October 23, 2013
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Anthony and Natalie give their background story and how they came to mobile design. Rick listens, laughs, and drinks.
Other information covered:
- Funsize background story and introduction to the Podcast
- Web design got boring and we needed a career change
- Mobile design before the iPhone existed
- Quitting your job and being a freelancer in the new mobile industry
- Let’s follow our dream and start a husband and wife design business
- Clients are smart and the traditional digital agency model
is broken - Remember when? Designing web templates for Xanga and AsianAvenue.com
- Natalie and Anthony met at an agency designing tampon and laxative
work - How Natalie and Anthony started their careers in mobile product
design - Just because you’re a talented web designer doesn’t mean you know anything
about designing for mobile - Being flexible with your cost so you can master new skills
- Native mobile product design “NMD” vs. responsive web design “RWD”
- Watch out NYC and SF. Good talent lives where they want!
- Agile methodology and building relationships with clients to ship
product incrementally - Not every business needs an app, sometimes mobile web is the way to
go - Working on products that better the quality of life
- Teleportation (beaming), the future of the Foursquare check-in
- Lastly, topics we hope to cover in the future
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