Series: From Business to Buttons 2024

From Business to Buttons, 24 May 2024, in Stockholm Sweden – Scandinavia’s premier User Experience and Service Design Conference.

UX Podcast was there and recorded interviews with 5 of the speakers backstage at Cirkus, Stockhlolm.

The Great Amazon Heist with Oobah Butler

This podcast is episode 1 of 5 recorded at From Business to Buttons 2024

S03E02 (#330). Oobah Butler, journalist and filmmaker known for his prankster antics, joined us to discuss his work, including “The Great Amazon Heist” and “The Shed at Dulwich”. Oobah highlights the relative ease of manipulating algorithms, such as TripAdvisor and Amazon, to boost fake products’ rankings.

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Murky middle with Christina Joy Whittaker

This podcast is episode 2 of 5 recorded at From Business to Buttons 2024

S03E03 (#331). Your destiny isn’t tied to a role. You were a person before your role. Leadership expert and strategist Christina Joy Whittaker talks to us about the murky middle, a phenomenon rooted in misalignment and purpose and quite distinct from imposter syndrome which is rooted in confidence.

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More systems thinking with Sheryl Cababa

This podcast is episode 3 of 5 recorded at From Business to Buttons 2024

S03E04 (#332). Two years on from when Sheryl Cababa released Closing The Loop, her book about systems thinking for designers, we hear Sheryls reflections and insights about what she’s learnt during that time and we grapple with the challenge of applying system thinking as designers “out of the box”.

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Defending against evil with Aarathi Krishnan

This podcast is episode 4 of 5 recorded at From Business to Buttons 2024

S03E06 (#334). Aarathi Krishnan is an international aid expert, specialising in humanitarian futures and strategic foresight. In a world where the sets of rules that have governed us as humanity are rapidly changing, how will we know if the solutions that we are designing now are going to be fit for purpose?

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Service literacy with Lou Downe

This podcast is episode 5 of 5 recorded at From Business to Buttons 2024

S03E07 (#335). Lou Downe, author of Good Services and former director of design for the UK government joins us in this episode. We sat down with Lou and asked—Where is service design going wrong, and are we even doing service design?

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