Jake and Jonathan
74: Design Ruined Everything
Episode Summary
Jonathan's not here this week. So Jake is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart. Deja vu, anyone? Here’s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode: - 01:00—Amr's journey to becoming a designer - 19:20—Apple & VR - 31:20—Snap's new Snap Kit - 45:40—Pinterest's approach to growth - 51:50—The moral & ethical implications of design
Episode Notes
Jonathan's not here this week. So Jake is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart. Deja vu, anyone?
Here’s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode:
- 01:00—Amr's journey to becoming a designer
- 19:20—Apple & VR
- 31:20—Snap's new Snap Kit
- 45:40—Pinterest's approach to growth
- 51:50—The moral & ethical implications of design
Links:
- Amr Khalifeh on Instagram
- Amr Khalifeh on Twitter
- Amr’s master studies: Usability Engineering, M.Sc. — Hochschule Rhein-Waal
- Apple has reportedly hired Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt, as a senior architect—Variety
- Segway—Wikipedia
- Book: Ready Player One—Ernest Cline—Amazon.com
- Bird
- Lime
- Design Sprint—YouTube
- AirPods
- Google Glass—Wikipedia
- M.G. Siegler’s Newsletter
- Snap Kit
- To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself—TechCrunch
- The anti-Facebook: Inside Pinterest’s slow and quiet rise—CNN
- Hippocratic Oath—Wikipedia
- Don’t be evil — Google — Wikipedia
- Book: Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It—Mike Monteiro—Amazon.com
- Book: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies—Nick Bostrom—Amazon.com
- Book: Buy Sprint! 📘🏃♀️
- Book: Buy Make Time! 📗⏰
- AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass: ajsmart.com/masterclass 🥇😯
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