Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX. Amy Santee encourages us to take control of our careers, to take action when we see something that’s not right, and to realise we have more power than we think we do. Highlights include: ⭐ Are jobs in UX and other ares of HCD bullshit jobs? ⭐ Why did you write and publish your own code of ethics? ⭐ How do you help people to establish useful career...

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX. Marisa Sires shares the story of her rapid ascent from client services to VP Product at Gigya and her many learnings since, including… ⭐️ How does Marisa enable her team to make great products? ⭐️ What is the greatest risk to the success of a product? ⭐️ How can women in tech better navigate the landscape to succeed? ====== Who is Marisa Sires? Ma...

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX. Eva PenzeyMoog shines a light on how digital products are being used to enable domestic violence, and what we can do to protect our most vulnerable users. Highlights include: ⭐ What is domestic violence and how does it show up? ⭐ How is technology being weaponised by domestic abusers? ⭐ Why can’t our users be solely responsible for their own safet...

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX.   Jane Davis brings epic levels of insight to this conversation about the evolution of UX research, and how it can enable product teams to build better products.    Highlights include:    ⭐️ What can grizzly bears teach you about effective leadership? ⭐️ How do UX researchers get product managers to listen to them? ⭐️ What is the identity crisis f...

Don Norman shares what's important to him right now, why stupid questions matter, what it means to design for a better world, and why he’s okay with changing his mind. Highlights include: Why are our users not who we think they are? What needs to change and what can stay the same? Why did it take you so long to change your focus? Should change be incremental or wholesale? How does design dogma dis...

Kate Rutter shares her thoughts on finding work in a challenging economy, how to design for great creative exchanges, and why she pushes back against authority. Highlights include: ⭐ How have you pushed back against overly rigid hierarchies? ⭐ Why did you take a part-time retail job at a retail store? ⭐ How does the quality of the question influence the quality of the idea? ⭐ Why isn’t UX over...

Mauro Porcini shares how designers can rise to the top, the dangers of associating your self-worth with work, and why he’s changing the status quo from the inside. Highlights include: ⭐ Why do you run towards the fire? ⭐ How has the focus changed since becoming a father? ⭐ What gives you the right to talk about love with business people? ⭐ Why have you disassociated your personal worth from yo...

Reginé Gilbert shares what it takes to create accessible experiences, how her students are helping NASA to hear a solar eclipse, and why inclusive design is everyones job. Highlights include: ⭐ How are inclusive design and accessibility different, yet related? ⭐ Why is disability not seen in the same light as other DE&I initiatives? ⭐ What should people do to make the digital world more accessi...

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX. If you’re ready to challenge your assumptions about business, design and your career, then this is the episode for you. Ryan Rumsey gives us his perspective on some of the biggest issues facing design and designers, including: ⭐️ What is the crucial question do all designers need an answer for? ⭐️ Why do designers find it difficult to articulate th...

This is a special archived episode of Brave UX. Laura Klein reflects on the lessons learned from over 20 years of working in and consulting to Silicon Valley tech startups, including… ⭐️ Why do organisations resist UX research? ⭐️ What needs to be in place to maximise the value of UX? ⭐️ How did Eric Ries (author of The Lean Startup) shape her thinking?  ⭐️ Do teams have to be happy to be effe...

Matt Watkinson shares how he’s expanded his luck surface area, why it’s important to slow down and pay attention, and how to fight organisational ambiguity. Highlights include: ⭐ What did the FBI want to learn about experience design? ⭐ Why is ambiguity the biggest barrier to effective decision making? ⭐ What made you conscious of your own ignorance? ⭐ What gets in the way of people being will...

Jesse James Garrett reminds us that once we were pirates, encourages us to understand how soft-power works, and to know and be true to our red-lines. Highlights include: How are UX designers like classical composers? What is the role of personal preference in design? Should design leaders leave strategy to product leaders? Is design leadership about actively resisting the status quo? What have you...

Erika Hall reinforces the importance of being willing to be wrong, discusses how good user experiences can be bad, and calls on designers to be honest with themselves. Highlights include: ⭐ Do you ever wonder what it would be like to go in-house? ⭐ What’s the truth about designers becoming more influential in business? ⭐ Have designers made the world a worst place over the past 30 years? ⭐ Wha...

