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18. Presenting UX Work in a Compelling Way (feat. David Glazier, Senior Staff UX Designer at Illumina)
4 februari 2022 · 33 min
UX professionals often find themselves saddled with the burden of convincing others to value UX work. David Glazier, Sr. Staff UX Lead of Digital Experience at Illumina tells his story about how effective communication helped him get buy-in with stakeholders and key decision-makers. Lees meer
Read more about David Glazier on LinkedIn
Courses & Talks mentioned in this episode:
Storytelling to Present UX Work (live, full-day UX Certification course)
VR & User Research (1-hour recorded talk by David Glazier)
Presenting to Stakeholders (1-hour recorded talk, related
More articles, videos, and upcoming training can be found at www.nngroup.com
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17. User Research Trends: What's Changed and What Hasn't (feat. Erin May and JH Forster, hosts of Awkward Silences)
7 januari 2022 · 34 min
There is no question that user research has changed over the last two years, but how significant are those changes? The answer is complex, but User Interviews' Erin May (VP Growth & Marketing) and JH Forster (VP Product) demystify these trends and share their observations and hopes for the years to come. Lees meer
Check out the Awkward Silences podcast by User Interviews
Erin May: Twitter (@erinhmay), LinkedIn
John-Henry (JH) Forster: Twitter (@jhforster), LinkedIn
User Interviews: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
Related NN/g Articles & Videos:
Recruiting and Screening Candidate for User Research Studies (article)
Qualitative Research Study Guide (article)
Quantitative Research Study Guide (article)
Related 1-Hour Talks:
Remote Research Trends (1-Hour Talk)
How Inclusive Design Expands Business Value (1-Hour Talk)
Upcoming Training Events:
Virtual UX Conference January 8-21 (2 half-day format)
Qualitative Research Series April 4-8 (5-day training event)
User Interviews Links:
The State of User Research 2021 Report
User Research Field Guides
Recruit 3 research participants for free on UserInterviews.com
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16. What's up with DesignOps? (feat. Kate Kaplan, Insights Architect at NN/g)
13 december 2021 · 30 min
As design teams mature in size and scope, the importance of intentionally designing and systematizing processes, approaches, and tools becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. Kate Kaplan shares insights from her research studying design teams and offers tips for those seeking to initiate and lead DesignOps efforts as a way to make design more impactful at their organizations. Lees meer
Learn more about Kate Kaplan on LinkedIn and nngroup.com
NN/g Resources Mentioned:
DesignOps 101 (free article)
DesignOps Maturity (free article)
6 Levels of UX Maturity (free article)
UX Maturity Stage 3: Emergent (free article)
DesignOps: DesignOps: Scaling UX Design and User Research (UXC course)
Other Links Mentioned:
Rosenfeld Media’s DesignOps Summit: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2021/
A note on companies to follow, from Kate: "There are so many teams at different organizations publicly sharing and publishing their DesignOps journeys and experiments, and I think that willingness to share is amazing and points to the greater community being built around DesignOps. Some that come top of mind to follow are Salesforce, Cisco, IBM, AirBnB, Pinterest, Athena Health, Atlassian. Most of these companies have internal design blogs or medium channels where they share their approaches."
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15. The Metaverse, Blockchain, and UX (feat. Geoff Robertson, Founder & UX Specialist at Chockablock)
8 november 2021 · 59 min
A two-part podcast episode discussing the implications of decentralized computing and mixed reality on the future of UX work. Lees meer
Geoff's Website: geoffrobertson.me
1-Hour Talks discussed in the episode:
Blockchain 101
Blockchain & UX
Related courses:
Emerging Patterns in Interface Design (UX Certification eligible course)
Upcoming online events:
Intranet and Employee Experience Symposium: Nov 9-10
Qualitative Research Series (5-Days): Nov 15-19
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14. Keeping Product Visions User-Centered (feat. Anna Kaley, UX Specialist at NN/g)
14 oktober 2021 · 31 min
Product visions can align a team and inspire a better future state. When visions stem from real user needs, the ideas that follow have the greatest potential for success. NN/g UX Specialist Anna Kaley discusses keeping users at the center of product development, and shares insights from next weeks' UX Vision and Strategy Series, presented alongside Chief Designer, Sarah Gibbons. Lees meer
Read more about Anna Kaley (NN/g bio)
Referenced courses and training series:
UX Vision and Strategy Series (Oct 18-22, 2021) with Anna Kaley and Sarah Gibbons
Product and UX: Building Partnerships for Better Outcomes
Being a UX Leader: Essential Skills for Any UX Practitioner
Lean UX and Agile
Related (free) videos & articles:
UX Vision (3-min video by Anna Kaley)
Create an aspirational view of the experience users will have with your product, service, or organization in the future. This isn't fluff, but will guide a unified design strategy. Here are 5 steps to creating a UX vision.
