Tag: designers

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

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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.

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

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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?

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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

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

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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)

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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

Drinking with Designers
Drinking with Designers
#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

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Drinking with Designers
#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!

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Drinking with Designers
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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