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UX Design Huddle May 27, 2019

Servando Sanchez, Creative Director at Regex SEO, talks about SEO and the business of web design
This week we speak with Servando Sanchez, Creative Director at Regex, SEO talks about SEO, web design, and what it takes to be a self-made designer in our industry. We also looked at his early beginnings with MySpace and how that grew into a real job.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

James Sommerville, ex VP Coca-Cola, speaks about setting up the agency Attik& designing the Love can and Known Unknown
James is the Founder and Chief Designer of Known Unknown, a global design community. James is a brand design and marketing aficionado.
As former VP of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company, James has spoken at 200+ events in 30 countries about design, brand strategy, entrepreneurship and company culture. Those also happen to be 4 of the most requested topics to discuss on Design Huddle.
At Coca-Cola, James led Design Thinking, Brand Design execution of 40+ identities, designed the Coca-Cola One Brand Strategy implemented in 200+ markets and led partnerships with Disney, Marvel, Google and Star Wars.
https://www.jamessommerville.co/
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to the MetaVerse, what is it and why is Facebook doing it?
Facebook has gone all Meta, but what does this mean for the company and how does its brand connect Facebook's other products? Listen to this episode to learn more.
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/facebooks-new-name-is-meta
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

Apples $19 polish cloth and Salt Bae's $1500 steak, genuis or ridiculous?
This week we are covering the Apple launch event, the good, the bad and the downright silly. We also ask if a $19 polish cloth is a branding marvel or just plain ridiculous.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

What are super apps, and why have they taken Asia by storm?
In this episode, we look at super apps, which is an app that includes many functions all rolled into one—for example, having your streaming service, food delivery, and payments app collected together.
Some popular ones include China's WeChat and AliPay, India's Paytm, Singapore's Grab, Indonesia's GoTo, Vietnam's Zalo, and South Korea's Kakao.
But why haven't they been popular in the West, and what can app developers do to promote their success?
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

What makes a great UX portfolio, Top 21 UX Designer Portfolio Websites in 2021.
This week Ryan and Mustafa look at UX portfolios and take a look at some of the best of 2021. They also cover tips on what to focus on and how you can scale your skillset.
Top 21 UX Designer Portfolio Websites in 2021
https://www.casestudy.club/journal/ux-designer-portfolio
Sites reviewed
http://www.jonathanpatterson.com/
http://lifeofpai.com/
https://www.kysondana.com/
https://www.lizvwells.com/
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.
Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

How to run an effective design sprint or UX workshop
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
See the GV site for more details: https://www.gv.com/sprint/
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

How to make your UX design resume standout and top design interview tips
This week we cover tips and tricks on excellent UX design CVs, looking at some brilliant examples of a designer who designed their resume to look like Spotify when applying for a job there.
We cover customization, format and also go into things to look for in a job interview.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

David Martin - How to build a successful web design business, UX audits, and UX hacks to consider
David Martin is obsessed with websites. Making them functional. Making them beautiful. Making them fast. But most importantly, making them profitable for the people who run them.
After nearly a decade building online businesses for others, he founded UXHACKS - a consultancy that builds and optimizes websites to maximize their traffic's potential and explode conversions.
Having worked as a web designer, full-stack developer, and director of user experience in the past, he now shares his expertise on website best practices with his clients and on his YouTube channel where he streams every Friday at 1pm ET.
Website: uxhacks.com
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidMartinUX/
UX Audit Course: https://uxhacks.podia.com/website-ux-audit-course
Checkout: 50% off course coupon, DSGNHDDL
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Melinda Livsey - How to become a brand strategist, overcoming self-doubt, and Chris Do as a mentor
On this episode we bring back one of our favorite guests - Melinda Livsey. As the founder and brand strategist of Marks and Maker, Melinda unites over ten years of professional design experience with a penchant for thoughtful customer service. Melinda’s experience with notable names like Oakley, Paramount Pictures, and Loot Crate, coupled with her passion for creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, creates the perfect cocktail of impeccable workmanship, exceptional brands, and happy clientele. Not only is Melinda a rockstar entrepreneur she is the works for for The Futur as a Co-host on the Process. If you want to learn to be a better team consultant, strategist, or team member this episode is for you.
Check out: https://www.marksandmaker.com/

