Benjamin Schneider
A Brief History of Koinometry
Domain: UX Design/Product
Link: Ryan Singer design workflow — Part 1 | Part 2
Person: Ryan Singer
Background: Co-founder and longtime head of design at 37signals (the company behind Basecamp and Hey)
Why: Live step by step walkthrough of breaking down and designing a feature for a web app through various stages of fidelity from basic structure to HTML
Domain: Web/UI Design
Link: Refactoring UI
Person: Steve Schoger
Background: UI designer who wrote the book “Refactoring UI”, which breaks down some simple UI design principles
Why: Live breakdowns of how real existing designs/pages/interfaces fail and working through improvements to make them clearer and more usable (and better looking) live and step by step.
Domain: Graphic Design
Link: Typography & Design (The Futur)
Person: Chris Do
Background: Longtime graphic designer and founder of design education platform “The Future”
Why: Experienced designer breaks down and critiques designs from his employees and course students, showing how certain changes affect the overall layout and how it could be improved, often mentioning the principles he applies throughout. Was really helpful in learning some things about visual balance, contrast, and so on.
Domain: Programming, Productivity
Link: Coding with AI
Person: Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez)
Background: Developer of Redis
Why: Experienced programmer screen records brief videos of himself working on real problems with the help of LLMs
Domain: Research, Studying
Link: Behind The Scenes of My Interview Research Process
Person: Joseph Noel Walker (interviewed by Andy Matuschak)
Why: Joe Walker puts extensive effort into researching and studying before his podcast interviews in order to come up with good and not just surface level questions for his expert guests. He also focuses on retaining the information and gaining a deep understanding which helps with subsequent conversations around similar topics. Andy Matuschak, who interviews him about his process in this video, is an independent researcher with a deep interest in ed-tech, learning, and spaced repetition.