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UXpod - User Experience Podcast

A free-ranging set of discussions on matters of interest to people involved in user experience design, website design, and usability in general.

Gerry Gaffney

Farewell

Taking responsibility for our creations: An interview with Ellen Broad

Mags Hanley on Career Architecture

Voice Content and Usability - problems and opportunities. With Preston So

Preventing your product becoming a tool for abuse, with Eva PenzeyMoog

Doughnut Economics and Systems Thinking: An interview with Kate Goodwin

How to onboard: An interview with Krystal Higgins

Designing child-friendly cities: An interview with Tim Gill

Training Dev Teams in Accessibility: An interview with Allison Ravenhall

Product Research Rules: An interview with Aras Bilgen and C Todd Lombardo

Research Repositories: An Interview with Mark McElhaw

Running a virtual conference: An interview with Rory Madden

Presenting Design Work - An interview with Donna Spencer

Empathy for the future self: An interview with Amy Bucher

Figure it Out: An interview with Stephen P Anderson and Karl Fast

UX Writing: An interview with Torrey Podmajersky

Think like a UX researcher: An interview with David Travis and Philip Hodgson

Meaningful Work: An interview with Daniel Szuc and Jo Wong

A nice case study of the value of a small number of in-depth interviews.

User research in government: An interivew with Matthew McCallum

Michelle talks about the challenge and opportunity of running a large team remotely.

The Boss is away: An interview with Michelle Spencer

Questionnaire design: An interview with Annie Pettit

Celia Hodent talks about neuroscience, UX and games design.

Competence, autonomy, relatedness: Celia Hodent on games design

Managing a UX team: An interview with Cameron Rogers

UX in the Ubiquitous Bank: An Interview with Brett King

Robots, AI and Ethics - An interview with Dr Christoph Bartneck

Martin talks about the challenges and opportunities of designing for the connected, sensor- and data-enabled city of the future.

Making Cities Smarter: An Interview with Martin Tomitsch

Kevin Hoffman talks about how to design and facilitate good meetings.

Designing better meetings: An interview with Kevin M Hoffman

Matiu Bush talks about designing for the end of life.

Designing for the best death possible: An interview with Matiu Bush

Slack's Amir Shevat talks about bots, and why you can't just port existing services to a bot, and about the power of conversational interfaces.

Mean Time to "I Love You" - Amir Shevat talks about Chatbots

Tech firms that are not themselves diverse can't be effective in meeting the needs of diverse audiences. Sara Wachter-Boettcher talks about how we've built exclusion into our algorithms.

How tech's lack of diversity affects its products: An interview with Sara Watchter-Boettcher

Does metadata matter – and why? Shari Thurow talks about making your content usable and accessible for both humans and machines and the importance of information architecture.

SEO, metadata and information architecture: An interview with Shari Thurow

Why everyone should learn to think like a professional, honest journal. What makes a good "infographic"? And how can we find the stories in our data, and tell those stories effectively?

Visual Communication: An interview with Alberto Cairo

Transhumanism, immanence and existential risk: An interview with Mark O'Connell

Connected Bikes in the Smart City: An interview with Irene McAleese

Designing The Designer: An Interview with Jesse James Garrett

The author of "Contextual Design" on the importance of immersion, and how to engage the entire team in the design process.

Design for Life: An interview with Karen Holtzblatt

UX Portfolios: An interview with Ian Fenn

Jessica talks about good forms design. Layout, Flow, Language - and why not to use placeholder text

Definitive Advice on Forms: An Interview with Jessica Enders

Ethnographic researchers share their experiences in Steve's new book, "Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories."

Stories from the field: An interview with Steve Portigal

Dave Gray describes "Liminal Thinking" and why it matters.

Dogs, Doublethink and Deconstructing Beliefs: Liminal Dave Gray

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An animated interview with Val Head

Gerry McGovern talks to Gerry Gaffney about the empowered customer and the consequent need to transform organisations.

Transforming & Measuring: An Interview with Gerry McGovern

UX Careers: An  Interview with Cory Lebson

A tasteful interview with Tom Vanderbilt

Machine I: An interview with Kayla Heffernan

Tomer Sharon talks bout Lean User Research.