Karl Salisbury - UX Designer provides advice for the travel industry and dark design patterns to avoid
This week we are speaking with Karl Salisbury, a product designer working at the payment processing company Adyen. Adyen serves enterprise clients such as Uber, Wise, Spotify, eBay, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to name just a few.
Before that, he was at Booking.com, joining during the company's hyper growth phase of 2017 and the crisis of 2020 with Covid. Having worked on both the customer and supply sides, Karl has a lot of experience regarding how travel sites and apps are designed. In this episode, we talk about the design process and the UX dark patterns.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Design News - How Design Changes Internationally and Tips For Building a More Useful Experience
This week Ryan and Mustafa are talking about Japanese design and how they have a persona that they present to the outside world, which is serene and straightforward, vs. their local style, which appears a lot more chaotic. They also look at other examples of international design that differ from our western styles and methods.
Special thanks to Feedspot, who ranked our Podcast in the top 25 for design. Check it out here https://blog.feedspot.com/design_podcasts/
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Matthew Mottola - How to be More Productive when Working Remote and Tips for Aspiring Freelancers
Matthew Mottola is a leading voice and entrepreneur building the ‘Human Cloud’, the remote and independent model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next five years.
As the author of #1 New Release The Human Cloud, he sets the standard for the Future of Work. As the CEO of Venture L, he enables freelancers and clients to execute remote outcomes at scale. As a Forbes Contributor, he shares the stories and operating insights driving our shift to the human cloud.
Matthew has led and transformed today’s leading companies. At Microsoft, in joint partnership with Upwork, he built the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit - the unlock for enterprises to embrace the human cloud at scale - bringing Microsoft from nascent to an industry leader in under two years. At Gigster, he built Ideation - connecting remote freelance developers, data scientists, and product managers with companies to consistently generate what should be built in the software development lifecycle. At Georgia Tech, he helped develop the entrepreneurship curriculum with Faculty of the Year awardee Arn Rubinoff and guest lectures.
Matthew is a recognized voice for leadership teams, public investors, and media. His work has been featured by Forbes and Fortune to name a few. He has been named a top 50 remote work expert to follow. He is an international keynote speaker, speaking at leading conferences Remote Work Summit and YPO’s Innovation Week to name a few. He advises through expert knowledge networks. He is the author of StartUp Not StartDown and contributor to leading industry reports.

Kevin Marshall - Building a Design Career, Learning from Failures, and The Importance of Empathy
The week we are speaking with Kevin Marshall. He has a background deep in a number of design roles and most recently laser-focused on UX design, Kevin is a true expert in the digital space. At The Basement, Kevin helps national clients achieve success across digital products.
Kevin's talent lies within being a lifelong learner. Give him a package or technology and a few hours, and not only will I come back with a creation, but he'll also present it to the client and then show and teach all those around him on how to implement it. He has an extensive background in design theories including UX research and discovery, a desire to listen to the problem at hand, and then explore solutions via ideation. He believes that it just doesn’t end with all the creative, UX, product design stuff though folks. Kevin was awarded the honor of TechPoint's Top 25 in Technology in 2018.
About The Basement:
- The Basement is a full-service integrated agency, founded by early pioneers of digital, bringing high-quality design and a media-first approach to branding campaigns via interactive storytelling. The agency works to deliver radical clarity to agile brands by leveraging modern storytelling and data acumen. Based out of Indianapolis, The Basement works with brands on the national stage like Schlage, NCAA, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, American College of Education, Transitions and more.

