The Object-Oriented UX Podcast

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Episodes

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Episodes

Episode 006 - Object-Oriented UX in Business and in Games with Caroline Sober-James (Rerun)

This week and through the end of the year, due to it being the holidays and all that entails, we will be revisiting our most popular, most-OOUXy episodes from the UX Hustle Podcast, the podcast I started back in 2018 and have since handed off to a new Host, Amanda Worthington. We will start back with new episodes in 2021. Caroline Sober-James has journeyed from database architect to UX designer to a fellow object-oriented UX evangelist. She’s the UX Director at Acumium in Madison, WI, where she ...

Dec 03, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 005 - Content Modeling with Carrie Hane

Carrie Hane ran her own content strategy firm for five years before joining Palladian Partners as Senior Digital Project Director, where she uses her content structuring super powers to provide Palladian's clients with a unified digital communication strategy. But you may know her from the must-read book she co-authored with Mike Atherton, "Designing Connected Content." In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Carrie discuss what exactly a content model is, why navigation is the most volatile ...

Nov 19, 2020•58 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 004 - OOUX As A Foundation For Interaction Design

In this episode of the podcast, Sophia takes us on an audio walk-through of the "calls-to-action" methodology of her ORCA process. She will guide you through how to get started designing complex systems, how to make a CTA Matrix that's based on real-world objects, and why doing so will pay dividends before you even start sketching your UI. You might want a pen and paper for taking notes 😉 LINKS: Sophia's 2016 article, "OOUX: A Foundation for Interaction Design" - https://alistapart.com/article/...

Nov 05, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 003 - Putting Your Components in Context with Dan Mall

What’s up OOUXers, this conversation with Dan mall is bonkers…Dan Mall is one of the leading experts in design systems — he’s the cofounder and creative director at Super Friendly, a design collaborative that brings design system guidance, leadership, and execution to companies like Capital One, Girl Scouts, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and so many more. He’s the creator of a new design system course, not out yet, but check out the link below to sign up for updates so you can be the ...

Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 002 - Get Your Hands Dirty With the ORCA Process

Today's episode is an audio WORKSHOP that’s going to teach you the basics of OOUX and the ORCA process. If you listened to the first episode, you should have a zoomed-out, big picture Idea of what OOUX is all about. But in this episode, you’ll actually get to practice OOUX!  NOTE: If you are driving or walking, feel free to keep listening to about the first 25 minutes in which I give an overview of the process and reiterate some of the main OOUX principles.  Once we get into the exerci...

Oct 08, 2020•59 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 001 - An Updated Look at "Object Oriented UX," the Article

October 20, 2015 was when Sophia's article on OOUX debuted on A List Apart. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia shows you how her philosophy and process have changed since then, how OOUX was forged in the crucible of CNN Election Night 2012, how OOUX can help you speak the same language as your back-end developers, and how noun foraging fits into her ORCA (Objects, Relationships, Calls-to-action, and Attributes) process. Enjoy! LINKS: Read the A List Apart article: https://alistapart.com/arti...

Sep 24, 2020•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Introducing the OOUX Podcast

What’s up UXers??? My name is Sophia V .Prater and I am a UX designer and the chief evangelist for the practice of Object-Oriented UX. I’ve been teaching OOUX to individuals and design teams for over FIVE years now!  This podcast is going to be a dive into the weeds on UX systems, information architecture, human psychology, data wrangling, structured content, UX process, and above all simplifying the complex. And of course OOUX and the ORCA process. If you don’t know anything about OOU...

Sep 11, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast