Live Website Redesign: Web Design Battle!

Hide your wife, hide your kids, we've got a Design Battle on our hands!

Last week you saw Jose build on Aure's wireframes for the ThisWeekIn Web Design redesign, today the two designers battle live on the internet! That's right, Jose and show favorite Aure Gimon will simultaneously riff on design concepts, competing and collaborating to see which is the wildest web design gunslinger of the west. And of course, by watching live you'll pick up some great tips and techniques from two of the best designers going on the internet today.

00:00 Open
00:30 Web Design Battle introduction
01:35 Robert Haydock, our first member of the Producer Program joins us on set
02:02 Blank Spaces and the joys of co-working spaces
02:45 Why did you join the Producer Program?
03:20 How was the pace of the Groop Skool event?
03:45 Jose reads the Groop Skool reviews on air for the first time.
06:30 The treu benefits of the Producer Program: watch the show as preparation and then go to Groop Skool for the real world practice
08:00 Prepping for the Web Design battle with Aure Gimon.
09:15 Talking with Aure about designing with a creative brief in mind
10:30 Talking about competitors and media partnerships
11:20 Setting up two different perspectives for approaching the design process
12:20 Avoiding too many restrictions in the design phase
13:05 Robert talks about meeting Eric Ries of The Lean Startup
16:30 Jose talks about benefits and learning curve of applying lean development to web design
18:30 Announcing Groop Skool 3, November 12th and 13th
21:45 How does Lean Methodology transfer over to web design?
24:00 The importance of committing to process
27:00 Finally, the battle starts!
28:00 Choosing fonts (just read Stop Stealing Sheep and Learn How Fonts Work)
31:00 Finding a foundry and chasing type trends
36:40 House Industries
37:45 MyFonts.com as a great source for fonts
38:15 Checking in with Aure and how he prioritizes page layout
41:30 DaFont.com - full of bad free fonts and some hidden gems
43:45 Jose and Aure compare their work so far.
45:45 Using Adobe's Kuler website to generate color combinations
49:30 How crazy can you get with a logo?
53:30 "That K is hideous"
55:30 "A logo is a vessel that you inject meaning into over time"
58:30 Comparing Aure's work to Jose's

Category:

• Science & Tech
• Learning & Education

Starring:

• Jose Caballer
• Aure Gimon

Directed by:

• Ian Hinck
• Branden Lymer

Produced by:

• Matt Raub
• Ryan Summers

Tags:

• Groop Skool
• digital agency
• webdesign
• Web Design
• Groop
• Brand
• Strategy
• Jose Caballer
• Websites
• Marketing
• Design Basics
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Adobe
• How-To
• WordPress
• Word Press
• CSS
• HTML
• Java
• Instructional
• dreamweaver
• ThisWeekIn.com
• This Week In
• Drupal
• sitemap
• agile
• scrum
• backlog
• color theory
• typography
• Gotham
• Arial
• Helvetica
• Hoeffler And Jones
• Eric Ries
• Lean Startup
• DaFont
• House Industries
• House
• Robert Haydock

[TheDeepEndDesign]

I just found this, what a cool concept! I will be watching the rest when i can. keep it up!

[ThisWeekIn]

@TheDeepEndDesign Thanks for watching, and let us know what you want to see more of! We've been on a programming/strategy focus of late, but we've been approaching the visual design a bit more lately as well. Your feedback can help shape the show.

[carly6277]

Jose man, swearing's not cool

But do love the show

[ThisWeekIn]

@carly6277 We try to slow Jose down, but some times he gets so passionate he gets ahead of himself. I'll remind him to watch the language. :)

Thanks for watching the show! Are there any episodes or segments that have stood out to you.

[carly6277]

@ThisWeekIn I've enjoyed everything - really enjoyed this ep, also the initial stuff with talking to the client and creating user profiles etc

What happens when this whole redesign is complete? I would tune in for a weekly Sink or Swim :-)

[ThisWeekIn]

@carly6277 We'll continue to look at trends in the industry, give advice on accelerating your career, and dig deep to give you expert-level tips from people like Jose & Aure. We'll probably also start up another long-fomr project: people have been responding really well to the TWi redesign!

[4youk]

rlly enjoyed ur confersation only why do u design a website in ilustrator???

[4youk]

why hes the onlyone drinking water the outher 2 are thirsty 2!!!

[babyspiderhead]

I've been producing design for quite a few years. I like the dialog offered via this video, it actually made me pause...but I wasn't too impressed much with the design results at the end of the video. I am more of a circles and ovals guy, the web seems to be all rectangles and text.

[Saint7781]

@Saint7781

*watched

[Saint7781]

This would be an example of how not to do a youtube video. The video is too long, and most of the things it captures are boring and irrelevant. I bet it could be summed up in 10 minutes. I watch the first 5 minutes and I had to stop watching.

[ctave6]

I got here from youtubing "WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB"