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Chad is joined by designer and author Jarrod Drysdale to discuss lessons learned from shutting down Cascade, writing about design, cultivating content for your audience, and design's evolving role within organizations. Jarrod on Giant Robots TheorySprints design course Studio Fellow Proximity School of Design Jarrod on Twitter Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!

Welcome to episode 056 of The Zen Courses Show! My guest for this episode is Jarrod Drysdale, visual designer and new course creator. In this interview, Jarrod shares how he launched his first course and what he's learned from ten years of designing and entrepreneur-ing. Enjoy! In This Episode, You'll Learn: What he learned from his first failed business Why he launched his course on a weekend—when everyone says not to! The incentives that motivated Jarrod’s audience to buy his course How he balances consulting with creating products How consulting and design have made him a better course creator The three teaching components he uses in his course Why you don’t need to focus on web design when you’re starting out References and Tools Mentioned: Show notes - http://zencourses.co/056 Zen Courses on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/zencourses  Thanks for Listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest review for The Zen Courses Show on iTunes! Ratings and reviews boost ratings & help new listeners find the show. I read every review and I'd love to read yours. Click here to leave a review. And, finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. If you have an Android phone, you can subscribe on Stitcher. Lastly, I want to say THANK YOU to Jarrod for sharing her story with us on The Zen Courses Show!

What's the best way to teach design skills? How do you connect theory with practice? Today our guest is Jarrod Drysdale — designer, writer, and author of multiple educational products. You'll learn what makes a good course, how to show-and-tell, and why it's difficult to capture the real-life design process on screen. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes Theory Sprints — Jarrod's new design course Getting Real — a book by 37signals The Tiny Designer — Jarrod's free email course Design's Iron Fist — Jarrod's free book Perfect Pricing (a series of guest posts): part one by Sacha Greif, part two by Jarrod Drysdale Cascade.io — Jarrod's design framework (discontinued) Restrict Content Pro, WP Complete — WordPress plugins for building courses Jarrod's website Follow Jarrod on Twitter: @studiofellow Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Balsamiq Mockups. A Balsamiq customer recently called it “the only wireframing tool that doesn’t make me feel stupid.” Try it free for 30 days at balsamiq.com — you’ll be productive in no time! Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes.

02:29 - Sean Fioritto Introduction @sfioritto planning for aliens 02:52 - Design and Sketching with CSS Background & Overview Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto Skip Using Photoshop; Move Straight to Code => Get Pixels to Screen Faster 06:34 - Developer Designer Communication Tooling and Muscle Memory 12:23 - Using CSS Over Photoshop, Alternative Programs, and Frameworks Sketch InVision Macaw 15:29 - Grid Systems and Resets (Frontend Tools) i.e. Grid Systems The Grid System Responsive Grid System CSS Resets What Is A CSS Reset?    CSS Tools: Reset CSS 17:27 - Prototyping (Workflow) Git 23:14 - Documentation 26:14 - Adopting New Practices (Progressive Enhancement) (Killer) Interactive Demo Presentations “Style Tiles” Fluency "Pixel Pushers" 45:33 - The Modern Web Moving Forward 47:30 - Keep Up with Scott Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto planning for aliens The ginormous, unstoppable list of Angular resources Picks NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler (David) RoT.js (David) The Spatials (David) The User is Drunk (Saron) Drunk Kitchen (Saron) The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck) Bootstrapping Design: Roll Your Own Design by Jarrod Drysdale (Sean) The Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Sean) Ryan Castillo: 7 Recurring Recipes for Consultancies (Sean) ExpeditedSSL (Sean) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing  Marie Kondo (Sean)

02:29 - Sean Fioritto Introduction @sfioritto planning for aliens 02:52 - Design and Sketching with CSS Background & Overview Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto Skip Using Photoshop; Move Straight to Code => Get Pixels to Screen Faster 06:34 - Developer Designer Communication Tooling and Muscle Memory 12:23 - Using CSS Over Photoshop, Alternative Programs, and Frameworks Sketch InVision Macaw 15:29 - Grid Systems and Resets (Frontend Tools) i.e. Grid Systems The Grid System Responsive Grid System CSS Resets What Is A CSS Reset?    CSS Tools: Reset CSS 17:27 - Prototyping (Workflow) Git 23:14 - Documentation 26:14 - Adopting New Practices (Progressive Enhancement) (Killer) Interactive Demo Presentations “Style Tiles” Fluency "Pixel Pushers" 45:33 - The Modern Web Moving Forward 47:30 - Keep Up with Scott Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto planning for aliens The ginormous, unstoppable list of Angular resources Picks NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler (David) RoT.js (David) The Spatials (David) The User is Drunk (Saron) Drunk Kitchen (Saron) The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck) Bootstrapping Design: Roll Your Own Design by Jarrod Drysdale (Sean) The Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Sean) Ryan Castillo: 7 Recurring Recipes for Consultancies (Sean) ExpeditedSSL (Sean) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing  Marie Kondo (Sean)

02:29 - Sean Fioritto Introduction @sfioritto planning for aliens 02:52 - Design and Sketching with CSS Background & Overview Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto Skip Using Photoshop; Move Straight to Code => Get Pixels to Screen Faster 06:34 - Developer Designer Communication Tooling and Muscle Memory 12:23 - Using CSS Over Photoshop, Alternative Programs, and Frameworks Sketch InVision Macaw 15:29 - Grid Systems and Resets (Frontend Tools) i.e. Grid Systems The Grid System Responsive Grid System CSS Resets What Is A CSS Reset?    CSS Tools: Reset CSS 17:27 - Prototyping (Workflow) Git 23:14 - Documentation 26:14 - Adopting New Practices (Progressive Enhancement) (Killer) Interactive Demo Presentations “Style Tiles” Fluency "Pixel Pushers" 45:33 - The Modern Web Moving Forward 47:30 - Keep Up with Scott Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto planning for aliens The ginormous, unstoppable list of Angular resources Picks NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler (David) RoT.js (David) The Spatials (David) The User is Drunk (Saron) Drunk Kitchen (Saron) The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck) Bootstrapping Design: Roll Your Own Design by Jarrod Drysdale (Sean) The Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Sean) Ryan Castillo: 7 Recurring Recipes for Consultancies (Sean) ExpeditedSSL (Sean) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing  Marie Kondo (Sean)

Jarrod Drysdale says "Nobody has the balls to do this." This is the day Justin announces the first product he'll be working on for Build & Launch. The first product is...

Nothing I do is completely original. In fact, so many ideas that people credit to me are originally from someone else.In this episode I want to give credit to the people who've provided some truly impactful ideas to the world. This is not a complete list by any means; I'm sure I've missed someone, so I plan to add to this list over time. I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to leave a comment if you have something to add!Show Notes1. Slow, consistent progressLifehacker article on “Don't break the chain”(Seinfeld said he didn't come up with this, but I'm still going to believe he did :)2. Writing 1,000 words per dayChris Guillebeau first introduced me to the idea of making consistent progress in order to actually finish a book. Here's his post on the topic: How to Write 300,000 Words In 1 Year.3. Writing to a painAmy Hoy and Alex Hillman gave me a solid introduction to copywriting. Through plenty of direct feedback on my sales pages I learned all about writing to a particular pain in my headlines and copy. Amy and Alex go on to talk about the pain, dream, fix model of writing sales pages.You can find Amy & Alex here.I haven't taken their course 30×500, but I've heard wonderful things about it.4. Multiple packagesAn offhand comment by Chris Guillebeau has made me tens of thousands of dollars. 5. Selling digital productsTim Ferriss talks about drug dealers in 4HWW.6. Making a living from self-publishing to a small audienceSacha Greif and Jarrod Drysdale showed me how it's done.7. Travel hackingChris Guillebeau is the master of this hard-to-believe travel methodology. 8. Focusing on a few core productsJeff Goins, Laura Roeder, & Sacha Greif are excellent examples of this.9. Syndicating content instead of guest postingJames Clear taught me that your best content should appear on your own site.10. Webinars to grow an audienceBrennan Dunn, Danny Iny, Jeff Goins, & Brad Fallon taught me everything I know about how to run profitable webinars and joint ventures. 11. Email marketingConvertKit Academy is something I built for authors who want to learn how to connect better with their audiences and apply email marketing best-practices so they can sell more books.  

Why don't people share financial numbers? In this twenty-minute audio essay I delve into some of the reasons why people are afraid to be financially transparent, and why I've chosen to ignore those reasons in favor of exposing my revenue numbers (and why you should too). Show NotesSacha Grief – one of the people who's inspired me most to start publishing books and be transparent about the process. Jarrod Drysdale – a great designer and one of the inspirations behind my design books. The App Design Handbook launch – here's the blog post I published where I revealed all my launch numbers – and got accused of bragging as a result :-D Want to try something fun? Leave a comment below with a financial number you're comfortable sharing. It could be anything from your latte budget to how much your most recent product launch made!

First, you need to know that Jarrod Drysdale is a good dude. He's also the author of Bootstrapping Design, and the creator of Cascade.io. He's smart, and humble, and talented and he has tons of great things to say about building products, succeeding and failing, and the importance of really caring for the people you're serving.

This week Ben Orenstein is joined by Jarrod Drysdale, the author of Bootstrapping Design. Ben and Jarrod discuss the sales and revenue of the book, and his new project, cascade.io. They also talk about learning new things, problem solving, and the differences between programming and design. They also discuss the downside to recurring revenue, successful marketing strategies for his book, advice for people who want to start something new, the concerns of a solo entrepreneur, and how his previous failures help him keep perspective. Bootstrapping Design cascade.io Getting Real 30x500 Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @studiofellow on twitter.