcast!

So if you’re a creative entrepreneur and you’re interested in online marketing, building a personal brand and an online business, generating passive income and building an online presence in general - then I think you’ll feel right a home and would love the group and its content.

Check out this episode LIVE VIDEO on Facebook →

JOIN the Mindful and Ruthless community →

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• David's Blog - kadavy.net 
• His Podcast - Love Your Work (Be sure to check out episode 77)
• Get a free course on design - Design for Hackers
• His Books - Design for Hackers, The Heart To Start, & How to Write a Book
• Twitter - @kadavy
• On Facebook - Kadavy Author, Design for hackers
• Seth Godin's new Podcast - Akimbo 
• Tools for marketing - Active Campaign, Convert Kit, Amazon AMS Ads 
• A group of creative entrepreneurs and my new podcast (with LIVE expert interviews) - Mindful and Ruthless

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Episode #33: Yasmine Evjen It is our pleasure to present to you the inspiring Yasmine Evjen (that's ev-Yan) - Design Advocate at Google, a storyteller and (previously) a Co-host at 

Material Podcast - a podcast all about Google and Android. 

Yasmine started out as a front-end developer and a web designer, doing freelance work, working in agencies that allowed her to work in startups. That led her to turn to interaction design, and eventually evolving into UX design and Product Design.

Little did she know back then, that her passion for Android and Material Design will eventually get her the perfect role for her - A Design Advocate at Google. She's was a design advocate before she even knew it.

Just Recently, she announced that she'll be joining the Design Relations team at Google, also as a Design Advocate.

In this episode, Yasmine shared her interesting story and inspiring insights, whether you're starting out or not, this episode will give you tons of value.

This is the eighth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• Yasmine's Twitter - @Yasmine_Evjen
• Material Design - material.io (Also, Check out their amazing tools)
• Material Gallery
• Material Podcast
• Method Podcast - Hosted by Interaction Designer Aidan Simpson, giving listeners an inside look at their journeys and design choices.
• Design Notes - A podcast about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Google’s Liam Spradlin.

I Love this podcast - now what?

Show your love #1 - Talk: Talk about it with friends and get the word out! We started this podcast in order to learn and would love to see others learn from it too. 

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn about Yasmine’s background as a designer and how she became a design advocate at Google. [00:05:28] 
• Find out what excited her the most back in the days in terms of the work itself. [00:10:00] 
• Learn about designers skills set, storytelling, marketing, self-promotion and selling, and why it is important for designers to learn how to do that. [00:11:00]
• Yasmine shares on how she started with Google and started her own podcast. [00:13:46]
• Learn how Yasmine's passion for Android and Google got her the perfect role for her. [00:19:00]
• Understand how reaching out to people can help you to move forward, and how she did so at Google io and moved forward from that.[00:20:00]
• Learn about the Material podcast - tech podcast about google and android, how she was perfect for bringing the design aspect to it, and how it influenced her career. [00:23:00]
• Find out how Yasmine got to Google and how design sprints excite her. [00:25:20]
• Yasmine shares on her role at Google as a Design Advocate, and shares some interesting insights on that role. [00:34:20]
• Discover what excites Yasmine the most in her current job, and the importance of building unified systems. [00:35:10]
• Learn about Google's gallery, how is it different and help with design and development handoff, communication and collaboration. [00:41:20]
• The lightning round - get inspiring tips from Yasmine, for designers that are starting out. [00:46:20]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses.

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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

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

I Love this podcast - now what?

Show your love #1 - Talk: Talk about it with friends and get the word out! We started this podcast in order to learn and would love to see others learn from it too. 

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Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :)

Key points from this episode:

• Learn about what Quincy is doing and what is freeCodeCamp.  [00:03:31]
• Find out how freeCode camp is powered by positive energy and empathy,  and how that engage more than a million users to contribute and help each other, for free. [00:04:50]
• Learn about how the organization is structured. [00:09:47]
• Quincy shares his insights on promotion, marketing, writing and growing.  [00:12:52]
• Find out what is the strategy of a long-term vision planning. [00:21:33]
• Learn about how the organization is focused on web development, and helping adults with technology. [00:25:19]
• Understand education and the value of it, and how you don't have to get a masters degree in order to develop yourself. [00:27:00]
• Get tips for the best way to get yourself a career in the field. [00:27:00]
• Learn about the community and how they help campers to engage with each other. [00:31:93]
• Find out how to build communities and audiences through writing. [00:35:00]
• Understand the process of writing in publication and how that process works (See 'freeCodeCamp publication guide' in the show links). [00:36:25]
• Quincy shares on how they got their big breakthrough and about focusing very passionately on one field. [00:40:00]
• Thoughts and insights about success and tips from Quincy. [00:45:50]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses.

Episode #31: Brad Frost We are honored to have with us today, the inspiring Brad Frost, Founder and inventor of the "

Atomic Design" system. 

Brad started as a web designer, came out through the agency world, doing client work, started a shop, and eventually found himself also consulting for teams, doing workshops, writing a blog and hosting a podcast.