Design News - Exploration of Rebrands from Visa, The Wasps, and More
In this episode we cover the logo design news and trends, from logo mashups to rebrands.
News stories covered
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/combined-logos
https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/pro-guide-logo-design-21221
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/visa-rebrand
https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/logo-typography-guide
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/wasps-logo
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

The Best 7 Tools to Automate and Scale Your Content Creation
In this episode, we look at content creation and several great tools you can use to streamline and scale your content creation.
Tools we looked at;
- Veed.io is amazing for auto-generating subs
- conversion.ai - writes copy for you
- goodsalesemails.com - campaign templates
- Pixelhunter.io - resize photos for all platforms
- Grammarly - blog copy, spell check
- Descript - All-in-one audio & video editing, as easy as a doc.
- Riverside - Locally recorded, separate audio and video tracks.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Everything you Need to Know About Designing an App or Website for the Travel Industry
This week we are talking about the Top 10 design best practice for travel sites. Topics we cover; 'call to action' design tips, discuss the negative impact of dark patterns plus many more.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Design News - The Biggest Design Flops in Tech from Blockbuster to Galaxy
This week we talk about the biggest flops and design fo-pars in tech history, from the Galaxy phone to Blockbusters rejection of Netflix.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Design News - Top 10 Design Updates in 10 Minutes
This week we are covering the top design news stories from around the world.
The Stories we covered are;
- https://www.designboom.com/design/10-winners-from-if-design-award-2021-creatively-respond-to-the-pandemic-06-11-2021/
- https://www.creativebloq.com/features/best-and-worst-web-design-trends-2021
- https://www.robertcreative.com/blog/typography-trends-in-2021
- https://thecxlead.com/topics/5-common-mistakes-when-deciding-to-build-a-customer-journey-map/
- https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/hamburger-menu-and-ux-design/
- https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/7-13-june-2021/beatport-rebrand/
- https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/7-13-june-2021/typographic-accessibility/
- https://uxmag.com/articles/what-are-ux-errors-of-omission-and-commission
- https://dribbble.com/stories/2021/06/01/inclusive-design-tips
- https://www.creativebloq.com/news/fusion-footballs-euro-2020
About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Did We Run Out of Stuff to Talk About? Burner Episode of Would You Rathers
This week Ryan and Mustafa try out a new trend of 'Would you rathers', looking at the fun yet the odd world of weird alternative scenarios. As per usual Mustafa tries to hack his way through.
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Why UX Designers Are Great at Interior Design
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Jason Pamental - What is the W3, Becoming a Design Strategist, and the future of Web Fonts
This week we are speaking to Jason Pamental, a design strategist, author, speaker, UX leader, technologist, an expert in web typography, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group.
He has worked with many organizations including Adobe, Audible, Condé Nast, GoDaddy, IBM—and given presentations and workshops at conferences all over the world. I also publish a newsletter on web typography.
Responsive Typography Book
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/responsive-typography/9781491907085/
Jason's website
https://rwt.io/
https://rwt.io/presentations
https://rwt.io/resources

10 Things Your Need to Do to Complete a UX Design Review for Websites and Apps
This week we are talking about running design reviews and how we like to run them. Ryan speaks about his consultancy experiences and how he likes to focus on a goal to improve a specific metric and Mustafa dives into a holistic way of running reviews. We also discussed the tools you can use to boost your reviews and quick wins that can help you build confidence.
Tools mentioned in the Podcast;
https://www.webpagetest.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.accessibility.auditor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faizmalkani.keylines
About the hosts
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

10 Ways to Build an Outstanding Ecommerce Website Design
This week Ryan and Mustafa talk about the best practice for e-commerce websites, how you can improve your search results, and tips on reengaging with your customers so they do not end up on a dead-end.
Good eCommerce web design is crucial for turning website visitors into customers. Ideally, the design elements of your website should make the shopping experience and purchase process as quick, easy, and stress-free as possible. Learn more and subscribe.

Design News - Legos, Interfaces, London's Metro System, and David Hockney's Brilliant Idea
In this episode, Mustafa and Ryan talk about the history of interfaces with Lego and how they break down their designs. We also take a look at David Hockney's redesign of the London Metro System station signs and finally explore how brands have changed their tone of voice during Covid.
Sites;
https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/hockneys-london-artwork
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/brands-tone-of-voice/

Mandy Michael, Senior Software Engineer at Hireup, talks on Variable Typography, her type experiments, and the art of discovery
In this episode we are interviewing Mandy Michael, a Front End Developer, previously a Development Manager for the news organization Seven West Media in Western Australia. She now works as a Senior Software Engineer at Hireup. She speaks at conferences and events locally and internationally sharing her work and experiments with new and old technology.
Mandy gave an introduction to variable fonts, her type experiments, how she used creativity to reignite her passion for coding, and what it is like to be famous.
Mandys Type Experiments: https://codepen.io/mandymichael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mandy_Kerr

