UX Like Us
20 episodes - English -UX Like Us is a podcast for the User Experience community. Designers, researchers, analysts, strategists - even product managers and front-end developers - will feel right at home as we discuss the techniques, tools, and toys that help us bring great products to life.
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Episodes
2 Kinds of Design
September 13, 2019 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn our Season 2 premier, Larry King and Roman Bercot discuss why Industrial age design practices don’t hold up in the cloud era. Modern product design and development teams must adopt an iterative, experiment-driven approach. Inspired by thoughts from Christina Wodtke and Dan Brown here: https://twitter.com/brownorama/status/1170847783705858048?s=21. Photo by Martim Braz via Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/LrZb1PQeC3o --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
Everybody Isn’t Not a Designer
July 01, 2019 10:00 - 47 minutes - 86.4 MBSummary With #DesignTwitter becoming increasingly toxic, @LAKing and @Stuporman take on one of the issues making designers lose their minds: Is everyone a designer? We discuss a bit of background, why it matters, and our own takes on the issue as well as the dumpster fire design discourse has become. ----- Please consider leaving a quick review. It would help us a lot! iTunes Spotify Overcast ----- Follow the show on Twitter @UXLikeUs @LAKing @Stuporman --- Send in a voice...
Maturity Models to Advance Your Practice
June 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBSummary Roman Bercot and Larry King discuss a variety of maturity models and how to choose one that suits your needs. What is a maturity model? What is a model used for? Which model works best? Listen to this episode for most underrated tool in the designers tool belt. ----- Show Notes Nielson Norman Group - Corporate UX Maturity Jared Spool - Driving Product Teams To Become More Design Mature Jared Spool - The Flexibility of the Four Stages of Competence Leah Buley - User experience ...
UX Bootcamps - UX Like Us 17
May 27, 2019 22:46 - 42 minutes - 39 MBKelly Nakawatase (@UX_Kelly) joins the show to share her experience entering the design field as a graduate of General Assembly. ----- Show Notes Episode image: R. Lee Ermey and Arliss Howard in Full Metal Jacket (1987) Should you take a UX bootcamp? - https://medium.com/@uxkelly/should-you-take-a-ux-bootcamp-69acf44bec9f Lindsay Ellis - YouTube - https://youtu.be/KznZcK7ksf4 Hercules - https://youtu.be/KznZcK7ksf4 ----- Please consider leaving a quick review. It would help us a lot...
Do Designers Need Jobs to be Done?
April 22, 2019 06:31 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBSummary Roman Bercot and Larry King explore Clayton Christensen’s Jobs to be Done framework and whether product design professionals need this “occasionally useful gimmick.” What is a JTBD? Why should designers use them? How many milkshake jokes can we make? And the new Staples branding gets a nod on Stuff Designers Love. ----- Show Notes Clayton Christensen tells the Milkshake story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGtw2C95Ms Ash Maurya attempts to define Jobs to be Done - https://bl...
UX Like Us 15 - the Agile Manifesto
March 22, 2019 08:19 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB18 years after the Agile Manifesto was published, Agile development methodologies dominate the way we make software. But are any of these methodologies truly Agile? Roman and Larry discuss the 4 Agile Values and 12 Agile Principles to see where we have gone astray. ----- Show Notes Manifesto for Agile Software Development VersionOne State of Agile report the Lean Startup by Eric Ries Notion app Cover photo by Olga Guryanova on Unsplash ----- Please consider leaving a quick review. ...
Design Ethics - UX Like Us 14
March 15, 2019 23:47 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBAs designers realize greater impact and influence in their organizations, Design Ethics becomes an increasingly important discussion. We start the conversation with the UX of Ts & Cs, the Surveillance Industrial Complex, and designing weapons. ----- Show Notes Design Ethics and the Limits of the Ethical Designer Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that some employees say crosses a line Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe Cover Photo by Nathaniel dahan on Unsplash ----- Pleas...
the Overlap Pt. 2 - UX Like Us 13
March 08, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBNelson Yu, Director of Strategy and Business Development at Experian, joins us to give a product manager’s view of the overlap between PM and Design. And you’ll never guess what Nelson picks for Stuff Designers Love! Cover Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash ----- Show Notes Product School Events ----- Please consider leaving a quick review. It would help us a lot! ----- Follow the show on Twitter @UXLikeUs | @LAKing | @Stuporman --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxl...
