Travis Neilson on Skills Gap, Design, Focus and Working at Google

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk to Travis Neilson about his career at Google, the challenges he faced, how to choose projects tips for devs wanting to get better at design, and more. Stackbit - Sponsor Build modern JAMStack websites in minutes. Stackbit lets you combine any theme, site generator and CMS without complicated integrations. Join the beta today by visiting stackbit.com/syntaxfm. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get up and running by typing npm i -g @sanity/cli && sanity init in your command line. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Show Notes 2:43 - Career path On ambitions and where it all started 23:15 - Being all in On how to choose your next project 33:31 - Working at Google On the day-to-day at Google, the challenges of a big team, and constraints 43:23 - Design tips for developers Advice for devs who want to get better at design but are struggling Thoughts on CSS frameworks The one thing devs often get wrong about design Links Travis Neilson’s Website Travis Neilson’s Podcasts Helvetica — Gary Hustwit How one typeface took over movie posters Just My Type: A Book About Fonts Work-Life Balance is a Joke ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Travis: Cults and Extreme Belief and Google Method Podcast Scott: Sony Noise Canceling Headphones WH1000XM3 Wes: Little People Big Dreams Book Series Shameless Plugs Wes’ Courses & Wes’ Youtube Animating React How to Use Adobe XD Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax, this is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there got a little bit of a
0:15.7	What do you would you call this cut today a special treat? I say it's a special treat an extra
0:20.6	Spiky someone's coming over for dinner.
0:22.6	Yes.
0:25.4	Today we have Travis Nielsen who is a developer designer at Google.
0:31.3	He's got a how to popular YouTube channel, all kinds of really interesting stuff.
0:35.6	We're excited to talk to him today.
0:37.4	Before we get into anything, even saying hi to Travis, we are sponsored by two actual
0:41.7	jam stack companies today.
0:43.6	First one is Stack Bit, which is going to be themes for your jam stack website,
0:47.4	and second is sanity, which is going to be your headless CMS
0:51.6	on your jam stack.
0:52.6	So welcome, Travis, welcome Scott, how you guys doing today?
0:56.0	I'm doing good.
0:56.9	I'm so excited to have Travis on the podcast here
0:59.1	because Travis and I known each other for quite a little while
1:01.7	through YouTube, stopping up at conferences, hanging
1:04.1	out a little bit. So Travis, how's it going?
1:06.5	Oh, it's really good. Thanks for inviting me to be on the show. And good morning to everybody
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