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Episode #164: State of UX Ohio

Keith Instone and Adam Deardurff join the show to talk about their work doing research for the State of UX in Ohio. We talk about common issues facing many UX communities, but now armed with research.

Episode #163: Research Plans and Protocols

Episode #162: Design Systems

We take a brief detour to talk about running Chatbots locally on Guthrie's Mac, and then talk about some issues that design systems have been facing, and why most organizations have trouble with design systems.

Episode #161: Are Screens Good?

Tech is always looking for the next big thing to replace our old way of doing things. Screens have been around for decades, but are they actually the best? Do we need to move beyond screens? Are screens good?

Episode #160: A 2024 Prospective, Big Topics For The Upcoming Year

We make some predictions about what some of the big UX trends of 2024 will be. Happy New Year!

Episode #159: Todd Cherches Visits The Show

Todd Cherches visits the show to talk about visual leadership, management books, and frogs jumping into ponds.

Episode #158: UX Creativity

If you are in UX how do you satisfy your creative outlet? What sorts of hobbies and work strategies exist to make you feel fulfilled?

Episode #157: Book Publishing

We discuss our experience publishing numerous books, how the book publishing industry has changed, and what to do if you want to publish a book.

Episode #156: Ease vs Resiliancy

We discuss the dynamic between ease and resiliancy, the easier life is, the less resiliant people, or users, might be in the future.

Episode #155: Antitrust

We discuss the upcoming antitrust lawsuits that might be coming for the biggest of tech companies.

Episode #154: Projects Vs. Squads

We discuss the pros/cons of UX teams working in a project or squad formation.

Episode #153: Dean Visits The Show Episode 6: Objects and Views Part 6

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to conclude Objects and Views for Part 6, covering where do Objects and Views fit within the broader design context?

Episode #152: Dean Visits The Show Episode 5: Objects and Views Part 5

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 5, covering metaphor.

Episode #151: Dean Visits The Show Episode 4: Objects and Views Part 4

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 4, covering Spotify as an example and answering the question "is cheesecake cake or pie?"

Episode #150: Dean Visits The Show Episode 3: Objects and Views Part 3

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 3, covering more history and background of how we got to today.

Episode #149: Dean Visits The Show Episode 2: Objects and Views Part 2

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 2, covering the history and background of how Objects and Views sprung up.

Episode #148: Dean Visits The Show Episode 1: Objects and Views

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views, the first of several episodes with Dean.

Episode #147: End of The Social Web Era

Have we turned a corner on the era of the social web? Have we moved into a different phase of the internet?

Episode #146: Designing For Centralization vs. Decentralization

We talk about the differences in philosophy between designing for centralization or decentralization.

Episode #145: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 8

This episode is our last for this lecture series. We talk about design systems and dive deeper into the intersection between UX and service/marketing design and design systems.

Episode #144: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 7

This episode is an introduction to behavioral design, and the intersection of service design/marketing and UX.

Episode #143: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 6

This episode is about mental and conceptual models Part 2. Very abstract but very important, but now we are digging deeper.

Episode #142: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 5

This episode is about mental and conceptual models. Very abstract but very important.

Episode #141: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 4

This episode is about UX and Design Research, talking more deeply about the topic with examples.

Episode #140: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 3

This episode is about UX and Design Research, history and background.

Episode #139: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 2

We continue our Lecture Series about collaboration. We focus on applying the research to some specific collaboration techniques.

Episode #138: 2023 Lecture Series Episode 1

We continue our Lecture Series about the topic of collaboration. We talk about some of the psychology research about how we solve problems, communicate, be creative, and listen.

Episode #137: Burnout

We talk about burnout, how to identify it, how it affects people, what's normal, and what the future of UX burnout is.

Episode #136: Guthrie Solo 1

Susan is out sick, so Guthrie has a short podcast talking about some internal goingsons and a new AI letter.

Episode #135: Microsoft

We talk about three big current events involving Microsoft, new AI hardware, Copilot, and Microsoft Loop.

Episode #134: Loss of Physical Design

We talk about the loss and taking for granted of physical design skills. Is there a generation of UXers and designers who can't design for the real world?

Episode #133: ChatGPT Part 2, The Death of UX and Other Disruptions

Part 2. We look at AI and UX and how it might be disruptive as a microcosm for potential future changes.

Episode #132: The Case For Making ChatGPT Illegal Part 1

We make a simple case for regulating advanced AI past a certain point. Part 1.

Episode #131: Catching Up

We catch up and talk about some of the big topics that happened in 2022 while we were on break. What a big year!

Episode #130: Metrics

We talk about how hard it is to design good metrics because it touches so many tricky areas of the industry.

Episode #129: Tech Jumps and UI

We talk about the upcoming tech jump over the next few years, and what that might mean for user interfaces, and UI design. Are there any lessons from the past?

Episode #128: Hypothesis Testing in UX

We talk about hypothesis testing in UX. It's fun! You should try it.

Episode #127: Video Conferencing

We talk about ways to improve video conferencing, and what is holding it back. We take a diversion about the history of Teams and Skype. Sorry for our network troubles.

Episode #126: Margot Bloomstein Visits The Show

We talk to Margot Bloomstein about how companies can foster trust and content across their different branches, and how to develop that important consistency of communication.

Episode #125: Industrial Design and Human Factors

We talk about a relative of UX, Industrial Design and Human Factors. Don't forget about the interesting work going on in this related field.

Episode #124: Musical Notation

We talk about musical notation, and if the confusing history has any lessons for us in other fields.

Episode #123: Brain Research Thoughts

We talk about a great series on Youtube about brain research, and other brain research thoughts.

Episode #122: Metaverse Thoughts Part 4 (Not Terrible Internet)

We talk about what a Web 3.0 future looks like if it was all about making the internet not terrible and unsafe and full of trolls.

Episode #121: Why People Are Changing Jobs

We talk about the motivations behind why people change jobs, and what employers can do to retain talent.

Episode #120: Metaverse Thoughts Part 3 (Trust)

We talk about how creating new platforms is harder today after years of trust erosion.

Episode #119: UX Strategy

Susan talks about how to implement UX Strategy.

Metaverse Thoughts Part 2

We talk about UX and the metaverse, crypto, NFTs and the challenge of mental models for the Web 3.0.

Episode #118: Metaverse Thoughts Part 2

We talk about UX and the metaverse, crypto, NFTs and the challenge of mental models for the Web 3.0.

Episode #117: Metaverse Thoughts Part 1

We talk about UX and the metaverse, VR vs AR adotption guesses, and other metaverse related thoughts.

Metaverse Thoughts Part 1

We talk about UX and the metaverse, VR vs AR adotption guesses, and other metaverse related thoughts.