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Welcome to Designer Vs Developer, a show that tries to solve the challenges
faced in the industry by opening a conversation between the two, providing
take aways, solutions to workflows, tools and discussions on everyday struggles.
This week Mustafa speaks to Paul Lewis, a Developer Advocate on the Google
Developer Relations Team, about whether we are born with a natural ability to
design & develop or whether life opportunities and our environment that we
grew up in dictates our successes.
In this episode:
If nature or nurture dictates our talents
Are designers and developers holding themselves back?
Paul's media app - Shaka Player
What is it like as a developer to have a design eye?
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