Design vs Dev

Design vs Dev


Latest Episodes

S2 Episode 7: Sound Design with Joseph Beaty
October 27, 2020

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.

Versus: Story Telling in Marketing
October 13, 2020

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 integr...

S2 Episode 6: Building Our Core Quiz Mechanic
September 29, 2020

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...

S2 Episode 5: Flutter File Structure
September 15, 2020

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 y...

S2 Episode 4: Handling Data in Flutter
July 28, 2020

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...

S2 Episode 3: Impressions of a free Flutter online course
July 08, 2020

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.

S2 Episode 2: Android Studio
June 30, 2020

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,

Versus: Web App Product Design
June 22, 2020

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 wi...

S2 Episode 1: Getting Started With Flutter
May 27, 2020

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.

Series 2 Introduction: Learning Flutter
May 18, 2020

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.