Works But Makes Noises
by David McGillivray & Jacob Heftmann
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Getting Good Design Feedback, Figma Comments, and Electric Car Shopping
Apr 13, 2026
1h 00m 11s
Surf Apps & 70’s Surf Racks, Figma Config, Homebrew Study Aides, Hand-Finished Design, Reverse Airbnb, and Design Team Retreats
Mar 30, 2026
54m 33s
Special Guest Allan Yu on Going From Designer to Founder, Pivoting Your Startup, and Why AI Should Be Invisible
Mar 16, 2026
58m 10s
The End of Wireframes, a Robot Vacuum Army, and Why Designing Backwards is the Way Forward
Mar 2, 2026
54m 46s
Jony Ive’s Ferrari, AI Copycats, Human-Washed Brands, and Faux Scribbles
Feb 16, 2026
1h 01m 59s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/13/26 | Getting Good Design Feedback, Figma Comments, and Electric Car Shopping | electric car shopping and EV tradeoffs, figma comments and modern design feedback, fragmented feedback across tools, structuring better client critique, feedback psychology and confidence, figma shortcuts and workflows, productivity tools we don’t use, are.na websites and spatial, caveman codex, spring in upstate New York https://www.44xdesign.com/spatial https://tiny.garden/sites by @gndclouds WILLIAM FELKER https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman Join our WBMN group chat on Output: h... | 1h 00m 11s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | Surf Apps & 70’s Surf Racks, Figma Config, Homebrew Study Aides, Hand-Finished Design, Reverse Airbnb, and Design Team Retreats | surf forecasting tools and building personal software, jacob’s 70’s surf rack archive and design lineage, figma config branding and pushing beyond the parent brand, using ai to study and learn through narrative instead of memorization, planning a retreat for type designers and the limits of structured “fun” https://www.infinitemachine.com/ https://jheftmann.github.io/wavekit/ https://config.figma.com/ Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.app/workspaces/join/c2c99415297b97e6... | 54m 33s | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | Special Guest Allan Yu on Going From Designer to Founder, Pivoting Your Startup, and Why AI Should Be Invisible | This week we’re joined by Allan Yu, designer and co-founder of community messaging app, Output. He previously worked as an early designer at Svpply, a cult favorite among designers, and later at Google Labs, Meta, and Shopify. We talk on designer to founder reality checks, pivoting your startup (again and again), Svpply nostalgia, type foundry UX rants, building a Discord for normal people, design craft vs shipping product, venture-backed startup pressure, fake users testing your produc... | 58m 10s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | The End of Wireframes, a Robot Vacuum Army, and Why Designing Backwards is the Way Forward | Robot vacuum fleets, Claude code experiments, Personal SaaSpocalypse, closed loop design workflows, building before designing, design is the bottleneck, pushing to prod, the death of wireframes, grey box trauma, and unlearning the process. Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.app/workspaces/join/c2c99415297b97e6dfc0 David McGillivray is a designer and creative director in upstate New York, designing for early stage tech companies through his own practice. He also co-found... | 54m 46s | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | Jony Ive’s Ferrari, AI Copycats, Human-Washed Brands, and Faux Scribbles | Ive's Ferrari collab, tactile design, electric performance, AI copycats, creative IP, opt-in consent, database tools vs model training, human-washed tech, the Granola rebrand, analog aesthetics, faux authenticity, proof of humanity, OpenAI vs Anthropic, authenticity vs costume. Jony Ive x Ferrari https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/ferrari-luce-jony-ive-marc-newson-lovefrom/ Stripe Sessions: Jony Ive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9g_8r-mE Granola Rebrand https://www.granola.ai/blog/a-new-l... | 1h 01m 59s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | Special Guest Elizabeth Goodspeed on Design Education, Experimental Branding, Weird References, and Archiving Everything | How to pay off sleep debt, ancient internships, should designers c*de? design engineers, teaching at RISD and Parsons, experimental branding briefs and constraint-led projects, what design school doesn’t teach, archives versus mood boards, Arena as a second brain, collecting and scanning physical references, folk packaging and diner placemats, obscure illustrators and forgotten ephemera, taste as something you build over time, trend reports and in–out lists, writing as a way of thinking, prin... | 1h 04m 49s | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | The Rise of Home-Cooked Software, Authenticity & Imperfection, and When to Start a Design Studio | The 52" monitor, home-cooked software, claude code, vibe coding, personal tools, craft, authenticity and imperfection, authorship and taste, designing without scale, having an independent design practice, freelancing vs studios, building a career on your own terms. Tesla Optimus Fail https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/1pfzxt0/tesla_optimus/ Dell's Big Boy https://www.engadget.com/computing/dell-unveils-a-massive-52-inch-6k-ultrawide-curved-monitor-at-ces-2026-140024842.html Peop... | 1h 04m 31s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | Robot Lamps, Apple’s New Design Era, Utah 2034, Iconic Olympic Brands | Snowstorms in the Catskills, Jacob’s month on the North Shore, selling the Audi and becoming a full-time Subaru guy, mechanics doing power slides in your car, talking lamps and unhinged home robots, Terminator bots and the sci-fi week online, Apple entering a new design era, Google’s Nano-Banana and AI faking sketchbooks, Bloom and the rise of brand-asset generators, the new CNBC logo mess, Utah 2034 and the puzzle of future-proof Olympic branding, the icons of Olympic identity from Mexico 68... | 1h 02m 18s | ||||||
| 11/10/25 | Zohran’s Campaign Design, Geriatric Millennials, and Ten Foot Skeletons | Ten foot skeletons, Gen Z nonchalance vs. Millennial effortfulness, Zohran's campaign design, Al Gore was the worst client. Links mentioned in the show Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo https://www.curbed.com/article/zohran-mamdani-campaign-logo-graphic-design.html Fully automated 'private chef' https://x.com/miyuselene/status/1982517846124192011?s=20 NEO home robot https://www.1x.tech/neo Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.ap... | 58m 46s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | Personal uniforms, electric bikes, and 90's ad agencies. | Surfing in Mexico, Gap is back, having a personal ‘uniform’, Electric Bikes, NYC Subway design, AI slop (oh no), edible rocks, 90’s ad agency offices, naming things. Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.app/workspaces/join/c2c99415297b97e6dfc0 David McGillivray is a designer and creative director in upstate New York, designing for early stage tech companies through his own practice. He also co-founded Offhours and runs Corners, an art and design store in the Catskills. ... | 1h 09m 06s | ||||||
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| 9/26/25 | Two weddings, one Subaru, and an AI that designs your company | New Grillitype launches, social battery collapse, Palermo wedding gossip, buying a 2008 Subaru on Facebook Marketplace, DMV purgatory, LL Bean collab trim, new iPhone and AirPods takes, AI brand builders, Jacob hates moodboards, designer existentialism Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.app/workspaces/join/c2c99415297b97e6dfc0 David McGillivray is a designer and creative director in upstate New York, designing for early stage tech companies through his own practice. He ... | 55m 37s | ||||||
| 9/6/25 | Art, Aging, and AirPods That Randomly Beep | Catskills nervous system reset, tiny New York party memories, birthday art pilgrimages, Mass MoCA, basic-taste art confessions, work-life blur, Apple event ambivalence, light-phone fantasies Join our WBMN group chat on Output: https://wbmn.output.app/workspaces/join/c2c99415297b97e6dfc0 David McGillivray is a designer and creative director in upstate New York, designing for early stage tech companies through his own practice. He also co-founded Offhours and runs Corners, an art and design s... | 1h 06m 31s | ||||||
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