Pragmatics Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

How is AI changing the way we discover music? In this episode, we dive into the rise of algorithmic curation, its impact on musical exploration, and what it means for our sense of community and creativity. From Spotify playlists to niche discoveries, we explore the balance between machine precision and human connection in the world of music.

The hardest part of UX is never designing the interface—it’s all the human factors that we need to manage. Over the last 10 years building software, we’ve come across 3 situations that consistently get in the way of great work. These are:

1. A key stakeholder isn’t making a critical decision
2. Not getting approval for user research
3. Competing constraints from different stakeholders

Thank you so much for tuning in. Tell us about the struggles you’ve experienced and what you’ve done to overcome them in the comments.

We've been thinking a lot about how Pragmatics Studio team will grow. In this episode we give into those thoughts and explore our rationale behind when and how we'll start hiring. 

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Though we're more comfortable moving pixels around, we take a stab at calculating our cash flow so that we can see what numbers we need to make our business work. If you're starting out with freelancing or thinking of starting a studio but you're scared of spreadsheets, this one is for you.

We used Shopify's great cashflow forecast template and tweaked it so it made more sense to us.

Here's a link directly to the Shopify spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eq1CE8quJei-Lgt_1DdMVzxgv8v-ROpLQiKHT7okHgM/edit#gid=2137285335

You can read more about it from Shopify's website here: https://www.shopify.ca/blog/cash-flow-management

In this first video podcast, we talk about how we are launching our design studio without spending much time building a custom website or branding. A lot of the time, designers get stuck perfecting details before they've even validated if anyone wants to hire them and what clients want to learn about their business.  Subscribe to our channel to see the podcasts as they launch. 

Links from the podcast: 

• Notion startup credits: https://www.notion.so/startups
• Mmm website builder: https://mmm.page/
• Allan's portfolio: https://www.allan-macdonald.com/
• Charlie's portfolio: https://www.charliegedeon.com/
• Pragmatics' Notion site: http://pragmatics.studio

Welcome to the ShiftSlash podcast where designers Allan and Charlie explore what it means to start a new design agency in 2022. 

Check out our placeholder website: http://pragmatics.studio

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the video update: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6pQ-KVljjtPm4wv7L7XBbw

Follow us on LinkedIn to find out when we're hiring: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pragmatics-studio

We've learned so much about the business of starting a studio and we wanted to share these learnings with you guys now that it's been a year. Can't wait to see how things will be in another year from now 😂.

To watch our UX analyses, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6pQ-KVljjtPm4wv7L7XBbw

Design tools like Figma are amazing at helping designers become more productive at creating designs, but they often leave behind the people working around the designers like developers and product managers. In this episode we discuss our recently launched FigDone, our recently launched Figma plugin, which is trying to help bridge that gap.

• Learn more about the history of the infinite canvas
• Read more about FigDone
• Try FigDone in your workflow

FigDone is a collaboration between Pragmatics Studio and Adam Albarghouthi.

Credits: Shin Ling Low (Editor)

We're back from some much needed vacations and we're excited to be recording these from the same room now!

In this episode we're asking questions about how much "good" we're doing for the people and world around us. Are we achieving our goals as a studio to do meaningful work? Can a studio ever really fulfill that ideal?

Many beginners feel trapped by their physical abilities when it comes to creative work. You don't have to! Sometimes all it takes is just jumping in and trying stuff out to see where it takes you.