#10: Creatives In Quarantine: Staying Inspired & Motivated During Covid19. A Virtual Group Discussion.

#10: Creatives In Quarantine: Staying Inspired & Motivated During Covid19. A Virtual Group Discussion.
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Having a tough time staying creative, inspired, productive, or motivated during this unprecedented time of isolation? Join us for the final episode of season 1 as Kasey sits down virtually with creative leaders around the country to discuss side projects, managing freelance work, adapting to work-from-home, and more live in front of nearly fifty audience members! Grab a drink and settle in.

This episode is brought to you by District Creatives
Speakers: Rich Bloom. Courtney Beglin. Reed Rowe. Megan Penn. Duane Rollins.

#09: Finding Your Tribe, Design Trends & Neumorphism, & All the Giggles with Miriam Isaac.

#09: Finding Your Tribe, Design Trends & Neumorphism, & All the Giggles with Miriam Isaac.
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When an experienced experience designer has a glass of wine before teaching a class all sorts of fun discussion happens followed by lots of giggles. After taking a short break, Kasey is back to interviewing awesome designers around the world while drinking.

#08: UI/UX. Social Media, Freelance, & Everything In-Between with Helen Demina.

#08: UI/UX. Social Media, Freelance, & Everything In-Between with Helen Demina.
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The one and only Helen Demina (UI.Helen) discusses influencer life, drops insights on social media techniques, freelancing as a UI/UX Designer, blogging, dealing with haters, and more!

Links & Resources:
Helen Demina – IG UI.Helen
Austin Kleon – IG austinkleon
Michael Janda – IG morejanda
UX Planet
Medium
Youtube

#07: Superstar VS Rockstar: Which Designer Are You?

#07: Superstar VS Rockstar: Which Designer Are You?
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Which each morning comes another cup of coffee (or three). What kind of coffee you ask? In this episode of Drinking with Designer, Kasey drinks Alto Grande coffee and discusses a hot topic in design; the superstar and rockstar mentalities. Listen to this episode and you may discover which kind Designer you are…

Links & Resources:
Kim Scott, Radical Candor
Alto Grande Coffee – Buy From Amazon

#06: A Conversation With Creative Directors About Creative Direction…

#06: A Conversation With Creative Directors About Creative Direction…
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What happens when Kasey sits down with three Creative Directors and drink a New York gose? You get great conversation tackling design, human psychology, customer experience, design skills, career advice, and a deep dive into the obscurity that is creative direction…

Resources & Links
Featured Guests: Richard Bloom, Courtney Beglin, Vince Wanga
Featured Compaines: Huge, Pacify/Advantia, Morning Consult
Featured Beverage: Graft Farm Flor

Please Note: Sorry for any issues with sound quality. This episode was recorded outside in an open space. Learning as we go!

#05: UX & Service Design Inside the U.S. Government

#05: UX & Service Design Inside the U.S. Government
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Yearning to learn more about User Experience & Service Design within the public sector, Kasey sits down with two pros who tackle real human problems inside the United States Government…

Resources & Links
Designing the Conversation
UX Research
DC Fem Tech Awards 2019
Brad Nunnally
Meaghan Doherty

#04: Customer Experience, Success By Design, Culture Through Cuisine

#04: Customer Experience, Success By Design, Culture Through Cuisine
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With a shared passion for food and booze Kasey sits down with one of the most energetic, hip restaurateurs Max Kuller, managing partner of the critical acclaimed DC restaurant Estadio, and his new, highly anticipated farm to table restaurant, Oyster Oyster. Drinking La Cigarra and talking customer experience, service industry, being successful by design, and telling stories of culture through cuisine.

Max Kuller
Estadio
Oyster Oyster
Photo by Scott McDermott

#03: Design Agency VS Product Company, Team Collaboration, Buzzwords! (and much more)

#03: Design Agency VS Product Company, Team Collaboration, Buzzwords! (and much more)
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What happens when you play a drinking game a talk about design? Samuel Jimenez (Wayfair) and Alexander Giraldez (Booz Allen Hamilton) share differences between digital agencies and product companies, working within cross-functional teams, leveling up skills, building empathy, creating better collaboration inside the design process, and much more…


UserTesting.com
Radical Candor
Invision
Hellbender Brewing Company

#02: Looking Back – A Design Retrospective, Advice, Lessons Learned

#02: Looking Back – A Design Retrospective, Advice, Lessons Learned
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On this episode of Drinking with Designers the podcast host, Kasey Randall drinks a local east coast IPA from Flying Dog. He looks back on his career; sharing design insights, bits of advice, and some lessons learned…

Podcast Points:

  • Create Relationships
  • Show Your Work
  • Ask for Help
  • Know Your Value
  • Have No Regrets

Featured Brewery:
https://www.flyingdog.com/

About Kasey:
Website
Instagram
Linkedin
District Creatives

#01: UX at Google, Mindfulness & Mental Health

#01: UX at Google, Mindfulness & Mental Health
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On this episode of Drinking with Designers Kasey will be chatting with Becca Danna, a Researcher turned UX Designer at Google, gaining some valuable insights on the importance of mental health and what design looks like at Google…

Pilot: Holy Roller, Google Fonts, Obamafont!

Pilot: Holy Roller, Google Fonts, Obamafont!
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In this pilot episode of Drinking with Designers, recorded back in 2016, Kasey Randall and Jay Casteel talk Urban South Brewery’s Holy Roller IPA, Google Fonts, the Obama Font, the evolution of Google’s Material Design, and much more. After many years later this podcast is being resurrected with special guests, new stories, insights, and booze! If you liked the episode, please subscribe, like, rate on wherever you listen to podcasts! Stay tuned for more episodes coming soon!

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