Design Vs Dev

This week Drew is joined by the one and only Joseph Beaty who created the music and sound effects for Dune Trivia, our work in progress Flutter application. The two talk about sound design for phone apps, web apps, and Joseph’s creative process. Check out Joseph Beaty’s A View From Here, used in Dune Trivia. […]

This week Drew is joined by David Doran of Oneupweb to discuss their new strategy for telling the customer’s story. Based on the workshop by Donald Miller, StoryBrand, Dave discusses how it’s helped their own marketing company convert and how to integrate this customer-centric story telling with web design and visuals. If you have any […]

This week, Andrew and Drew talk about how they built their core quiz mechanic for Dune Trivia. Andrew talks about future-proofing the mechanic by adding variables for EVERYTHING! Exciting news, the Dune Trivia app is now in Beta on both iOS and Android! We’re giving away some Dune swag as well. To throw your name […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to structure their flutter files in the Dune Trivia application. Exciting spoiler, they cribbed from a Ruby on Rails MVC scaffolding structure. Find the test app here: Dune Trivia PM us on twitter if you’d like to beta test the new application. Drew is @noltedesign, and […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to handle data in their new Dune Trivia application. From caching, csv, to settling on a Database that is built by calling on the WordPress JSON API. Find the test app here: Dune Trivia Shoot questions at comments to Drew att @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik. […]

This week Andrew and Drew talk about taking the free online flutter crash course by AppBrewery taught by Andela Yu. Both highly recommend it based on their experiences. There is also a paid version with more in-depth sections. Check out a full course resource list here. Part of the course is creating apps that you […]

This week Andrew and Drew tour Android Studio. They talk about set up with the Flutter plugin, the pros and cons of the IDE to help you get familiar with the tool. Andrew talks about his git and developer centric set up, and Drew discusses the tools he uses to help with the visuals and […]

This week Drew is joined by Daniel McBrayer, the Director of Engineering at THIRDHOME to discuss product design and drink some whiskey in the afternoon. Drew and Daniel discuss their basic product design process and how design fits in a product team with a developer focus. Notes Daniel McBrayer is a former lawyer turned self-taught […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss why they chose Flutter and the installation process on both Mac and Windows. Following the basic get started, flutter combined with Android Studio had a fairly simple set up process on both platforms: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/installhttps://developer.android.com/studio Find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik. Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, […]

Design Vs Dev is back after years of silence with a new series. This time around Drew will be joined by Andrew Nahlik and they’ll be documenting their journey of learning to design, code, and deploy apps with Google’s Flutter UI kit. Along the way they’ll be creating a simple trivia app as well as […]

Today’s topic: Drew is joined by Ajay Karwal to discuss moving and maintaining a site from a content management system to a static site generator. About our guest host: Ajay Karwal is a UI/front-end developer from Wokingham, UK. Ajay has been a front-end designer and developer for over 13 years, specializing in writing clean and maintainable user interfaces. Ajay […]

Today’s Topic: Drew is joined by Dave Doran to discuss how writing and design can work together to form good UX.  Dave Doran is a Senior Business Strategy Manager at OneUpWeb. He’s a reformed poet-turned marketer, working in the (primarily) digital space for an agency in Traverse City, Michigan. Some points that come up in the conversation: 3 […]

Today’s Topic: Drew and Micah discuss side projects again, this time focusing on WrenchMode, a small rails / Heroku maintenance web application aimed at helping the developer community. They discuss why they decided on this particular project and their success with the beta version of the app.  Subscribe! If you’re not already a subscriber, make sure to add […]

Today’s Topic: Drew and John discuss Professional Legitimacy in their respective fields of design and development. Software development has more of a real world impact today than ever before. From clowd infrastructures to self driving cars, do you trust a self trained designer/developer creating a potential life saving or life threatening decision on your software? Some points that come […]

Today’s Topic: Drew is joined again by professional photographer Matt Graves to discuss why we as designers and developers should take more time to think about and value custom photography in our web products.  Matt Graves is colorado based freelance photographer, specializing in food and beverage, particularly craft beer. You can find his work at mgravesphoto.com […]

Today’s Topic: Drew is joined by professional photographer Matt Graves to discuss why we as designers and developers should take more time to think about and value custom photography in our web products.  Matt Graves is colorado based freelance photographer, specializing in food and beverage, particularly craft beer. You can find his work at mgravesphoto.com Some […]

Today’s Topic: John and Drew talk about the state of writing on the web and how it’s changing communication. Some random things that come up in the conversation: New intro music by Jonn Standing desks and matching shelves Paranormal teen fiction Garth Marenghi Subscribe! If you’re not already a subscriber, make sure to add Design vs Dev […]

Today’s Topic: Static site generators. What are they, why they’re great, and when to use them. Overview WordPress and other CMSs can be a sledgehammer and a lot of times your project just needs a regular ol’ hammer. Static site generators have been with us for a long time, but are on the rise in popularity for simplicity […]

Today’s Topic: AdBlockers. In the wake of Wired blocking blockers, let’s discuss if this is a good move for the industry as a whole. Overview Using AdBlockers doesn’t kill a site, publishers can still focus on native advertising, sponsored posts, paywalls, donation, etc. There’s a definite cry from big publishers how your browsing is hurting […]

Today’s Topic: The Elixir programming language, and the Phoenix web framework. Overview The cutting edge of web technology is constantly moving forward. It’s impossible to stay up to date on everything, and it can be overwhelming. Today, we give you a quick intro to the Elixir programming language and the corresponding MVC web framework, Phoenix. […]