Latest Uxresearch Podcast Episodes
Learn UX: Career Growth Through Community Involvement
UX Cake - February 17, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutesEp. 43: In the third of 3 episodes in our special mini-series called Learning UX, guest host Leo Zhang talks with Sara Hubbard and Caryn Wylie, the organizers of the meetup group Seattle Women of Design and UX, about growing your network and experience by getting involved in the UX community aro...
Permission to Speak
UX Cake - January 22, 2020 23:26 - 39 minutesEp. 42: This week we're talking about Permission to Speak - Maybe there are times you’ve found yourself hesitating to speak up, to put your voice out there… this happens a lot, it’s not just a UX issue but is a common complaint in UX, and in tech in general. And it happens at every level, I’ve b...
Learn UX: Aligning UX Value
UX Cake - January 17, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutesEp. 41: This episode is the second in our special mini-series called Learning UX, hosted by Leo Zhang. In this mini-series, Leo talks in-person with local UX leaders about their careers and topics they’re passionate about. This episode Leo is talking with Kimberly Wiessner, about her career span...
Bias Is The Context We're In
UX Cake - December 05, 2019 05:33 - 32 minutesEp 40: Since I started asking users questions as part of my design process over 20 years ago, I’ve often asked myself, how could I ask better questions. Am I asking the right questions? What bias am I bringing into the interaction? As we progress in our research practice and go beyond the 101 ...
Learn UX: Mentoring and Hiring
UX Cake - November 20, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutesWe're introducing a new series, called Learn UX, hosted by Leo Zhang. Leo started a meetup here in Seattle called Learn UX, aimed at UXers in earlier to mid-career, that hosts great speakers like Torry Podmajersky, who we had on our show talking about strategic UX writing back in episode 33. Leo...
Uplevel Your Career With UX Strategy
UX Cake - October 23, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutesEp. 38: This week I got to talk with Jaime Levy, a UX pioneer, and Author of the book ‘UX Strategy’, about 'moving beyond’ being a designer or researcher in UX, and ‘leveling up’ in your career by moving into UX strategy or digital transformation. We talk about the difference between UX Strategy...
Collaborative Research
UX Cake - October 09, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutesThis episode was a live recording for the podcast at the 5th annual Radical Research Summit in Vancouver BC. Our panel topic was collaborative research - Working with people in other disciplines, in other teams, or even in other organizations to produce really impactful research that will get in...
Research Beyond Words
UX Cake - September 25, 2019 11:45 - 32 minutesEp 36: Sometimes words just can't get you the research insights you need. This week we’re talking about alternative ways of gathering insights in user research, beyond just verbal and written communication. There are many circumstances when words just aren’t the best way for people to tell us wh...
Design For The Future
UX Cake - September 11, 2019 12:00 - 42 minutesFor any experience you’re designing, you want to know what the current trends are, but if you’re looking for innovative solutions, you want to predict what future trends will affect your audiences' needs & motivations & obstacles so you can design for the future. Our topic this episode has a fai...
The Cognitive Diversity Issue in UX
UX Cake - August 27, 2019 15:05 - 39 minutesEp #34: Today’s episode is a conversation with Melanie Polkosky who is a UX Psychologist with a PhD in cognitive psychology and a long history in tech. After Melanie left a 13-year career at IBM, she wrote a book called Uncovering Truffles, a book about the scarcity and value of Women in Stem. A...
Getting The Work You Want
UX Cake - August 20, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutesEp. #14 (re-run) Much of the work in UX and in our careers requires convincing others, about our ideas, our work, or our ability to do the work we want to do. My guest is Fiz Yazdi, a managing director at cxpartners in London and Bristol, UK. Fiz developed an approach to selling based on what’s ...
Words Make Experiences Work
UX Cake - August 05, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutesEp #33: This week I’m talking with Torrey Podmajersky about her new book, Strategic Writing for UX - how to drive engagement, conversion, and retention with every word. Torrey is not only an expert at UX Writing, she’s an expert at getting the right words into the experience — which is half the ...
Negotiate the Salary & Title You Deserve
UX Cake - July 22, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutesEp #32: Welcome back to UX Cake! We took a short break and now we're back on our regular publishing schedule. In this episode I talked with Tamara Adlin, a UX strategy expert, speaker, and author, who was a guest in season 1, episode 10, talking about creating alignment personas. This time we're...
Influencing Without Authority
UX Cake - April 01, 2019 05:31 - 54 minutesThis week's episode was a live recording at the ConveyUX conference in early March with a panel of UX pros talking about Influencing without authority, which is such an important topic and clearly very relevant based on the turn-out - it was standing room only. This episode is almost twice as lo...
When UX and Agile Meet...
UX Cake - March 12, 2019 03:58 - 30 minutesThis week we’re talking about incorporating UX into an Agile product development process. It’s been a common complaint for the past couple of decades most agile processes don’t allow time for ux research and design. Teams that want the best human-centered design outcomes have to be intentional a...