UX Roadmaps: Definition and Components (article by Sarah Gibbons)
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13. Special Edition: What's the "UX hill" you would die on?
8 oktober 2021 · 17 min
To kick off Season 2, we're releasing a special edition episode, inspired by a tweet posted by @AllisonGrayce in Feb 2021, where she asks followers, "what's a #ux hill you regularly die on?" Host Therese Fessenden asks both NN/g team members and members of the UXC and UXMC community what issues, topics, and principles they fiercely stand by, and shares their answers. Lees meer
Guests and submissions featured in the episode (in order):
Chris Callaghan (UXMC) - UX and Optimisation Director (Manchester, UK)
Twitter: @CallaghanDesign
Kara Pernice - Sr. VP at Nielsen Norman Group
Bio: nngroup.com/people/kara-pernice
Mary Formanek (UXMC) - Senior User Experience + Product Lead Engineer (Arizona, US)
Mary's Article: "Label Your Icons: No, we can’t read your mind. Please label your icons."
Tiktok: @UXwithMary
Ben Shih - UX Consultant and Product Designer (Stockholm, Sweden)
Portfolio: benshih.design
Rachel Krause - UX Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group
Bio: nngroup.com/people/rachel-krause/
Anna Kaley - UX Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group
Bio: nngroup.com/people/anna-kaley
You can find also information about the upcoming UX Vision and Strategy Series with Anna Kaley and Sarah Gibbons here.
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12. ResearchOps (feat. Kara Pernice, Sr. VP at NN/g)
2 juli 2021 · 32 min
One might think user research gets easier when there are more people available to do it; but managing research initiatives at scale can be a difficult task in itself. In this episode, Kara Pernice, Senior VP at NN/g shares her experience and insights about managing UX research operations. Lees meer
Kara Pernice's Articles and Videos (NN/g bio)
NN/g courses and articles referenced in this episode:
ResearchOps (UX certification course)
ResearchOps (article)
Research Repositories for Tracking UX Research and Growing Your ResearchOps (article)
Design Systems 101 (article)
DesignOps (UX certification course)
Research repository tools mentioned:
Dovetail
Consider.ly
Airtable
Other ResearchOps pioneers and communities:
Kate Towsey's Work (articles on Medium)
Leveling up your Ops and Research — a strategic look at scaling research and Ops (by Brigette Metzler)
ResearchOps Community (and Slack channel)
...and if you were curious what research papers launched Kara into her UX career, here are two of them:
Nielsen, J. (1990). Big paybacks from 'discount' usability engineering. IEEE Software 7, 3 (May), 107-108.
Nielsen, J. (1992). Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation. Proc. ACM CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May), 373-380.
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11. Solo UX: How to Be a One-Person UX Team (feat. Garrett Goldfield, UX Specialist at NN/g)
4 juni 2021 · 30 min
Advocating for UX work is hard. It's even harder when you're the only UX professional on your team. That said, there is still hope for one-person UX teams, and Garrett Goldfield shares his recommendations on how to make the most out of limited time and resources, and how to lead the charge in shifting corporate culture toward a more human-centered future. Lees meer
Read more about Garrett Goldfield (NN/g bio)
Resources & courses cited in this episode:
Episode 1. What is UX, anyway? (feat. Dr. Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru) (previous NN/g UX Podcast episode)
The One-Person UX Team (UX Certification course)
The Human Mind and Usability (UX Certification course)
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10. On Delight, Emotion, and UX - Flipping the Script with UX Specialists Therese Fessenden & Rachel Krause
7 mei 2021 · 29 min
To celebrate our first podcast milestone, we flipped the script. NN/g UX Specialist Rachel Krause guest-hosts this episode, and interviews host Therese Fessenden about the concept of "delight" in user experience: what it is, why the pursuit of delight can often be a short-sighted and misunderstood endeavor, and how a more holistic approach to interpreting and anticipating user needs can more reliably lead to an experience that delights beyond a single interaction. Lees meer
Read more about the hosts:
Therese Fessenden's Articles & Videos (NN/g bio)
Rachel Krause's Articles & Videos (NN/g bio)
Free resources cited in this episode:
A Theory of User Delight: Why Usability Is the Foundation for Delightful Experiences (free article)
Design for Emotion (by Daniel Ruston, UX Lead at Google Design)
Principles of Emotional Design (Intuit case study by Garron Engstrom)
How Delightful! 4 Principles for Designing Experience-Centric Products (Autodesk MLP case study by Maria Giudice)
Research: Perspective-Taking Doesn’t Help You Understand What Others Want (HBR article by Tal Eyal, Mary Steffel, Nicholas Epley)
