Design Notes Podcast

Liam speaks with Google engineers Connie Shi and Matvei Malkov, unpacking what makes coding a creative practice. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/google-mater... #DevTools #CreativeCoding #DesignSystems #SoftwareEngineering #Podcast

Rob Giampietro, then Design Director at MoMA, unpacks the aspects of your museum experience that you might not even think of as design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-most-tra... #MuseumDesign #Art #MoMA

James Bridle joins the show to discuss his book “New Dark Age” and the importance of understanding the systems we live with. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-its-lik... #ArtAndTech #DigitalCulture #NetworkThinking #Podcast

In this episode, Liam speaks with Clinton Cargill, then visual director at Vanity Fair about what motivates creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-do-you-... #Photography #EditorialDesign

Liam speaks with Mitch Paone, Principle at DIA Studio, about the difference between intuitive and analytical creativity. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-to-desig... #KineticTypography #MotionDesign

Aaron Lammer speaks with Molly Wright Steenson about pattern languages and the important similarities between architecture and AI. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/when-buildin... #Architecture #AI

Revisit this special series of four interviews with the winners of the 2019 Material Design Awards and what goes into creating an award-winning app. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #AppDesign #UX #DesignAwards #Podcast

The designers and sisters behind NYC-based label William Okpo detail the intersection of expression and utility in fashion design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/wearable-art... #FashionDesign

In this episode, Liam speaks with interdisciplinary designer Sang Mun of YAW Studio, behind the anti-surveillance ZXX typeface. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/hidden-desig... #InterdisciplinaryDesign #SystemsThinking #Art #Podcast

Aaron Lammer speaks with the founder of the research studio ATONATON, Madeline Gannon, about how she created an industrial robot outfitted with sensors that bring out its curious personality. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/madeline-gan... #Robotics #HCI #AI

Liam sits down with the winners of the 2018 Material Design Awards to discuss how they each adopted and extended Material to build expressive, inspirational experiences. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #UX #AppDesign

Liam speaks with Katie Garcia and Dustin Payseur, who together run the music label Bayonet Records. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/i-hate-music... #MusicIndustry #IndieMusic

Liam speaks with the founders of Panimation, a platform for women, trans, and non-binary animators and motion designers. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/you-cannot-b... #Animation #Community #MotionDesign #Podcast

Liam speaks with Ryan Snelson about redesigning MySpace, championing a gritty and expressive experimental aesthetic, and understanding the constraints of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-aestheti... #WebDesign #Aesthetics #MySpace

Hear from the winners of 2017's Material Design awards, who sat down to talk with Liam while being honored for their work at SPAN Pittsburgh. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/material-des... #MaterialDesign #DesignAwards #AppDesign #UX #Podcast

The brother and sister team behind Ateljé Sotamaa talk emotionally-appealing objects and holistic architectural environments. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/we-should-do... #Architecture #IndustrialDesign #Collaboration #Podcast

Bethany Fong, the design director behind many of Material's signature components, unpacks the mechanics of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fab-componen... #MaterialDesign #UI #ComponentDesign #DesignSystems #Podcast

Liam speaks with illustrator Libby VanderPloeg about how she relates to her work and what happens when the work takes on a life of its own. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/design-humor... #Illustration #ArtForChange #Humor #SocialGood #Podcast

In this episode, Liam speaks with Harvey Moon in his studio about how tools extend the human capacity for creation. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-machines... #NewMediaArt #GenerativeArt #ArtAndTech #Podcast

Liam speaks with Bradley Munkowitz, unpacking GMUNK’s aesthetic, inspired by psychedelic experiences, and why it’s important as a designer to continually challenge and be challenged. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-psychede... #DigitalArt #Creativity

Rich Fulcher, former Google UX director and Material lead, closes out the series celebrating 10 years of Material Design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/beauty-acros... #MaterialDesign #DesignSystems #UX #DesignLeadership #Podcast

Artist Laurie Rosenwald's recipe for creative breakthroughs includes making mistakes on purpose. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/magic-questi... #Creativity #DesignThinking #Art #Podcast

Musical Theater Composer Will Larche unpacks his path through Material Design engineering and where the system is headed. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/code-creativ... #Coding #Creativity #ArtAndTech #Podcast

In this episode, Liam speaks with game designer and philosopher Bennett Foddy about using frustration as a design pattern. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/throw-away-t... #GameDesign #UX #Philosophy #Art #Podcast

For SF Design Week, Liam spoke with Julian Zigerli, a designer in Zürich creating clothing that allows everyone to decide how what they wear expresses who they are. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/julian-ziger... #FashionDesign #Creativity #Podcast