UX Designers react to Awwward winners: Wax Poetics, Pola and Flipaclip
In this episode Ryan and Mustafa review the winners of the Awwwards.com website. Awwwards.com, as the name suggests, awards the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world.
The sites we looked are:
https://www.waxpoetics.com/
https://www.pola.com/wecaremore/
https://flipaclip.com/
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Liam Spradlin from Google Material Design talks about creating design systems and designing typefaces
We spoke about designing a design system, the difference between Android and iOS, and how he went about designing several typefaces.
Design Notes: designnotes.fm/
Liams Typefaces: iamli.am/work

The Complete History of Branding
In this episode Mustafa takes us through the history of branding, which he has written about on his blog.
The term branding comes from the Old Norse “Brandr” which means to burn. Cattle, slaves, timber and crockery were burnt or branded with the markings or symbols of the owner using a hot iron rod. The concept of branding was essentially to depict ownership, in particular things which had value, this practice dating back to 2000BC. The transition from “This belongs to me, so leave it…” to “This was made by me, so buy it” started to evolve in the 1800’s.
Article
https://www.designtoday.info/brand-new-the-history-of-branding/

Design News: Mental health, Zoom Fatigue, and Nikes accessibly sneakers

Ioana Teleanu from UX Goodies talks about new UX academy - Mento, how to grow on Instagram and navigating your UX career
In today’s episode we have a special guest Ioana Teleanu the UX expert behind the instagram account @UXGoodies, which has over 210k followers.. Ioana is a senior UX Designer with a super impressive design background working in RPA, Healthcare, Financial Services and Banking. She is a phenomenal mentor and educator. She is also the cohost of Honest UX Talks.
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Ryan and Mustafa work for Google. The opinions expressed are solely our own and do not express the views or opinions of our employer.

Design News: Psychedelic Data Visualisation of the web & The San Diego zoo rebrand
In this episode Ryan 'The War Ender' Warrender and Mustafa 'The One Who Escaped' Kurtuldu discover our origins (or rapper names), origins of the web, and how we got started in tech.
We take a look at Input Magazine's data visualization of the web and how they present the design in a slideshow design, factual design, and accessibility. From there we speak about how design needs to revolve around the people and not the other way around.
We also discuss San Diego's new logo, typeface, and poster design and how brands need to adapt to a digital world.
References:

Design Tips: 5 Key Ingredients of Top-Notch UX Writing

Brendan Kearns - switching from business to UX and how to start your own design agency
We discuss how he started as a Business Major at college, transitioned to agency life, and ended up in Silicon Valley. Brendan gives great advice to those who want to start their own design business and his ambitions as a founder of his agency.
We also talk about the time Trump advisor, Anthony Scaramouchi followed him on Twitter and the discussion they had via DMs concerning UX design.

UX Design Tips: The psychology of waiting, loading animations, and Facebook's design
Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two Googlers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse.
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Tech News: What are NFTs? What NFTs might mean for Creatives, Designers and Art Licensing
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.
This week we talk NFTs. NFT stands for "non-fungible token." This kind of token is like Bitcoin, except while you can trade Bitcoin and have more of the same thing that represents real money at a varying market value, each NFT is unique. You possess the token that says you own something, like an art piece, and you can trade it, but if you do, you'll be getting an entirely different piece. To keep all the parts in place, there's enforced (artificial, but isn't everything?) scarcity.