Besides being a web designer, a developer, an Author and a Host, Brad's background as a musician also connects with his work, and why he believes in the notes and the rules that make all the piece together.

In this episode, Brad shared with us his thoughts and insights about how to build a design system and a development collaborative work, and how to implement that thinking in your organization.

This is the sixth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• Brad's Website - BradFrost.com
• His book - Atomic Design 
• Twitter - @Brad_Frost

Recommendations for podcasts and tools

• Anna Debenham and Brad Frost - 'The Style Guide Podcast'
• Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier - 'Shop Talk Show'
• Website Style Guide Resources - Styleguides.io
• Build Atomic Design Systems - Pattern Lab

I Love this podcast - now what?

Show your love #1 - Talk: Talk about it with friends and get the word out! We started this podcast in order to learn and would love to see others learn from it too. 

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Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :)

Key points from this episode:

• Learn about Brad's background and how he started as a web designer. [00:04:15]
• Get tips for managing time and help you to get into habits. [00:08:55]
• Understand the value of self-promotion and doing stuff for free. [00:10:40]
• Find out how Brad got to writing the Atomic Design book. [00:15:50]
• Brad shares his framework and guidelines for taking decisions to breakthrough and navigating your career.  [00:17:10]
• Find out about Brad's work and what he cannot wait to do. [00:26:27]
• Learn about how Brad built his website and the process of doing it all in the browser with pattern lab. [00:25:10]
• Understand the medium in which you are designing for, coding and its constraints.  [00:28:28]
• Learn about thinking of UI as a hierarchy, and how atomic design breaks things down. [00:32:07]
• Learn about structural prep work, and about thinking and understanding components and hierarchy when you take a project from a developer perspective. [00:38:00]
• Get Bits of Advice for companies that have problems with the separation from design and the development collaboration. [00:46:00]
• Understand design systems and how to build a design and development collaborative work. [00:52:10]
• Tips for Designers and freelancers who starting out. [00:55:00]
• Brad shares his recommendations for podcasts and his favorite tools. [00:56:20]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses.

Episode #30: Jason Ogle Our guest today is a fellow podcaster, the amazing Jason Ogle, Founder and host of 

UserDefenders.com podcast, where he creates and shares inspiring interviews with UX superheroes. 

Jason started as a designer and a developer in the 90s, and he believes in what's called "The Beginner's Mindset", which means that you're going to have that student mindset and keep on learning basically forever.

Besides being a product designer and a podcaster, Jason also writes on Medium, where he shares inspiring articles that fight for the users.

In this episode, Jason shared with us his thoughts and insights about how to become an influencer through personal growth and giving back to the community at the same time.

This is the fifth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• Jason's Podcast - UserDefenders.com
• His articles on Medium 
• Twitter - @JasonOgle
• On Linkedin 
• His article - Your Tools Don't Define You. You Do.
• The story - Children of the Magenta

Recommendations for books

• Angela Duckworth - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• Carol S. Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

I Love this podcast - now what?

Show your love #1 - Talk: Talk about it with friends and get the word out! We started this podcast in order to learn and would love to see others learn from it too. 

Show your love #2 - Leave a review: Review us on iTunes and tell us which guest you'd like us to bring on the show next. When you review us it lets us know that you like the show and that we should keep doing it. Check out the following image, which describes exactly how to leave a review in one minute.

Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :)

Key points from this episode:

• Learn about writing on Medium, and how it's a great exposure tool. [00:03:46]
• Jason shares on how he started writing on Medium and User Defenders. [00:11:40]
• Learn about Jason's background as a designer and a developer, and how he got to where he at today [00:14:55]
• Find out how Jason started his podcast to give back to the community and how having a beginner's mindset helps your personal growth. [00:22:44]
• Jason shares his tips on how to reach out to people in order to find his guests for the podcast. [00:28:00]
• Get tips for starting your own podcast [00:33:00]
• Learn how to get audience with the Commit first-carry out later approach and emails. [00:36:00]
• Understand how to be a user of your product in order to create great products. [00:40:07]
• Learn about the tools that make you who you are and how to know when it's time to learn and invest in a new tool. [00:47:05]
• Jason shares a story on automation dependency. on letting on our passions drive us and using our tools as a superpower. [01:08:11]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses.

Episode #29: Noah Kagan Our guest today is the inspiring Noah Kagan, Founder, and Chief-Sumo at 

Sumo.com, AppSumo.com, and OkDork. Noah is a super successful entrepreneur, a marketing specialist and business consultant. 

Noah made his way from the marketing world. He started at Intel, was employee #30 at Facebook and #4 at Mint.

Noah has a very open-minded and interesting approach to life and to building one’s career.

Besides running successful online companies, Noah spreads out amazing content online on OkDork, his youtube channel, and his podcast. In those outlets he shares stories and insights on marketing, starting a business, personal improvement, and productivity tips.

In this episode, Noah shared with us his best practices and routines for starting a business. He also shares new perspectives on how to enjoy the process, scaling businesses, and more.

