Adam Stacoviak is joined by Drew Wilson and Jared Erondu along with special guest Kyle Steed, a man who needs no introduction – topics include getting “Steedified”, retina display design on the new iPad, to be or not to be responsive, New York’s Finest and much more.

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Show Notes:

• Drew’s back and he and his wife had their daughter Aubrey
• Kyle Steed joins us
• Kyle and Jared have officially been introduced.
• Kyle’s design style is hand-drawn, but at Pure Charity we call it, Steed-style and Steed-ified
• iubenda is changing the way we do privacy policies
• Bobby Ghosal, Designer and Founder at Flud News, started his monthly column and posted How Two Small Design Changes Tripled User Engagement
• This week’s #IndustryAsks, Who’s Your Favorite Designer Founder? revealed Cabel Sasser of Panic, Shaun Inman and Jay Fanelli & Nate Peretic of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers
• Adam can’t help but plug Founders Talk with Jay Fanelli and Nate Peretic
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• Adam associates scrolling with having a baby and Drew is enjoying being a new dad again
• We beat the topic of the new iPad and Drew has already pre-ordered. Have you?
• Kyle is a rebel and does not own an iPad of any kind.
• We talk about designing for the iPad as it relates to the new retina display
• Cabel Sasser was the first to release a Mac app using PDFs as the graphics
• Is the web getting the back seat with all the mobile interfaces getting more pixels and greater resolution?
• Responsive.is, from Typecast, is a fantastic way to see a few well designed websites in all the popular device sizes right in the browser
• Kyle used Skeleton CSS to redesign 52 Profiles, but opt’d to not make Steedicons responsive
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• Adam serves up a loaded question to Kyle on his design philosophies after Jared admitted that he didn’t read Sahil Lavingia’s article on Co.Design – Pinterest’s Founding Designer (Sahil Lavingia) Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy
• Adam makes himself laugh as he jokingly keeps plugging Founders Talk, but the shows with Drew (part 1 and part 2) is where he was first introduced to Kyle and his work
• Steedicons – vol 1 was totally inspired by Drew’s Pictos
• Steedicons – vol 2 is more of an evolution (which Drew loves) and some are also used by Pure Charity
• The entire Pure Charity brand is based on “Steed-style” and Kyle’s hand-drawn font Funktion
• Adam and Kyle both prefer Funktion in uppercase vs lowercase
• Kyle’s workflow starts with and idea in his brain, paper sketchs, scanning and then tracing with Live Trace in Illustrator
• Fontlab is the industry standard for creating fonts
• Drew rambles about Landr which is an awesome web service to create simple mobile landing pages – on a side note we are working on getting an interview with them
• Appstack is making mobile easy – they’ll also be at Valio Con 2012
• Google doesn’t index the app store, so going the “native app only” route exposes findability issues when doing a traditional web search
• Jared throws out a random “heh”
• Dropmark is a way to do dead simple collaboration in the cloud, almost like a private Pinterest board – but we could be wrong
• Made in NYC?
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• Speaking of NY … New York’s Finest includes Allison House as well as Yaron Schoen a designer at Twitter NYC and columnist here at The Industry
• Adam finds a way to plug Founders Talk once again when he notices Kyle Bragger, who was recently on episode #31, is listed amoung New York’s Finest
• We talk about how Tina Roth Eisenberg’s Tattly logo looks a lot like the Netflix logo
• Kyle’s Hand-drawn words is a way to let him put “things out there”
• We talk about Ryan Hamrick’s lettering of Vibrantly
• Adam plugs Founders Talk again when connecting the dots back to Ryan to reference episode #33 with Jay Fanelli and Nate Peretic which Ryan also enjoyed and tweeted
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• Drew says that if you’re designing on the new iPad Drew suggests that you use Pictos Server to get vector icons
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