Marko Ahtisaari, former product design lead at Nokia, and co-founder of Dopplr and Sync Project on the music of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-music-of... #FinnishDesign #ProductDesign #Music #Podcast

Designer and educator David Reinfurt returns to the show to discuss his book, A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/true-is-bett... #GraphicDesign #DesignTheory #DesignEducation #Podcast

Rob Giampietro returns to the show to unpack the story behind Notion Faces, including the decision to scale with human illustrators instead of AI. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/notion-faces... #Design #Branding #AI #Podcast

In a new ep, I spoke with my friend Louise Macfadyen about her upcoming book, “Designing AI Interfaces.” We cover a bit of computing history, why the text box might be holding us back, and how to design honest interfaces in an era of hype. #designsky Tune in: design-notes.show#beyond-the-t...

Jesse Reed, designer and co-founder of Standards Manual—discusses the preservation of historic style guides and designed artifacts. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/absolutely-e... #GraphicDesign #DesignHistory

Cameron Koczon how Fictive Kin’s product development starts with “a Seinfeld” - an app that does nothing - and ends with a polished core experience. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/designing-to... #ProductDesign #UX #ToolMaking #Software #Podcast

Google Fonts Specialist Dave Crossland explores what type can teach us about digital production, expression, and where designers fit in the world. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/how-fonts-ch... #Typography #Fonts #GraphicDesign

A transdisciplinary artist, Stephanie Dinkins focuses on AI’s intersection with race, gender, and social equity. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/ai-identity-... #AI #Art #SocialEquity #Storytelling #Podcast

In this episode, Liam speaks with artist Qianqian Ye in her San Francisco studio about exploring vulnerability through art and code. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/vulnerabilit... #ArtAndTech #CreativeCoding #Vulnerability #Art #Podcast

In David Reinfurt's first appearance on Design Notes, we talked design education, perspective, and creative renewal. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/a-prompt-for... #GraphicDesign #DesignProcess #Creativity #Podcast

Aaron Lammer speaks with Design Director Isabelle Olsson, who oversees CMF (color, material, and finish) for all Google hardware. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/asking-how-d... #IndustrialDesign #Hardware #CMF #EmotionalDesign #Podcast

From sand lot to playground, Amber Bravo speaks with architecture critic and author Alexandra Lange about her book, The Design of Childhood. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/design-of-ch... #DesignForKids #Architecture #Play #Childhood #Podcast

Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, whose ethnographic work in Second Life provides insights into how virtuality informs our lives in actual space. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/digital-anth... #Anthropology #VirtualWorlds #SecondLife

In a brand-new Design Notes, I sat down with SVP of Design for Expedia Group (and former colleague) Rachel Been. We talked about the importance of care in design as we move forward into a new chapter for the conversational surface. design-notes.show#the-era-of-t... #designsky

In this episode, Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/judith-donat... #HCI #Sociology #Podcast

New Design Notes and Doubleshot coming this week :)

Material Design founder Matías Duarte joins the show to explore the inception, evolution, and future of Google’s design approach. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/facing-our-i... #MaterialDesign #UIDesign #FutureOfDesign

📣 Calling all Design Notes listeners: What other design or creative podcasts do you listen to regularly? Let me know in the replies! #designsky

Liam speaks with Aline Borges, a Zürich-based floral designer who’s made the leap from fashion coordination for magazines to independent floral design and installations. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fearless-des... #FloralDesign #Creativity

Trying out a new format for podcast uploads on YouTube—a subtle animated background and the show transcript timed to the episode youtu.be/P6TEb_Fmflo

Liam speaks with Talbot & Yoon, a New York-based design firm focused on objects and furniture about the importance of play in design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/from-war-roo... #FurnitureDesign #IndustrialDesign

Can technical expertise be a creative trap? In a new Design Notes, Fabian Bircher explains how to break free of what's technically possible to make a greater creative impact. interfacecafe.com/other-than-e...

In this episode, Liam speaks with Conor Grebel about how lived experiences inform and are conveyed through creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/art-as-survi... #Art #Creativity #Storytelling #Podcast

In a 🆕 episode, Zürich-based designer Fabian Bircher talks about exposing unseen elements of the environment around us and his unique creative process which combines art and code. 📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#other-than-e... #designsky

In this episode, guest host Barbara Eldredge turns the tables, interviewing host Liam Spradlin about his own creative journey. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-we-can-... #Design #CreativeProcess #Podcast