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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.

(Listening time: 39 minutes)

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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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#149 War Stories with Steve Portigal

January 20, 2017 Podcast, Guest show 00:34:21

For a number of years Steve Portigal has been collecting user research war stories. The stories describe experiences researchers have had whilst doing fieldwork. Awkward, morally challenging, painful, unsuccessful.

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#148 Lostness

January 6, 2017 Podcast, Link show 00:32:13

Episode 148 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention.

The first article is Decision Frames: How Cognitive Biases Affect UX Practitioners.  Kathryn Whitenton explains how we are all vulnerable to cognitive biases and the way in which we frame our problems can bias our design decisions.

Article two is Agile Doesn’t Have a Brain. Jeff Gothelf argues that the reason that organisations are working in an agile manner has changed dramatically over the years and now they are looking for faster, rather than better, ways to satisfy business needs.

Our third article is The Complete Guide to Measuring Lostness. Tomer Sharon explains what this metric is and how it can be used to gauge how lost people are on your website or in your app.

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#147 Listener phone-in (part 2)

December 30, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:29:29

This is part 2 of highlights from our 8th UX Podcast Listener phone-in.  On a dark December afternoon James, Per and Danwei gathered in Studio Axbom to chat and take calls from you, the listeners for a 2-hour live show.

We discuss living in a VR world, chatbots and suicide prevention, mentoring and getting into UX after your studies. Read More

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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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Interview with @sarahdoody at #interactLDN 2016

October 19, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 6 of 6 recorded at Interact London 2016

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?

Interview with @leofrish at #interactLDN 2016

October 19, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 5 of 6 recorded at Interact London 2016

Leo Frishberg ended day 1 at Interact London with a talk about artefacts from the future. With the future arriving faster than we can create it, how can an innovator stay ahead? What’s the difference between a prototype and an artefact from the future?

 

Interview with @paminthelab at #interactLDN 2016

October 19, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 4 of 6 recorded at Interact London 2016

Pamela Pavliscak joined us right after her day 2 keynote to talk to us about when your internet things know how you feel. We talk about recognising and utilising emotions as part of a more connected world. What will happen when machines can know how we feel?

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Interview with @resmini at #interactLDN 2016

October 18, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 3 of 6 recorded at Interact London 2016

Professor Andrea Resmini is holding a presentation called Mapping cross channel ecosystems. Ahead of his talk, we get him to explain what this is and what it means for us as designers and the organisations we work with.