Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
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Two product designers talk Figma workflows, button sizing, and AI design tools weekly.
Design Details turns product design talk into a loose studio conversation. Brian Levin and Marshall Bach move from coffee banter into AI tools, button sizing, Figma habits, focus, desk ergonomics, and the tiny UI choices that quietly shape daily work.
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Design Details is a co-hosted, conversational design podcast rather than a guest-interview show; each week Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock talk through design practice, tools, and industry news between themselves. Some episodes center on a single practical question, such as how to size buttons across small, large, and modal contexts, or how to document type spacing rules in a design system. Others are structured as 'grab bag' or 'medley' episodes that string together shorter takes on emerging AI features in Figma and FigJam, critiques of shipped product redesigns, and reviews of design-adjacent gadgets. Recurring subject matter includes Figma workflow details (layer naming, AI-assisted flows, file hygiene), the generalist-versus-specialist debate in design careers, and how AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are or aren't useful for design work. The hosts read out and respond to listener-submitted questions from GitHub and Twitter, and shout out new supporters of the show's Patreon tier, called Very Important Pixels. Episodes typically end with each host sharing an unrelated recommendation — a film, TV series, or product — before wrapping up. There is no rotating guest roster in the sampled episodes; the two hosts carry the full conversation themselves. The show suits working product designers and design-adjacent engineers who want ongoing commentary on tools and process rather than long-form career profiles. Production is informal and conversational, with an established in-jokes and running-bit style built up over hundreds of episodes.
Made for: Working product designers and design-adjacent engineers who want ongoing, informal commentary on design tools, systems, and career tradeoffs.
What sets it apart: Unlike interview-format design podcasts, it's a long-running two-host conversation with no rotating guests, mixing focused how-to topics with loose grab-bag segments and listener questions.
A weekly conversation about design process and culture. Hosted by Marshall Bock and Brian Lovin.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Specific interface critiques and candid co-host debate make Design Details a practical guide to the judgment behind digital product design.
Design Details turns practical interface questions into clear arguments about how digital products should behave. Brian Levin and Marshall Bach work through button sizing, design systems, motion, and AI-assisted workflows by testing broad ideas against specific choices.
Button sizing becomes a spirited argument, and suddenly your design system has some explaining to do.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose but useful AI design conversation, strongest on the gap between FigJam messiness and Figma precision.
AI Grab Bag catches Design Details in a loose, caffeinated mode, with Brian Levin and Marshall Bach circling the parts of AI that feel genuinely useful and the parts that still feel like busywork.
A loose, useful design conversation that turns button sizing into a lesson in intent, context, and product judgment.
Design Details uses its medley format well, moving from seasonal banter into the small choices that make product interfaces feel intentional. Brian Levin and Marshall Black spend the strongest stretch on button sizing, treating it less as a fixed rule than a set of pressures:…
A relaxed, useful Design Details conversation about focus, breadth, and choosing a specialty without apologizing for curiosity.
Brian Lovin and Marshall Bach turn a question about focus into a useful argument for breadth with limits. Product design, as they frame it, is too wide a field to master all at once: code, prototyping, design systems, engineering vocabulary, and the thousand small fluencies that…
A loose but pointed Design Details grab bag on Gmail's Material You blues, macOS Ventura polish, and the messy reality of shipped interface design.
Design Details treats its third grab bag less like a junk drawer than a loose, talky design crit. Brian Levin and Marshall Bach move from supporter shout-outs and in-jokes into Gmail's Material You turn, especially the way color sampling can make an interface feel theoretically…
A sharp desk-design conversation about widgets, touch, platform questions, and the ergonomics of looking down.
A desk becomes a design problem with real stakes here: where screens belong, what touch suggests, and how much ambient information a work surface can carry before it turns into strain.
Stockholm hosts James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom interview UX and accessibility experts.
Four design-business owners, including Design Cuts' Tom Ross, talk pricing, agencies, and creative burnout.
Monocle's design team tours museums, furniture studios, and landmark houses each week.
Coffee shows up before the AI debate.
Pumpkin spice somehow makes the docket.
457 comes with a bit of math.
Grab bag, then the sidebar.
Ventura beta nerves are the opening note.