Harvard Psychiatrist Identifies 7 Skills to Help You Get Along With Anybody (Inc. article by Carmine Gallo about Helen Riess' work)
Other resources cited in this episode:
Emerging Patterns in Interface Design (UX Certification course)
Persuasive and Emotional Design (UX Certification course)
DesignOps: Scaling UX Design and User Research (UX Certification course)
Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter (book)
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9. You Are Not the User: How the the False Consensus Effect Can Lead Good Design Astray (feat. Alita Joyce, UX Specialist at NN/g)
2 april 2021 · 29 min
Does having more experience in the UX industry enable you to make better design decisions by intuition? Does user research ever become a waste of time if some research already exists in academic papers? The answer, it seems, is not that simple. In this episode, UX Specialists Alita Joyce and Therese Fessenden discuss why, after all these years doing independent user research, you should still test your interfaces and research with your own customers. Lees meer
Read more: Alita Joyce's Articles & Videos (NN/g bio)
Free resources cited in this episode:
Viral video (by @tired_actor) "The Square Hole" (TikTok video)
The False-Consensus Effect (free article)
The “False Consensus Effect”: An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes (PDF of full study by Ross, Greene, and House)
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design (free article)
How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation (free article)
10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Video Games (free article)
Don Norman - Changing Role of the Designer Part 2: Community Based Design (4 min video)
Adam Grant - The "I’m Not Biased" Bias (Tweet about NBC Sunday Spotlight feature)
Other resources cited in this episode:
The Human Mind and Usability (UX Certification course)
Persuasive and Emotional Design (UX Certification course)
Democratizing Innovation by Eric Von Hippel (book)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (book)
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8. Thinking Beyond Interactions: Omnichannel Experiences and CX (feat. Kim Salazar, Sr. UX Specialist at NN/g)
5 maart 2021 · 30 min
What does it take to create a great customer experience? As it turns out: a lot more than just a series of great interactions. Kim Salazar, Sr. UX Specialist, shares her expertise on what omnichannel experiences are, why they matter for CX, and how having a mature CX means fundamentally changing how we view and handle UX work. Lees meer
Resources cited in this episode
Ep. 1 - What is UX, anyway? (feat. Dr. Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru) (our inaugural podcast episode)
Operationalizing CX: Organizational Strategies for Delivering Superior Omnichannel Experiences (142-page report)
CX Transformation (full-day course)
Journey Mapping to Understand Customer Needs (full-day course)
Kim's Articles & Videos (NN/g bio)
Other related articles & videos
What is Omnichannel UX? (2-min video)
User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s The Difference? (free article + 4 min video)
Good Customer Experience Demands Organizational Fluidity (free article)
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7. Lessen Digital Misery with Complex Apps (feat. Page Laubheimer, Sr. UX Specialist at NN/g)
5 februari 2021 · 30 min
"Keep it simple," is one of many great UX mantras... but how exactly does someone "keep it simple" when working with complex applications? In this episode, Page Laubheimer, Senior UX Specialist with NN/g, shares his expertise in information architecture (IA) and complex app design, recommends a few ideas to "lessen digital misery" on business-to-business (B2B) and enterprise applications, and offers advice for when you have to redesign a legacy application that is part of a user's everyday life. Lees meer
Resources cited in this episode:
Designing Complex Apps for Specialized Domains (full-day course)
Data Visualizations for Dashboards (4-min video)
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand (NN/g article)
Why I Now Use “Four-Threshold” Flags On Dashboards (Nick Desbarats' article)
Tesler's Law (Wikipedia article)
Page's NN/g Articles and Videos (bio page)
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6. Ethics in UX (feat. Maria Rosala, UX Specialist at NN/g)
1 januari 2021 · 27 min
Aren't all "user-centered" designs ethical by default if we're giving people what they want? Not exactly. Maria Rosala, UX Specialist at NN/g, shares her thoughts about how we can be better researchers and designers by asking critical questions about our research and design decisions, evaluating important tradeoffs, and ensuring we include the right people in our research and design process. Lees meer
Resources Cited in this Episode:
