Desiree Garcia is a senior designer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and most recently, Tumblr. Their goal is to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world. She's also an editor at A List Apart, a webzine that explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
In this episode, we discuss:
How a psychology degree can influence design and teamworkWhat we miss about the old webStar Trek's Kobayashi Maru and how it applies to designHow to respond to situations that can't be wonThe challenges of talking about your workDesigning things that "aren't real"Visit the Funsize website
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Hustle: New York Agencies and Video Games (feat. Nick Robalik & Johnnie Hamn)
Hustle: Building Internal Products at an Agency (feat. Steven Ray)
Hustle: The SXSW Special: 4 Questions For Designers
Hustle: Design What You Think Is Right (feat. Dylan Seeger)
Hustle: Lean on Research
Hustle: Design Approach (feat. Sam Kapila)
Hustle: Articulating Design Decisions (feat. Tom Greever)
Hustle: Motion Design Thinking (feat. Ben Cline)
Hustle: Risk It For The Biscuit
Hustle: Offboarding Clients
Hustle: This Is How We Do It
Hustle: Onboarding: Clients and Users
Hustle: Epicurrence, Adobe MAX, Rdio, Snapchat
Hustle: The Art of Letting Others Have It Your Way (feat. Ryan Rumsey)
Hustle: The Client-Agency Relationship (feat.Brandon Breitenbach)
Hustle: Whose Job is UX? (feat. Peter Merholz)
Hustle: Just Show Me the Damn Thing! (feat. Joel Beukelman & Ted Boda)
Hustle: Ships or It Didn’t Happen (feat. Bradee Evans & Seth Shaw from Photoshop)
Hustle: Marketing a Product (feat. Jordan Menashy)
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