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#146 Listener phone-in (part 1)

December 23, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:28:12

James, Per and Danwei open the video channels for the 8th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. On a dark December afternoon gathered in Studio Axbom to chat and take calls from you, the listeners. This is part 1 of the highlights we’ve extracted the 2-hour live session.

We discuss sketching for unusual environments, working backwards, designing VR interfaces, The MBA and Dongles, plus web apps v native apps.

In the full phone-in available on YouTube we also talk about living in a VR world, chatbots and suicide, mentoring, getting into UX after your studies, scrolling, organising design critiques, and panettone!

Our guest in part 1 was Gabe Medina.

You can also listen to Part 2 of highlights from our December phone-in.

(Listening time: 29 minutes)

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#145 Complexity with Jonas Söderström

December 9, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:39:26

Jonas Söderström joins us to talk about complexity. We like to think that we have make the world better through digitalisation, but perhaps all of the productivity gains were actually in the very early days of computing. We hear of the Productivity paradox, the tendency for Feature creep and how we should be pulling down old systems in order to return to simplicity. But how do we actually do it?

(Listening time: 39 minutes)

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#144 Anticipatory design & cross-channel ecosystems with Sarah Doody & Andrea Resmini

November 25, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 0:33:32

Sarah Doody joined us to talk about anticipatory design. What if we didn’t need to find and search through information to help us make decisions. What if instead, information came to us at the right time and with the right context?

Professor Andrea Resmini discusses mapping cross-channel ecosystems. We asked Andrea to explain what cross-channel ecosystems are and what benefit mapping them gives to us as designers and the organisations we work with.

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#143 Chatbots & emotional data with Daniel Harvey & Pamela Pavliscak

November 11, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:38:11

In a chat based world, the words are the UI. Rather than tapping or clicking, we’re writing and responding. Daniel Harvey talked to us about chatbots and AI and how we are heading for a future where appstores are going to be replaced by botstores. Read More

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#142 Presumptive design & Explaining yourself with Leo Frishberg & Lou Rosenfeld

October 28, 2016 Podcast, Guest show, Event show 00:34:30

We don’t generally have a problem considering objects from the past. Speculating about what they are and how they might have been used. We could look at artefacts from the future in a similar manner. We talk to Leo Frishberg about presumptive design and how you can use that as a provocative design research tool.

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#140 Storymapping with Donna Lichaw

September 30, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:36:23

Donna Lichaw is the author of The User’s Journey. In the book Donna explains the idea of storymapping. How, when, and why to use narrative structure in your design work. During our chat we learn more about narrative structure, storymapping, “origin stories” and how brand stories and storymapping are connected.

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#139 Education & Leadership with Evgenia Grinblo & Melissa Perri (Part 2)

September 23, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:29:01

In part 2 of our two part chat with Melissa Perri and Evgenia Grinblo about education and leadership, we ask why are we doing all this stuff? The importance of metrics, incentives and leadership. Caring about your team and keeping them on track.

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#138 Education & Leadership with Evgenia Grinblo & Melissa Perri (Part 1)

September 16, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:27:29

We found ourselves talking separately to Melissa Perri and Evgenia Grinblo about education within the UX and design industry. So we brought them both into the same room and pressed record.

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#137 Design leadership with Andy Budd

September 2, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:36:00

We talk to Andy Budd about design leadership. As our relatively young industry matures and expands, many people are moving from being UX practitioners to being UX leaders, or design leaders.

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#136 Creativity with Denise Jacobs & Chris Noessel

August 19, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:37:17

“Unfold your brain – Skyrocket your creative ability” was the title of Denise Jacobs’s highly interactive workshop at UXLx this spring. We talked to Denise about how to banish our inner critic and the mental blocks that get in the way of creative thinking. We also talked about how you can improve focus and get your brain into a state where you access creative ideas best.

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#135 Asian e-commerce & Object Oriented UX with Stephanie Rieger & Sophia Voychehovski

August 5, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:36:07

We live in a bit of a western-world UX-bubble. Stephanie Rieger joined us in the first half of this episode to give us a glimpse into how things are in Asia. Amongst other things we talk about social media as an eCommerce platform and the dominance of marketplaces.

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#134 Material design with Richard Fulcher

July 22, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:30:00

Since its launch in 2014, Google’s design framework – Material Design has been gathering momentum and spreading beyond its original focus of mobile applications.

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#133 Animation and Fairytale UX with Val Head & Per Axbom

July 8, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:30:06

At UXLx James and Per both attended Val Head’s workshop to learn more about animation in online interfaces. The workshop gave us some excellent examples and Val had us experiment with prototyping animation. In this interview we learn a bit more about animation best practices and how animation for example can help with spatial orientation, feedback mechanisms and communicating your brand.

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#132 Listener phone-in

June 24, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:28:32

James, Per and Danwei open the video channels for the 7th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. On a warm Friday afternoon in June we took questions and calls from listeners. We’ve extracted some highlights from the 2-hour live session and condensed them into this regular 30 minute episode.

The topics covered in this listener phone-in were: Guerrilla research, ridiculous services you wish didn’t exist, and finding work.

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#131 Ranch stories with Alan Cooper (Part 2)

June 17, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:34:26

Alan Cooper was the closing keynote on the speaker day at UXLx 2016. Alan, the creator of visual basic and co-founder of design agency Cooper, hasn’t made so many public appearances in recent years. Instead he’s been concentrating on running Monkey Ranch – his farmstead in the hills of Petaluma, California.

In part two of our two-part interview, Alan discusses capitalism, entrepreneurship and our (perhaps unconscious) movement of community resources into the hands of corporations. Alan says that it’s clear that we (as designers) have more power than we realise. We can change the world for the better. Read More

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