UX Podcast

In our listener survey we ask the question: What is the biggest occupational challenge facing you right now? Over the past few surveys we’ve gather quite a number of responses to that question. In this episode we take a look at some of the challenges you say that you face, and even try to give some...

A linkshow. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention. The first article is Users always choose the path of least resistance by Paul Boag. Paul says that users will always take the easy option so to maintain a competitive advantage, we need to focus on simplicity. The second article is Transitions...

Don Norman is without a doubt one of the most influential voices within the UX and design industry and also the cognitive sciences. Don produced some of the earliest literature about human-centered design within the digital space – he also coined the term “user experience” whilst working at Apple. In part 2 of our conversation with...

Don Norman is without a doubt one of the most influential voices within the UX and design industry and also the cognitive sciences. Don produced some of the earliest literature about human-centered design within the digital space – he also coined the term “user experience” whilst at Apple. In part 1 of our conversation with Don,...

James, Per and Danwei open the video channels for the 6th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. We’ve pulled out the highlights from the live session and made them into 2 separate episodes. The topics covered in part 2 of this two-part episode are: The battery status API – how can we make use of that in UX? User off-boarding...

James, Per and Danwei open the video channels for the 6th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. On a Friday afternoon in March we took questions and calls from listeners. We’ve pulled out the highlights from the live session and made them into 2 separate episodes. The topics covered in part 1 of this two-part phone-in are AI,...

We talk to Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist and UX designer. We chat about the ideas expressed in Amber’s popular TED talk “We are all cyborgs now” before turning our attention to the notion of calm technology. More and more things are demanding more and more of our attention. Everything beeps, flashes, vibrates or notifies. With...

Spawned from his keen interest in sci-fi interfaces Chris Noessel is passionate about the concept of agentive technology; computers doing things on our behalf. Computers may do things we don’t want to do or ourselves, things we don’t know how how to do or things we’ve never done before. The trick of course is for...

Melissa Perri has a background as both a product manager and a UX-er. We learn more about the overlap between the two disciplines and discuss some of the issues surrounding their convergence. Melissa also shared some advice about applying lean methodologies to your organisation including working with hypotheses and building to learn. (Listening time: 51 minutes, transcript) Episode...

We talk to Tom Greever about Articulating Design Decisions. How do we talk about our designs effectively with stakeholders? Every designer has to explain (and justify) their design decisions to non-designers but what are the skills tactics and methods that are needed to pull this off in a way that opens the door for your project to...

Sometimes we just run on auto-pilot. Male and Female. Two genders. His and Hers. A simple, polarised, view. When gender is implemented this way in websites and apps, it can not only lead to individuals feeling excluded but also cause emotional distress. We talk to Sara Lerén about being inclusive – how we can kick old...

It’s so easy to add a little rectangle to a wireframe, but what are the consequences of adding an image to your design? Are images good or bad for UX? How can we improve our design processes so that we take the impact of images properly into account? In this topic show Per and James look into...

James, Per and Danwei Tran Luciani open the video channels for the 5th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. The theme for this phone-in is The Demise of UX. Our guests in this Christmas phone-in ended up being James Mole McConnell, Craig Sullivan and Mike Atherton. We talked to James about UX not being in demise but in transition and how the "branding" of UX is winning. We talked to Craig about facial hair as a motivational strategy... oh and we also managed to chat about ghost buttons - the design trend for buttons that are just text with outlines.  Our third caller was Mike who gave us his take on the demise of UX and our focus on soft deliverables and how as an industry we don't speak the language of business enough. References: Episode 115: The utility of UX Bambuser video recording of the entire live broadcast Episode 87: James & Per & You featuring James Mole McConnell Previous episodes featuring Craig Sullivan Episode 105: Linked data featuring Mike Atherton UX is UI - Medium post by Mike The invisible problem with fairy tale experiences - blog post by Per (Listening time: 56 minutes) https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/116-xmas-listener-phone-in https://twitter.com/uxpodcast/status/680282650335145984

James, Per and Danwei Tran Luciani open the video channels for the 5th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. The theme for this phone-in is The Demise of UX. Our guests in this Christmas phone-in ended up being James Mole McConnell, Craig Sullivan and Mike Atherton. We talked to James about UX not being in demise but in transition...

A linkshow. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention. The first article is The Business of User Experience by Jonathan Beckman, founder of Apptourage. Jonathan explains why UX is good business. James goes off into economic theory. The second featured article is Design Thinking comes of age by Jon Kolko, founder of the Austin Center for Design. Jon describes how the principles of design are becoming more integrated into the enterprise. Our third article is Why Behavioral Economics is Cool, and I'm Not by Adam Grant, professor at the Wharton School of Business. Jon looks at why behavioral economics appears to be more cool than psychology. (Listening time 38 minutes) https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/115-the-utility-of-ux https://twitter.com/uxpodcast/status/675213941086289920 References: Article 1: The Business of User Experience by Jonathan Beckman More about the theory of utility and marginal utility Article 2: Design Thinking comes of age by Jon Kolko Sketchnotes from Jon's workshop at UXLx 2013, Design synthesis Episode 92 with Lisa Welchman, managing chaos. Article 3: Why Behavioral economics is cool, and I'm not. by Adam Grant Featured image borrowed from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).