#254 Sorting out this mess with Abby Covert & Andrew Hinton (UXP Classic)
A conversation with information architects Abby Covert and Andrew Hinton about dealing with digital change and how to make future changes better.
Jan 14, 2021
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UXPodcast™ is a twice-monthly digital design podcast - hosted by James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom - sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011. We want to push the boundaries of how user experience is perceived and boost your confidence in the work you do.
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#253 The state of accessibility with Derek Featherstone
For years, accessibility was seen as the domain of the engineer. Fixing an accessibility would be about writing code. As a maturing industry, and as we understand people with different types of disabilities, we are starting to better understand and appreciate the role of design in accessibility. Accessibility legend Derek Featherstone joins us to talk...
Dec 31, 2020
#252 Toxic dogmatism
Episode 252 is a linkshow. Per and James discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – We discuss a number of serious issues that the design industry faces plus we take a look at “Stories” and their abundance.
Dec 17, 2020
#251 Multimodal design with Cheryl Platz
Designing for multiple forms of input and output is no easy task. The dramatic rise in the number of microphones in devices has pushed multimodal design to new levels of complexity. Cheryl Platz joins us to talk about designing in this multimodal world.
Dec 03, 2020
#250 Factfulness with Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna and the Gapminder foundation work to promote a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. They want to help all of us move away from a dramatic worldview that is stressful, wrong and contributes to poor decision-making. “We realised people thought they knew what the world was like around them, but they were usually wrong.”
Nov 19, 2020
#249 Digital anthropology with Genevieve Bell
How will your design be used in 10,000 years? When we produce designs and create technical systems we rarely think in such time-frames, yet many of today’s technology includes ideas decades old, even hundreds. Anthropologist Genevieve Bell joins us to talk about digital anthropology, cyber physical systems, and the new educational needs that have arisen.
Nov 05, 2020
#248 Evolving organisations with Ola Berg
“This is about people. It’s about communication”, says Ola. The ways in which organisations are structured and managed are still in many ways rooted in the history of the industrial revolution. To evolve away from this requires care, being human centred and probably a disruptive event on a social level.
Oct 22, 2020
#247 Civic tech with Cyd Harrell
Cyd Harrell has been working with civic tech for over a decade, and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience during that time. She’s gathered that experience and knowledge and created a friendly guide for those of us who work, or want to work with technology in the public sector.
Oct 08, 2020
#246 Developer experience
Episode 246 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – We discuss developer experience and even “internal” developer experience plus mobile interface testing and the challenges of multi-device, multi-browser testing generally.
Sep 24, 2020
#245 Cognitive bias with David Dylan Thomas
We all have cognitive biases, flaws in our reasoning and judgement due to our personal beliefs and hidden pattens that we’ve subconsciously adopted over time. David Dylan Thomas joins us to discuss cognitive bias and how we can design for it and work with it.
Sep 10, 2020
#244 Icons
In this topic show dedicated to icons Per and James look at what icons are, why we, as designers, make use of them and what we can do to make them more understandable and accessible.
Aug 27, 2020
#243 Answering surveys with Caroline Jarrett (UXP Classic)
Form and survey specialist and author Caroline Jarrett joins us on this classic episode of UX Podcast. Unsurprisingly we chat about surveys and forms beginning with the subject’s roots in data capture and motion studies.
Aug 13, 2020
#242 Figure it out with Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast
What does it mean to understand something? How do we take information and create understanding? We talk to with Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast and do our best to Figure It Out.
Jul 30, 2020
#241 Privacy privilege
Episode 241 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles are about “privacy privilege” and the gulf between other professionals and web development plus how design systems haven’t perhaps delivered on the expectation to improve collaboration.
Jul 16, 2020
#240 Architecting the information age with Lisa Welchman (UXP Classic)
In this classic UX Podcast interview we talk to Lisa Welchman about our responsibility as designers and creators of digital products, services and information.
Jul 02, 2020
#239 Storytelling in design with Anna Dahlström
Everything is a story. Every product experience is a story. Anna Dahlström, author of Storytelling in design joins us to talk about how we can manage, choreograph and narrate that story.
Jun 18, 2020
#238 Embedding privacy with Tim Kariotis
Tim Kariotis talks to us about privacy. What is privacy? How do we go about embedding privacy into design and understanding the privacy and social norms around information?
Jun 04, 2020
#237 User research during a pandemic with Mar Murube
Mar Murube joins us to talk about the experience of interviewing vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic and what we can do to help ourselves and those being interviewed.
May 21, 2020
#236 Designisms
Episode 236 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles cover why “designisms” are a problem and how to write user research insights.
May 07, 2020
#235 Internet anxiety with David Swallow
What makes you anxious when using the internet? We talk to David Swallow about the ways in which websites can make us stressed, irritated and cause serious problems for people with panic and anxiety disorders.
Apr 23, 2020
#234 Visual thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm
Eva-Lotta Lamm joins us to talk about sketching, visualising and using visualisations for uncovering and exploring problems.
Apr 09, 2020
#233 Usability testing with Richard Whitehand
Richard Whitehand has been working hands on with usability testing for decades. He’s spent more hours than anyone we know in a usability lab testing with users. He joins us to talk about the benefits of usability testing, which are more than just discovering issues with your design.
Mar 26, 2020
#232 Design psychology with Amy Bucher
Amy Bucher, author of Engaged – designing for behaviour change, joins us to talk about how psychology can influence the design of digital products.
Mar 12, 2020
#231 Writing is designing with Michael Metts and Andy Welfle
Designing with words – writing is designing. We talk to Andy Welfle and Michael Metts about how you can go about applying a design methodology to your words.
Feb 27, 2020
#230 Growth marketing with Sara Öhman
What is growth marketing? We were curious so we asked Swedish digital marketing expert Sara Öhman to join us and explain what is it and share some of the methods and processes she has in her toolbox.
Feb 13, 2020
#229 Just enough research with Erika Hall
Six years have passed since Erika Hall published Just Enough Research. Recently she’s released an updated second edition. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her book and research.
Jan 30, 2020
#228 The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox
Episode 228 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles are: The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox and Three Principles for Designing Machine Learning-Powered Products.
Jan 16, 2020
#227 Imposter syndrome with Amy Silvers & Lori Cavallucci (UXP Classic)
In this classic interview from 2015, we talk to Lori Cavallucci and Amy Silvers to learn more about imposter syndrome – what is it and how it effects us. Why does our branch in particular seem to suffer from it? What can we do to deal with it and can it be a good thing...
Jan 02, 2020
#226 Improv with Mike Gorgone
How is improvisation, or improv as it’s known, be relevant to those of us working with UX? Mike Gorgone joins us for an entertaining look into how it’s useful and how you can practice it.
Dec 19, 2019
#225 Indistractable with Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal joins us to discuss some of the ideas and topics covered in his two books, Hooked and Indistractable.
Dec 05, 2019
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