Today we caught up with Joel Califa, a design manager at Digital Ocean. In this episode we discuss the state of design Twitter, design quality and process, managing up, hiring designers, rethinking empathy, and so much more.

We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in.

We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat!

Sign up at Spectrum.chat, join the Design Details frequency, and share feedback in ~hugs-n-bugs!

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Joel on the Web:

• Website
• Twitter
• Dribbble
• Medium

Show Notes:

• NYC Live Design Details
• Full Stack Anxiety
• Digital Ocean
• Jesse Chase
• Soleio
• Soleio on Design Details
• Forrst
• Dribbble comment generator
• Managing Humans
• Jenna Zeigen
• Two Black Nerds
• Iheanyi Ekechukwu
• I. Romeo Kwihangana
• Spectrum
• Jon Gold
• Jon on Design Details
• Jakob Nielsen
• Dustin Senos
• Dustin on Design Details
• Out of Office Hours
• OOOH on Spectrum
• Caylee Betts
• Design Details feat. Athyuttam Reddy