This week we talk about job hunting! Learn why no one read your CV, why design tests are useless, and how your boss knows you’re interviewing for a new gig. Featuring our special guest Andy Davies: an employed person.
Mike, and new co-hosts Liam Campbell and Steph Monette, are joined in the studio by Jeff Veen.
Mike and Jessie talk about distractions. I think. I dunno, I was checking Twitter while we were recording.
Mike and Jessie shamelessly promote their new events, and discuss selling web design in an era of Squarespace.
Mike and Jessie discuss their hiatus. Jessie starts a conference but forgets to invite Mike. We answer reader mail. Don finally makes out with Peggy.
Mike and Jessie chat with Eric Rodenbeck about maps, the past, and the future.
Mike and Jesse discuss the Apple Watch and what happens when you run out of ways to make something good and start making them annoying. Like people are doing with coffee now.
Mike and Jessie discuss the importance of your college education when hunting for a design job.
Mike and Jessie discuss the dumb things people say.
Where have Jessie and Mike been? They’re back now and here to talk about how to keep a team motivated.
Mike invites Nina Alter to the studio to discuss whether Codes of Conduct are effective measures against harassment.
What lies beyond the disruption horizon? Mike and Jessie discuss the land beyond what happens when you disrupt something so badly that it becomes distended.
Guest and gamer Brianna Wu explains what the hell has been happening in #gamergate.
"Everyone needs to shut up and listen.” -Jessie
It was hot and it was Saturday and we raided the fridge for leftovers from Mike’s book release party.
Mike and Jessie discuss all the terrible things designers do to screw up presentations, and how they can stop doing them.
Jessie disappoints Mike by taking a job at Facebook.
Mike and Jessie discuss the celebrity hacking scandal. And Jessie sitting around between jobs.
Mike and Jessie clean out their mailboxes.
Mike and Jessie answer a listener email about design tests during interviews and how to make them work to your advantage. Skill building episode, kids!
Mike and guest host Essl interview Austin Kleon about the difference between art and design, and why his books sell so well at Walgreen's.
Mike and Jesse are joined by amateur magician, UX expert, college dean, and bane of United Airlines, Jared Spool.
Mike and Jessie contemplate moving to Lisbon, talk about project management, and the value of higher education.
Mike Essl joins us to discuss how the insane shenanigans at Cooper Union are affecting students. And also talk comic books.
Jessie and Mike are both getting ready to give talks, so they talk about the process. Including how to get paid to do it. Which hasn't come up on the internet in, let's say a few days.
Mike and Jessie talk about building relationships with clients and play you a song.
Mike sits down with internet favorite handsome boy model Jeffrey Zeldman to talk about the history of An Event Apart. From it's modest beginnings in a basement room at The Franklin Institute, to the inspiring institution it is today.
Let's talk about proposals. How much time should you put into them? How detailed should they be? And shouldn't we be getting paid for that time. Superfriendly Dan Mall joins us to discuss these matters and others.
Mike and Jessie give up and just talk about TV, slippers, blankets, and their mutual love of Endora from Bewitched. Also tabs.
Greg Hoy of Happy Cog joins us in the studio to talk about running small businesses, the generosity of small business owners, and Owner Camp. Then we devolve into talking about Greg Storey’s restaurant habits.
