This week, we talk through our playbook for shipping personal projects. In The Sidebar, we weigh the tradeoffs of building an online persona. Should designers thought lead?
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In this week's Sidebar, Karl asks: Where do you both land on the idea of having a web presence that is focused on showcasing your opinion versus showcasing your work?
Follow up:We reflect on our 2020 goals, and think about the year ahead. Listen to our 2020 goals episode from a year ago.
2020 goals:
Marshall: ship a SwiftUI app, update personal websiteBrian: Write more, revenue generating side project2021 Goals:
Marshall: Be more like Ted Lasso whenever possibleBrian: Shifting creation:consumption ratioTweets:Keaton Taylor asked for an example of the variant grid in Figma that Marshall uses. Here's Marshall's sample file.Gabriel Valdivia made concept show art, among many other podcasts. We dig!Main topic:Michael Knepprath asks: Do you have a checklist you run through when launching new products or features? Also, is Product Hunt as important as it used to be for this?
Check out lily dex on the App Store!Cool Things:Brian shared Darkroom, a fantastic iOS, iPadOS, and now macOS application for editing your photos.Marshall shared the iFixIt Pro Tech Toolkit, a wonderful set of tools for getting into the meat of your electronics.Design Details on the Web:📻 We are @designdetailsfm🎙 Brian is @brian_lovin🎙 Marshall is @marshallbock📬 Don't have Twitter? Email us at designdetailsfm@gmail.com🙌 Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunesBonsoir!
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