This week we caught up with Tim Van Damme, an amazing designer who has been a part of some of our favorite products including Instagram and Dropbox. For this hour we chat about Tim’s past experience in design, working on Mailbox, Dribbble and the future of design/technology. We had a lot of fun with this show and we hope you all enjoy the conversation!
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Tim on the Web:
Website
Exposure
Dribbble
Show Notes:
2:00 – We dig a bit into Tim’s past interview experiences and first steps into the design world.
The Great Discontent with Tim Van Damme
net magazine
24 Ways (Tim’s piece)
atebits (Tweetie, Loren Brichter)
11:00 – Insights into the differences of European vs. American clients and design.
14:00 – Tim talks about taking breaks and disconnecting.
Tim’s Instagram
Storehouse
Exposure
20:00 – What it’s like working on Mailbox for Mac; Tim tells us about his personal style.
Mailbox
27:00 – We get into the ethos of UI design, talking about the details and emotional design.
The Design Details blog posts
Design Details: Tumblr for iOS
Screenshot of Dropbox’s uploader
32:00 – Design is like math.
37:00 – Let’s talk Dribbble.
Dropbox on Dribbble
Tim on Dribbble
48:00 – We chat about the current state of user interfaces and what the next big leap will be.
Susan Kare
A polyphasic sleep experiment
55:00 – What will be the next breakthrough in input mechanisms?
Paralysed woman flies F-35 fighter jet using only her mind
1:00:00 – Tim shares what he hopes to be working on in the future – what’s next? Strawberries?
1:03:00 – We chat about email as a communication method and what’s next for Mailbox.
Email is the Worst
1:05:00 – Magical software is the worst.
Little Big Details on Dropbox