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Hosted by Brian Fling, Joe Alterio · arts · EN · 51 episodes
Designer & Designer is a podcast about design. Each episode dives into a design topic with candor and humor, exposing the rarely talked about challenges that designers face, and what it takes to create great design.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDesigner & Designer is a podcast about design. Each episode dives into a design topic with candor and humor, exposing the rarely talked about challenges that designers face, and what it takes to create great design.
Designer & Designer is hosted by Brian Fling, Joe Alterio. The show has published 51 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Growth" (25 April 2025, 45 minutes), "Prompts vs Pixels" (19 April 2025, 47 minutes), and "Mini Episode: Zuckerberg, AI, and the Long Game" (11 April 2025, 14 minutes).
Designer & Designer publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 51 episodes.
Booking probability for Designer & Designer is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Designer & Designer requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Designer & Designer's contact route on record: verified email.
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Brian Fling, Joe Alterio hosts Designer & Designer, an arts show with 51 episodes published.
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Episode #50
<p>Mentioned</p>Medium’s Snowflake Growth Tool (original GitHub repo) Stanford Product Design Rubric (Stanford Design Program)I, X and T shaped DesignersBook: Radical Candor by Kim ScottBook: The Visual MBA (or Creative...
Episode #49
<p>Mentioned</p>V0 by Vercel that generates front-end codeBuilder.io for creating UI flows from language promptsUXPilot for generating UI from specsLovable for different design stylesPerplexity as a tool that bypasses...
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<p>Mentioned</p>Arthur C. Clarke did die in 2008. Brian has no idea what he saw now.The Tech Oligarchy ArrivesMark Zuckerberg's political shiftMeta's Llama AI models versus other foundational models"Making the world a...
Episode #48
<p>Mentioned</p>Oranssi PazusuMIke SugarmanBlackgazeContext CollaspeDesigning for the PluriverseEnshittificationProSocial MediaKala, the Suburban Miner<p>Topics Discussed</p>How did we get to this place of totally...
Episode #47
<p>Mentioned</p>What Was the TED Talk? from our super smart friend Jay Fienberg (who you should hire!)<p>Topics Discussed</p>Why don't designers learn how to present design?Do's and Don't for design presentationsTo Neg...
Episode #46
<p>Burn Victims</p><p>• FAANG as a validator<br />• FAANG's lack of innovation<br />• Armchair Logo Art Direction<br />• Amateur hour in the design space<br />• MAU/DAU is a broken concept<br />• Uber is the ultimate...
Episode #45
<p>Mentioned</p>Mythic Quest episode: Dark Quiet DeathThe pram in the hallTim Van DammeXOXO FestivalCrazy Boat!<p>Topics Discussed</p>The delicate balance between following established patterns and advocating for...
Episode #44
<p>In this episode, Brian and Joe welcome back Dave Miller from Design Citizen to discuss the evolving landscape of design as a profession and what the future designer might look like. Dave shares insights from his...
Episode #43
<p>The Dunning-Kruger Effect<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect</p><p>The Continuity Girl<br />https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/continuity-girl/</p><p>Joe's...
Episode #42
<p>"Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral":<br />https://lifehacker.com/tech/instagram-has-official-ai-accounts-and-they-are-weird<br /><br />AI2:<br />https://allenai.org/<br /><br />The Singularity Reddit:<br...
Episode #41
<p>"Generative AI fuels creative physical product design but is no magic wand"<br />https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/generative-ai-fuels-creative-physical-product-design-but-is-no-magic...
Episode #40
<p>Ep 40 Show Notes </p>CZ is Going to PrisonR/workreformThe Need for Climate OptimismThe Economy, StupidThe Strauss-Howe Generational TheoryYou’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job DoneHow the...
Episode #39
<p>LinkedIn People who talk about this topic:<br /><br />Hang Xu<br />https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/<br /><br />Peter Merholz<br />https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/<br /><br />Manuel Lima<br...
Episode #38
<p>Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All<br />American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers.<br /><br />A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on...
Episode #37
<p>Show Notes<br /><br />Workism Is Making Americans Miserable <br />https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/<br /><br />Some decent Job Boards<br...
Episode #36
<p>Mentioned in this episode:</p>Stephen Gates Crazy Ones Podcast <p><p>Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm</p></p>
Episode #35
Brian and Joe talk to Gina Trapani, CEO of the digital product shop Postlight. Postlight has been unlocking solutions for clients for the past 10 years, and we ask Gina to let us in on the insights of a running a...
Episode #34
Joe and Brian discuss the dispiriting trend of the current tech stack driving how products are built. What does it mean when a product is designed not for the user, customer, or output, but for ease of technical...
Episode #33
Adobe buys FigmaMissing Kara Swisher contentA simple way to make HTML websitesOrg Design for Design OrgsWhy Designers QuitWhy corporate America broke up with design thinkingThe T-Shaped Designer<p><br /> </p> <p><p>Got...
Episode #32
<p>Kelli Goto's Web ReDesign:<br />https://www.powells.com/book/web-redesign-20-workflow-that-works-9780735714335</p><p>Gen Z Searches For Online Content Differently<br...
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