UX Podcast
Episodes
#244 Icons
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this topic show dedicated to icons Per and James look at what icons are, why we, as designers, make use of them and what we can do to make them mor...
#243 Answering surveys with Caroline Jarrett (UXP Classic)
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Form and survey specialist and author Caroline Jarrett joins us on this classic episode of UX Podcast. Unsurprisingly we chat about surveys and forms ...
#242 Figure it out with Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to understand something? How do we take information and create understanding? We talk to with Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast and do ...
#241 Privacy privilege
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 241 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles are about “priva...
#240 Architecting the information age with Lisa Welchman (UXP Classic)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this classic UX Podcast interview we talk to Lisa Welchman about our responsibility as designers and creators of digital products, services and inf...
#239 Storytelling in design with Anna Dahlström
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everything is a story. Every product experience is a story. Anna Dahlström, author of Storytelling in design joins us to talk about how we can manage...
#238 Embedding privacy with Tim Kariotis
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Kariotis talks to us about privacy. What is privacy? How do we go about embedding privacy into design and understanding the privacy and social nor...
#237 User research during a pandemic with Mar Murube
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mar Murube joins us to talk about the experience of interviewing vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic and what we can do to help ourselves a...
#236 Designisms
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 236 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles cover why “desig...
#235 Internet anxiety with David Swallow
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes you anxious when using the internet? We talk to David Swallow about the ways in which websites can make us stressed, irritated and cause se...
#234 Visual thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eva-Lotta Lamm joins us to talk about sketching, visualising and using visualisations for uncovering and exploring problems.
#233 Usability testing with Richard Whitehand
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Whitehand has been working hands on with usability testing for decades. He’s spent more hours than anyone we know in a usability lab tes...
#232 Design psychology with Amy Bucher
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Bucher, author of Engaged – designing for behaviour change, joins us to talk about how psychology can influence the design of digital produc...
#231 Writing is designing with Michael Metts and Andy Welfle
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Designing with words – writing is designing. We talk to Andy Welfle and Michael Metts about how you can go about applying a design methodology t...
#230 Growth marketing with Sara Öhman
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is growth marketing? We were curious so we asked Swedish digital marketing expert Sara Öhman to join us and explain what is it and share some of...
#229 Just enough research with Erika Hall
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Six years have passed since Erika Hall published Just Enough Research. Recently she’s released an updated second edition. We took the opportunit...
#228 The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 228 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles are: The Aesthetic-Acc...
#227 Imposter syndrome with Amy Silvers & Lori Cavallucci (UXP Classic)
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this classic interview from 2015, we talk to Lori Cavallucci and Amy Silvers to learn more about imposter syndrome – what is it and how it ef...
#226 Improv with Mike Gorgone
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How is improvisation, or improv as it’s known, be relevant to those of us working with UX? Mike Gorgone joins us for an entertaining look into h...
#225 Indistractable with Nir Eyal
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nir Eyal joins us to discuss some of the ideas and topics covered in his two books, Hooked and Indistractable.
#224 The business value of design with Jeanne Liedtka
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne Liedtka, author of multiple books around design thinking and organic growth, was visiting Stockholm and we had the opportunity to talk to her i...
#223 Cross disciplinary collaboration with Becki Hyde
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Becki Hyde, Design Practice Lead at Pivotal, joins us to talk about how to make “Magic with Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration”. Collaborati...
#222 Sense and respond with Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Seiden and Jeff Gothelf have together written the books Lean UX and Sense and Respond. We learn how they used their own methods to develop their ...
#221 Decision systems with Kim Goodwin
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Goodwin, three-time guest on UX Podcast and a person we have huge amounts of respect for joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about decisi...
#220 Positive user experience
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 220 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time the articles are: version 2 of the ...
#219 Facilitating structures with Stephen Anderson
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do i facilitate someone’s discovery? Stephen Anderson has a passion for learning, teaching and facilitating and helps us in this episode thi...
#218 Feedback with Claire Lew
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Feedback loop – it’s not just about giving, but also about asking, receiving and acting on the feedback you’ve been given. Clair...
#217 Randomness with Chris Noessel
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Noessel, UX veteran and many-time UX Podcast guest, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about randomness – a broad philosophical ...
#216 Make it so with Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel (UXP Classic)
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this classic episode, Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel, authors of Make It So, join us to talk about interaction design lessons from science...
#215 Machine learning with Daryl Weir
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People worry that machines are going to get too smart. The bigger problem right now is that they aren’t smart enough. Daryl Weir, mathematician ...
#214 Lost in translation
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 214 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time they’re a research paper abou...
#213 Spacesuit design with Lindsey Aitchison
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey Aitchison, spacesuit designer at NASA, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about the challenges and process of designing the equipmen...
#212 Continuous learning with Kate Rutter
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stay up-to-date in a world constantly in flux? Kate Rutter, designer, teacher and co-host of What Is Wrong With UX joins us to talk about h...
#211 Disruptive design patterns with Laura Kalbag
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Kalbag, author of Accessibility for Everyone, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about accessibility and also disruptive design patter...