The importance of invalidation: Tomer Sharon on Lean User Research

Customer as superhero: An interview with Donna Lichaw

Explain yourself! An interview with Tom Greever

Can we expect a jury of lay-people to interpret, understand and apply the law?

Reasonable doubt - Juries, the law and plain language: An interview with Prof James Ogloff

What is service design, and how does it relate to UX?

Service design: An interview with Andy Polaine

What you can (and can’t) find out in five seconds, and how to design good tests to do so.

Designing good five-second tests: An interview with Paul Doncaster

Getting onto the floor for user research. Measuring PTR (Parental Threshold for the Revolting.) And designing products that engage, educate and entertain kids.

Design for Kids: An interview with Debra Levin Gelman

Donna Tedesco and Fiona Tranquada, authors of "The Moderator's Survival Guide" talk to Gerry Gaffney about moderation. They discuss styles like Friendly Face, Down to Business, Inquisitive Mind and By-the-Book, the risks and pitfalls, Gerry's labcoat, and advice to moderators of all levels.

The Moderators Survival Guide: An interview with Donna Tedesco and Fiona Tranquada

Catherine D'Elia talks to Gerry Gaffney about how UX contributed to the design of a new Jury Management Service. She says that explaining UX and getting buy-in are crucial.

UX: A client perspective

Jeff Johnson talks to Gerry Gaffney about user interface design guidelines, zombie processes, and why your first answer to the following question is typically wrong. A baseball and a bat together cost $110. The bat costs $100 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Where UI guidelines come from: An interview with Jeff Johnson

Dan Saffer talks about microinteractions, signature moments, and the importance of detail. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Microinteractions: An interview with Dan Saffer

Eye tracking for UX: An interview with Aga Bojko

UX teams: An interview with Sarah Bloomer

UX, Disruption and Cultural Errors in Emerging Markets

Make It So: An interview with Chris Noessel

It's everyone's research: An interview with Tomer Sharon

UX stats for the faint-hearted: An interview with Jeff Sauro

The Participatory Museum - an interview with Nina Simon

Researching the airport of the future: An interview with Ben Kraal

UX leadership: An interview with Kim Goodwin

Gerry Gaffney interviews Steve Portigal about conducting interviews for user research. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

User research interviews: An interview with Steve Portigal

Gerry Gaffney interviews Jarrett Walker. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.





Human transit: An interview with Jarrett Walker

Gerry Gaffney interviews Whitney Quesenbery. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Global UX: An interview with Whitney Quesenbery

Gerry Gaffney interviews James Lewis. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Speech user interfaces: An interview with James Lewis

Gerry Gaffney interviews Mike Regan. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Driver Safety: An interview with Dr Michael Regan

Gerry Gaffney interviews Morgan McKeagney. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

UX in the UK: Gerry Gaffney interviews Andy Budd






Gerry Gaffney interviews Morgan McKeagney. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.






Usability in Ireland - Gerry Gaffney interviews Morgan McKeagney

Gerry Gaffney interviews Caroline Jarrett. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Surveys - an interview with Caroline Jarrett

Gerry Gaffney interviews Giles Colborne. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Simple and usable - an interview with Giles Colborne

Gerry Gaffney interviews Bill Albert. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Beyond the Usability Lab with Bill Albert



Gerry Gaffney interviews Mikael Colville-Anderson. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.



Promoting cycling culture, with Mikael Colville-Andersen

Gerry Gaffney interviews Adam Greenfield on ubiquitous computing. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Adam Greenfield on Everyware

Gerry Gaffney interviews Lenovo's David Hill.  For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

David Hill on ThinkPad's evolution design strategy

Gerry Gaffney interviews James Roberston from Step Two Designs about managing intranets.For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

What every intranet team should know - an interview with James Robertson

Gerry Gaffney interviews Shane Morris about designing for Microsoft Surface and multi-touch interfaces.For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.

Microsoft Surface and multi-touch interfaces - an interview with Shane Morris

TramTracker is an application that runs on iPhone (and other platforms) and gives Melbourne commuters real-time information on tram movements. Robert Amos talks about developing the application.Visit www.uxpod.com for a transcript of this and other episodes.