UX Principles Test, Incredible Travel Site, Innovative Packaging, and Norwegian Airlines Ad Design
Welcome to Design Huddle, a podcast where two UX designers breakdown what’s new in tech and design. Each week we talk about what’s trending in tech, have some epic interviews, and drop some knowledge on you so you can stay ahead of the robot apocalypse.
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.
Topics:
- How Well Do You Know UX Principles? - Discuss the pros and cons of being a self taught UX Designer
- Travel Remotely - Travel site with a twist, imagine if you could visit a city from the comfort of your own home. Created by John Ornelas
- Why a cardboard shortage is driving innovation in packaging design - Online shopping, office closures and Brexit have all impacted cardboard supplies. Material innovation and smarter packaging design could provide a solution. As well as being light, easy to rip up and cheap, cardboard has sustainable advantages. It contains a high percentage of recycled material – sometimes up to 80%.
- Genius airline design - The concept of travel might be a distant memory for many right now, but while we're all waiting for the world to return to normal, one ingenious airline poster has recently resurfaced online. The internet is currently going wild for Norwegian Airlines' clever way of communicating its various destinations, and we're loving the smart and simple execution.

Design News: McDonalds packaging redesign, dangerous selfies, and eco-friendly websites
New co-host!
Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.
Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.
Topics:
McDonalds Packaging Redesign
Influencers Instragram selfies are putting gorillas at risk
Carbon Footprint of Your Website

Design News: New Nike Shoe Design, 2021 Design Trends, and an AI Games With Infinite Story Lines

Tech News: r/WallStreetBets, Gamestop, Hyperloop Updates, and HBO Movies in 2021

Tech News: Anyone remember Zune, Home Office Car, and new Netflix Shuffle feature

Tech News: Apple Electric Car, Razer’s Cyber Punk N95 Mask, Robots are Taking Over

What is Neumorphism - The 2020 Design Trend That’s Plaguing Dribbble

Tony Daussat - A Peek Into A Life Of A Creative Entrepreneur
In this episode of Design Huddle, Tony Daussat (Creator of the XD Podcast and HiredUX.com )and Brandon Groce talk about happy accidents in the life of creative and entrepreneurs. Tony Daussat shares with us his ups and down, triumphs and failures through his years in the design and tech industry, as well as how he dealt with his losses and turned those losing situations into the energy he needed to kick start his amazing career at Bottle Rocket and amazing digital agency as well as create the amazing XD Podcast, where he interviews MANY of the leading thought leaders in the design industry today. 🔥HiredUX.com Website: - HiredUX.com 📩 Where to Find Tony Daussat: https://www.xdpodcast.com/links. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Scott Dasse - How To Achieve Career Success In Life As A Creative
In this episode, we talk with Scott Dasse on what propels young creatives to make major strides in their careers, get hired, grow their skill set and MUCH MORE. Scott Dasse is a principal at Upstatement where he leads the design department and maintains a hands-on approach to the work. His clients have included MIT, Harvard, Bloomberg, NPR, Penguin Random House, Steelcase, and of course Tito's Handmade Vodka. He brings brands and technology together to build platforms and experiences that users love. His work has won awards from AIGA, SPD, Fast Co, and The Webbys. Scott is a Massachusetts native with an MFA in Graphic Design from Boston University. 🔥Upstatement’s Website: - Upstatement.com 📩 Contact Scott Dasse: - scott@upstatement.com. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Ana Santos - How to Become A UX Consultant & Get Paid to Do What You Love
Ana Santos is a UX Consultant, coach and educator, who shares with us her journey of working with global brands like Google to become a full time consultant and design educator, and how you can do the same 🔥. Trust me, this is not an episode you want to miss! Ana Santos Website: Ana-Santos.com Social: ➡️ Instagram.com/ux.by.ana. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

James Martin - How Your Create Your Own Creative Life. No Matter Where You Start.

Year In Review & Whats New For Design Huddle
In this episode Ryan & Brandon get into what has gone over well for us in 2019 and what we are looking forward to moving into in 2020. You can find us online here: 📲Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/designhuddletime. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

What Are User Flows In UX Design?
User flow is the path taken by a prototypical user on a website or app to complete a task. The user flow takes them from their entry point through a set of steps towards a successful outcome and final action, such as purchasing a product. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Jeff White - Launching Your Design Career and Tips For Getting Started
Jeff White, Cofounder @ Kula Partners & Previous UX & Design Professor at NSCAD, shares with us what has propelled designers to create amazing careers for themselves and what the most important thing are to truly focus on in ones early career, whether you decide to go to school, or not. - You can find Jeff White online here: 🖥Website: Kulapartners.com 📲Twitter: twitter.com/kulapartners. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★