342: Critiquing Our Early Work

<p>This week, we dig into the dregs of our portfolios to critique some of earliest design work. We try to look for indicators of taste and fundamentals, but ultimately have a good laugh about our early mocks. We'd love to see your early work too, so share it with us on Twitter this week!</p> <hr /> <h3><strong>Golden Ratio Patrons:</strong></h3> <p>We're looking for partners to work with. If your team is hiring, launching a new product, or wants us to get the word out about a new initiative, please <a href="https://spec.fm/sponsors">get in touch</a>!</p> <hr /> <h3><strong>Latest VIP Patrons:</strong></h3> <p>Huge shoutouts to our latest <a href="https://www.patreon.com/designdetails">Very Important Pixels</a>!</p> <ul> <li>Gediminas Saulis</li> <li>Joshua Overbye</li> <li>Catherine Gui</li> <li>Andrew Cianci</li> <li>Hao Le</li> <li>Nathan Dorney</li> <li>Luigi Chelli</li> <li>Azmy Hanifa</li> </ul> <hr /> <h3><strong>Follow-up:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://ipadmenu.study">ipadmenu.study</a> is a neat case study about how to add a universal menu to iPad applications. Icons abound!</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Jacob_Lindstrm/status/1248555921095241728">Jacob Lindström</a> recommends <a href="https://abookapart.com/products/cross-cultural-design">Cross-Cultural Design</a> from A Book Apart.</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/pawsys/status/1247917639915143170">Pawel Sysiak</a> said thanks for answering two questions, and to that we say: thank you for asking good questions!</li> </ul> <hr /> <h3><strong>Tweets:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/mknepprath/status/1247934698749394945">Michael Knepprath</a> wants to see our files. Unfortunately we can't share our real-world files, but we'll try to think of something we could do...</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/ericchen0121/status/1248752896973234176">Eric Chen</a> is back in the past listening to episode 264. Luckily a designer is never late, they arrive exactly when they intend to.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Sharing our sha