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-Sc...
May 11, 2018•51 min•Ep. 35
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 ...
May 03, 2018•54 min•Ep. 34
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 s...
Mar 16, 2018•52 min•Ep. 33
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 b...
Mar 08, 2018•55 min•Ep. 32
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 believ...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 31
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 , wh...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 30
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 conten...
Feb 15, 2018•59 min•Ep. 29
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 E...
Feb 08, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 28
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 heav...
Feb 01, 2018•57 min•Ep. 27
Episode #26: Keenan Cummings Our guest today is the inspiring Keenan Cummings, Team Leader at Airbnb and former Co-founder/Creative Director of Days (acquired by Yahoo!) and the Designers Debate Club . Keenan started his career as a designer in NYC, working in brand agencies and doing print work, where he landed what he thought would be a dream project, redesigning and rebranding the Chicago Cubs. However Keenan felt that there were bigger problems he wanted to dive in to, so he made the transit...
Jan 25, 2018•54 min•Ep. 26
Episode #25: Khoi Vinh Our guest today is none other than Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer at Adobe and former Design Director of The New York Times. Khoi is the founder of the popular blog, Subtraction.com and a true family man. He was born in South Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a young boy. He attended Otis College of Art and Design, and after graduating with a major in Graphic Design, Khoi moved to New York where he co-founded the design studio, Behavior. Khoi was named one of F...
Dec 22, 2016•52 min•Ep. 25
Episode #24: Chris Coyier It is our pleasure to present to you Chris Coyier. Chris started his journey writing blogs he didn't enjoy, and eventually realized that his passion was actually in coding the blogs and crafting the CSS behind them. He eventually closed down all of his blogs except one, and CSS-Tricks was born. His blog is now one of the largest front-end development blogs in the world and paved the way for his platform, CodePen, which allows developers to share demos of front-end code ...
Nov 24, 2016•1 hr•Ep. 24
Episode #23: Harry Roberts Today we had the pleasure of talking to Harry Roberts, the founder of the well-known blog, CSS Wizardry . Harry started his career as a web developer at a very young age and has become one of the world’s most well-known experts in CSS. He was named young developer of the year in 2014 by Net Magazine, and now runs workshops all across the world in large companies such as BBC, Google, The Financial Times and The United Nations. Harry has built an incredible personal bran...
Nov 09, 2016•56 min•Ep. 23
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 as...
Nov 06, 2016•6 min•Ep. 22
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 h...
Nov 01, 2016•47 min•Ep. 21
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 crea...
Oct 24, 2016•58 min•Ep. 20
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 tool...
Oct 19, 2016•47 min•Ep. 19
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 ...
Oct 11, 2016•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 18
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 discover...
Oct 06, 2016•49 min•Ep. 17
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 mid...
Sep 28, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 16
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 ...
Sep 22, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 15
Episode #14: Jason Bacher & Brian Buirge This is the second 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 episode is one for the explicit books. So if you have sensitive ears, definitely bring your bleeper along. In the show we sit down with Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher from Good Fucking Design Advice . These ...
Sep 15, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 14
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 ...
Sep 08, 2016•53 min•Ep. 13
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Aug 31, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 12
Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/ Events in San Fransisco: Wednesday Aug 24th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-micro-workshop-to-jump-start-your-personal-brand-tickets-27148005415 Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scaling-a-design-team-meetup-tickets-27148178934
Aug 22, 2016•53 min•Ep. 11
Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/ Events in San Fransisco: Wednesday Aug 24th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-micro-workshop-to-jump-start-your-personal-brand-tickets-27148005415 Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scaling-a-design-team-meetup-tickets-27148178934
Aug 18, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 10
Episode #9: Katie Dill This week on the podcast we had a great discussion with Katie Dill, the director of experience design at Airbnb, one of the few companies in the world that’s truly disrupting an industry. In this conversation we discuss managing designers as a design experiment, how craft and hustle go together, and why the user experience should be important to every employee. Noam Liss joined us as a guest host on this episode and had some great questions for Katie. Key points from this ...
Aug 10, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 9
This week we were honored to sit down with Bob Baxley, Former Design Manager at Yahoo,Apple, and Pinterest . Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/bob-baxley-cultural-differences-inside-companies Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/
Jul 20, 2016•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 8
This week we're super happy to have with us on the show Magera Moon - Product Design Manager at Etsy. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/scaling-a-design-team-ep-7-magera-moon Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 7
This is the read-out-loud of the Article found here: http://hackingui.com/product-hacking/side-projects/ In the following episode Sagi - Design Director, Hacking UI co-founder, and the founder of Israel's Pixel Perfect Magazine - shares his story & personal tips on the hows & whys of scaling side projects
Jun 09, 2016•39 min•Ep. 6
