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John and Devin, both product designers and developers, talk about trying to build good digital products.

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A Chat With Dani

2021/03/09

While Devin is away on a Product Design Sprint, Daniel (Dani) Sandoval joins John to discuss product team communication, Svelte, and how to contribute to opensource sustainably.

How to make an LLC and a native module

2021/02/22

In this episode, Devin and John discuss creating an LLC, building an iOS native module to fix a bug, and the future of the podcast.

Learning new things

2021/01/04

John and Devin discuss strategies for learning all the new things needed for product development, why it's essential to focus on the motivation behind tools as well as understanding the tools themselves, and how not knowing something can bring joy

Planning, producing, resting, and cats

2020/12/28

John and Devin chat about planning for the Building Habits app, the joy of being productive, and how to set aside time for rest.

Rewrite Impressions

2020/12/06

Devin and John reflect on rewriting Building Habits with React Native and consider the next steps for the project.

Episode 6: The Return of React Native

2020/11/18

In the episode, John and Devin discuss rebuilding the Building Habits app in React Native. They also discuss using React Native Navigation and MobX.

What should the next feature be?

2020/11/01

Devin and John discuss Building Haibit's most recent new feature, a MadLibs style new habit form, what the app's next feature should be, and how they might learn if the app works well for users. If you've used the app and want to help influence the product direction, please let us know your thoughts here: https://forms.gle/zQZcDbqQ7m2J1Gx37 If you'd like to use the app and follow along on its development: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/building-habits/id1534446576

Should we build what people ask for?

2020/10/21

Devin and John talk about whether they should build features because people ask for them. They also wax poetic about good design, discuss the pain points of making a native mobile app with the browser, and confirm that building a PWA in React would be masochistic.

Hey let's use web tools to build a mobile app

2020/10/13

The Building Habits app gets published to the App Store. John and Devin reflect on why they chose to make the app using Elm and Capacitor.

Hey let's be Designopers

2020/10/04

Devin and John submit to the App Store and talk about the relationship between designers and developers, why those labels can be problematic, and what we might do about it.