This is the fourth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors

Invision:

This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

Start designing better →

Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

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Links from the show

• Noah's companies - Sumo.com, AppSumo
• Noah's blog - OkDork
• His Youtube Channel 
• His Podcast - Noah Kagan Presents
• Twitter - @NoahKagan
• Do leaders need to be assholes?

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn about Noah's background and how he got to his passion for tech and the marketing world. [00:04:40]
• Understand the expert curse. And why some people who don't have experience, actually can create the innovation. [00:13:00]
• Noah shares tips for your online presence for your business or your personal brand. [00:16:40]
• Learn about Noah’s business routines that he makes consistently. [00:19:35]
• Understand how hiring people is everything and how it can grow your business. [00:22:20]
• Get tips for hiring exceptional people [00:27:15]
• Noah shares his insights on growing your business and personal brand when you're starting out, and how to prioritize everything. [00:32:00]
• Learn about Noah’s priorities, and how to set sustainable goals in your business. [00:37:25]
• Find out how looking at death, can actually help you to gain new perspectives about life and how to choose what to spend your limited time. [00:45:00]
• Learn insights about karma and how helping out others is always good and how it pays-off by the universe. [00:49:10]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses.

Episode #28: Samuel Hulick Our guest today is none other than Samuel Hulick, Founder of 

UserOnboard. 

Samuel started as a developer, and eventually found himself focusing on UX design and customer success. That led him to find that one crucial part of the experience that leads customers to succeed with any product: User Onboarding. From there, he only kept moving forward. He became a user onboarding specialist, founded UserOnboard.com, and wrote a book about it.

Samuel wrote his e-book, 'The Elements of User Onboarding', entirely with Keynote. The book was later developed into a whole package, where he shares teardowns, tactics, and strategies from his experience.

Today, Samuel is consulting for companies, helping them to scale their business with his wide range of specialties.

In this episode, Samuel shared with us the most important steps you should be taking in your organization in order to scale your operation and make costumers successful in your product.

This is the third 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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This episode is brought to you by Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about.

In the past 5 years we’ve seen Invision come from a design collaboration tool, into a massive suite of products for the entire design process all the way from ideation to handing off design to developers:
 They have tools like Freehand which you can use for ideation, wireframing and getting feedback from clients.
 They are soon releasing Invision Studio which is a robust design tool including micro-interactions.
 They have Invision Prototypes which we all use and love to create prototypes and collaborate with stakeholders,
 and of course, Invision Inspect which allows you to handoff your Invision prototypes to developers directly from within Sketch or Photoshop.

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Freshbooks:

Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

Links from the show

• Samuel's UserOnboard.com
• Twitter (@samuelhulick), (@UserOnboard)
• Samuel's book package - The Elements of User Onboarding
• Patrick McKenzie's (also known as 'patio11') Website, Kalzumeus.com

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn about Samuel’s background and how he got to focusing on customers success and user onboarding ever since. [00:03:50]
• Learn about working with companies and what to focus on. [00:04:55]
• Find out how emails are a great tool to discover what it is you want users to do, and how it correlates with customer success. [00:07:33]
• Learn about ‘life cycle’ emails, and how they advance your progress within the product. [00:09:35]
• Understand which team players are in an organization and what are the tools they use. [00:12:45]
• Learn about the economy of scaling your product, and how to do so. [00:16:20]
• Find out how Samuel wrote his e-book (that was made in Keynote) on user onboarding, where he shares all of his tactics, strategy and what he learned. [00:22:05]
• Understand how writing and documenting is not only a great way to market yourself, it is actually helping the world. [00:25:15]
• Samuel shares his secrets on how to scale your operation and legacy [00:29:25]
• Learn about Samuel’s business plan which is what he calls ‘Quarterly Retreats’, and how it is a great way to set your business goals. [00:34:15]
• Samuel shares some tips on how workshops is a great way to take an idea and grow it. [00:37:15]
• Find out why lifecycle emails excite Samuel the most, and why companies should implement that in their organizations. [00:40:00]
• Learn about micro-copy and how it facilitates meaningful progress in your product. [00:43:00]
• Understand how copy and emails are great discovery tools to check your goals and bring a lot of user engagement to your product. [00:46:00]
• Samuel shares his inside steps to successful user recipes that you should definitely implement in your organization. [00:49:10]
• Samuel’s tips for designers and freelancers. [00:56:00]

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We are thrilled to launch the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, where we hack our way through product design, development, and creative entrepreneurship.

Our first season, was called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, the Second season was called ‘Scaling a Side Project’ and we’ve decided to call this season - ‘Scaling a Career’.

In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. We have design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs an...

Episode #27: Maria Giudice It is our pleasure to present to you Maria Giudice, Former VP, Experience Design at 

Autodesk, founder of Hot studio and former Creative Director of product design at Facebook. 

Maria was the founder of Hot studio for over 15 years and then acquired by Facebook, where she was working as a creative director of product design. Few years later, she joined Autodesk as a design leader, in times where the company was undergoing a massive transformation, from old software heavy tech company to be experienced-driven company, they needed a change agent to bring and elevate the awareness and strength of design focusing on connecting experiences, and Maria was the one to do so.

Maria also co-wrote a book, called 'Rise of the DEO', which is about leaders who understand the transformative power of design, they are change agents and these leaders called DEOs—Design Executive Officers—and they are our new heroes.

In this episode, Maria shared with us what makes creative DEO's the futures' new change agents, and how we can learn from that and empower others to lead this cultural change.

This is the second 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors This episode is brought to you by 

Invision, an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about. 

The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co  you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more.

Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can subscribe to their amazing podcast, read one the four free books they published and put together for you and also, be sure to check out their one of a kind workshops for designers.

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Freshbooks is the perfect accounting software for freelance designers and developers or creative entrepreneurs with a small business. They have some really powerful features like integration with stripe, expense tracking and a customer support team who actually works with you to find the perfect solution. If you’re looking to get some understanding of your business and keep track of things without wasting hours of your time, then this is exactly what you need.

Try it free for 30 days →

If you'd like to become a sponsor of the Hacking UI podcast, contact us.

Links from the show

• Maria's Twitter (@mgiudice)
• Maria's Tedx Talk, The Rise of the DEO
• Maria Giudice's Book, Rise of the DEO 
• Documentary on Linkedin, Design Leadership in Business

Recommendations for Books

• Daniel H. Pink - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates us
• Ken Robinson - How Education Kills Creativity
• Tim Brown - Change By Design
• Chip Heath & Dan Heath - Switch: How To Change Things When It's Hard 
• David Kelly - Creative Confidence

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Key points from this episode:

• Learn all about how Maria developed from running her own company (which was acquired by facebook), to leading a 'change agents' design team at Autodesk. [00:06:41]
• Learn how do the design team at Autodesk connect experiences, unionize and make the company the most customer-centric company in the world. [00:07:25]
• Learn how the team define quality and ship quality, and how they are focusing on fluid & intuitive experiences to their products. [00:11:22]
• Maria shares on how the DEO idea was sparked, and the idea that designers are 'change agents'. [00:13:06]
• Learn all about how different are the DEO's from the CEO's, and how designers thrive in risks and chaos. [00:15:40]
• Find out what GSD means, and how designers are great at making it happen and deliver. [00:17:50]
• Learn how the company design to lead cultural change, and helping their customers to unlock their creativity throughout their tools. [00:19:44]
• Get tips! For people who want to lead a cultural change. [00:21:35]
• Find out the secrets of a DEO, to mentor and empower others on achieving their goals. [00:26:15]
• Maria shares about fighting harder as a woman and personal setbacks of minorities in the industry. [00:28:04]
• Learn how to balance that guilt feeling with being a parent and managing a career, and how you can empower your kids. [00:31:00]
• Maria shares on how she made her successful personal branding, and tips for you to do so too. [00:38:20]
• Learn how much you should be investing for your personal brand. [00:41:05]
• Maria shares about the process of 'The Rise of the DEO', and how it turned from a ted talk into a written book.  [00:46:00]
• Maria's recommendations for books (also check the show notes). [00:49:00]
• Maria is a master of to do lists. Learn quick tactics on how to get shit done and deliver. [00:50:35]

About The Hacking UI Podcast The Hacking UI podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, a designer and developer who are also both entrepreneurs, bloggers, product...

Today’s episode is what we like to call an in-between-a-sode. There are a few days left of the applications for our program, The Side Project Accelerator, so I wanted to quickly discuss one of the core philosophies we teach in the program - audience-driven product development.

This is the methodology that Sagi and I developed and used to build Hacking UI. We believe that this methodology works extremely well for side projects and can ensure that you will come away from each project with a new asset.

In The Side Project Accelerator, we guide you through how to start building your audience, establish your personal brand and get yourself out there - all so you can ensure success with your side project. The next batch starts on November 13th, and If you’d like to join applications are due by November 10th. You can find out more on sideprojectaccelerator.com or visit Hacking UI.

Episode #21: Rizwan Javaid Today we are joined by Rizwan Javaid, a member of The Side Project Accelerator. Rizwan is a UX designer who is passionate about transforming ideas into engaging and profitable digital solutions. He is based out of California and works on a variety of projects both for mobile and web. 

Rizwan is also a blogger and international speaker, who pushes his boundaries to reach new audiences and inspire them to release their creativity. He started speaking about sketching, as he found it helped him in a variety of ways, and now has several talks and a brand focused on the power of sketching.

In this episode, Rizwan shares how he faces his weaknesses head on while implementing feedback constructively. He also gives great tips for building a talk, how to reach out to get speaking gigs, and how important real relationships are when building a brand. Going forward, Rizwan is working on clarifying his focus on sketching and now plans to manifest this critical part of his venture into his newsletter and overall brand.

This is the ninth 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.

The Side Project Accelerator The program works in batches, with only 3 batches per year. Registration for the next batch of the 

Side ProjectAccelerator is now open until November 10th, and there are only 50 seats available. Apply now to reserve your spot. 