When Should You Redesign?
March 01, 2019 08:27 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBIn light of several high-profile redesigns greeted by user revolt, Larry asks when is redesign the right move? How might we allow for user choice, while also allowing us iterate and innovate? Stuff Designers Love: indoor skydiving. ----- Show Notes Herb Caudill: Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories Episode Cover Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash ----- Please consider leaving a quick review. It would help us a lot! iTunes | Spotify | Overcast ----- Follow the show on Twitte...
The Smart and Creepy Home - UX Like Us - 11
February 14, 2019 23:06 - 47 minutes - 44.6 MBLarry's smart home increasingly belongs to Amazon. Will Amazon use Eero to make setting up smart homes easier? Should Eero owners worry about their privacy? ----- Show Notes The Verge: Why Amazon buying Eero feels so disappointing https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18221441/amazon-buying-eero-disappointing Analysis of the Eero acquisition by Amazon Culture Eats Strategy https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/episodes/Culture-Eats-Strategy---UX-Like-Us---10-e35973 Episode 10 of UX Like Us feat. Kevin M....
Culture Eats Strategy - UX Like Us - 10
February 08, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBKevin M. Hoffman, author of Meeting Design, discusses the power of culture in our organizations. What shapes culture? What transcends cultures and works across contexts? What levers can we pull to influence our cultures, regardless of title? ----- Show notes Kevin M. Hoffman http://www.kevinmhoffman.com/ Meeting Design http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/meeting-design/ Erika Hall's tweet about engineering culture: https://twitter.com/mulegirl/status/1092848898819805186 Sarah Ne...
Bold Predictions for UX in 2019
February 01, 2019 05:52 - 52 minutes - 60.8 MBLarry King and Roman Bercot discuss Roman’s Bold Predictions for UX in 2019. Plus, we discuss InVision's The New Design Frontier state of design report. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
Fresh Perspectives
January 24, 2019 06:48 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBLarry and Roman discuss exciting new talks from UX Camp DC presenters: @danachis @feadog @jeffpass Stuff Designers Love twitter thread by @bethdean: https://twitter.com/bethdean/status/1084153270644310016 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
The Overlap
January 11, 2019 21:19 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBLarry considers the overlap between UX and Product Management. And a great new sketching app for iPad Pro. What do you think of the Stuff Designers Love jingle? Let us know what you think on Twitter. @LAKing and @Stuporman Enjoying the show? Please consider leaving a quick review to help others discover the show. Cover photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
What is a Design Strategist?
January 04, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBLarry and Roman welcome 2019 by discussing the role of a design strategist, business strategy, ethics, vision, super aggregators, and tiki bars along the way. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
The Tool Show
December 14, 2018 11:02 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBLarry and Roman discuss the 2018 Design Tools Survey, and how our tools shape our art. ——- UXTools.co 2018 Design Tools Survey (https://uxtools.co/survey-2018) ——- Actionable Futures Framework by Nordkapp (https://futures.nordkapp.fi/process-and-methods/) ——- Ghost (http://ghost-official.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
I’m Gonna Be A Webmaster
December 06, 2018 09:11 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBWho should go into UX? Larry and Roman discuss traits that can make for a great UX professional, and stuff designers love. --- Jake Knapp's 'Make Time' talk at Webdagene 2018 -- https://vimeo.com/297313282?utm_campaign=Design%20Sprint%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter --- Dissecting the Glee logo on Typography Reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/ku9uh/dae_find_this_really_annoying_about_the_glee_logo/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor....
The WIP Problem
November 29, 2018 14:36 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBRoman is disappointed with Dark Mode. Larry talks about the Phoenix Project. ----- The Big Batch / Small Batch diagram by John Cutler: https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1002193108765831168 ----- The Phoenix Project by Kevin Behr, George Spafford, and Gene Kim: https://itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
Thank-UX-giving
November 22, 2018 19:13 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBJust in time for Thanksgiving in the US, it’s the UX Like Us Thank-UX-giving episode. We discuss favorite dishes and all the user experience things we're grateful for. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message
Ending the Existential Crisis
November 15, 2018 18:01 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBLarry’s recent trip to the Magic Kingdom provides some inspired examples of Experience Design. We put the title debate to bed (hopefully) forever. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uxlikeus/message