Don't Make Me Code - 8: I Only Work On Ugly Products
Why designers and dev co's need each other
Don't Make Me Code - 8: I Only Work On Ugly Products launched on June 1, 2016 with 58 votes, #1,236 of 4,333 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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In this episode, Steve and David are joined by Dom Nguyen , Product Designer at Meteor . The group discuss why developer companies should hire designers, and why designers should want to work for developer companies. Dominic is a product designer who creates developer experiences for cloud deployment, authentication and package management. Before Meteor, he co-founded and lead design at Percolate Studio, a software agency that helped businesses create realtime user experiences. He was the first designer at Yummly, a recipe discovery engine and one of the top food & drink apps in the App Store. You can find him researching, writing about, and prototyping user experiences. He received his…from heavybit.com
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