Design Vs Dev

This week Drew is joined by the one and only Joseph Beaty who created the music and sound effects for Dune Trivia, our work in progress Flutter application. The two talk about sound design for phone apps, web apps, and Joseph’s creative process. Check out Joseph Beaty’s A View From Here, used in Dune Trivia. […]

This week Drew is joined by David Doran of Oneupweb to discuss their new strategy for telling the customer’s story. Based on the workshop by Donald Miller, StoryBrand, Dave discusses how it’s helped their own marketing company convert and how to integrate this customer-centric story telling with web design and visuals. If you have any […]

This week, Andrew and Drew talk about how they built their core quiz mechanic for Dune Trivia. Andrew talks about future-proofing the mechanic by adding variables for EVERYTHING! Exciting news, the Dune Trivia app is now in Beta on both iOS and Android! We’re giving away some Dune swag as well. To throw your name […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to structure their flutter files in the Dune Trivia application. Exciting spoiler, they cribbed from a Ruby on Rails MVC scaffolding structure. Find the test app here: Dune Trivia PM us on twitter if you’d like to beta test the new application. Drew is @noltedesign, and […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss how they decided to handle data in their new Dune Trivia application. From caching, csv, to settling on a Database that is built by calling on the WordPress JSON API. Find the test app here: Dune Trivia Shoot questions at comments to Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik. […]

This week Andrew and Drew talk about taking the free online flutter crash course by AppBrewery taught by Andela Yu. Both highly recommend it based on their experiences. There is also a paid version with more in-depth sections. Check out a full course resource list here. Part of the course is creating apps that you […]

This week Andrew and Drew tour Android Studio. They talk about set up with the Flutter plugin, the pros and cons of the IDE to help you get familiar with the tool. Andrew talks about his git and developer centric set up, and Drew discusses the tools he uses to help with the visuals and […]

This week Drew is joined by Daniel McBrayer, the Director of Engineering at THIRDHOME to discuss product design and drink some whiskey in the afternoon. Drew and Daniel discuss their basic product design process and how design fits in a product team with a developer focus. Notes Daniel McBrayer is a former lawyer turned self-taught […]

This week Andrew and Drew discuss why they chose Flutter and the installation process on both Mac and Windows. Following the basic get started, flutter combined with Android Studio had a fairly simple set up process on both platforms: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/installhttps://developer.android.com/studio Find Drew at @noltedesign, and Andrew at @profnahlik. Andrew Nahlik is an axperienced analyst, developer, […]

Design Vs Dev is back after years of silence with a new series. This time around Drew will be joined by Andrew Nahlik and they’ll be documenting their journey of learning to design, code, and deploy apps with Google’s Flutter UI kit. Along the way they’ll be creating a simple trivia app as well as […]