Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.
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Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.
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Designing and building HEY (Interview)
We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.
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Jonas Downey – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development
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