UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy

It's so tough to "get into the flow" these days — with social media, distractions, calls, and alerts. Anders Thue Pedersen, author of the famous TimeBlock method, joins us today to share his insights on productivity. We discuss the best ways of getting into the flow and staying there for significant amounts of time, while making the work process transparent for clients and teams.

Today we're wrapping up the season with Christopher Hawkins! This episode is all about marketing. We talk about promoting individual podcast episodes, building an email list, and other marketing challenges that all of us face. You'll learn why 60 subscribers is better than zero, and why no product (even the most glorious one) will ever "sell itself." This episode is a huge reminder that everything requires marketing!

Today Christopher Hawkins shares his favorite stories after recording 40 episodes of Chasing Product. We talk about cash flow in bootstrapped SaaS businesses, the importance of networking, starting small, choosing the right audience, and many other things. You'll find links to all original episodes below.

In this episode we double down and explore the nitty-gritty production details of a single episode. We talk with Christopher Hawkins about planning an episode lineup, selecting and inviting guests, sticking to a topic, using intros wisely, and much more. Secret advice in the end of the episode: be fearless, keep producing, and change your thinking from "I have to do this" to "I have permission to do awesome things."

This is the second founder interview from Jane’s new book, The UI Audit. Today Rob Walling, the founder of Drip, shares their story of finding the desired product-market fit. By positioning Drip as an email marketing automation tool they were able to reduce churn, rapidly grow the customer base, and gain a clear vision of new features.

This is a special founder interview from Jane's book, "The UI Audit." In this interview Tope Awotona, the founder of Calendly, shares his product development journey. To build this revolutionary scheduling tool, he reviewed over 30 competitors — all to find out their strengths and weaknesses. Tope shares how he developed his product as a non-technical founder, and how Calendly leverages free plans as a viral form of marketing.

What impact can podcasting have on your personal and professional life? It can be a superb tool for making money, but money is never the direct goal. In this episode we talk with Christopher Hawkins about the long-term game of podcasting, building your own tribe, establishing relationships with guests, the art of interviewing people, and much more.

In this episode with Christopher Hawkins we discuss the biggest fears that prevent people from starting their own podcast. Surprisingly, it's not the technical part! Tune in to learn everything about fears, mistakes, and goals related to podcasting.

Welcome to the new season of UI Breakfast Podcast featuring Christopher Hawkins! He's been running his own awesome podcast for many years, wrote a book on podcasting, and is working on his own SaaS product. Today Christopher shares his product story and the lessons he learned along the way.

This is the final episode with Kai Davis! Today we discuss the art of interviewing people. How can interviews boost your business? What are the awesome side effects? What's better: written format, audio or video? How do you make the process as smooth and effective as possible?

Writing support documents is no easy feat. How do you explain technical things to non-technical users? How do you balance being concise and going into details? Today we get together with Kai Davis to interview Thomas Cannon who's deeply passionate about technical documentation and support (while being a developer by trade).

Fasten your seatbelt and greet Amy Hoy here at UI Breakfast! Join us for an exciting conversation focused on design. You'll learn about Amy's design background, strong product opinions, and the workflow she stands for when building SaaS products.

Email remains the core way of communication online. Writing emails is true art. And my co-host Kai Davis is the true artist! Today you'll learn to line up you letters perfectly, from a subject line to a postscript, for the best results. Dive in for some hot writing strategies!

Podcasts are a great way to promote yourself and your ideas. But you don't have to run your own: instead, you can appear as a guest on other podcasts. My awesome co-host Kai Davis will teach you how to organize such podcast tour. You'll learn how to compile a list of podcasts, reach out to them, become a perfect guest, and promote new episodes.

Today Kai Davis gives us a huge lecture in his core expertise: outreach. He explains why everybody must include outreach campaigns into their marketing plan, and gives us a detailed outline how to organize and implement a successful outreach campaign. Jump in to learn about the methods, tools, and techniques!