Do you remember your first UX conference? Has your conference proposal ever been rejected? Do I even like going to these things? Jessamyn & Meg reminisce about our favorite UX conference moments.
Mar 21, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Does anyone want to hear about your maternity leave? How much should you share your mental health struggles at work? Should you ever do design work for friends? Jessamyn and Meg talk about the joys of returning to work after baby.
Mar 07, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Does anyone ever complete all those onboarding tasks? Is it better to be a solo designer or one of too many cooks in the kitchen? Are users lazy? Jessamyn talks to Eunju Tae, senior UX designer at Google.
Feb 06, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
How many meetings does it take to obliterate your productivity? Does being a thought leader matter? Are you supposed to be working on your own ideas? Jessamyn and Meg interview Uday Gajendar, design manager at Aurora Solar and curator at Rosenfeld Media.
Jan 24, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 2
What hot UX design trends will completely pass you by this year? Would you encourage your kid to become a UX designer? How do you handle beloved coworkers quitting the team?
Jan 11, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Jessamyn & Meg welcome a living, breathing, male to the show, John Spann, director of Identity Platform at LogMeIn.
Dec 20, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 12
What do you do when your research disagrees with what your team believes? Have you ever had your user researched challenged or dismissed? How do you find new collaboration partners when your stakeholder sucks? Meg & Jessamyn talk to Britney LeBaron , UX quantitative researcher.
Dec 11, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
How do you know when you're seeing red flags at work? What can you do to keep from feeling overwhelmed with UX requests? What should you do when a co-worker is a bit too friendly?
Nov 30, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 10
What is the worst way to organize your project files? How can you embrace your UX burnout? Plus, Meg gives her hot take on "Think Again" by Adam Grant.
Nov 23, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Is it even possible to piss off your design or research ops person? Briana Perry, lead research ops goddess at Procore, talks about her post-it obsession, how she blasted through obstacles with her legal team, and people who do research (PWDR).
Nov 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Does anyone really use the design process? Are designers just a bottleneck? Is it so terrible to put lipstick on a pig? Jessamyn and Meg answer questions from designers in agony.
Oct 26, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
How do you tell your boss you’re pregnant? What if everyone on your team is single and you’re expecting? Can you breastfeed on conference calls? This week Meg and Jessamyn chat with guest host, Nidhi, an anonymous UXer and mom, about pregnancy and maternity leave during your UX career.
Oct 19, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
How can you figure out what other designers are making? Is there any hope of staying ethical in your design practice? How can you make waves on your team using “soft resistance” ala Richmond Y. Wong? Jessamyn & Meg talk to Associate Professor Lynn Dombrowski from Indiana University - Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI), who fell in love with design while she was learning to code. Find Lynn at www.lynndombrowski.com and https://twitter.com/lynndombrowski...
Oct 08, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5
How do you squeeze blood from a stone...or requirements from your product manager? Are hackathons ever worth the time? How do you respond when your collaboration partner is a dud?
Sep 28, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4
What can airline stewardesses teach us about defending design decisions? Does anyone enjoy vision work? What happened to our happy path? Jessamyn & Meg answer questions from students getting into user experience.
Aug 30, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
What happens when you get a design job without a design background? How do you deal with poor usability issues when everyone else just wants to launch? What do you do when that stakeholder wants another round of revisions? Join Jessamyn Edwards, Meg Cramer, and our special guest Laura Martin for a conversation about surviving these UX design scenarios and some design lingo you can use in your next meeting.
Aug 09, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2
What's the most shocking thing you've encountered as a UX designer? How do you deal with dirty office politics? Can you age gracefully in design? Jessamyn and Meg share experiences for hanging in by your fingernails in your UX career.
Jul 23, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
