{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"State of Play","title":"Josh Puckett: Design Has Never Been More in Demand. So Why Can't Juniors Get Hired?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2435,"description":"Josh Puckett went goblin mode for four weeks to ship Interface Craft — a course where you pick a library card, sign your name on it, and insert it into a web interface that unlocks everything behind it.\nHe's been designing for close to 20 years. Dropbox. Wealthfront. He's mentored and placed hundreds of designers through Upper Study. He invests into early-stage tools companies through Combine VC.\nWe talk phantom competency, uncommon care, why a chef who cooks one new dish a week should probably find a different career, and whether \"AI native\" is a real skill or just the new \"mobile designer.\"\nGet the UX Tools Newsletter (written by me)\nJoin 100,000+ designers for weekly insights on creative software and the people shaping it: https://uxtools.co\nCHAPTERS:\n00:00 - \"You have to demonstrate high slope\"\n00:14 - Who is Josh Puckett\n01:53 - Coming out of the Interface Craft launch\n04:03 - Goblin mode & going dark to build\n04:45 - The Wealthfront chapter: 4-person design team\n05:49 - Has design actually changed?\n08:22 - Phantom competency & AI as apprenticeship\n09:34 - LLMs as tutors: where they help, where they miss\n11:20 - What are you telling designers right now?\n12:32 - Uncommon effort vs. uncommon taste\n16:19 - Discovery has changed: social as a portfolio\n19:18 - \"AI native\" is just the new \"mobile designer\"\n21:50 - High slope: what it looks like\n24:10 - The playground pattern\n25:47 - What to do with the anxiety\n29:31 - Uncommon care: just give a shit\n31:44 - Shot selection: where to invest your time\n35:31 - What multi-perspective gives you\n37:30 - Product design is not art\n38:42 - Why designers are the least happy with AI\n39:52 - One post away from changing your life\nABOUT STATE OF PLAY\nHost Tommy Geoco discovers what fuels the internet's most interesting designers and builders.\nLINKS:\nInterface Craft: https://interfacecraft.dev/\nUpper Study: https://upperstudy.com\nFollow Josh: https://x.com/joshpuckett\nFOLLOW ME:\nX / Twitter: https://x.com/designertom\nInstagram:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Q4goNjMCyLVJblsVd-hc65Y9xpTGIkbjq5L00Huluhg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTM4/NTdjYjhlYmI5NzU0/YjRlNDNkMjFiNDgy/NTRhNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}