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The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#35 Ran Segall (Full stack designer & creator, Prospero) - Love what you do, take massive action, and prosper.Episode #35: Ran SegallWe 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 pe...2018-05-1150 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#34 David Kadavy (Bestselling Author & Host, Love Your Work) - How well are we connecting with our curiosity?Episode #34: David KadavyWe 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 wr...2018-05-0354 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#33 Yasmine Evjen (Design Advocate, Google) - What is design if not a way to tell a storyEpisode #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 De...2018-03-1652 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#32 Quincy Larson (Founder and educator, freeCodeCamp) - The value of free education and building communitiesEpisode #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 a...2018-03-0855 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#31 Brad Frost (Founder, Atomic Design) - Breaking down design systems to atomic elementsEpisode #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 t...2018-03-011h 03
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#30 Jason Ogle (Founder, UserDefenders.com) - Don't be a "tooler", but a learnerEpisode #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 th...2018-02-221h 17
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#29 Noah Kagan (Founder, Sumo.com) - Have fun, create value and do it consistentlyEpisode #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 shar...2018-02-1559 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#28 Samuel Hulick (Founder, UserOnboard.com) - Find a niche you love, specialize, succeedEpisode #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...2018-02-081h 05
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#27 Maria Giudice (Former VP, Experience Design, Autodesk) - Designing to reinvent the future, and leading a cultural change in your organizationEpisode #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 an...2018-02-0157 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#26 Keenan Cummings (Design Lead, Airbnb) - Finding Your Product's Level of Readiness and Manifesting Design systemsEpisode #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 transition into digital design. He co-founded Days app, and then found his path in...2018-01-2554 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 08 - The strategy to
improve & scale2017-01-0812 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 07 - Podcasts, Videos, and Other Forms of Content2016-12-2507 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#25 Khoi Vinh (Principal Designer, Adobe) - Influencing an industry and building a personal brandEpisode #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 Fast Company's "50 Most Influential Designers in America". H...2016-12-2252 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 06 - Monetization2016-12-1816 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 05 - Outsourcing2016-12-1105 min
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Lior Frenkel2016-12-071h 14
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Tobias Van Schneider2016-12-071h 09
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Kathleen Shannon2016-12-071h 07
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Rachel Andrew2016-12-0758 min
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Tal Florentin2016-12-071h 04
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Jeffrey Zeldman2016-12-071h 36
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Paul Jarvis2016-12-071h 02
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Emily Thompson2016-12-071h 03
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - Brian Buirge (Good Fucking Design Advice)This was our tenth live expert session of the program with Brian Buirge, co-founder of Good Fucking Design Advice. In this session, Brian tells the story of turning their side project into a full-time business and gives valuable insights into growing a business that sells physical products. At the end of the session, he answers questions from the group.
You can view the video recording of the CrowdCast or you can listen to the podcast version of the session below.2016-12-051h 23
The Side Project AcceleratorExpert Session - How to generate ideas with Kelsey RugerThis was our ninth live expert session of the program with Kelsey Ruger. In this session Kelsey gives a presentation on how to generate ideas and shares several techniques for fueling the creative process. At the end of the session he answers questions from the group.
You can also watch the video recording of the CrowdCast.2016-12-051h 22
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 01 - Automation2016-12-0418 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 3, part 4: Tools of the Trade2016-11-2607 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 3, part 5: Summing up Lesson 32016-11-2604 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 3, part 3: Promoting Your Article2016-11-2614 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 3, part 2: The 7 Step Writing Workflow2016-11-2603 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 3, part 1: Intro to Writing2016-11-2607 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#24 Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks & CodePen) - How to grow a blog and remain true to your audienceEpisode #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 while inspecting the code at the same time. Chris is also the h...2016-11-241h 00
The Side Project AcceleratorSPA Lesson 02: Start building your list2016-11-2013 min
The Side Project AcceleratorLesson 01 - Get Yourself Out There2016-11-1311 min
The Side Project AcceleratorIntro lesson - How can you get the most out of this program?2016-11-1305 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#23 Harry Roberts (CSS Wizardry) - The ups and downs of dominating a nicheEpisode #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 brand and we’ve been following CSS Wizardry for ye...2016-11-0956 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#22 Audience-driven product development (in-between-a-sode)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 yo...2016-11-0606 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#21 Rizwan Javaid (SPA alum) - How to start public speakingEpisode #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...2016-11-0147 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#20 Kelsey Ruger (SPA alum) - The teacher who never stopped learningEpisode #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 l...2016-10-2457 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#19 David Okuniev (Typeform) - The musician who turned a side project into a multi-million dollar companyEpisode #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 j...2016-10-1947 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#18 Peter Nowell (Sketch Master) - The freelance designer that stopped selling his timeEpisode #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 r...2016-10-111h 03