#210 Embedding service design with Marc Stickdorn
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Stickdorn, co-author of This Is Service Design and This Is Service Design doing, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about how to get se...
#209 Paper prototypes
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2019 the Interaction Design Foundation tweeted an article from their archives about rapid prototyping. Attached to the tweet was a short vide...
#208 Your next UX job with Jessica Ivins
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Preparing for your next job is like saving for retirement says Jessica Ivins. Start putting yourself out there ahead of time, thinking about what you ...
#207 Designing voice interfaces with Ben Sauer
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have high expectations for voice interfaces, after all we’ve been talking since birth. It’s natural and nuanced. Ben Sauer joins us to ...
#206 The build trap with Melissa Perri
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The build trap is something many organisations fall into. Building features for the sake of building them. Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the build...
#205 Evil genius
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 205 is a link show. James and Jonas discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention – this time they’re about how lying c...
#204 Designing with sound with Aaron Day
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Designing sound – or perhaps designing with sound. Sound is part of the user experience and can be added and removed, and in both situation...
#203 Ten year challenge with Bruno Figueiredo
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The #10yearchallenge involves posting a photo of yourself from 2009 along with a present day photo. We have our own UX Podcast version for you. We loo...
#202 Digital places with Jorge Arango
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Physical places and digital places. Together with Jorge Arango Lisa and James discuss concepts from the physical world of architecture and buildings a...
#201 Consistency
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 201 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – this time they’re about Consistency in ...
#200 Retrospective with James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
200 Episodes! Almost 5 days of podcast content recorded over 7 and a half years. To celebrate this milestone, Lisa Welchman and Anna Dahlström host t...
#199 Physical prototypes with Kathryn McElroy
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prototyping doesn’t need to be limited to screens and pages. Making physical prototypes with electronics isn’t as complicated as it perhap...
#198 Connected content with Carrie Hane
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Given the benefits of producing content first, why do we still usually leave it to last? Carrie Hane ,co-author of Designing Connected Content, joins ...
#197 Mental health with Jennifer Akullian
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health is something that isn’t discussed openly at the workplace. The tech industry has a higher rate of mental health issues than many o...
#196 Accessibility for designers
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Accessibility and inclusive design is something we’ve regularly mentioned during the years, but we’ve never had a dedicated show about acc...
#195 Infused design with Jared Spool
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you could just draw a concept on a whiteboard and everyone just got it and got on with it. That’s what a design infused organisation loo...
#194 Research on the fly with Cyd Harrell
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cyd Harrell has done all kinds of user research. At the beginning of this episode Cyd tells us of the time she live streamed a user interview from a ...
#193 Designing democracy with Dana Chisnell
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Voting in American is hard. There are far more steps than people realise” said Dana Chisnell. We talk to Dana about democracy as a design...
#192 Values are the experience with Kim Goodwin
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Organisational culture – or values – is our design medium rather than pixels or code. Kim Goodwin joins us on the back of her UXLx 2018 ta...
#191 Ergonomics with Kevin Cannon
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By and large our focus in recent times has been on websites and apps, but increasingly we are going to be asked to design things in physical contexts;...
#190 Thinking in triplicate
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 190 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention.
#189 Contrasting design worlds with Namrata Mehta
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Namrata Mehta is a design researcher and innovation consultant, focused on bringing user-centered approaches to public service delivery in e...
#188 Designing elevators with Reetta Ranne and Jussi Hiltunen
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lifts and elevators are things that we love to talk about in UX circles. Every lift seems able to become the starting point for a user experience conv...
#187 Jobs to be done with Tony Ulwick
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jobs to be done is a tool that comes up regularly in UX circles. But exactly what is it? We talk to Tony Ulwick, author of Jobs to be Done: Theory to ...
#186 Augmented reality with Boon Sheridan
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2016, Boon Sheridan started noticing people gathering outside his home, staring at their phones. Pokemon Go had launched and BoonR...
#185 Gaming behaviour with Kellee Santiago
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kellee Santiago said that when making Journey they wanted to “make a game that creates a renewed sense of faith in humanity”. They wanted ...
#184 Accreditation with Zoe Rose
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“If it sounds like I am saying that design is not a profession, then yes – that is exactly what I am saying. We are not. Without a code of eth...
#183 Meeting design with Kevin Hoffman
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“When I first joined the workforce, I was unprepared for how much of my work would be dependent upon the success or failure within meetings̶...
#182 Semantic building blocks
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 182 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention.
#181 Product strategy with Richard Banfield
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Product strategy is a product of product vision” says Richard Banfield. In this show Richard shares his thoughts on product strategy, the...
#180 Mobile frustrations with Lina Hansson
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What frustrates people when using mobile sites? Lina Hansson is a conversion specialist at Google. Recently Google has tested almost 500 websites in r...
#179 Net Promoter Score with Jared Spool
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“NPS is the KFC of satisfaction scores – it’s everywhere and not good for you”. Jared Spool isn’t a fan of Net Promoter Scor...
#178 Games user research with Veronica Zammitto
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Game UX – doing research for video games. It’s a relatively young field, coming to the forefront of the gaming industry during the last 5-...
