About this episode

Chris and David discuss design and UX with John Athayde, exploring his journey and insights into the Rails community.

Chris and David welcome guest John Athayde, who runs the branding and UX consultancy, Meticulous. They dive into John’s unusual path through the Rails world as a designer, front-end developer, consultant, author, and UX thinker. The conversation moves from early Rails history and The Rails View into a broader discussion about why designers need to understand implementation, how AI is changing product and UI work, where component-based design is headed, and why browser support is still one of ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, David Hill

Guest: John Athayde

Topics covered

• branding
• UX design
• Rails history
• AI in product design
• component-based design
• browser support

Keywords

• branding
• UX
• Rails
• AI
• design
• front-end development
• consultant
• component-based design
• browser support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meticulous

Books & works: The Rails View

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