Recipe for Effective User Research
UX Cake - February 25, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutesAre you committed to doing user research in order to design and build products and services that work well, solve real needs, and create engaging experiences? Chances are pretty good that if you produce user research in your work, at some point you will feel like your research is just not making...
UX Cake Pop: Getting Buy-in
UX Cake - February 18, 2019 04:00 - 3 minutesA UX Cake Pop is like a bite-sized piece of UX Cake. In this Cake Pop, we're talking about being more effective through getting buy-in early. We interviewed a few UX pros who were attending the Interaction19 conference while we were there, and got lots of great responses to our question: What's ...
Fast and effective - Agile Strategy with Marty Neumeier
UX Cake - February 04, 2019 13:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode we talk with the renown brand strategist Marty Neuemeier about a strategy framework he calls Agile Strategy. Marty’s written many strategy books - design strategy, brand strategy, business strategy - and his most recent book Scramble has a very unique approach to the business boo...
Recovering and Reinvention with John Maeda
UX Cake - January 28, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutesEp #27: I’m really excited to share with you my conversation with John Maeda — about Reinvention. This episode covers a lot of ground John talked about why we should focus on recover fast vs. fail fast, why inclusive design is so important, and why we should be using Anpanman to train our AI pla...
Designing The Impossible with Nelly Ben Hayoun
UX Cake - January 21, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutesEp #26: This week we are talking about designing the impossible, with Dr. Nelly Ben Hyoun, founder and experience designer of Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios in London. They create large scale, extreme experiences like being an astronaut, or erupting volcanos, or recreating natural disasters, for organ...
Changing the Disability Design Narrative
UX Cake - January 14, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutesEp. #25: This week we’re talking about designing withdisability, rather than fordisability, with my guest Liz Jackson. Liz is a disability advocate who is trying to shift the disability narrative. We talked about how the way we currently approach disability in design can actually cause more prob...
Design a Better World, with Don Norman
UX Cake - January 08, 2019 05:48 - 35 minutesEp. #24: Welcome to season 2! We are kicking the season off with a fascinating conversation about changing the world with design, with Don Norman. Don Norman has been a well-known name in the design field for over 30 years, and is currently Director of Design Lab at UC San Diego, where he spoke ...
Designing a Life You Love
UX Cake - November 27, 2018 04:59 - 36 minutesThis week, I had the opportunity to speak with Ayse Birsel, a renown designer and the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an award-winning design and innovation studio in NY, working with Herman Miller, IKEA, and Toyota, among others. Ayse is also the creator of Design the Life You Love, which is a gui...
Being in UX at a Startup
UX Cake - November 07, 2018 04:59 - 46 minutesI recently joined a start-up called Spruce Up so topics related to startups have been top-of-mind for me. In this episode of UX Cake, I am joined by Phillip Hunter of Pulse Labs and Cassie Wallender of Invio, Inc. We really enjoyed recording live in Seattle and had a candid conversation about th...
Redesigning The Way We Work
UX Cake - October 23, 2018 03:59 - 37 minutesThis week on UX Cake I had a chance to catch up with David and Mary Sherwin about their new book, Turning People Into Teams. I love this topic — how do we go from being just a bunch individual people with different motivations, attitudes, working styles, communication styles, into a team where ...
Creating and Nurturing a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion
UX Cake - October 08, 2018 03:59 - 40 minutesEven if we consider ourselves advocates for diversity and inclusion when it comes to considering gender, race, age, LGBTQ or ableness, how do we stretch ourselves even further? How can we create a truly diverse team in thought, background, and culture, and how do we make sure we are creating pro...
Work Together Better to Design Great Products
UX Cake - August 29, 2018 06:45 - 43 minutesEp. #19: Much of the time we like to work independently, maybe because of work environment, preference, or pride. And yet we know there are great benefits and advantages to working as a team and collaborating with other people. This week’s episode is a re-edit of episode 3, one of my favorite ep...
Designer-founded startups
UX Cake - August 14, 2018 20:31 - 36 minutesEp. #18: Over the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend of designer founded startups. There are a few really notable designer-founded startups like — Airbnb, Kickstarter and Lynda.com have paved the way… and in general startups are realize the value of user-centered design as a competitive d...
Outcome-focused Design - Tarot Cards for Tech
UX Cake - July 31, 2018 01:00 - 35 minutesEp. #17: Using tarot cards to create outcomes-focused designis a very out-of-the-box approach, and yet it's actually really simple and approachable. In this episode I talked with Sheryl Cababa, an executive creative director at Artefact Group design agency, about their Tarot Cards of Tech. It's ...
Shark-proofing Your UX Presentations
UX Cake - July 16, 2018 03:00 - 45 minutesEp. #16: This special episode of uxcake was a panel discussion recorded live in front of an audience in Seattle on June 28. If you’ve been in ux design or research for awhile, it's almost certain you’ve been involved in a review of your work, or your team’s work, and chances are you’ve experienc...
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