This week Chris and Jonathan take a look at Layervault, a new cloud storage solution for designers! And if that wasn’t cool enough, later in the show, Kelly Sutton, cofounder and CEO of Layervault, joins us for an amazing interview!
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Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Start!
00:00:53 – Show announcements, podcast business
00:02:12 – Show format
00:02:36 – Our expectations
00:06:50 – Onboarding
00:11:47 – The user experience
00:22:56 – How would we improve the UX?
00:27:58 – The presentation and aesthetics
00:29:47 – Animations in the product
00:33:16 – Did it align with our expectations?
00:35:54 – Keep or Delete?
00:38:34 – Wrapping up part 1
00:38:59 – Start of the interview with Kelly Sutton, cofounder and CEO of Layervault
00:39:17 – Kelly introduces himself
00:40:58 – Jon talks about reducing and minimalism in design
00:42:00 – Why did they make Layervault?
00:43:22 – How much collaboration was there in the beginning of Layervault?
00:44:55 – Was there any market research involved with initially creating Layervault?
00:49:29 – What part of the app are they most proud of from a design standpoint?
00:51:06 – What is the design process like at Layervault?
00:56:25 – How does Layervault decide when and how to remove features?
00:59:02 – Is it hard to tell the difference between a feature that people don’t like vs. one that needs more work?
01:00:04 – Our feedback
01:07:14 – When did they decide to create Designer News?
01:09:55 – What are the future plans for Designer News?
01:12:52 – What is coming out next for Layervault or Designer News?
01:13:58 – Wrapping it up!
Once again, huge thanks to Kelly Sutton at Layervault for coming on the show and talking with us about design!
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Guys, I want to listen to your podcast, but your RSS feed is not a podcast feed, so I can’t subscribe to it in a podcast client. Do you expect your listeners to listen with a desktop web browser? Congrats on being the first podcast I’ve ever tried to subscribe to who didn’t bother to create a proper RSS feed or even submit themselves to iTunes.
Hey Mark,
I know, it’s embarrassing. The trouble is this template was suppose to provide us with a proper RSS feed and it doesn’t seem to be working. We’re looking for any tools to do this manually, do you know of any?
Here’s how to manually do it:
http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html
Here’s a service that should create the rss feed for you:
https://feedity.com/
The template seems to work for certain posts and not others. You guys need to embed the actual audio file in the post to have it be embedded media.
Thanks Chris!
We actually started down that path and had playback issues. I’m currently looking into new hosting on that front.