Apply now for batch #2 →

Key points from this episode:

• Find out what the Side Project Accelerator program has done for Rizwan and his project, how it pushed him to new levels and the key role that a supporting environment plays in success.
• Learn how Rizwan identified that speaking was one of his weaknesses, and how he chose to face it head-on and transform his weakness into a strength.
• How do you become a speaker? Rizwan shares his tips on how to get started and how to build your confidence as a speaker in your industry.
• Rizwan shares his views on the importance of sketching and how that can give designers an edge and open doors to greater success.
• Find out how receiving feedback is a critical way to implement continuous improvement. Rizwan shares how he navigated the challenge of using feedback constructively.
• What creates a compelling talk? Learn how Rizwan builds his presentations and why he believes in the motto of "less is more" when it comes to creating presentation slides.
• Understand why it is important to focus on value and creating good content instead of being side-tracked by disappointing analytics.
• Learn the value of starting small when creating a newsletter to ensure that you create something effective and engaging, without being overwhelming.
• Automating secondary tasks can free up time to prioritize content creation. Rizwan shares how it is critical to find a balance and a rhythm of consistency.
• What does true sacrifice look in order to achieve success? Find out how Rizwan maximizes his time as a "morning person" by waking up at 3 or 4 AM to work on his projects.
• Understand why Rizwan values feeling good about the work that he does and how he implements this by prioritizing family time while sacrificing personal time to pursue his work ventures.
• Find out what success means to Rizwan, and why having others appreciate his thoughts and ideas is an invaluable aspect of achievement for him.
• Learn why Rizwan believes that it is not a numbers game, but that connections and relationships are more valuable than metrics. Changing the lives of others and helping them improve is key.  Rizwan has the mindset of doing something small each day to move closer to his goals. Learn why this is so critical when first starting out.

Links from the show

• Rizwan’s Website (where you can sign up for his weekly Sketching Machine newsletter)
• Rizwan’s Twitter (@rizwanjavaid)
• Conference Directory
• ConversionCast

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About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences, and secrets to success.

Episode #20: Kelsey Ruger With us today is Kelsey Ruger, a UX consultant based out of Houston, Texas. Kelsey is a professor, a designer, a developer, and pretty much a jack of all trades. We met and got to know Kelsey because he's also a member of 

The Side Project Accelerator. Kelsey has worked on web and mobile projects for Fortune 100 startups and agencies and was also named one of Houston’s 40 under 40 in 2012 by the Houston Business Journal. 

Kelsey's mission is to help people use their creativity to make better things happen in the world. He loves learning and consumes a lot of books, articles, and podcasts. In this episode, he reveals his tips for how he reads about 50 books a year. He also produces tons of his own content. Before he joined the Side Project Accelerator he had already published more than 100 articles. He shares with us his method for coming up with ideas and how to build a dedicated audience using the concept of “1,000” true fans.

This is the eighth 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors This episode is brought to you by 

Top Level Design. 

Top Level Design now offers the new .design domain names. Just like Facebook.design and Airbnb.design, you can now buy your own .design domain. Whether it's for your creative portfolio or a side project, nothing beats having a custom-made .design web address that builds a positive first impression and improves recognition of your personal and professional brand.

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The Side Project Accelerator The program works in batches, with only 3 batches per year. Registration for the next batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator opens tomorrow, October 26 and there are only 50 seats available. Sign up for the waiting list to reserve your spot and to get notified of all events and updates related to the program. 

Sign up for the waiting list →

Key points from this episode:

• Learn how Kelsey uses his broad background as incredible experience to be a key problem solver in his industry.
• What is a BarCamp? Find out how these "unconferences" first introduce Kelsey to the startup scene in Houston.
• Get a glimpse into a day in the life of Kelsey Ruger, and find out how he juggles his time between all his many endeavors.
• What sparked Kelsey's decision to completely rebrand his personal blog? Learn the importance of writing "evergreen" articles for a long-term blogging strategy.
• Kelsey believes in pinpointing tasks that can be outsourced versus which to do yourself. Understand how he uses these critical distinctions to manage his time.
• For entrepreneurs, one of the main struggles is distinguishing between working in the business and working on the business. Find out how this can be a major hindrance in your business growth.
• How can you ensure that you hire the right people in a startup and mentor them to succeed in helping you grow the company? Find out why top notch employees are key to scaling your business.
• What does it mean to make yourself "obsolete" in your company, and why is this important for your business to grow? Kelsey walks through the dangers of limiting growth with your own constraints.
• Find out why a high salary job does not necessarily translate into freedom. Kelsey explains his views on pursuing career freedom.
• How does Kelsey use small wins to get to his bigger goals? Understand why he values being on a schedule that he can stick to consistently and how this has helped him produce more content.
• What is the concept of "1,000 true fans"? Learn how Kelsey applies this to his blog and newsletter and why it is his key to building a sustainable side project.
• Kelsey used a unique method for building his email subscriber list. Find out why his approach was different, and how he applied the principle of "start with what you know, and who you know".
• Understand the concept of "audience driven product development" and how Kelsey implements this strategy in creating his newsletter.
• "The most home run ideas are the result of 100 bad ideas." Understand how Kelsey applies this thought to his writing when creating new content.
• Kelsey reads an incredible number of books each month. Get an inside look into his reading habits, and tips on how to efficiently consume more content.
• What are Kelsey's tips for new speakers, and how is this similar to being an effective salesperson? Understand why Kelsey believes that aligning your content with an existing audience is the most efficient method.
• Get the inside scoop on Kelsey's method for preparing for a presentation and how a story format can help you most effectively convey your message and engaging the audience.
• Kelsey discusses the concept of including an emotional appeal, a logical appeal, and a visual component in your speech to create the biggest overall impact.
• Learn why Kelsey believes his legacy will be greater if he can point to and magnifying others through his teaching and that it is more important for him to give back than to receive.

