UX Research Geeks

Welcome to Season 3 of UX Research Geeks. In this episode, we take a closer look at the world of user experience research terminology with Nikki Anderson-Stanier, a seasoned professional. We examine topics such as goals, needs, tasks, and pain points, providing valuable insights into the foundations of UX research. Stay tuned for an exciting season ahead, featuring experts in the field. 🔎 Do you...

Aurelia has been fortunate to traverse various types of products, customers, and markets during her time as a researcher - including B2B Saas, digital fitness, e-commerce, and digital devices.  She is experienced in executing research across the product development lifecycle and is particularly passionate about generative research focused on determining product strategy that meets business goals w...

Zariah is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. She’s an experienced self-taught UX Designer and aims to cultivate a sense of community within her work and amplify the voices and stories of marginalized communities. She has a passion for strategically placing equity and inclusivity at the forefront of her design work. She is the first “Equity Centered UX Strategist”, at Ally Finan...

Kathleen is a research & insights leader with 15+ years' experience in digital product development. She enjoys building research capacity from scratch and has led teams of researchers, designers and product managers on their journey towards working insight-informed.  She is originally from the Netherlands but has lived in South Korea, Australia, Sweden and is currently residing in France....

Meet Yao, the first guest of our podcast special with uxcon vienna! Yao Adantor is a User Experience Researcher and Co-Founder of the Research Bookmark UX education platform, with 8 years of diverse experience in e-commerce, healthcare, and federal government sectors.  As an adjunct professor for 4 years, he taught user experience research and prototyping. Yao's passion for understanding human...

Erica Jorgensen is a staff content designer at Chewy.com and the author of “Strategic Content Design: Tools and Research Techniques for Better UX”, published in April 2023 by Rosenfeld Media. She's a content designer, content strategist, and team leader determined to bring greater respect to the content field.  To that end, Erica speaks frequently at conferences including UXDX USA, UX Lisbon,...

Evie is a UX Researcher and Strategist from Estonia. She specializes in building meaningful digital experiences for humans with unconventional problems. Whether it's creating spatial sketches of a future car in VR or exploring new frontiers in sexuality, her focus is always on ensuring that the user's needs are front and center.  For more than seven years, Evie contributed to enhancing hum...

Mike Green MBPsS is an award-nominated freelance user researcher, podcast host and digital consultant based in the UK. His clients range from start-ups to UK Government departments and FTSE100 companies. He is a passionate believer in user-centred design and has interviewed hundreds of research participants in the course of his career to help ensure product teams design and build digital services...

Elke is the founder of De Denksmederij and works as a speaker, author and trainer. She guides philosophical conversations and provides training and education in critical thinking, practical philosophy, the art of asking questions and creative thinking. Elke develops thinking materials, e-books, workshops and thinking processes and online products around thinking and creativity. Follow Elke & h...

Darren Hood is a 27+ year veteran of the UX discipline, serving at several successful organizations during his career including the Fortune 50. He holds 2 UX-related Master's degrees and is a doctoral candidate. Among his many engagements, he's an adjunct professor at 6 universities, a podcaster, an author, and a global mentor. Darren loves all things UX and relishes the opportunity to share with...

Julian Della Mattia is UX Research Lead at Kiwi.com and founder of the180 Agency. Based in Spain, Julian helps teams build up research practices from scratch and specializes in Facilitation & ResearchOps. Follow Julian & his work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdelmat/ If you interested to learn more about ResearchOps, we also recommend: The Youtube channel of Kate Towsey https://www.yo...

Eli is a Iranian researcher from Central European university. Her main fields of interest are gender, women’s rights, media representation, social movements, and women’s representation in cinema. She is also a poet with two published books in her home country and an experimental filmmaker. She is now relocating to Canada to continue her research in Phd of sociology and cultural studies. Follow Eli...

Welcome to the new season of UXR Geeks! This is the first episode, with the one and only Sina Schreiber, UX Researcher & Content Strategist who many of you may know from the research repository software Condens. We talked about her path to user research and the role of a repository in research democratization. We also dived into the intersection of user research and content strategy that Sina...

