Recs

Shameless self plug, but I think it's the best app to track your game collection and how you play your games. My friend Jeremy Swinnen and I made this app together!

Bartender takes those 10+ icons that show in your top bar and hides them in a secondary bar you can toggle on/off easily

It's like Apple Spotlight, but so much more powerful

A place to save and organize basically anything digital. I use it for gathering design inspiration, saving videos and links, and organizing images.

A great way to record audio across 4 tracks, even works with line-in. A great alternative to the Teenage Engineering TP-7.

A cleaner, ad-free social media app focused on photography and sharing great photos.

A life-changing book about rediscovering your creativity for all ages and all creative levels. It says "spiritual", but it really isn't the point of the book at all.

A book that helped me learn how to have difficult conversations and coming to healthy solutions

Explains 125 foundational concepts of design that come together to make great design happen

A book about getting the right things done, rather than focused on getting things done quicker

Covers a key to leadership of bringing your full self to work and genuinely caring about others

An incredible introduction to the world of management and how to approach the hard parts

Shows and inspires you to share work better and more consistently, no matter your level.

Netflix's Chief Talent Officer and her approach to building a culture of freedom and responsibility

Great resource for learning methods for operating as a small startup and using resources wisely

Covers the design process of IDEO, including their philosophy with a ton of real-world examples

Provides tactics to help teams do more research with less. Great for smaller teams and first designers.

Eye-opening book around how creative work is all recycled in one way or another

My favorite iPad size, great for quick use for apps like Notes, Procreate, YouTube, and more.

Great studio music monitors I use for music creation, mixing, and mastering. Works great for simple stuff like Zoom meetings too.

Super sharp matte display that I use daily for design, music, photo, and video work. I personally prefer a single monitor setup and this size is perfect for my needs.

A field recorder that I use to record samples, ambient sounds, voice memos, and more. Also cool that it looks straight out of a sci-fi film.

My mouse of choice, much more natural and ergonomic compared to other mouses I've used.

My daily driver for personal use including photography, video editing, socials, and more. I use the orange color model.

My daily driver for personal work including design, music, photo, development and video work. I personally have an M4 model currently.

My primary synth groovebox that I use to start most of my music that is made from scratch. It does just about everything you could ever need.

In my top 10 albums of all time, Shigeto is also one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to music production.

One of my earliest influence discoveries, Flying Lotus has gone on to produce for huge artists like Kendrick Lamar but this album from 2010 has a special place in my brain.

Another one of my favorite albums from another huge music production inspiration for me, Seaside Town is an incredible song.

One of the classics in the beat music scene, if you've never heard of it then you're in for a treat.

I'm personally a bigger fan of classic Tycho (before all the vocals added) than the newer albums. This specific one is my favorite.

Probably my favorite Boiler Room set ever, with one of my biggest inspirations for music (Teebs inspired me to start making the style of music I focus on today)

Interesting science podcast with harrowing, bizarre stories about what fuels professional -ologists' obsessions

A tech podcast for the gadget lovers and tech heads among us from the mind of YouTuber MKBHD

A weekly podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else

A great podcast if you're a constant overthinker like me. The episodes are evergreen, so you can pick and choose which episodes are most relevant to you.

My favorite design podcast, it's since ended but still useful and helped me a lot in my early career

My absolute favorite gaming podcast, with some of my favorite people in gaming journalism

by Asana

Google's reference guide for designing applications for Material as well as how they approach design systems

One of the foundational references for product designers in my opinion, contains Apple's guide to designing for their platforms

Helps designers communicate with stakeholders while balancing business and design priorities

A website I reference often when I am looking to see what cool new websites are out there for inspiration

One of the leading blogs for learning about detailed topics relevant to tech practices and skillsets

Write-ups and blog posts about design, interiors, architecture, fashion, and art

A typography reference, showcasing what is trending in type and how to use type well

by Adam Morse

A tool for referencing and making collections of current design patterns from the most successful products

A website showcasing what's trending and creative in the web design world

by Barry Kehoe

by Brian Lovin

by Brian Lovin

In this video I go over some basic tips to improve typography in design. These tips are helpful for foundational typography usage in design from product design, web, graphic design, and more.

An overview of how to use View Mode within Figma. This is a great feature to be able to share with clients, product managers, developers, and more who need to see a file and not be able to edit.

Using an 8pt grid in product design is probably the best tip I can give someone new to design or that doesn't use them yet

In this Figma tutorial, I go over the basics of exporting your assets as PNG, SVG, and JPEG formats for icons, images, and user interface screens

Luke Woods discusses leading a team that designs for nearly 2 billion users, how he got to his position, and what role he thinks design plays in such a contentious political climate.

In this video I go over 3 examples of how to mask in Figma and some of their use cases in product design, graphic design, and more

Some modern leadership advice from Julie Zhuo around management and AI