Guest show

#79 James & Per & Alissa get unbundled

With Facebook moving messaging to a separate app, unbundling has really hit the big time. What is app unbundling? Should you be adopting it as a strategy for your app/product? Piece of cake to pull off or hideous nightmare? We are joined by Alissa Briggs, Senior UX Manager at Intuit, to talk our way through the unbundling trend. Read More

#78 James & Per & You

In the style of a radio phone-in, James and Per open up the communication channels and talk to you the listener. We took calls live and blind not knowing who was going to ring and what we were going to talk about.

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#77 James & Per & Caroline answer your survey

Form and survey specialist and author Caroline Jarrett joins us on this episode of UX Podcast. Unsurprisingly we chat about surveys and forms beginning with the subject’s roots in data capture and motion studies. Amongst other things we talk about the four steps involved in answering a question and problems such as non-response error and coverage error. Read More

#75 James & Per & Dave share principles of agility

Dave Gray of Gamestorming fame joined us in Stockholm to share some stories around principles of agility. Patterns to guide you rather than dogma to rule you. Does your organisation have a culture that’s capable of being agile?  How do you survive in an agile environment and within connected teams? Read More

#74 James & Per at Intranätverk 2014

This podcast is episode 5 of 5 recorded at Intranätverk 2014

James and Per jumped on the early morning train from Stockholm and headed down to Gothenburg for the international day of Intranätverk 2014, a conference focusing on intranets and the digital workplace. Recent years have seen quite a change in the intranet scene, user centric design methods are increasingly common place in intranet projects.

We found time between presentations to record four interviews. We talked to Annika Appeltofft  and Helene Ekström about intranet governance at Ericsson and how user experience has been incorporate into how they develop and manage their intranet. We talked to Ingo Johansson about the onboarding process at NNE Pharmaplan which has just gone through a user centric revamp. We talk to Wedge Black about content tactics for your intranet. Finally we talk to Kristian Norling, the man behind the conference, about intranet trends.

(Listening time 52 minutes)

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#73 James & Per & Russ plan a workshop

James and Per are joined by Russ Unger to talk about workshops. How do you plan and create a workshop? How do you become an awesome facilitator?

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#71 James & Per & Jens gather insights

James and Per are joined in this episode by Jens Wedin to talk about design research. When should you do research? Why should you do it? How should you do it? How much is enough? Our discussion also goes into ways of working as a UX practitioner and we share a fair few tips. How do you move away from the wireframes business and become more of a UX-coach?

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#70 James & Per & Vimla

UX Podcast attended the launch of Vimla, a new mobile network developed start-up style by Telenor here  in Sweden that aims to be simple, open, and community driven. Read More

#69 James & Per & The Dirt Show

UX Podcast in Sweden stretches across 6000km of Atlantic ocean to join up with The Dirt Show in Boston for a crossover show. James and Per from UX Podcast along with Steve, Mark and Tim from The Dirt Show quiz each other about how UX and web development in the US and Europe.

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#67 James & Per & Anna talk deliverables

UX deliverables with Anna Dahlström. We look at the problem with UX deliverables, explore being tactical and adapting what you produce to the situation, dabble with mentoring and find time for a “fika”.

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#61 James & Per & Costas grumpily innovate

Costas Papaikonomou is The Grumpy Innovator and author of Thoughts from a Grumpy Innovator as well as one of the founding partners of the Happen group that specialises in helping organisations transform their innovation success rate.

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#60 James & Per & Jonas fill in forms

Web forms and form analytics. We’re joined (once he’d found the right garden!) by Jonas Arnklint from Stockholm-based start-up Revrise to talk about web forms.

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#58 James & Per & Mattias have beards

We meet up with Mattias Beijmo, founder of Duma and course leader for Web Management at Berghs School of Communication for a chat about beards. After the facial hair chat out of the way we ask Mattias how, back in the 90s, he got into the web branch.

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