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247: Give A Goat A Gobstopper (feat. Kyle Turman)

SpecFM/Design Details · May 9, 2018 at 4:31pm

247: Give A Goat A Gobstopper (feat. Kyle Turman)

SpecFM / Design Details · May 9, 2018 at 4:31pm

Today, we caught up with Kyle Turman, a product designer on the design systems team at Etsy. In this episode we dig into Kyle's work at Etsy on building seller-facing design systems, working remotely, the value of craft, and Bryn and Brian get a free therapy session.

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May 9, 2018 at 9:55pm

Diana is broccolini@broccolini

9:55pm

Such a punny episode! Loved it :)

May 11, 2018 at 1:14am

Kevin Gutowski@kev

1:14am

Wow the puns were so good

May 11, 2018 at 2:33am

Joe Strouth@joestrouth1

2:33am

Wordplay in this episode was off the charts

May 11, 2018 at 5:15am

Bryn Jackson@bryn

5:15am

I live to serve 🙃

May 11, 2018 at 6:54pm

Kyle Turman@kyleturman

6:54pm

Thanks for having me on! If you're a glutton for *pun*ishment and made it all the way through the episode, here's the organization I was talking about in NYC that mentors high-school kids on how to code: https://scripted.org Definitely check it out if you live in that area.

May 11, 2018 at 9:41pm

Sarah@sarah

Teamβ

9:41pm

Seriously Kyle, you are ”yes, and“ personified

Kyle Turman@kyleturman

9:45pm

Sarah@sarah

Seriously Kyle, you are ”yes, and“ personified

I think I found my new Twitter bio

May 14, 2018 at 1:07pm

Mikhail@mikhail

1:07pm

No idea how you guys kept a straight face for most of that episode...must be @sarah's pro editing skills keeping it coherent!

May 14, 2018 at 7:41pm

Sarah@sarah

Teamβ

7:41pm

I'd like to take credit for that, @mikhail, but I think @brian did a better job of steering the conversation back on track than my fancy post production work :)