Show notes:
http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/139

João Ferreira | Masters @ Work | Subvisual | Design problems | Deadlines | Pushing Envelopes

Show notes:  betweenscreens.fm/episodes/140/
- How would you describe the profession of “digital product design” these days?
- What do you love about your industry?
- Can you talk about HospitalRun, its history and goals?
- How would you recommend that designers can get more active in the open source world?
- What is needed to improve HostialRun?

Joel Glovier | Digital Product Design | HospitalRun | Improving Lives | Designers & Open Source

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/141/
- What made you write this piece about getting fired?
- What benefits can you see to being more open about firing people?
- What do you think is broken with letting people go?
- What made you appreciate GitHub so much?
- Can you imagine that you might have stayed another 5-10 years?
- Can you explain the concept of “At-will Employment”?
- What are low hanging fruits to fix in the firing process?
- What’s the middle ground between a performance improvement plan and firing fast?

Zach Holman | Getting Fired | At-will Employment | Performance Improvement Plans | Surprise Firings

Show notes: betweenscreens.fm/episodes/142/
- What kind of tone do you try to establish among core people in the Rails community?
- To quote your book Remote: “No assholes allowed, no assholy behavior allowed.” Does this also apply to the tone you try to establish in the Rails community?
- How would you describe your persona in the open source community?
- Dealing with an audience might be tricky for a lot of people?
- Honesty seems to be very important to you?
- Are you bad at small talk?

David Heinemeier Hansson | Rails community | Tone | Aspirations | Guarding motivations | Honesty

Show notes: betweenscreens.fm/episodes/143/

- What do you think is broken and needs fixing in open source right now?
- What makes you excited about open source?
- Please tell us about your contributions to open source as a designer?
- How would you recommend other designers to get more involved with open source?
- What skill sets do designers need to be effective for working on open source projects?

Jason Long | Open source | Empathy | Design contributions | GitHub | Progressions

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/144
- How do you like to organize teams?
- What do you mean by effective over clever?
- How do you recommend doing research when designing for the web?
- “Small frequent changes lead to being able to better fix errors.” Can you maybe elaborate on that?

Randy J. Hunt | Organizing teams | Diversity  | Effective over clever |  Research | Small changes

Show notes: betweenscreens.fm/episodes/145
- What made you write Atomic Design?
- Which stage is the most difficult for you to work in?

Brad Frost | Atomic Design | UIs | Design system | Atoms | Molecules | Organisms | Templates | Pages

Show notes: betweenscreens.fm/episodes/146
- Was cURL your start in open source?
- What makes you excited about open source?
- What works and what might be broken about open source these days?
- What works particularly well in open source?
- How do you picture the future of open source?
- How can we get more people into working on open source in the future?
- Do you think GitHub is in a unique position to move forward with this issue and can possibly solve it?
- How can we get more female developers to work on open source projects?

Daniel Stenberg | cURL | Open source | Innovation | Future | GitHub | Female contributors

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/147

- What’s the elevator pitch for Brooklyn Beta?
- What’s the origin story of Brooklyn Beta?
- What exactly did you want to make different with this conference?

Chris Shiflett | Brooklyn Beta | Friendly Web Conference | Origin story | Speakers | Trust | Pacing

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/148/

- Why did you decide to move to Singapore and open a branch of
- EdenSpiekermann over there?
- Was Tokyo also on the shortlist of possible destinations?
- What is EdenSpiekermann working on at the moment in Singapore?

Edo van Dijk | EdenSpiekermann | Singapore | Tokyo | China | Projects | Plastic bags | Quokka

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/149

- What would you say are your most valuable lessons learned overall?
- What are you most curious about these days?
- At this point in your career, in your life, what is important to you?
- Do you think the number of designers who use their craft to empower people is high enough these days?
- I was wondering, what do you think about the importance of curiosity and innocence in our societies these days?

EdenSpiekermann | Lessons learned | Curiosity | Innocence | Stupid questions | Lateral thinking

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/150

- Can you talk a little bit about the early days of EdenSpiekermann?
- Sounds like the expansion in San Francisco and Singapore is very much an extension of this “EDEN” idea?
- Was being ahead of the curve an advantage that paid off later?

Edo van Dijk | EdenSpiekermann origins | EDEN | Cross-border mergers | Erik Spiekermann

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/151

- How did your line of business change over the last 15 years or so and where do you see it going?
- In terms of clients, what are you looking for as a company? Are you also looking for curiosity in your clients?
- EdenSpiekermann seems to have expanded quite a bit in recent years. - Can you talk a bit about the benefits and obstacles that you encountered along the way as a company?
- For you personally, what changed for you after you became CEO of EdenSpierkermann?

Edo van Dijk | Changes | First websites | Curious clients | Brand power | Asia | CEO perspective

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/152

- Can you talk about a bit about your understanding of Service Design?

Service Design | Branding | Products | Services | Touch points | Break points  | Post-it walls

Show notes: http://betweenscreens.fm/episodes/153

- How would you describe the creative scene in Singapore and its attractiveness for startups?
- Are these startups in some regards already ahead of the curve or are many of them still in copy-paste mode?
- Is there also something happening that is new to the startup world? Is there something unique?
- It sounds a little bit like Singapore is like a massive startup in itself?

Singapore | Creative scene | Startups | Fintech | Investors | Uber competition | Innovation mindset

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