Dr Chris Parker

Practical UX: Methods, Research, and Design Thinking

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Practical UX: Methods, Research & Design Thinking is a podcast for professionals and students who want to move past theory and use real-world user experience practices. Each episode covers tools, methods, and mindsets that shape strong design, including user research, design thinking, usability testing, prototyping, and product design strategy. Dr Parker talks with UX leaders, researchers, and designers who share practical insights you can use in your own work. Dr Parker is a Senior Lecturer in UX Design at Loughborough University (School of Design and Creative Arts)

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Dr Chris Parker

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UX Design in the Insurance Industry | With Heidi Smith 23.10.2020 51:03

We sit down with Senior UX Designer Heidi Smith (of Aviva) to talk about UX Design within the insurance industry, her passions, the future UX design, and thematic analysis's role as a key design skill. Follow Us Online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/UserGenDesign YouTube: youtube.com/designelearningtutorials

Essential UX Skills, Accessability, and Effective UX Design | with Lou Oakham: UX Designer 09.10.2020 50:29

User Experience Designer Lou Oakham speaks with Chris Parker about working as a UX Designer, Accessibility, and the skills designers learn at university Vs. in the workplace. Twitter: @UserGenDesign YouTube: Design eLearning Tutorials

Designing the Advertising Experience - with Grace Francis of Droga5 26.08.2020 48:29

Connect with Grace Francis via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graciefrancis/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UserGenDesign Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/designelearningtutorials

Life as a UX Design Consultant (With Marg Laing) 12.08.2020 51:35

Connect with Marg via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marglaing/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UserGenDesign Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/designelearningtutorials TRANSCRIPT

Lessons from a young UX Designer (with Szymon Trzepla) 22.07.2020 49:44

Szymon is a UX Designer for Alior Bank SA , podcaster for UX po Godzinach , and recent graduate from Loughborough University. In tonight's conversation, we discuss starting out as a young UX designer, the post-COVID world, and starting a podcast to share his passion. Listen to Szymon's podcast UX po Godzinach: https://anchor.fm/ux-po-godzinach

UX Design's Essential Skills [From UX Crunch] 15.07.2020 26:03

Watch the video presentation: https://youtu.be/WBtBg-LqY5o SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/UserGenDesign YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/designelearningtutorials Research: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=oQbSNL8AAAAJ&hl=en

Success in Design and Sprint Culture (With Douglas Ferguson) 07.07.2020 56:37

Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur, human-centred technologist, and president of Voltage Control - an Austin-based workshop agency that specialises in Design Sprints and innovation workshops. Douglas’s recent book Beyond The Prototype offers six clear steps to shift from idea discovery to product launch. In tonight’s conversation, we discuss the greatest life lessons in design, secrets to success...

Special Announcement: Live Webinar with UX Crunch [April 15th 2020] 09.04.2020 2:15

Junior UX Crunch at Home: https://www.bigmarker.com/tech-circus-tv/Junior-UX-Crunch-at-Home-Usability-Testing TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to the UX Usability Podcast. I am Dr Chris Parker, and this is not your standard episode. The coronavirus has touched everyone in the world, and has changed the way we work, forever. The other week I thought I would start a series of bonus episodes between se...

How UX Design Can Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19) 16.03.2020 17:44

Medical Advice on Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ Why Hand Sanitiser is useless against viruses: https://aem.asm.org/content/76/2/394.short Dr Parker, in this Extra episode between seasons, covers UX Design's role in helping the public understand and deal with COVID-19. We are not doctors, we are UX designers. Designers are powerful communicators. The pu...

When to Apply Usability Testing [End of Season 1] 04.02.2020 18:18

What research methods do you use at each design stage? In this last episode of Season 1, we find out!

How Many Users Do I Need For Testing? 15.01.2020 28:14

Book: The Tao of Statistics: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/148337792X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=148337792X&linkCode=as2&tag=usergendesign-21&linkId=8fb6b7d0be4a43404a9b0be10851f26a

Making a Business Case for UX Usability Designs 07.01.2020 21:08

youtube.com/designelearningtutorials

Reviewing 2019: Usability's Evolution 31.12.2019 18:57

A look back at usability's evolution through 2019: the methods, approaches, and developments to use in 2020.

Using Dark UX for Great User Experiences 21.12.2019 34:14

How to create great user experiences with dark UX?

Psychology and UI Design: An introduction 10.12.2019 25:46

Learning from Dark UX [Extra] 29.11.2019 4:11

A short perspective on what we can learn from Dark UX patterns as UX Designers.

Why do UX Designers Need Psychology? 17.11.2019 18:52

[Book] Cognitive Psychology for Dummies

How To Design Perfect Website Navigation 13.11.2019 20:57

Why is navigation important? How do you create a website and app navigation that is perfect for your users? In this episode of the Usability podcast, we find out. [Book] Top Tasks: View On Amazon

How to conduct usability tests 05.11.2019 26:57

How do you run a professional usability assessment? Dr Chris Parker's Publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=oQbSNL8AAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @UserGenDesign YouTube: Design eLearning Tutorials

Using Think Aloud to Understand Satisfaction 30.10.2019 18:54

How can users thinking aloud while using your product help drive the redesign of more satisfying interfaces? Today, we find out.

How to Measure and Analyse Satisfaction (Metrics) 27.10.2019 31:40

Usability Scales: LINK Statistics Tutorials: LINK The Tao of Statistics: LINK

Heuristics for Usability and Accessibility 12.10.2019 16:26

How to think about Nielsen’s heuristics and WCAG 2.1 Design eLearning Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/FashionManchester Dr Chris Parker's research: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=oQbSNL8AAAAJ&hl=en

What is Usability? 06.10.2019 19:13

What is Usability and how must UX designers think about it in the future? To find the answer I interview Dr Martin Maguire of Loughborough University's School of Design and Creative Art. Dr Maguire's academic papers: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=FCZ_GjgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra