600px Web Design Podcast

We're sitting down with Will Pry, Director of Marketing at Lifeblue, to talk about his career in publishing and what the transition from print to digital has looked like, as well as how it's affected the industry.

We're talking with Bri Crow on all things technology, hiring, consulting, starting your own business, being a woman in the tech sphere, and how to find and retain the best tech talent.

A lot has happened since our last episode dropped (for starters: a worldwide pandemic), but we are back and ready to start exploring the ways in which the tech industry can create better digital experiences for everyone. We have a couple of episodes waiting in the wings that we'll release in the coming weeks, and in the meantime you can always get in touch with us on Twitter ([at]600pxfm).

On this week's episode we talk to Marshall Culpepper, CEO and co-founder of Kubos, a software company that delivers end-to-end mission for the space industry. We chat with him about the unique challenges that come with designing for the space industry, as well as his experience meeting Buzz Aldrin, and sending his kids toys into space! Come join us as we explore the final frontier on this science-heavy episode of 600px.

Claire Tolbert is a Performance Engineer with Alkami, and in this episode she sits down with us to talk about her career in tech, her time with Women Who Code, and how developers can best learn from each other.

Mess Wright, Founder & Director of the Dallas FabLab at Workchops sits down to chat with us about digital fabrication, the new collar workforce, and how technology has the power to democratize education and learning for all.

Lifeblue Marking & Content Coordinator Liz Farmer joins us to talk about everything from journalism in the digital age and her time at the Dallas Morning News, to content, branding, and the age of the digital influencers.

This week we're sitting down with Matt Potter, a freelance graphic designer with experience across a range of mediums, to chat about dark patterns. We'll chat about what they are, how to avoid them, and the responsibilities designers have working at organizations building consumer tech and products.

Shaina Stigler talks with us about her time as Chief Empathy Officer at betwixt.us, where she's helped build workplace tools to build trust, empathy and emotional vulnerability in the workforce. She also fills us in on her efforts with Pivot for Humanity, which aims to hold Big Tech accountable for what they're building and works towards professionalizing the tech industry as a whole.

This week we sit down with Russel Dubree, one of Lifeblue's co-founders, to talk all about he came to create the agency. From project and client management to accounting and HR, he talks about the hats he's worn and the lessons he's learned about what's possible when you put the employees of your company first.

We welcome our first backend developers to 600px with our guests Aaron Benzick and Scott Foster. They created a mobile game called Munzee in 2011 that combined geocaching and scavenger hunting, and we talk with them about how they approached design throughout the build process.

On this week's episode, we sit down with Interactive Art Director Bryan Schmidt for our second look at the An Event Apart Boston conference. Bryan shares his thoughts on Derek Featherstone's talk on inclusive design, and how important it is to get users with disabilities and varying perspectives involved throughout the creative process.

Anzen: Verb. 安全 (literary) to keep in good repair; to maintain; to save from damage; to preserve. This week Derek Odell, Product Developer at Lifeblue, sits down with us to chat about this concept and what it means for company culture in tech, from workplace safety to how we operate our teams and build products.

There are many different discplines of design, but what do they have in common? This week we sit down with JD Busch, a Solution Designer at Lifeblue who is now a master of digital design, but he didn't start his career that way. From print to environmental design, JD shares his career lessons--everything from being fired, to what makes for good digital design.

An Event Apart is the leading web design/front-end conference for mobile/UX/product designers & developers, hosting in major cities around the US. In May some of our Lifeblue team members went to Boston to soak up some knowledge, and they're back to share it with us. Join us as we catch up with Andrew Higdon and Zaq Dayton on inclusive motion and the future of animation design, as well as designing for personas and the unintended consequences of targeted advertising.

Accessibility in web design and development has historically been a luxury, but this perpsective has shifted as the landscape becomes increasingly litigious. As of 2012, over 18% of Americans identified as having a disability, according to the Census Bureau. From color ratios to alt text, we sit down with Nicole Oakes, Front End Developer at Lifeblue, to talk about the ins and outs of how to approach a project with a diverse range of end-users in mind, and hopefully how to avoid having your company sued because you didn't think it mattered.

Localization and translation are both incredibly important in the realm of web design and the digitally connected world we live in today. While we'd like to think it's as easy as implementing a "translate" button, localization goes beyond just 1:1 word translation and helps customize design to different audiences where the wrong color or word can tank an entire design or campaign. While this enormous task poses great challenges for both businesses big and small, there are ways to overcome them without "just using Google translate." In this episode, we sit down with Zaq Dayton, Interactive Art Director at Lifeblue, to explore these trends and how to tackle them.

Welcome to 600px, a podcast that goes below the fold of the world wide web to see how professionals in the industry design and build better digital experiences for everyone. Join co-hosts Travis Self and Caitlin Studley to talk all things tech--from the idea of “workplace safety” in the digital world (you can’t see it, but we just put workplace safety in air quotes), to localization in design, to using our tech powers for good and building trust with technology, we’ll sit down with a range of professionals to cover industry topics that matter when it comes to making a better digital experience for everyone. We hope you'll join us!