UX Podcast

In the style of a radio phone-in, James and Per open the door and invite in you, the listener. Our guests in our third listener phone-in ended up being James Buller, Jesper Bylund, Dan Turner, and Tim Wright.

We’re joined by Kim Goodwin author of Designing for the digital age and UX executive at both PatientsLikeMe and Cooper. We dive into the merits of journey mapping. What it is and how it can be useful.

Lisa Welchman, from Active Standards, joins us to talk about digital governance. How to manage the chaos and put a digital governance framework in place.

Automated marketing. The marketeer’s dream. What is it, and how does this impact UX? Aimee Ravacon from Specopssoft shares her experiences after successfully implementing marketing automation into her organisations’ digital marketing.

Episode 90 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles they’ve stumbled upon whilst roaming the internet. First – Under-resourced and isolate: who would be a digital marketing manager? It’s complex and get more complex by the day. Second – The Seven Most Important UI and UX ideas of 2014. A retrospective look back...

How do you build a minimum viable product? Inspired by a Twitter conversation, we talk to Russ Unger, Stephen Anderson and Jeff Gothelf about what MVP is, what it isn’t. Does it cause more confusion than add value? What are we trying to learn and validate? We get some hangups off our chests, and discuss...

We’re joined by usability grandmaster Jared Spool. Inspired by a tweet we asked Jared to join us to dive a little deeper.

In the style of a radio phone-in, James and Per open up the communication channels and talk to you the listener. Our guests in our second listener phone-in show ended up being Wedge Black, Tim Wright, Heather Burns and James Mole McConnell.

UX Podcast was lucky enough to take part in the first ever Redesigning Star Wars workshop run by Chris Noessel. Chris is the co-author of Make It So, the main guy behind scifiinterfaces.com and design fellow at Cooper.

When Bart, James and Per start talking, they just don’t stop. This is an extended and thought-provoking interview with Bart Schutz that we recorded at Conversion Jam 4.

UX Podcast attended one of the biggest conversion optimisation conferences in the world, Conversion Jam 4, organised by Conversionista. We grabbed interviews with 4 of the keynote speakers. There was a definite psychology-theme to our interviews .

Hot on the heels of the launch of the iPhone 6 with it’s NFC chip and Apple Pay, we talk to Skip Allum, the author of Designing Mobile Payment Experiences. We learn about the different types of solutions, talk about barriers to use, what hasn’t worked, what could work and ponder the future of paying with our phones....

On June 13th 2014 the Consumer Rights Directive came into force across Europe. This law has a direct impact on the way we design our websites within Europe and bans the use of certain dark patterns. We talk to Heather Burns, author of The web designer’s guide to the consumer rights directive, to find out more.

Touring UX, design and dev conference Hybridconf landed in Stockholm this year. We were there for both days to listen, learn and most importantly to interview some of the speakers. We managed to chat to four of this year’s speakers. Dan Rubin opened day 1 with his silo-busting talk “We don’t talk anymore”. Natasha Irizarry...

Episode 80 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles they’ve stumbled upon whilst dredging the internets. First – Everything is broken. Really, everything is broken. Can we fix it? Do we care enough to fix it? Second – UX without user research is not UX. Isn’t it? Does it matter?  And lastly...

With Facebook moving messaging to a separate app, unbundling has really hit the big time. What is app unbundling? Should you be adopting it as a strategy for your app/product? Piece of cake to pull off or hideous nightmare? We are joined by Alissa Briggs, Senior UX Manager at Intuit, to talk our way through the...

In the style of a radio phone-in, James and Per open up the communication channels and talk to you the listener. We took calls live and blind not knowing who was going to ring and what we were going to talk about.

Form and survey specialist and author Caroline Jarrett joins us on this episode of UX Podcast. Unsurprisingly we chat about surveys and forms beginning with the subject’s roots in data capture and motion studies. Amongst other things we talk about the four steps involved in answering a question and problems such as non-response error and coverage...

Episode 76 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles they’ve discovered on their digital travels. First – 45 days to plan a Tweet? Just a bit of bad press, deliberate PR? How do we know what’s true anymore? Second – Thank you for signing up! Pay attention to your thank you pages. And finally...

Dave Gray of Gamestorming fame joined us in Stockholm to share some stories around principles of agility. Patterns to guide you rather than dogma to rule you. Does your organisation have a culture that’s capable of being agile?  How do you survive in an agile environment and within connected teams?

James and Per jumped on the early morning train from Stockholm and headed down to Gothenburg for the international day of Intranätverk 2014, a conference focusing on intranets and the digital workplace. Recent years have seen quite a change in the intranet scene, user centric design methods are increasingly common place in intranet projects. We found...

James and Per are joined by Russ Unger to talk about workshops. How do you plan and create a workshop? How do you become an awesome facilitator?

An accessible, user-centered comment system? How has no one managed to do that before? UX Podcast is joined by Malin Crona from The Centre for Easy-to-Read and Mikael Zackrisson from Ziggy Creative Colony to talk about the c4all commenting system.

James and Per are joined in this episode by Jens Wedin to talk about design research. When should you do research? Why should you do it? How should you do it? How much is enough? Our discussion also goes into ways of working as a UX practitioner and we share a fair few tips. How...

UX Podcast attended the launch of Vimla, a new mobile network developed start-up style by Telenor here  in Sweden that aims to be simple, open, and community driven.