Samuel Proulx shares his experience of the digital world as a blind person, his thoughts on autonomous vehicles, and how inclusive design makes everyone's experience better. Highlights include: ⭐ How do you feel about the prospect of autonomous vehicles? ⭐ Why did the gaming industry say accessibility couldn’t be achieved? ⭐ How has your father also being being blind shaped your relationship?...

Matt Young shares the importance of aligning engineering, product, & design, the roles of creativity and logic in decision making, and using customer feedback wisely.  Highlights include: ⭐ How do you know when it’s time to kill a feature? ⭐ Why and when do you speak directly with people? ⭐ How have you integrated your engineering and product orgs? ⭐ When should you deploy emotion and when sho...

Christina Wodtke reminds us to stop carrying the weight of the world, to start giving others the benefit of the doubt, and to make the most of the gift that is feedback. Highlights include: What did you learn about collaboration from swing dancing? Why do we need to give other people the benefit of the doubt? What was it like being an executive in big tech? Where can people start to develop more c...

Kareem Mayan shares what he learned as digital nomad, discusses the focusing effects of personal loss, and how you can more effectively prioritise product feedback. Highlights include: ⭐ What was it like being a digital nomad for two years? ⭐ How do you work out what customers need from onboarding? ⭐ How do you align stakeholders on what to build? ⭐ How do you know whether to build what custom...

Kevin Bethune inspires with his incredible journey across engineering, business & design, shares how to keep calm inside of a nuclear reactor, and shines a light on design’s diversity blind spot. Highlights include: ⭐ Are designers too in love with the future state? ⭐ Where did you put your fear while working inside a nuclear reactor? ⭐ How was your Dad a servant leader and why did that inspire...

Noelle Russell provides a beacon of light for anyone who’s staring down a dragon, as she shares her against the odds and remarkable journey to and through technology. Highlights include: ⭐ What is wing clipping and why is it dangerous? ⭐ Do you really have over 130 voice enabled devices in your home? ⭐ Why did your Dad teach you that other people don’t get to choose your path to success? ⭐ How...

Milton Jackson graciously gives Brave UX’s first poetry reading, reflects on the critical importance of role models, and shares his aspirations for a more inclusive world. Highlights include: ⭐ Poetry reading: Love Lost in Likes ⭐ What led you to a career in technology and design? ⭐ Has the lack of black designers been painfully obvious to you? ⭐ Where did your confidence to teach public speak...

Peter Merholz demystifies design leadership, openly shares the ups and downs of a trail-blazing design career, and how we can keep design “weird” without getting fired. Highlights include: ⭐ What is the fundamental job of the designer leader? ⭐ Why do design leaders find it difficult to figure out what their job is? ⭐ What advice did Obi Wan give Luke that design leaders need to hear? ⭐ Why ar...

Audrey Cheng shares her journey from lab scientist to CTO, why she redefined career success, and how UX and product can work better together. Highlights include: ⭐ Why did you have to leave redefine career success? ⭐ Should product leaders be leading design orgs? ⭐ How do you involve stakeholders in UX design, in a meaningful way? ⭐ Should designers seeking influence consider a move into produ...

Dan Hill challenges us to think differently about our cities and civic spaces, to consider the second order effects of our work, and to think carefully about the questions we’re asking. Highlights include: ⭐ Who should be responsible for the negative externalities of technology? ⭐ When and why did the financialisation of our public spaces begin? ⭐ Technology is the answer, but what was the ques...

Jodine Stodart shares how to get and keep stakeholders engaged, why it’s important to develop your understanding of self, and the timeless power of listening. Highlights include: ⭐ How important are stakeholder interviews for UX success? ⭐ Can UX be successful if customer centricity isn’t a strategic focus? ⭐ How do you help stakeholders to make sense of design artefacts? ⭐ Why do leaders need...

Brendan Jarvis & Lou Rosenfeld bring you a special episode that features Brendan’s keynote from Design at Scale 2022 - Framing Tomorrow by Questioning Today. Highlights include: ⭐ What’s been going on for Lou, lately? ⭐ What were the best parts of Design at Scale 2022? ⭐ How is the field been coping with global uncertainty? ⭐ Where can people find out more about the DesignOps Summit? ⭐ Brenda...