Adam Stacoviak is joined by Drew Wilson and Jared Erodu along with special guest Dan Cederholm of Dribbble and Bullet Proof Web Design fame – topics include being disorganized, Kevin Rose and the Milk team get “aqui-hired”, awesome shots on Dribbble, Dan on writing CSS the Sass way, and so much more!

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Show Notes:

• Adam starts the show by using a lame radio voice he claims he practiced and Dan laughs at him (along with everyone else) – great start to a show
• Dan Cederholm, of Dribbble fame joins the show, and we decide that he is, in fact, popular
• Drew asks Dan when he thinks he started to “emerge” onto the scene and Dan thinks back to the birth of with web standards – see also zeldman.com/dwws
• Like many of the listeners of this show, Adam is a fan of Dan’s – BUT Adam goes waay back to share his thoughts on Dan’s previous design work for an IT firm out of Dallas called Architel. Brian Oberkirch was the one that connected Dan with the folks at architel.com
• Jared updates us on The Industry: we recently covered What you do when away from the screen and Nathan Ryan talked about the importance of setting office hours, Coolorus, a Color Picker for Photoshop, and David Keegan wrote about Caffeinated, a Beautiful Google Reader Client which also hit the front page of Hacker News – see post on Hacker News
• We were featured on iTunes under “New and Noteworthy” – Don’t forget to rate us
• Dan admits to not reading Nathan’s “office hours” post and Drew exclaims, “how dare you!”
• Adam contintues on Nathan’s office hours post, to talk about the idea of giving yourself time to reflect – and take a retro spective to what you are doing
• Drew and Dan both admit to being disorganized
• Oink shuts down, and the very next day news broke about Kevin Rose and team getting “aqui-hired” by Google – also known as a talent aquisition
• Dan shares his thoughts on Oink and thinks it’s too bad that it shutdown – even though he only used it a couple times
• Drew just can’t believe that Milk was funded 1.5 Million dollars to build Oink and they shut it down in just a matter of months, saying “Money is nothing to some people”
• Some would say that the growth of Oink was only due to the name recognition of Kevin Rose
• We cover “The importance of naming things, products …”
• Adam is the only fan of David Damaree’s speaker deck on naming things
• David also posted about Oink shutting down and referenced his speaker deck where he “spent like half an hour trashing critiquing Oink’s product naming”
• We talk a bit about naming apps and products
• Dan compliments Daniel Burka and team on the design of Oink
• We talk about feedback from users of Oink and Dan says he felt alone in the app
• Checkin apps like Gowalla (who was also, ironically, aqui-hired by Facebook) were a fad – Dan shares how no one cares that he’s eating at the buritto place next door for the 80th time
• Pivot!
• Sky Dayton, founder of Boingo Wireless and Helio, likes to give everything he does 8-10 years before he moves on to the next thing
• Adam turned 33 on March 17 – and reminds us all that we do have a lifetime to live and that we don’t need to microwave everything
• Adam plugs the Founders Talk episode with Dan and Rich to ask Dan for an update on him going fulltime on Dribbble back in November 2011
• SXSW is over, but we talk about how the awesome folks at Paravel head up the ATX Dribbble Meetup community in Austin
• Dribbble has meetups everywhere
• Drew loves the Dribbble ice sculpture, and Dan gives all credit to Greg Storey for setting up the venue at Uncle Billy’s Brew and Que
• Dallas has a ton of designers and also have a great Dribbble meetup as well
• We love LessAccounting! Use ‘theindustry3′ for 50% off your first month of LessAccounting
• We all hate Quickbooks!
• The new Less Everything logo was done by someone they hired from Dribbble – Sergey Shapiro
• Dribbble Pro is one of the ways that Dribbble generates revenue – read their lastest blog post All-Pro
• Dribbble on Dribbble
• Do you have a design job? Post a job on Dribbble.
• Drew says that Dribbble TOTALLY changed the industry …
• Drew plugs his friend Julien Renvoye and his HTML5/CSS/JS based app platform on Windows called Pokki
• Awesome shots on Dribbble: Too Many Ideas by 55 Hi’s – also available as a poster you can buy. Also if you didn’t know, Ross Moody is the one man operation behind 55 Hi’s.
• Awesome shots on Dribbble: Imitation, Inspiration, Creation, Innovation by Sean McCabe
• Why buy art from Target or some national retail chain – buy from people on Dribbble, Etsy or Storenvy (we love you Jon Crawford)
• Drew takes us in a whole new direction and now we are talking about Dan’s lack of accent in general. Sadly we all give our best Boston accent … it’s a sad moment in interweb radio
• pahk the cah in havahd yahd
• We laugh a lot on this show, hopefully you do as well.
• Dan talks about creating patterns and shortcuts to make your life a little easier, ala Pea.rs (on Dribbble) which he talked about at An Event Apart Atlanta and the code is on GitHub
• One of Dan’s favorite fonts to use is Proxima Nova from Mark Simonson – also available on TypeKit
• Dan would love to share the database for Pea.rs … if he had more time
• Adam plugs Founders Talk again, only to mention the conversation he, Rich and Dan had after the show about using Sass instead of vanilla CSS
• Dan shares his thoughts on Sass and ends with sayingn he wished the Dribbble had started its stylesheets with using Sass instead of CSS – don’t kill him Rich
• Dribbble is built with Rails which has Sass built in
• Jeff Croft on Implementing Responsive Web Design with Sass
• Follow @TheSassWay on Twitter for more Sass news – and check out the retina image helpers for Compass
• John Long “Silvers”
• Dan loves Designers.mx
• We love Squarespace! Use ‘theindustry3‘ for 30% for 3 months of Squarespace – checkout workshops.squarespace.com for expert hands on training
• Dan is a fan of everything Drew does and asks “How do you find the time to do some much and be so polished”
• Dan and Drew were both in Offscreen Magazine Issue #1 where Drew shares the acronym for the disease he has where he can’t stop thinking about things – CIFS, or Chronic Idea Fabrication Syndrome
• Drew does not open Mail
• Drew’s secret to getting things done? Not being organized.
• Drew’s 3 plugs: Screeny 2 (as heard on TUAW) was released, Keepsakes and add your email to the list for Dialoggs
• We have codes for the brand new Sparrow iPhone app – but Jared couldn’t find them (yet) –> Follow us on Twitter where we’ll be sharing them
• We also have codes to share for LiveReload which should simplify your life in getting started with Sass
• Drew was invited to Dribbble by Cameron Moll who also served as a source of inspiration for Dribbble with his screen grab confab post series on his blog – and Adam shares his final plug of Founders Talk where you can learn more about Dan and Rich and the story of starting Dribbble
• Rich is also speaking at Valicon in San Diego in June … are you going?
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