Posts About Mistakes
Let's Make Mistakes: Making LIVE Mistakes
Episode #49: Mike and Katie broke out their best clothes and the swear jar to record Let’s Make Mistakes in front of a live studio audience in San Francisco. They discuss how to do your best design work regardless of what type of design work you do and when you happen to realize what the best solution is. And they start a discussion about the issue of brogramming in the tech industry and being responsible for your work. There is an awful lot of talk about breast feeding and a few special guests.
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Written by Tina Lee on May 15, 2012 with 0 comments | 
Let's Make Mistakes: Dining or Designing Alone
Episode #48: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum present their shortest Let’s Make Mistakes ever. They talk about Moneyball, Jonah Hill’s diet, and doing things alone like going to a movie and/or designing things. They have very strong feelings about the new Brooklyn Nets design and the public reception of the direction. The show itself is so short in part because they are saving some of the super cool stuff they recorded for an even more amazing show in a few weeks and, in other part, in anticipation of their impending recording in front of a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE. One of them is scared and the other is so psyched. You can hear it in their voices.
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Written by Tina Lee on May 15, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: There’s No Shaming in Design
Episode #47: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum do battle against passive-aggressive behavior in client services. Mike gets super mad, and Katie looks forward to wading through the hate mail. They also discuss the varied glories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and “how much is too much” of your personality online. Mike’s NPR voice is back too. Enjoy.
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Written by Tina Lee on May 1, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Getting Straight to Design
Episode #46: Katie tries to get straight to the design part of the show, and Mike waxes poetic about the most popular boys’ names in the UK. They discuss the delicate balance of research and relationship management you need to use when deciding to work with clients and deciding when you need to not work with them anymore. They also talk about their graduate school experiences and their application to their current jobs.
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Written by Tina Lee on April 27, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: “Teaching Clients” and Gendering Pets
Episode #45: In this episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike asks Katie the eternal question, “Have you ever seen a dog doing a cat?” While somehow being more interested in pet reproductive behaviors than ever and creating the concept of “Paula Deen Brain”, they delve into the problems of thinking you can “teach” your clients and messed up attitudes toward research.
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Written by Tina Lee on April 19, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: One Year of Mistakes Down
Episode #44: After nearly 365 days on the internet airwaves, Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum look back at what mistakes they have wrought and discuss the process of writing about your work while you still have to do your work. In their walk down memory lane, they flashback to an old deleted scene from a show that illustrates Mike’s regional difficulties with pronunciation.
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Written by Tina Lee on April 19, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Meet Matt Haughey
Episode #43: With Katie away from making mistakes for a week, Mike invites Matt Haughey and Jessie Char for a conversation about Disneyland, business strategy, and BENGAY®.
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Written by Tina Lee on April 5, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Another Stupid RFP Process
Episode #42: Mike and Katie discuss why RFP processes are stupid and lead to bad work.
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Written by Tina Lee on March 27, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: One Time in a Card House with Stephanie Morgan…
Episode #41: Stephanie Morgan, game producer to the game stars, stops in to chat with Mike and Katie about hot spots, self-flagellation, and not about casino buffets. When they have a few minutes, they discuss “gamification” in its most meaningful as well as its most useless forms. Stephanie shares her past as a professional card player and some deep analysis of gameplay. This show rocks. As a bonus, Katie doesn’t actually throw up in this episode, but Mike tries his hardest to instigate.
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Written by Tina Lee on March 20, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Let's Fight!
Episode #40: Katie asks Mike why he enjoys picking fights on Twitter so much.
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Written by Tina Lee on February 28, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Pride and Responsibility
Episode #39: In this week’s episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike and Katie talk about handling repercussions of your past work relationships and designers’ responsibility when they run into a project or an idea they don’t like. The theme song of the week is Iron Man.
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Written by Tina Lee on February 21, 2012 with 0 comments |
Let's Make Mistakes: Portuguese Inquisition
Episode #9: Mike takes his first steps as an interviewer while Katie sits in the hot seat about research methodology in design. The discussion veers into manipulation vs. getting the best out of people, how research helps talk clients out of bad ideas, and a lot about chocolate brown pants suits.
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Written by Tina Lee on June 13, 2011 with 0 comments |
