Favorite App: ESPN Score Center, and I probably can’t live without Pandora.
What inspires you? All sorts of stuff. Jogging. The visual world. Newspaper and magazines. Stuff. I constantly try to expose myself to new stuff, but you also have to give yourself time to process and digest it. Read, read, read. Look. Watch. Expand. Give yourself the chance to think.
Brain food: Trail mix, spaghetti. I can probably eat spaghetti my whole life.
Advice you live by: Be positive. Find solutions. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Keep learning all the time. Have fun.
Where do you go when you get stuck? Talk with the writer, specialists on the topic. Find out what’s important about the story.
Advice you live by: Enjoy what you are doing.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I shut my brain, go fishing or go for a walk.
Brain food: I don’t eat when I design.
Advice you live by: Indulge myself, and be happy.
What inspires you? I’m most intrigued to look at design decision from high-profile companies like Facebook and Apple. They have an ability to make people learn new behaviors that I’m fascinated by.
Where do you go when you get stuck? Usually to get some coffee.
Song that describes you: An album I go to when I have a lot of work to do is OK Computer.
What inspires you? Architecture. I like to look at interior and exterior design, the design of spaces.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I like to move around, walk around. Seeing the space outside.
Advice you live by: Seek out interesting companions.
What inspires you? Students. We are living in a very inspiring time — the new technology available, multimedia tools.
Where do you go when you get stuck? Clean the house. Vacuum.
Brain food: I don’t eat when I work. I eat when I’m done!
Advice you live by: Care about what you do. Be passionate about love and family.
What inspires you? Art work, paintings. […] To discover how people inspired each other is really inspiring.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I feed off of people. I go to other people to kick ideas around; I get energy from people. […] I’ll yell and they can hear me, or I’ll dial someone up.
Song that describes you: An old song called “The Mighty Quinn,” just because of my name.
Advice you live by: Shake it off.
Favorite App: Tweetbot. They have a really good UX and have taken advantage of a lot of things that Twitter hasn’t. Like swiping left for the past and swiping right for the future … part of UX is doing what makes sense on a subconscious level.
What inspires you? I would say architecture. I wanted to be an architect and slightly studied some areas of it. I’m kind of just an architecture nut. I think of some of the apps I work on as doing architecture, like a building where it all has to make sense and all has to function. […] No one ever asks an architect whether they’re an artist or an engineer. When people ask if I’m a designer or a developer, I usually say I’m an architect.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I like to walk a lot. Or ’cause sometimes walking is even more frustrating in D.C., I go to the Hirshhorn Museum of Art. You can walk around the whole building in a circle, so I can walk and still look at all the art and the installations.
Song that describes you: “Passenger Side” by Wilco. The whole song is about not having as much control as you maybe want to, but realizing you have to let it go. I have a hard time with that sometimes because I’m a perfectionist with design.
Brain food: I eat sushi a lot, because it is brain food — potassium, vitamins. I’d say noodles really — really good plain ramen or soba noodles, handmade. It forces you to stop, you can’t just snack on it at your desk.
Advice you live by: It’s a quote from Albert Einstein. “Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited and imagination encircles the world.” The only way you’re going to learn is by challenging what people tell you you can’t do, or what’s already been proven one way. I think I have a lot of friends who don’t even have a degree from college and are really good developers. What I did to challenge myself was to take the classes I wanted to take. Some were still for my majors, but many were classes that most people didn’t take, like organic chemistry for a science class.
What inspires you? It’s really simple stuff. New ideas. A lot of the stuff the New York Times does is really inspiring. I love to see all sorts of different things and different stuff that people have built. There are so many good ideas.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I go to music.
Advice you live by: Don’t settle for mediocrity. I was a band geek when I was in high school and college, and that was the one thing that I remember from my band instructor.
What inspires you? When something transcends language. When the user experience feels distinctively natural, when I know what I should do, when I know where I should go.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I walk around, I go away for a while and then come back. What I usually do is I’ll go hang out with my family and think about it and come back to it later.
Advice you live by: Most of us improve incrementally. It just takes little improvements — daily, weekly, monthly — to get better.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I have a huge archive — it used to be on Delicious, now it’s on Pinboard — where I catalog inspiration and things to read. It’s my lifeline for everything.
Advice you live by: Lately I’ve been focused on trying to find a better balance. That’s a life thing, not a design thing.
What inspires you? Good content. Designing things that help people get to really great content is what gets me really excited.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I walk away.
Advice you live by: You should absolutely do what you love because there are too many good jobs out there and not enough good people to do them.
Favorite App: The navigational things that come with iOS. Maps is very useful. I also love Tweetbot, and I’m on Instagram all the time.
What inspires you? In the context of this competition, I’m inspired by the fact that people are trying to show the best work that they’ve got. You see a lot of different approaches to the same problem. What’s also inspiring is that people are still willing to try despite the constraints of the economy, not having a lot of people or even knowing that, say, the New York Times is going to win a lot of things.
Where do you go when you get stuck? If I’m coding, I try to do something that’s not coding. I listen to a lot of podcasts: Planet Money, More or Less, 99% Invisible. If I’m writing, I’ll go for a walk or do the dishes. I’m also learning Korean. I like challenging myself by learning a whole different language — but an achievable one — it’s fascinating in a lot of ways.
Brain food: I eat a lot of plain Greek yogurt with cherry preserves. Or carrots with peanut butter.
Advice you live by: Be the best version of yourself you possibly can. Also: Talking is good; making is better. It’s important to discuss things like we’re doing here, but if you never actually make anything, it’s just hot air.
Where do you go when you get stuck? I go for a walk.
Brain food: Walnuts and apricots, at the same time!
Advice you live by: Relax.
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