Always Sunday

This week, I chat with product designer Dennis Cortés. He's a product designer at MetaLab, blogs weekly sharing tips and insights on design, and produces music. In this episode, we talk about some of the UX challenges in product design and the process required outside of the obvious visual tasks that can sometimes be overlooked. We also cover other interesting areas presenting challenges for UX like VR, AR, and home assistants. About Dennis Cortés cortes.us Instagram Twitter

This week, I chat with illustrator Brad Woodard. He is 1/2 of Brave the Woods- a design and illustration studio that he runs along with his wife, Krystal. Together, they form a studio of friendly folks who aim to make the world a better, more colorful place. In this episode, we talk about his upbringing and the influence that his mother, a successful artist herself, had in his life, his process working with clients, and what it’s like teaching other young illustrators. About Brad Woodard Brad is an illustrator based in Idaho where he leads Brave the Woods, a design & illustration studio, alongside his wife. Skillshare Website Instagram Facebook Twitter

As a designer, it’s easy to want to make things perfect before putting them out. After all, all of our favorite products are well polished and full of delightful details. And all of that is great unless it prevents you from actually starting and reaching your goals. I’m so happy to get season 2 kicked off. And to be honest, it’s been a long time coming. Relaunching my podcast with the 2nd season is my excuse for reviving my content. Last year, I set off on this adventure to live stream daily, and I used that content to produce a vlog and this podcast. I kept it up for about 24 episodes combined before life got in the way, and I found reasons to stop. Looking back, I realized that I learned three valuable lessons. Start right now! Consistency is key Set goals Enjoy the show.

In this episode, I talk about the number of clients you should have at one time and how to balance them if you are doing it full-time.

In this episode, I talk about the motivation behind my project. I believe that every author, songwriter, cinematographer etc is a story teller and should consider themselves content creators.

In this episode, I talk about how David Lynch drags the audience through a scene to prove a point and what we can take away from it.

In this episode, I talk about consistency with your projects and how I go about it. Changing your mindset goes a long way towards ensuring your own success.

In this episode, I talk about the progress I've made with #dailystandup and a new podcast.

In this episode, I talk about organizing projects with Asana for the sake of order not scheduling. I'm also focused on making progress on projects before the end of the week.

In this episode, I talk about managing tasks as a freelancer or business owner using Asana and tasks lists.

In this episode, I talk about how I spent Mother's day weekend and reminders about what's truly important to me.

In this episode, I touch a bit on the news that came out of Design Inc. yesterday. I had the opportunity to watch them build the platform from a distance and even spoke with the team at various stages. I know how hard they worked and it shows. They were able to produce high-quality work for a good amount of time. It's not often you see great people pull together to build a team as strong as this one.

In this episode, I talk about my projects and how to best show and tell their story.

This is episode one of the #dailystandup. I'm moving towards improving the series and making a podcast out of it. In this episode, I talk about my strategies behind all of the content I'm producing.