User Interviews (UX Certification course)
Design Tradeoffs and UX Decision Frameworks (UX Certification course)
Ethics in User Research (1-hr online seminar)
You Are Not The User: The False-Consensus Effect (free article)
TED Talk: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms | Joy Buolamwini (9 min YouTube video)
Also related: How Inclusive Design Expands Business Value (1-hr online seminar)
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5. ROI: The Business Value of UX (feat. Kate Moran, Sr. UX Specialist at NN/g)
4 december 2020 · 27 min
How do you evaluate the impact of UX work? As the world faces another bout of pandemic lockdowns, UX teams are finding themselves in a tough position of justifying their work to business decision-makers. Kate Moran, Senior UX Specialist at NN/g, shares insights from her recently published report on UX Metrics and ROI (return on investment) and offers advice on how to prove your worth. In this episode, we cover: what ROI is and why it matters, avoiding common pitfalls when calculating ROI, and how to stay growth-oriented without harming long-term business strategy. Lees meer
Resources cited in this episode:
UX Metrics and ROI report (297-page report)
Measuring UX and ROI (full-day course)
Myths of Calculating ROI (free article)
Don't Shame Your Users Into Converting (4-min video)
Stop Shaming Your Users for Micro Conversions (free article)
Kate's NN/g Articles and Videos (bio page)
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4. Creativity During a Crisis (feat. Aurora Harley, Sr. UX Specialist at NN/g)
6 november 2020 · 30 min
"Diamonds are made under pressure," but what does that mean for creativity and productivity? Aurora Harley, Senior UX Specialist, shares some advice on staying creative and productive during times of stress, thoughts on reframing constraints as opportunities, and tips for nurturing an environment that fosters innovative thought regardless of distance. Lees meer
Resources Cited in this Episode
Effective Ideation Techniques for UX Design (full-day course)
Changing Role of the Designer (Don Norman) (5 min video)
Ideation Techniques for a One-Person UX Team (2 min video)
Remote Ideation - Synchronous or Asynchronous Techniques (4 min video)
Troubleshooting Group Ideation: 10 Fixes for More and Better UX Ideas (free article)
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3. UX Careers: Growing in (and out of) Your Current Role (feat. Rachel Krause, UX Specialist at NN/g)
9 oktober 2020 · 25 min
What does a typical UX career path look like? Are there even typical career paths in UX? How can you become a UX leader? What should new and seasoned UX professionals keep in mind as they move through their careers? Rachel Krause, a UX Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group, shares her insights from her research on the UX profession, and perspectives from her own journey into the field of user experience. Lees meer
Resources Cited in this Episode:
What a UX Career Looks Like Today (free article)
User Experience Careers (90-page report)
Management vs. Specialization as UX Career Growth (3 min video)
The State of UX Job Descriptions (3 min video)
Being a UX Leader: Essential Skills for Any UX Practitioner (full-day course)
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2. Empathy, Adaptability, and Design (feat. Sarah Gibbons, Chief Designer at NN/g)
4 september 2020 · 30 min
Sarah Gibbons & Therese Fessenden discuss empathy and adaptability as critical design skills (perhaps now more than ever) and share thoughts on how design plays a bigger role than meets the eye. Lees meer
Resources cited in this episode:
NN/g Instagram: @nngux
Service Blueprinting (full-day course)
Design Thinking is Like Cooking (2 min video)
UX Roadmaps (full-day course)
UX Roadmaps: Definition and Components (free article)
Sarah's NN/g Articles and Videos (bio page)
Also related: Brené on Comparative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth, and Settling the Ball (Unlocking Us with Brené Brown podcast episode)
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1. What is UX, anyway? (feat. Dr. Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru)
10 augustus 2020 · 17 min
Nielsen Norman Group is celebrating its 22nd anniversary by launching our very own NN/g UX Podcast. Join host Therese Fessenden as she interviews NN/g co-founder Dr. Jakob Nielsen on the most important questions about our industry: What really is "user experience," anyway? And what is the state of UX now, compared to when NN/g started 22 years ago? Lees meer
Resources Cited in this Episode:
The Definition of User Experience (article)
WAP Mobile Phones Field Study Findings (article)
Describing UX to Family and Friends (3-min video)
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability (article)
User Experience vs. Customer Experience (article)
Jakob Nielsen's Profile, Articles, and Videos