This episode profiles Jon Perdomo, co-founder of Plant Man P , as he tries to marry his two seemingly disparate passions and audiences: street wear and houseplants. You can find Jon on Instagram and YouTube . Jon is paired with his hero in the plant styling space: Hilton Carter . Hilton talks about his own journey of starting out, and how he navigates the challenge of engaging two distinct audiences: those interested in interior decor, and those craving houseplant content. Hilton also impresses ...
Aug 15, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Adriana Alejandre is a therapist working to break the stigma of mental health in the Latinx community by making mental health services more accessible. Find her on Instagram , Facebook , YouTube , TikTok or listen to her podcast . We pair Adriana with Ellen Marie Bennett of Hedley & Bennett , an apron & cookware company known for their iconic ampersand logo. Ellen shares the story behind how she chose to represent her own heritage through her brand. Designer Schessa Garbutt of Firebrand Creative...
Aug 08, 2022•23 min•Season 5Ep. 3
For some content design tips, we pair Juliana with Chris Do . He’s a podcaster , and the founder of The Futur Academy —an online education platform with the mission of ‘teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.’ Watch his videos on YouTube , and find him on Instagram and Twitter . Elaine Lopez brings pro designer knowledge to the episode too. She’s a designer, researcher and educator in the faculty of Communication Design at Pratt Institute School of Design . Elaine ta...
Aug 01, 2022•23 min•Season 5Ep. 2
This episode pairs Will with Courtney Quinn - a prolific online content producer you might know as Color Me Courtney. Find her on Instagram , TikTok and YouTube . Courtney used her own website as inspiration to help Will think through color theory, and how different tones and shades could prompt consumer behavior on the merch page. For a professional designer’s perspective on web design, we connect with Brandon Groce . He’s a designer, speaker, content creator and friend of Adobe. You can check ...
Jul 25, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Design plays a big role in shaping how we buy, how we sell, and how we support the businesses we believe in. Meet six young entrepreneurs struggling to brand their small business. We pair them with successful creators who share secrets to designing content that gets noticed. Then we meet a professional designer who offers design tips and advice to empower our entrepreneurs and listeners level-up their design chops.
Jul 18, 2022•2 min
If Comic Sans showed up at a house party, would it be welcome or shown the door? In this episode, the Wireframe team parties down with a wild array of fonts, good and bad, to learn about the rise of novelty typefaces like Comic Sans and the proliferation of the now all-too-familiar geometric sans serif typeface. They’ll find out what the popularity of these fonts says about how we think about the role of typography in today’s world. And they’ll also talk to some exciting new type designers who t...
Jun 21, 2021•28 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Do you know what “flatten the curve” means? If so it’s likely in part due to the hard work by data visualization designers over the last year. Our society is now more data driven than ever; as everything is quantified, counted, and dumped into spreadsheets, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by numbers. Data visualization designers work to sort through the numbers using both science and creativity to find the stories they have to tell, and help us understand the world a little better. But what goes...
Jun 07, 2021•21 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Do you keep your iPhone boxes—or toss them? This simple question sparked a heated debate on Twitter earlier this year that, at its heart, is really about the role that the design of packaging plays in our lives. At the same time, online shopping keeps gaining huge momentum, especially during the pandemic. And that’s changing how we interact with the boxes arriving on our doorsteps, and the way packaging designers think about the products we buy. Host Khoi Vinh, and producers Pippa Johnstone and ...
May 24, 2021•24 min•Season 4Ep. 4
The Black Lives Matter movement has mobilized countless people all over the world in the urgent fight for true racial justice and equality, one of the most important issues of our time. In this episode, host Khoi Vinh and producers Dominic Girard and Pippa Johnstone examine the intersection of BLM and the world of design and creativity. They unpack the challenge of building a brand around an expansive social movement, investigate the role that art, craft, and design can play in the struggle, and...
May 10, 2021•28 min•Season 4Ep. 3
An entirely new user experience has been designed for people who want to exercise from home. By combining touchscreens and apps with stationary bikes, treadmills, rowing machines, punching bags, strength trainers - even smart mirrors - a new category of exercise has created millions of new fitness buffs. Long gone are the days of VHS fitness classes and Thigh Master infomercials . But is the UX of fitness something truly creative and revolutionary? Or is it just the latest fad from an industry w...
Apr 26, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 2
When Burger King launched its new logo and branding identity this winter, a lot of people said the new look felt retro, even nostalgic. But was that really what the King had in mind for its new brand? In our season launch episode, host Khoi Vinh and producers Pippa Johnstone and Dominic Girard investigate the creative upsides and the pitfalls of using nostalgia to inform your design choices. In this episode: Lisa Smith , Executive Creative Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie , and Rapha Abreu , wh...
Apr 12, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Wireframe is back with a fresh season all about design and creativity. We're digging into all kinds of stories about how designers shape our everyday lives—graphic designers, UX designers, typographers, illustrators, artists, activists, and more. We'll learn from them about how we can unlock creativity for all. Hosted by Khoi Vinh, senior director of design at Adobe. Learn more about how Adobe Creative Cloud can you help you create great work at adobe.ly/wireframe ....
Apr 05, 2021•1 min
The fundamental design feature of a democratic society is a citizen's right to vote. But ensuring that every person is able to vote is not as easy as it seems. Everything from how you design a paper ballot, build an electronic terminal, process a mail-in ballot, engineer a public space for private voting, and so on, brings hundreds of complicated design decisions. We look at how design choices are sometimes at odds with political ones. In this episode: Wireframe producer Dominic Girard and host ...
