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424: The Art of Unsolicited Redesigns
423: What We Learned in 2021
422: The Complainisode
421: The Future of Remote Design Teams
420: The Pointer Cursor Debate
419: Teaching Design at Work
418: Fictional User Interfaces
417: The Side Project Prophecy
416: UI Reviews and QA
415: News Desk, Vol. 3
414: Memorable Software Moments
412: Side Project Perfectionism
411: Follow-upisode
410: Agency vs In-House Design
409: Twitter’s Follow Button
408: News Desk, Vol. 2
407: Pixel 6
406: Who Leads UI Design?
405: News Desk, Vol. 1
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