David Brittain - SE08 / EP09
Channel: Mike Rohde
Date: 2020-11-16

In this episode, I talk with David Brittain, a co-founder of the powerful drawing tool, Concepts. We talk about David’s path into programming, the philosophy and origin story of Concepts for tablets. If you haven’t considered Concepts before, this discussion will give you insights into why Concepts works the way it does.

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RUNNING ORDER
* Intro: Who is David?
* David’s path into visualization
* Transition and integration points
* Moving from gaming into visualization
* Collaboration with co-founder Ben Merill
* The process Concepts uses for feature development
* Quality software over release dates for release sake
* The philosophy behind Concepts
* The benefits of a vector-based drawing tool
* The Concepts object library feature
* New features: Align and Snap-to-Grid 
* New features: Export Selection
* New features: Presentation Mode
* Tools
* 3 tips
* Outro

LINKS
* Concepts Website - https://concepts.app
* Concepts YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz8ZTaWRf5jkrUiKUvVnGFQ
* David on Twitter- https://twitter.com/combinatorial
* David on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/combinatorial/ 
* David on Flickr- https://www.flickr.com/photos/combinatorial/
* Davi’s Email - David -at- concepts.app
* Superscape on Wikipedia- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscape
* Co-founder Ben Merrill on Twitter- https://twitter.com/benmerrill
* Remote Work is a Platform- https://m.signalvnoise.com/remote-work-is-a-platform/ - Jason Fried
* Concepts Learn to Draw Series: 
 * Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZxfVp_fSc
 * Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12N_zVtLrs_
 * Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCOb5a3Q7Jk
 * Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xT6fWBdzE

TOOLS
* Slack- https://slack.com
* Github- https://github.com
* Google Office- https://www.google.com/docs/about/
* Figma- https://www.figma.com

3 TIPS
1. Warm up before you sketchnote
2. Use our learn to draw series of videos to improve
3. Get feedback from others on how you can improve

CREDITS
Producer: Alec Pulianas
Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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