Links from the show

• Kelsey’s personal blog
• Kelsey’s Twitter (@kenziecreative)
• Kelsey’s Instagram
• Kelsey’s Newsletter
• Kelsey’s Facebook page
• Online used bookstore
• Frans Johansson, The Medici Effect

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About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podca...

Episode #19: David Okuniev Joining us today is the former musician turned designer, David Okuniev. He is the co-founder and joint CEO of Typeform, one of the hottest young startups out there. 

In this conversation, we discuss his journey from being a musician with a record deal to owning a design agency and eventually building a product that was transformed from being a side project into a massively successful startup. Through Typeform David and his team have set the goal of making beautiful tools for human interaction that anyone can use.

David discusses his amazing world-wide journey from touring with his band in England, to starting a small design agency in Columbia, and eventually meeting his co-founder, Robert, in a co-working space in Barcelona. Looking forward, David and the team at Typeform continue to innovate and bring in new ideas to create the best conversational UI in the industry.

This is the seventh 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.

Please support our amazing sponsors This episode is brought to you by 

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The Side Project Accelerator Registration for the second batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator opens on October 26. Spots are extremely limited, and we expect it to sell out fast. You can get priority access to the next batch by joining the waiting list. You'll also get notified as soon as registration opens so you don't miss it. 

Key points from this episode:

• How did David go from being a touring rock star to building a full-time design agency? Find out how the events in his life played out, leading him to become a successful entrepreneur.
• Find out exactly how Typeform was inspired by the movie War Games, and how David and Robert translated that into a successful startup.
• David and Robert both had great faith in Typeform as a project. Learn how even after the first round of investment they still took no salary.
• Side projects can give you the advantage to perfect the product before launch. Understand how pressure from investors can create a completely different outcome for your product.
• Learn how when designing Typeform David and his team worked based off of a “gut feeling”. So without data and user testing, how did they actually know it was right?
• Find out how Typeform used conversational forms to achieve a 55% completion rate, compared to the industry benchmark, which is only 15%.
• Understand how Typeform is working to help people create conversations much more easily by removing the friction out of starting a conversation and providing them with the right tools.
• Learn how even though David is the co-CEO, he still manages to spend time designing and places a high value on design in his work life.
• At Typeform they have created a culture of happiness. Find out why David believes it best to organically establish a culture and how to manage it as the company scales rapidly.
• David’s advice to new entrepreneurs is to build your company from the heart, and not from the head. Learn how this concept has scaled Typeform rapidly to success.

Links from the show

• Typeform
• Play Bigger book
• David’s Twitter (@okuiux)

Transcript If you'd like to read the full text of this episode, you can 

 download the transcript. 

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About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

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

Transcript If you'd like to read the full text of this episode, you can 

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About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

Episode #17: Matt Mullenweg In this episode we were joined by Matt Mullenweg, CEO of the multi-billion dollar company Automattic, which is responsible for some of the Internet's most well known products such as WordPress, Gravatar, Akismet, and WooCommerce. 

Matt is driven by the mission to allow anyone in the world to have a home on the internet where they can express their thoughts and base their business. At 19 years old, bored with his classes at the University of Houston, Matt first discovered his passion for code and writing. His personal blog was reaching more than 20,000 people at the time but the blogging software was outdated, so he decided to create a new platform, which is known today as WordPress.

This is the fifth 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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The Side Project Accelerator Registration for the second batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator opens on October 26. Spots are extremely limited, and we expect it to sell out fast. You can sign up to and get priority by joining the waiting list. You'll also get notified as soon as registration opens so you don't miss it. 

Key points from this episode:

• Learn what first motivated Matt to start building WordPress, and how he organically grew it to the community that it is today.
• Find out which strategies Matt used to promote WordPress and get the reach it needed to expand.
• Understand the significant impact of growing your network and word of mouth marketing and how that can snowball the expansion of a company.
• How was WordPress first monetized? Learn how an anti-spam software launched WordPress into positive profits.
• Learn why the key to community is treating people well and how an online community is similar to a party; if you do not take care of the people they will leave.
• Understand why Matt lives by the philosophy of always creating more value than you capture, especially when it comes to valuing your customers.
• Find out more about the culture of Automattic, especially the ability for employees to work on whatever they are passionate about, including side projects.
• How can companies best create loyalty? Learn why respecting people is key to growing trusted customers.
• The daily practice of writing will make you grow. Understand why writing is muscle that needs tobe practiced every day.
• Find out Matt’s tips to getting over the fear of taking on the role of thought leader, and why using metrics is important for both your business and personal life.

