UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

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Jake Hopking

8 episodes

7 months ago

UIT 8: In this weeks episode I start a series on using Sketch to build and maintain efficient and scalable design documents. Overview Share with the audience why the absence.Cover important aspects of symbols in Sketch.Talk about the future content in this series.Symbols Symbols, when used properly, help to vastly speed up your workflow by giving you ways to save and reuse common elements across your designs and design systems. They also form the foundation of Sketch libraries (I will cover t...

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Episodes (8/8)

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

#Series - Efficient and scalable Sketch documents - Part One: Symbols

5 years ago

23 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

#QuickCuppa - Design tips for developers Part One

UIT 7: In this weeks episode I share five fundamental tips aimed at developers who want to build their design skills and design appreciation. Think and plan As a developer, you wouldn't start building an app or Website without some planning! It's the same for design. Give it the time it deserves. Establish requirements... So before jumping straight to the code, establish a plan. I'd suggest downloading and printing out some gridded PDFs, but using sticky notes, a whiteboard, or sketching in ...

5 years ago

17 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

How do we unbundle the Jamstack, thoughts on meta-frameworks, Toast and Party Corgi with Chris Biscardi

UIT 6: In this week’s episode I talk with Chris Biscardi about the Jamstack, gatsbyJS and his own meta-framework called Toast, amongst many other interesting digressions :) Overview IntroductionJamStackToastParty CorgiMDX ConfWrap Questions Introduction Got into the industry via ActionScript, then moved over JS when Adobe killed it off. Worked at Docker, Dropbox and recently finished a contract with GatsbyJS. Talk a bit about the Party Corgi Podcast, and the rainbow corgi logo (which is cute...

5 years ago

1 hour 40 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

#QuickCuppa - Thoughts on GatsbyJS, the React-based SSG framework

UIT 5: In this week's episode I share my thoughts on the use of GatsbyJS and whether I feel it's a viable static site generator framework. What are static sites? Static sites have been around for a very long time, and realistically are the original website: simply HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They are not rendered during runtime; there is no server-side code, no database, etc. What’s a static site generator? It’s a tool that generates static sites whenever you decide to run a build on your co...

5 years ago

32 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

#QuickCuppa - Thoughts on creativity, innovation and intuition in design

UIT 4: In this week's episode I share my thoughts on creativity, intuition and introduce the terms 'Qualitative Design' and 'Quantitative Design'. Overview Welcome subscribersIntroduce #QuickCuppa formatTalk about the Free Stickers giveaway, open to everyoneShare thoughts on creativityInnovation The following doesn’t necessarily directly apply to UI design, but I think it’s important to keep in mind as I continue through this exploration into creativity. Firstly, design can begin with the rec...

5 years ago

38 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

Snowpack and Pika: the next generation of bundler, package manager and CDN for the modern Web with Fred K Schott

UIT 3: The first two minutes before the episode ‘officially’ starts we talk a bit about why I’m creating this podcast, and then talk about how Fred started on his Pika journey. It’s nice content so I’ve included (note, that the recording quality for Fred during this segment is lower quality. Fred talks about how he got into programming, and goes on to talk about his time at Google working on Polymer, the native components system for the Web. At this time JS was going through a similar transfo...

5 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

The design and use of psychology for good UX in games and beyond with Kingsley Hopking

UIT 2: Kingsley talks about how he prototypes games, the current project he and his team is working on (a 3D Platformer game called Frog Island). He also talks about another side project of his; a procedural games engine to generate worlds. Kingsley talks about his thesis; ‘Approach for designing complexity in games’ which focuses the UX in games, and how principles from psychology and design theory can be used to teach players about affordances and signifiers. Also explores chunking of compl...

5 years ago

1 hour 1 minute

UI Therapy | UI Design and Development Podcast

The painful first episode

UIT 1: In this first episode I introduce myself, my background and then share what the show’s intended purpose is, who it’s aimed at and why create it. I have a bit of a rant at the JS tooling and package ecosystem. I talk about why I believe that UI designers and developers should be more closely aligned on understanding and appreciation of respective skills and processes etc. Overview of the episode Who’s it for, and what’s it about?Why am I creating this?Format/FrequencyWho’s it for? UI de...

5 years ago

28 minutes