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Janna Hagan
I'll be talking with Designer, Janna Hagan about surviving as a design student.
Airing the week of: May 21st 2012
The East Wing is a weekly show, hosted by Tim Smith, that talks about design, user experience problem solving and the keys to creating products with value.
I'll be talking with Designer, Janna Hagan about surviving as a design student.
Airing the week of: May 21st 2012
Doug Neiner is not only an incredibly smart guy, he’s humble and down to earth. Doug is a Designer, Developer and Speaker that took some time to talk about running your own studio, working with a distributed company, why jQuery is the best Javascript framework and, since we love being controversial, designing in the browser.
In this episode, Jon Duckett, a designer and developer that owns a small studio out of London, joins to talk about design as a job, interactions with clients, Think First and his interesting approach in writing his new book: HTML & CSS.
This is definitely one my favorite episodes. Jessica Hische is an über talented Illustrator and Letterer. She’s been very successful in her career and it’s a real delight to hear her share thoughts on making the most of your education, her lettering process, how your career is like a marriage and the importance of side projects.
Meagan Fisher is one of the nicest person you’ll ever talk to. She’s a smart gal and her willingness to share shines in this episode as she joins to talk about the importance of getting to know people offline, what she’s learned from the amazing companies she’s worked with, the design process and answering the ever controversial question: Should designers code?
Your age has nothing to do with the skills you can acquire, the things you can build and the goals you can accomplish. Galen Gidman is proof of that. At the age of only 17, he’s already been building websites for four years and is the host of the new podcast The Young Guns Show. He joins us to give practical tips on marketing, clients and being a young designer in our industry.
If you like nice people, an amazing British accent and sound advice on design, this is the episode for you. Sarah Parmenter, Designer, Speaker and Founder of design studio, You Know Who, appears on our seventh show to talk about a wide array of topics that include how she got into design, running her own studio and a shared admiration of Luke Wroblewski.
If you follow Chris Coyier, you know that he’s a wealth of information. If you don’t, you’ll quickly find out how knowledgeable he is and the down-to-earth way in which he delivers this info. He joins for our fifth show to talk about the start of CSS-Tricks, working with version control, Wufoo and the debate of client versus app work.
How valuable is an education? What about the connections you can make through it? How important is humility and the effects this invaluable personality trait can have on life and one’s career? Dan Mall, co-founder of Typedia and swfiR and Founder & Design Director at SuperFriendly answers these questions and a whole lot more. His honesty and humility shine as he talks about his work and other interesting industry topics.
What goes into planning a conference? How are speakers selected and topics chosen? Dan Denney joins for our fourth episode to talk about the extensive work he puts into organizing the Front-End Design Conference. Dan also talks about how he got into Front-End Dev, the projects he’s worked on and even turns the tables and asks me some questions!
Justin talks about how he got into basketball, his thoughts on LeBron, Finals predictions… oh and this awesome thing called Zerply he’s working on. In our third episode, Entrepreneur and Chief Operating Officer of Zerply, also answers questions about how Zerply got it’s start, what he does day to day and what’s on the horizon for this great product.
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