Links from the show

• Automaticc
• WordPress
• Jetpack
• Akismet
• WooCommerce
• Calm
• .blog
• Matt’s Twitter  (@photomatt)

Transcript If you'd like to read the full text of this episode, you can 

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Show your love #2 - Leave a review: Review us on iTunes and tell us which guest you'd like us to bring on the show next. Here's how:

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• Search for "The Hacking UI Podcast"
• Once you're in the podcast page, click/tap on "Reviews"
• Click/tap on "Write a Review"
• Rate us and write a short comment. Let us know what other guest you'd like us to bring on the show.
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Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :) 

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

Episode #16: Jason Zook

Our guest today is one of the most creative entrepreneurs in the world. We present to you Jason Zook, a guy who made a radical shift ultimately deciding to leave his “beige world" once and for all and embark on one of the most colorful entrepreneurial journeys of our time. 

Jason started out by getting companies to pay him to wear their T-shirts for a living. He then sold his last name, twice, and then wrote the world’s first ever fully-sponsored book. Now he is in the middle of what might be his craziest stunt yet. He’s quite literally selling his future, and he’s doing it so he can help creative professionals take action and make money doing what they love. 

This is the fourth 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.

The Side Project Accelerator We are launching the second batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator in early October. Spots are limited, and we expect it to sell out fast. You can sign up for the waiting list on the program's page and you'll get notified as soon as registration opens so you don't miss it. 

Key points from this episode:

• Learn how Jason made money as a first-time author, with his book fully sponsored by 204 companies.
• Understand why it is important to Jason not to copy someone else’s success, but to put his own unique twist on things instead.
• What does it mean to “steal with pride”, and how does Jason use this in his creative process?
• Find out how Jason grew I Wear Your Shirt into a successful company by using the strategy of selling first to prove that someone wants to pay for it.
• Learn why it’s not the first email that matters in growing your business; it’s the follow-up email.
• How did Jason use his dog to raise money for charity?
• Find out how Jason got $30,000 in the first 24 hours selling his last name the first time, and $50,000 the second time he sold it.
• Understand how Jason leverages the talents and skills of freelancers to build and grow his business ventures, pulling on their unique strengths to create a successful team.
• “The idea is only as good as your ability to get it out into the world and have people pay for it and use it.”
• Learn how Jason went from having $9 in his bank account to writing a fully sponsored book and making a profit of $75,000 before even writing a single word of it.
• Find out why Jason strongly believes everyone has the amount of time they need, but that they’re just not willing to sacrifice to work with the time that they have.
• Understand how finding balance means that life is more than the things that you create and that you just have to figure out what works the best for you.
• Most people have a scarcity mindset; find out why it is important to understand that there is always more to be had, especially as a creative entrepreneur.
• Learn why you should not make a product/service perfect the first time and instead get it out into the world so that the improvement can begin.
• Understand how the exact strategies that can help someone else to their success, may not get you there; personal adaptation and application is key.
• Find out why one of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is selling their time alongside their products.
• Learn how growing an audience that believes in your idea is better than “buying” an audience with free giveaways and bonus material; bonus material should instead by used to surprise your loyal audience.

Links from the show

• Jason’s website
• Jason’s Twitter (@iwearyourshirt)
• Buy My Future, Jason’s current project
• Jason’s first business
• Buy My Future breakdown article
• Million Dollar Homepage
• Steal like an artist, book Jason mentioned in the show by Austin Kleon

Transcript The transcript of this episode, will be ready soon. Check back tomorrow 

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• Open the iTunes Store on your computer/phone
• Search for "The Hacking UI Podcast"
• Once you're in the podcast page, click/tap on "Reviews"
• Click/tap on "Write a Review"
• Rate us and write a short comment. Let us know what other guest you'd like us to bring on the show.
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Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :) 

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

Episode #15: Tal Perry This is the third 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. 

Today’s guest is a very special type of person. He’s not your regular entrepreneur and definitely nor your standard developer.

We sit down with a good friend and a side project hacker, Tal Perry. He’s an entrepreneur but currently works at a large company, a developer, and a serious autodidact.

Tal’s side project is focused on developing an automated transcription software called Smart Scribe. In the episode we cover a range of topics from working on complex mathematical algorithms all the way to cuddle puddles at Midburn, the Israeli Burning Man festival. Tal even goes into detail about how to measures success, and what type of ROI he got from spending his vacation goat herding.

Announcement We are launching the second batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator in early October. Spots are limited, and we expect it to sell out fast. You can sign up for the waiting list on the program's page and you'll get notified as soon as registration opens so you don't miss it. 