#177 GDPR with Heather Burns
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On May 25, 2018, GDPR comes into effect throughout the EU. Heather Burns joins us to help us understand the implications.
#176 The insane growth of UX
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 176 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention.
#175 Human centred design with Alastair Somerville
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We are constantly simplifying the world around us and the people within it. This is a perfectly understandable reaction to the messy things we have to...
#174 UX Panel game – without hesitation, repetition or deviation
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
UX Podcast Panel game. Inspired by the legendary panel game devised by Ian Messiter we bring you a UX Podcast Christmas Special. We try to speak unin...
#173 Building a team with Alissa Briggs
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alissa Briggs has mastered design leadership. We talked to her during EuroIA in Stockholm where she had held a presentation entitled Race to the Top:...
#172 Re-branding with Jon Bergsman
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After over 6 years, UX Podcast is re-branding. Updating or changing your brand doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it impacts everything, including the ...
#171 Surviving UX with Eric Reiss
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
IA, IxD, SEO – all of these and more come under the canopy of UX. “I don’t think any of us can truly call ourselves UX designers, although t...
#170 Discovery with Dan Brown
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We need to ask the big hard questions at the beginning of the process so we can make good design decisions later. We talk to Dan Brown about the disco...
#169 Reintroduction to Information Architecture with Donna Spencer
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We get a reintroduction to information architecture with Donna Spencer. Donna shares with us some of the methods and tools she teaches as part of her ...
#168 Articulating more design decisions with Tom Greever
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2 years since Tom’s book Articulating Design Decisions was released we catch up with him again and ask what he’s learnt – is there a...
#167 As a user…
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 167 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention.
#166 Oblivious design
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Per recently launched a service called DickPicLocator to highlight not only the bullying and abuse many people face through digital media, but also th...
#165 Enterprise stories with Donna Lichaw
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Lichaw returns to UX Podcast for another chat, this time we focus on how stories could be used when working with Enterprise UX. Donna is the aut...
#164 Engaging with compassion with Eric Meyer
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Through his own tragic experience after the death of his young daughter Rebecca to cancer, Eric Meyer explains to us how the ideal outcome we design f...
#163 Design systems with Jina Anne
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jina Anne joins us to talk design systems. Jina has for a number of years worked as the lead designer with the Lightning Design System at Salesforce a...
#162 Co-creation and an army of partners with Katie Dill
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Dill, Director of Experience Design at Airbnb, joined us in the Green Room at From Business To Buttons. A journey is both offline and online. It...
#161 Get people to Take action with Susan & Guthrie Weinschenk
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Susan and Guthrie Weinschenk work together as The Team W. They like to take behavioural economics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology; combine th...
#160 I need more sleep 💤
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 160 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention. Article one is Emojis: Tools for Emotions Communic...
#159 Politics or design? with Mike Monteiro
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We locked Mike Monteiro in a room at From Business To Buttons here in Stockholm and had a chat. “So, do you want to talk about design or politic...
#158 Shoot for The Moon with Jaime Levy
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jaime Levy, author of UX Strategy joined us in the green room at From Business To Buttons. We talked about Jaime’s Hyperloop study – the personal ...
#157 Listener phone-in (part 2)
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
James, Per and Danwei were gathered in Studio Axbom to take questions from you, the listeners, in the 9th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. This is part...
#156 Listener phone-in (part 1)
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
James, Per and Danwei were gathered in Studio Axbom to take questions from you, the listeners, in the 9th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. This is part...
#155 Channels of misinformation with Alan Cooper
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How are designers tackling the idea of ethics? We start the episode with Alan using politics and democracy as a vehicle for highlighting the importanc...
#154 Closure experiences with Joe Macleod
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talk Closure experiences with Joe Macleod. The lack of endings was something that Joe kept noticing again and again. There are so many examples in ...
#153 Ruthless Prioritisation
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 153 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention.
#152 Shortcuts
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We take a deep dive into Keyboard shortcuts, or hotkeys in this topic show. We dig into how to decide and design what keyboard shortcuts to have in yo...
#151 Liminal thinking with Dave Gray
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Gray wants to change the way you think. By changing the way you think you can achieve the change you want says Dave. His latest book Liminal Thin...
#150 Dark Patterns with Harry Brignull
02 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Brignull joins us to talk about “dark patterns”. Harry coined the phrase back in 2010 to describe the design patterns used on websit...
#149 War Stories with Steve Portigal
19 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For a number of years Steve Portigal has been collecting user research war stories. The stories describe experiences researchers have had whilst doing...
#148 Lostness
05 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 148 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention. The first article is Decision Frames: How Cognitiv...
#147 Listener phone-in (part 2)
29 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of highlights from our 8th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. On a dark December afternoon James, Per and Danwei gathered in Studio Axbom ...
#146 Listener phone-in (part 1)
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
James, Per and Danwei open the video channels for the 8th UX Podcast Listener phone-in. On a dark December afternoon gathered in Studio Axbom to chat ...
#145 Complexity with Jonas Söderström
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas Söderström joins us to talk about complexity. We like to think that we have make the world better through digitalisation, but perhaps all of t...