Katie Dill from Airbnb on managing designers as a design experiment
This week on the podcast we had a great discussion with Katie Dill, the director of experience design at Airbnb, one of the few companies in the world that’s truly disrupting an industry. In this conversation we discuss managing designers as a design experiment, how craft and hustle go together, and why the user experience should be important to every employee.
Icons to the moon & back: creating pixel perfect icons and converting to icon font
Icons are elements found in almost every place you can think of on the web and on mobile devices. A good designer needs to know how to create icons that are pixel-perfect, clear, sharp and uniform. In this post I’ll give some of my favorite tips and advice on how to create perfect icons.
Bob Baxley (former Apple, Yahoo, Pinterest) on creating powerful design leadership
In this week’s episode we had the privilege to talk with Bob Baxley, who is a design executive and has been managing designers for years. Bob has worked at some marquee companies including the likes of Yahoo, Pinterest, and Apple. In this interview as Bob shares with us what it takes to create powerful design leadership and how to navigate the different workplaces cultures in today’s top tech companies.
How we built a large blog using WordPress, Heroku and Git: under the hood of Hacking UI
When we created Hacking UI, I wanted to figure out the perfect technical setup for a large blog. I wanted to know exactly how the best blogs were built, where they were hosted, what software they used and how they were developed. However, I didn’t find much on the subject. Today, we’ve reached a point […]
The Side Project Accelerator
Two years ago we launched Hacking UI as a blog to share our thoughts about improving the workflow between designers and developers. I think it’s fair to say that today, Hacking UI has evolved to become much more than a blog. Watch the recorded announcement: On our Facebook group: Or catch the recording on Periscope: @sagishrieber Hacking […]
How I built (and scaled) my side hustle – story, insights, and practical tips
Hi, my name is Sagi, I’m a husband, a father of 2 amazing children + dog, a martial artist, a full time design director at a scaling startup, and have founded multiple side projects that I continue to maintain and scale.
How a blame free culture helped Etsy scale their design team ft. Magera Moon
This week we’re super happy to have with us on the show Magera Moon, Product Design Manager at Etsy.
Magera was the 3rd designer to join the company, and has seen and lead its growth to now more than 30 designers.
The Hacking UI Podcast Ep. 6: How I built and scale my side projects
This is the read-out-loud of my article about how I scaled my side projects. In the following article I will share: My story, practical tips on how I created and scaled my side projects (A.K.A. how to monetize a low traffic blog), and explain my “why’s” for doing it. I hope that this story will inspire you to create you own side projects.
The 5 step guide to convert any webpage into Sketch
When I first moved to Sketch I was looking for a way to migrate all my recent PSD’s to it, but an extensive Google search lead to no results. Today, two years later – there is still no product that does this.
Introducing the all new: Resources by Hacking UI
Resources is the place for you to find tools, icon sets, UI Kits, articles, and interesting online services – both free and premium, to help you be more productive and produce high quality results.
