61: State of Louisville (feat. Josh Puckett)

In today's show we caught up with Josh Puckett, a designer and developer living in Palo Alto. We talk about Josh's journey at Dropbox and what it was like to build Carousel, how he manages to make so many apps, the current state of design tools, and the world of freelance designing. Stick around after the show to hear our 30 minutes of bonus conversation about the latest Apple event!

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Sponsors:

• Code School
• Hired

Josh on the Web:

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Website
• Dribbble
• Medium
• GitHub

Show Notes:

4:00 - Introductions

• Stewart's Tweet
• Design Details with Tara Mann
• Stammy

9:00 - The Carousel story

• Carousel
• Carousel on Design Details
• Yi Wei

15:00 - Building side projects

• Josh's side projects
• Ian Silber
• Epicurrence
• Trim App
• Layout from Instagram
• Bill Hader, Siri
• Soylent
• Narcos
• Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito
• Charity Water
• Spec Slack Team

32:00 - Design tools

• Modern Design Tools: Adaptive Layouts
• Modern Design Tools: Using Real Data
• Tweak
• Principle for Mac
• Matej Hrescak
• Brandon Walkin
• Sketch
• Sketch Plugins
• Design Details with Bradee Evans
• Josh's Sketch Plugins
• FF Chartwell
• M

45:00 - Wealthfront

• Wealthfront
• Mr. Robot
• Apple TV
• Can I Stream It

50:00 - Freelancing

• Allan Branch
• Soleio
• Louie Mantia
• Rasmus Andersson
• Messenger for Mac
• Linda Eliasen
• Enrique Allen
• Ben Blumenfeld

1:06:00 - Bonus! We chat about the Apple event