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#17 Matt Mullenweg (Automattic, Wordpress) - The mission to give everyone their own home on the InternetEpisode #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 t...2016-10-0648 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#16 Jason Zook - the man who sold his last name and is now selling his futureEpisode #16: Jason ZookOur 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...2016-09-281h 26
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#15: Tal Perry (Citi, Smart Scribe) - The goat herding, algorithm cracking, autodidactEpisode #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...2016-09-221h 06
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#14: Abandoning fear and getting out of your comfort zone, ft. Jason Bacher & Brian Buirge (GFDA)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 two great guests are running an absolutely inspiring side project turned full time business. We discuss in d...2016-09-151h 07
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#13: Bryn Jackson (Spec.fm) - building & scaling a podcast network to more than 5 million downloadsEpisode #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 hi...2016-09-0852 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#12: Victor Yocco (UX researcher & Author) on applying psychological theory to digital designFind all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcastSubscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/2016-08-311h 06
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#11: On running Hacking UI as a full time job & launching the Side Project AcceleratorFind all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcastSubscribe 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-27148005415Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scaling-a-design-team-meetup-tickets-271481789342016-08-2253 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#10: Jon Lax (Director of Product Design at Facebook): The Teehan + Lax story, and useful tips for design managersFind all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcastSubscribe 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-27148005415Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scaling-a-design-team-meetup-tickets-271481789342016-08-181h 17
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#09: Katie Dill (Director of Experience Design at Airbnb): design management is UXEpisode #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 episode:This epi...2016-08-111h 07
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#08: Bob Baxley (Former Design Manager at Yahoo,Apple, and Pinterest): Not everything has to be based off dataThis 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/2016-07-201h 12
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#07: Magera Moon (Product Design Manager at Etsy): Creating a blame free culture & developing the styleguideThis 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/2016-06-151h 09
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#06: Sagi Shrieber (Co-Founder of Hacking UI): How I built, and now scale, my side projects: Story, insights, and practical tipsThis 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 projects2016-06-0938 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#05: Joel Califa (Product Design Lead at Digital Ocean): Tools, habits and how to hire great designersThis week we’re thrilled to share with you our talk with Joel Califa - Product Design Lead at DigitalOcean, Founder of Design & Code, and Front-End Instructor at GA . With us on this call is Noam Liss, senior product designer at SimilarWeb. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/category/scaling-a-design-team/ Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/2016-03-211h 05
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#04: Emmet Connolly (Director of Product Design at Intercom): Creating Design Principles & Design team habitsThis week we’re happy to share with you this talk we had with Emmet Connolly - Intercom's Product Design Director. Talking with Emmet was insightful, and we learned a lot about the way Intercom's design team works and scales. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/category/scaling-a-design-team/ Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/2016-02-1158 min
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#03: Melissa Hajj (Design Manager at Facebook): Managing Design from the ground upThis week we’re coming at you from the Facebook Tel Aviv office, where we were lucky to meet up with Melissa Hajj. Melissa is the head of Facebook’s core growth design team, whose stated mission is connecting the next billion people to Facebook (no big deal). Shownotes and more here: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/03-melissa-hajj/2016-01-291h 09
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#02: The Hacking UI Scaling a Design Team Panel event in San FranciscoThis November we teamed up with Design&Startups and launched a free product design panel event, discussing product team structures, responsibilities, and workflows.It was an amazing experience for me hosting the first ever Hacking UI event in San Francisco. The panelists were amazing and listening to what they had to say was super insightful!The event took place at Galvanize on November 16, 2015, and was sponsored by Similarweb and Invision.Be sure to check out some pictures from the event taken by André Pennycooke See all pictures from the event on Flickr (https://f...2016-01-211h 30
The Hacking UI Podcast - with Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner#01: Billy Kiely (VP Product at Invision): From first designer to manging designers and massive scaleIn this episode we talked with the amazing Billy Kiely, VP Product of Invision.Billy was the first designer at Invision, and he scaled the company alongside Clark, the CEO, with design thinking as one of it’s core values. We talk about the structure of Invision’s product team, about how Billy made hiring decisions, what it’s like to work at Invision on a daily basis, and more. This is our first episode, so we would love to hear your feedback! Write us in the comments!Ep1 NotesInvisionBilly Kiely...2015-11-1147 min