Key points from this episode:

• Learn how Tal used Google to learn how to program, and built an algo-trading startup knowing only the basics.
• What does freedom really mean in a startup? Find out why Tal believes having the freedom to dream can be both a blessing and a curse.
• Find out why working for a big company can be a great place for personal growth, beyond what you can learn in a startup.
• Learn how to go through the proper channels in a company to start a side project and get your boss on board with it.
• Understand how self promotion can help you to impact a wider audience, but sometimes seeing something you’ve created run independently from you can be just as rewarding.
• Why is it important to build your personal brand? Find out how a strong brand can lift you a level higher, even when your side project has failed.
• See why Tal measures his success by the ROI of learning and the experience that he’s gained from each project.
• What can goat herding teach you? Learn how Tal spent his vacation as a shepherd and the ROI he received from his time there.
• Learn more about why Tal’s motto has become “be cheap, and outsource”. His approach is to reduce recurring costs and outsource to gain back your time.

Links from the show

• Tal’s Website
• Smart Scribe
• Tal's Twitter

Transcript If you'd like to read the full text of this episode, you can 

 download the transcript. 

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• Open the iTunes Store on your computer/phone
• Search for "The Hacking UI Podcast"
• Once you're in the podcast page, click/tap on "Reviews"
• Click/tap on "Write a Review"
• Rate us and write a short comment. Let us know what other guest you'd like us to bring on the show.
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Show your love #3 - Share: Share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you can :) 

About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, InVision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

Episode #13: Bryn Jackson This is the first 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. 

Today we are excited to have Bryn Jackson on the show. Bryn is the co-founder of Spec.fm, which features the popular podcasts Design Details, Developer Tea, and more.

Bryn calls himself a designer and developer, who builds things for designers and developers. After studying music at the Berkley College of Music, Bryn started his career working at a print company as a professional “Mac fixer”. He later started designing software solutions for common problems that he had seen, and was hired on as a UX designer. Originally from Minnesota, Bryn is currently located in San Francisco and also works at Figma, the increasingly popular design tool. This was an inspiring an educational discussion for us, as Bryn talked about growing the Spec community and how he built a network of multiple podcasts that hit the huge milestone of more than 5 million downloads. 

We recorded this session during our trip to San Francisco, and Bryn was nice enough to invite us over to his apartment to record in his incredible studio. You can get a peak into the studio in the clip below:

https://youtu.be/SV30NSWZPm4

Announcement We are soon launching the second batch of the 

Side Project Accelerator and are giving you (our beloved listeners) $100 off (!!!) with the code 'PODCAST' upon checkout. 

You can sign up for the waiting list on the program's page and we'll notify you when registration opens!

Key points from this episode:

• Learn how Design Details was started, and how coincidences led to a great partnership between Bryn and Brian.
• Understand how it was the thinking behind the interface as opposed to the actual interfaces themselves that motivated Bryn to launch his podcasts.
• Find out how two competing podcasts turned into a collaboration and team effort, drawing on the strengths of each cast.
• What was the strategic decision behind Bryn’s idea to grow Spec.fm the way that he did, through collaboration?
• Learn why Bryn’s focus in partnerships is creating a good outcome, and that if he knows that it is possible then he will pursue the collaboration in anyway he can.
• Get a behind the scenes look at how Bryn allocates his time between his side projects and working a full-time job.
• Understand Bryn’s “no fear” mindset when it comes to taking on new technical challenges.
• Learn what it means to build your podcast like a product, and improve it by listening to feedback from your audience.
• Get a layout of the different types of sponsorship agreements, where to find sponsors for your podcast, and how to integrate it into your content so that it is right for your audience.
• Find out how to best use Slack channels when building a community, and what limitations and problems to look out for.
• What does it meant to “skate to where the puck is going”, and how can this help you to stay in the forefront of the design industry?
• Learn what is next for Bryn, and what his biggest piece of advice is for designers looking to scale their side projects. Here are some follow up links from our talk: 
• The Spec Network site where you'll find the links to all of their podcasts (you can also sign up for the Spec Slack group through the box on the bottom of the site)
• Bryn Jackson on Twitter
• Bryn’s Blog
• Design Details Podcast
• Design Details on Twitter
• Developer Tea on Twitter
• Figma - A collaborative design tool. Bryn started using this tool as his main design tool a while back and now he actually works there and is in charge of building the community there. How awesome is that?

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Best way to show your love #1 - Talk: Talk about it with friends and get the word out! We started this podcast in order to learn, and would love to see others learn from it too. 

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• Open the iTunes Store on your computer/phone
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• Once you're in the podcast page, click/tap on "Reviews"
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About The Hacking UI Podcast 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. 

We started this podcast off with the 'Scaling a Design Team series' where we spoke with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, Invision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.

A few months ago we quit our day jobs to work on our former side project, Hacking UI, full time. So we found it fitting that our second season of the podcast should touch on that subject. The second season is called 'Scaling a Side Project', and we'll interview creative entrepreneurs that we admire in order to get them to share their tips, experiences and secrets to success.

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