Podcast

#159 Politics or design? with Mike Monteiro

May 26, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:31:36

We locked Mike Monteiro in a room at From Business To Buttons here in Stockholm and had a chat. “So, do you want to talk about design or politics?” That was the question that Mike posed to the audience at the start of his presentation earlier in the day.

So we asked Mike the same. Suffice to say, we get into politics, ethics, business culture, and very much into how all of that is part of the fabric of design. Read More

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#158 Shoot for The Moon with Jaime Levy

May 12, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:25:33

Jaime Levy, author of UX Strategy joined us in the green room at From Business To Buttons. We talked about Jaime’s Hyperloop study – the personal journey that led her there and why. Andy Warhol, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk. We talk about the importance of having mentors and heroes no matter where you are on your career path.

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#157 Listener phone-in (part 2)

May 5, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:29:48

James, Per and Danwei were gathered in Studio Axbom to take questions from you, the listeners, in the 9th UX Podcast Listener phone-in.  This is part 2 of the highlights we’ve extracted the 2-hour live session.

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#FBTB17 interview with @monteiro

April 28, 2017 Event clip
This podcast is episode 2 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2017

We locked Mike Monteiro in a room at From Business To Buttons and had a chat. So, do you want to talk about design or politics? That was the question Mike posed at the start of his presentation earlier in the day. So we asked Mike the same. Suffice to say, we get into politics, ethics, and very much into how all of that is part of the fabric of design.

 

#FBTB17 interview with @dlichaw

April 28, 2017 Event clip
This podcast is episode 3 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2017

We got the chance to talk to Donna Lichaw again, this time in person, at From Business To Buttons. We discussed the complexity and usefulness of stories and storymapping when working with enterprise products – when the hero (user) of your product isn’t your customer.

 

#FBTB17 interview with @JaimeRLevy

April 28, 2017 Event clip
This podcast is episode 4 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2017

Jaime Levy joined us in the green room at From Business To Buttons. We talked about Jaime’s Hyperloop study – the personal journey that led her here and why. We talk about the importance of having mentors and heroes no matter where you are on your career path and the importance of validating the problem before diving in to designing the solution.
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#156 Listener phone-in (part 1)

April 28, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:32:16

James, Per and Danwei were gathered in Studio Axbom to take questions from you, the listeners, in the 9th UX Podcast Listener phone-in.  This is part 1 of the highlights we’ve extracted the 2-hour live session.

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#FBTB17 interview with @lil_dill

April 27, 2017 Event clip
This podcast is episode 5 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2017

Katie Dill from Airbnb joined us at From Business To Buttons. A journey is both offline and online. It all comes together in the user experience – but what happens when you, as a UX designer can’t control it all?
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#FBTB17 interview with @meyerweb

April 27, 2017 Event clip
This podcast is episode 1 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2017

Eric Meyer joined us straight off stage at From Business To Buttons. Through his own tragic exprience after the death of his young daughter Rebecca to cancer, Eric explains to us how the ideal outcome we design for isn’t the only outcome. We need to use our design skills to humanise the web.

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#155 Channels of misinformation with Alan Cooper

April 14, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:28:18

How are designers tackling the idea of ethics? We start the episode with Alan using politics and democracy as a vehicle for highlighting the importance of ethics in our work as digital practitioners and the massive impact our work has on the world.

We are the creators of the channels of misinformation and we can do something about it.

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#154 Closure experiences with Joe Macleod

March 31, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:44:45

We talk Closure experiences with Joe Macleod. The lack of endings was something that Joe kept noticing again and again. There are so many examples in the digital space where there wasn’t an end, or there was an expectation of controlled or ability to end – but the possibility of closure just doesn’t exist. The fabric of the internet is built to enable it to survive; to be eternal, yet endings – and death – are natural.

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#153 Ruthless Prioritisation

March 17, 2017 Podcast, Link show 00:33:49

Episode 153 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention.

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#152 Shortcuts

March 3, 2017 Podcast, Topic show 00:34:42

We take a deep dive into Keyboard shortcuts, or hotkeys in this topic show. We dig into how to decide and design what keyboard shortcuts to have in your web app. What are keyboard shortcuts? Are they the same thing as Accesskeys? What standards and conventions are there to follow? What are shortcut no-nos we should avoid? We try to shine some light on the topic and give your own list of recommendations about what you could do.

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#151 Liminal thinking with Dave Gray

February 17, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:38:49

Dave Gray wants to change the way you think. By changing the way you think you can achieve the change you want says Dave. His latest book Liminal Thinking gives you a set of principles and practices to follow.

Liminal Thinking is “the art of creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs”. We talk to Dave about the journey that led him to the concept of liminal thinking, find out what liminal thinking actually is and take a look at some of the principles and practices in the book.

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#150 Dark Patterns with Harry Brignull

February 3, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:34:46

Harry Brignull joins us to talk about “dark patterns”. Harry coined the phrase back in 2010 to describe the design patterns used on websites to deliberately trick us into doing something. Read More

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