Welcome to the last episode of series 1 of UX Reasearch Geeks. Don't worry, we are not going to be stopping anytime soon, we just have to have a small break to bring you even more great guests! With the last episode of the season, we felt like we should go out with a bang! That's why we invited Dr. Gyles Morrison, who is a Clinical UX Strategist with 10 years history in healthcare, digital health...

Tjaša Zajc is an internationally recognized digital health moderator and speaker focused on global healthcare digitalization. Brainlab put her on the list of 9 Digital Health Experts to Follow on LinkedIn in 2021, Health Tech listed her among 30 Healthcare IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2021. She is the founder and host of Faces of digital health podcast, which is consistently ranked among the t...

Sayali Phatak is a senior UX researcher working in the digital health industry. Prior to making the jump to industry, she did research in academia focused on designing digital solutions for health promotion and behavior change. Follow Sayali on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayaliphatak/ You can also take a look at some of her frameworks mentioned in the episode: IDEAS Framework: https...

James Mckinnon is a human-technologist and human-centered researcher in digital health and service design. His work explores areas where business, technology, and design merge together to impact digital services, people, and society. You. Me. Us. We. is a human-centered research lab led by James. The studio’s work is driven by inclusive and equitable practices in care delivery, lowering barriers t...

Michaela Mora, the founder of Relevant Insights, is an insights professional with a diverse background and more than 20 years of experience working at the intersection of market research and UX research. She is also a founding member of the Multicultural Insights Collective, which conducts research about topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Michaela holds an MS. in Marketing Researc...

Elizabeth Akpan is a User researcher at YUX. She is a curious person and has worked on multi-country UX research projects on the African continent and in various sectors - open knowledge, fintech and agritech. Camille Kramer-Courbariaux is a Senegal-based entrepreneur, UX researcher, and co-founder of YUX, a pan-African UX research, and design agency. She specializes in health and education resear...

Camille Kramer-Courbariaux is a Senegal-based entrepreneur, UX researcher, and co-founder of YUX, a pan-African UX research, and design agency. She specializes in health and education research projects. She also launched the YUX Academy, a UX design training center. Feel free to follow Camille and her work here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-kramer-courbariaux-1933a420/ Website: ht...

Stéphanie Walter is a UX Researcher & Designer based in Luxembourg. She has 12+ years of experience and specializes in enterprise UX and mobile. She teaches, speaks, and writes about design, UX research, accessibility, cognitive biases, design-dev relationship, etc. She is better at keeping her teammates alive in video games than her plants but she tries nonetheless. Don't hesitate to reach ou...

Debbie Levitt, MBA is the CXO of DeltaCX and a long-time researcher, UX strategist, designer, and mentor. Besides her great Youtube channel where she shares many valuable insights on UX, she's also an author of “Delta CX“ and “Transforming Toward Customer-Centricity“ which trains businesses on how to mitigate and predict business risk, increase ROI, and much more! Follow Debbie here: https://delta...

Kevin Liang - founder and mentor at Zero to UX discusses his career, working within the UX industry, employment opportunities within UX, and his love of teaching. Follow Kevin here: https://zerotoux.com/ https://www.youtube.com/kevinliang https://www.instagram.com/zerotoux/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinliang-1/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak Thanks to k ununu for providing their pod...

Jessica Pidoux - a sociologist and a digital humanities PhD. and Laurie Dutheil - a dating coach are a match made in heaven! They have been working together to unravel the secrets of mobile dating apps algorithms to make sure the next match you have will be the right one for you. Turns out you are not only dating a human on the other end of the screen but also dating the app's algorithm!  Che...

Nick Morgan-Jones, product designer and founder of Decibels, talks about fighting the social stigma connected to the hearing aids by designing them as a fashionable piece of technology and more!   Where to find Nick? https://www.decibels.so/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-morgan-jones-22985960/  This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak Thanks to k ununu for providing their podcast stu...