The Hacking UI podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, a designer and developer who are also both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacking maniacs, and all around tech geeks. The first season of the podcast is titled ‘Scaling a Design Team’, in which they speak with design leaders from top notch companies like Facebook, Apple, Invision, and Intercom, to discuss various team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. After quitting their day jobs to work full time on Hacking UI they named the second season ‘Scaling a Side Project’, and they interview creative entrepreneurs whom they admire, in order to learn about their paths to success and get them to share their tips and secrets. These include Matt Mullenweg (Founder of Wordpress), David Okeniuv (Founder of Typeform) and more. The third season of the podcast is called 'Scaling a Career' and it's all about creative entrepreneurship. They interviewed amazing folks who took their creative skills and built a brand for themselves. These include Brad Frost (Atomic Design System), Samuel Hulick (Useronboard.com), Noah Kagan (Sumo), and Ran Segall (Youtuber at 'Flux' on Youtube).
We are super excited to have with us today the inspiring Ran Segall - a full stack designer, a creator, and a vlogger. In this episode, Ran shared his amazing insights and knowledge on freelancing, value-based pricing, learning new skills, networking, putting yourself out there, achieving your goals and aiming higher.
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. In this episode, David shared his inspiring perspectives and insights on self-publishing, connecting with our curiosity, creative resistance, forming habits and setting priorities for our goals. Wheather you're a creative, an entrepreneur, marketer or just starting out - this episode will give you tons of value and knowledge to reach your goals.
It is our pleasure to present to you the inspiring Yasmine Evjen - Design Advocate at Google, a storyteller and (previously) a Co-host at Material Podcast - a podcast all about Google and Android. In this episode, Yasmine shared her interesting story and inspiring insights, whether you're starting out or not, this episode will give you tons of value.
Today we had the pleasure of talking to Quincy Larson - Founder and educator at "freeCodeCamp", where you can learn to code completely for free. In this episode, Quincy shared his insights on focusing passionately on one field, building communities and free education to everyone, on a scale that impacts the world massively even 20 years from now.
We are honored to have with us today, the inspiring Brad Frost, Founder, and inventor of the "Atomic Design" system. In this episode, Brad shared with us his thoughts and insights about how to build a design system and development collaborative work, and how to implement that thinking in your organization.
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. In this episode, Jason shared with us his thoughts and insights about how to become an influencer through personal growth and giving back to the community at the same time.
Our guest today is the inspiring Noah Kagan, Founder, and Chief-Sumo at Sumo.com, AppSumo, OkDork, and a unique marketing specialist and business consultant. In this episode, Noah shared with us his best practices and routines for starting a business, and new perspectives on enjoying it and scaling that, into a thriving business or online brand.
Our guest today is none other than Samuel Hulick, Founder, at UserOnboard.com. In this episode, Samuel shared with us the most important steps you should be taking in your organization in order to scale your operation and make costumers successful in your product.
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. In this episode, Maria shared with us what makes creative DEO's the futures' new change agents, and how we can learn from that and empower others to lead this cultural change.
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. Today, Keenan is also working on a side project called Curiosity Club, a group for experienced creatives to learn new skills together. In this episode, Keenan shared with us why he believes that investing in design systems and investing in your team, not only pays-off, but it is a must.
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, a true family man, and was named one of Fast Company's "50 Most Influential Designers in America". He is the author of two books and has a long history of launching successful startups and side projects. In this interview, we discussed how writing has helped Khoi, not only in his career as a designer, but also how writing a book gives him a certain amount of credibility, and why he would not trade his writing experience for anything in the world.
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.
Today we had the pleasure of talking to Harry Roberts, the founder of the well-known blog, CSS Wizardry. Harry has built an incredible personal brand and we’ve been following CSS Wizardry for years. We discussed with him exactly how he got started, what made him successful, and what he thinks is the best way to blog, build a personal brand and start a side project today.
Today’s episode is what we like to call an in-between-a-sode. There are a few days left to apply 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.
Today we are joined by Rizwan Javaid, a member of our Side Project Accelerator. Rizwan is a speaker, blogger, and 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, ranging from mobile to web, and even his very own side project.
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. His mission is to help people use their creativity to make better things happen in the world. In this episode, he shares with us his method for coming up with ideas and how to build a dedicated audience using the concept of “1,000” true fans.
David Okuniev is a former musician turned designer. He is the co-founder and joint CEO of Typeform, one of the hottest young startups out there. David discusses his amazing world-wide 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.
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. Living by his ideals of simplicity, honesty, and intentionality, Peter continues developing his design brand and do the things he really believes in.
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 the young age of 19, 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 the time but the blog software was outdated, so he decided to create a new platform, which is known today as WordPress.
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.
This week we were joined by Tal Perry, a good friend and serial side project hacker. Tal Works at Citi by day as a developer and researcher, and is also working on a new side project called Smart Scribe.
Today we are excited to have Jason Bacher and Brian Biurge on the show. They are the founders of Good Fucking Design Advice, an e-commerce store for designers that has taken off to become much more.
This is the first episode of the series of 'Scaling a Side Project' where we’re interviewing designers, developers, and creatives that have built and scaled super successful side projects that we admire. Bryn Jackson - co-founder of Spec.fm which features the popular podcasts Design Details, Developer Tea, and others. We will talk to him about the Spec community, and how he built a network of multiple podcasts that scaled to hit the mark of 5 million downloads (!!!) Enjoy!
We were fortunate today to sit down and have a great conversation with author and UX researcher Victor Yocco. With Victor he discusses how UX research fits into the workflow, what it takes to create a really good experience, and they go over some deep analysis of user psychology. Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/
Today’s episode we sit down to have a chat to share some lessons from our journey of transitioning to work on Hacking UI full time. We discuss how our motivation is centred around helping others and being the storytellers of the products that we create for our users. We also talk about what we learned through the first week of the Side Project Accelerator and touch on what passive income means to us personally. Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/
Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/
This week 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.
This week we were honored to sit down with Bob Baxley, Former Design Manager at Yahoo,Apple, and Pinterest . We pick his brain about his career as a design manager in those highly influential companies and the difference in culture of each. 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/
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/
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
This 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/
This 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/
This 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/
This 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!
In 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!
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