Sep 21, 2020•30 min•Season 3Ep. 6
A third of America's population struggles to sleep through the night. For many of us, stress and anxiety play a big role in that. Some designers believe they can help us tackle these problems and calm our minds. The sleep-aid market is a multi-billion dollar industry, so it's no wonder companies are trying to design solutions for us. But can apps and gadgets designed to help us sleep, and keep us calm, really help? Or are they just a kind of digital snake oil? In this episode: Wireframe producer...
Sep 07, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 5
On just one day this spring, at the height of global stay-at-home orders for Covid-19, Americans watched 27 billion minutes of streaming video. Dozens of online streaming services court us with an ever increasing amount of television and film content. And yet, more streaming services are coming online. But in the battle to win over subscribers (and our subscription dollars), how much of a role can good UX interface design play in crowning a video streaming champion? Does the best interface matte...
Aug 24, 2020•30 min•Season 3Ep. 4
As the pandemic created health and employment crises, a lot of people found themselves in urgent need of financial help. As a result, crowdfunding platforms are proving more popular than ever. They create personal connections between those of us asking for help, and those of us with money to give. We look at how platforms like GoFundMe, Kickstarter, Patreon and Chuffed deploy different strategies in their UX design to encourage us to give, and give more. In this episode: Wireframe producer Domin...
Aug 10, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Your dad’s dog is barking in the background, but he doesn't know how to mute his video chat. Your uncle can’t get Netflix working on his new SmartTV. And grandma still can’t find where her favorite songs are stored on her tablet. Why is your family always depending on you for tech support? Sometimes design, technology, and getting older doesn't add up. And if design is failing older generations, it will eventually fail us all. In this episode: Wireframe producer Miriam Johnson and host Khoi Vinh...
Jul 27, 2020•27 min•Season 3Ep. 2
With our first episode, we tackle the Covid-19 pandemic question directly: how has it affected designers and the work they do? Our episode explores the changing nature of work from a designer's perspective. We also examine what it means to design during a pandemic - and how our anxieties and concerns we have intersect with the responsibilities UX designers already have in making technology work better for us. In this episode: At the height of the pandemic, UX researcher Doug Collins found himsel...
Jul 13, 2020•25 min•Season 3Ep. 1
With the pandemic, the user experience of life has changed. It has affected how we feel, how we communicate, how we think and how we entertain ourselves. This season, we examine how good UX design can help technology support some very current anxieties. Can design help us sleep? Can it encourage us to be more charitable? Can it solve our family tech support conundrums? Can it entertain us with better online content? And come November, can it help us vote? Read the PDF transcript of this trailer ...
Jul 06, 2020•2 min
Can an app really help you fall in love? Sometimes using a dating app feels like getting hit by cupid’s arrow - and sometimes it feels like you’ve been stung. We talk to designers and daters to see whether the UX of these apps is meant to help you find that someone special, or just to keep you swiping left indefinitely. Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Oct 22, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 6
The world of FUI or fantasy user interface design is responsible for on-screen depictions of UX. Like the heads up displays for superheroes, or what a hacker sees as she cracks the government’s mainframe. All of these worlds are designed by someone. But, when it comes to designing these worlds, the lines between fiction and reality are often blurred. How do FUI designers create the futures we see on screen, and how do they influence the traditional designers who are building our real-life future...
Oct 15, 2019•22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Design critics Jessica Helfand and Emily Heyward, founder of Red Antler, discuss what's at stake when everything looks the same -- and what designers can do about it. Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Oct 08, 2019•25 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Sound is becoming more important in the world of design, especially as our devices shrink and we become less attached to screens. Wireframe speaks to sound designer Connor Moore and psychoacoustic expert Susan Rogers on the best ways to design for the ear. Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Sep 24, 2019•21 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Khoi speaks with a roundtable of global privacy experts to find out what designers can - and should - do to keep user data safe. Featuring: Georgia Bullen (Simply Secure), Amy Stepanovich (Access Now) and Lieke Beelen (Visual Contracts). Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Sep 17, 2019•27 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Electronic health records aren’t just cumbersome and time-consuming, they’re actually damaging the doctor-patient relationship. How can UX designers help? Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Sep 10, 2019•21 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The foosball, the snacks, the scale - life at a big design firm can be really exciting. But at independent studios, design culture still flourishes. In this episode, taped live at Adobe MAX, we explore life at independent design studios, with Jason Hardy of Century, Jennifer Gonzales of Hugo & Marie, and Kemp Attwood of Area 17.
Sep 05, 2019•21 min
Last season we asked - what is good design? This season, we’re delving deeper into what design can - and can’t - do. From privacy, to the beeps and boops our phones make, to the secret world of UX design in film.
Sep 04, 2019•2 min•Season 2Ep. 9
On this special live episode of Wireframe, we dive into the brand new territory of Voice UX design. How can designers to approach voice not just as a technology, but also as a design challenge? Our guests are Katie Briggs (NPR) and Will Hall (RAIN Agency).
Mar 18, 2019•25 min
This episode asks: what's the difference between designing for accessibility versus designing inclusively? To find the answers we look at everything from WordPress blogging software to the Xbox controller. We even start with some early lessons from, of all places, TV’s “French Chef,” Julia Child! Bon appetit! Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Nov 20, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The “Like” button was a huge triumph for Facebook, or was it? Now more than ever we’re all wondering if our traditional definition of “good” design is actually in our best interests. In this episode, we take a look at the intersection of ethics and design. Read the PDF transcript of this episode.
Nov 13, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
