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Aurelius Podcast - Episode 67 highlights with Janna Bastow:
- Using UX research to inform product roadmaps
- Stories about how to avoid major code and product rollbacks by simply conducting good UX research
- Using customer needs to truly innovate and avoid building a better competitive copycat product
- How to avoid building a Frankenstein product
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 66 highlights with Audrey Crane:
- Defining Shadow Design and its potential impact on your organization
- Audrey and her team’s research study on Shadow Design
- Shadow IT and it’s correlation to Shadow Design
- Risks and implications of Shadow Design in the product development process
- How to uncover if Shadow Design is happening at your company
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 65 highlights with Ruby Pryor:
- Defining the ROI of UX and UX Research
- The case for building confidence in speaking about UX Research in terms of dollars
- Understanding how certain recommendations you make impact the fundamental business model of where you work
- Business models, understanding them and how UX Research work fits into them
- Examples of how to determine and communicate the ROI of UX research
- How to calculate the ROI of UX and research
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 64 highlights with Ryan Glasgow:
- The story of Sprig and the gap Ryan identified in user research and market research tools
- Problems and challenges with typical surveys for product research
- Effectiveness and application of in-context survey research
- AI in UX research and the true value a human brings as a researcher
- Concerns and tips for using AI in customer research analysis
- A founders perspective on customer research and the power of in-context research
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 63 highlights with Darren Hood:
- UX Maturity: what UX maturity looks like at the organization and individual level
- How UX maturity level impacts the planning and effectiveness of UX work
- Tips for assessing your personal, team and organizational UX maturity
- The impact of UX maturity on leadership and the hiring process
- Challenges and the state of UX maturity as an industry in 2023
- Darren’s steps for assessing and improving your own UX maturity
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 62 highlights with Jesse James Garrett:
- Discussing The Elements of User Experience and its impact
- Defining and communicating the value proposition of design
- What being a design executive and design leader actually looks like
- Steps for success in a design leadership role
- The importance relationship building in design leadership
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 61 highlights with Debbie Levitt:
- Differences and similarities between CX and UX
- How the UX industry has shifted and where it’s going
- Tips for opening conversations with cross functional teams about UX Research
- How to handle conversations where people mislabel terms in UX
- How does UX fit into the Agile process
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 60 highlights with Cheryl Platz:
- What is AI, Machine Learning and how will it impact UX Research
- What AI is currently good at and how it really works
- Surprising ways you’re probably already using AI for UX Research today
- Ethical considerations in the application of AI for UX Research
- The impact of AI on the current UX job market
- The future of UX Research and AI
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 59 highlights with Joe Natoli:
- The importance of getting personal to influence decisions
- Getting buy in for UX Research from stakeholders and other teams
- Soft skills for making a bigger impact with research and insights
- How new UX Researchers can bridge the gap in the disconnect between the learning environment and real world situations at big companies
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 58 highlights with Ari Zelmanow:
- Being a strategic researcher and what that means
- Learning how businesses work to speak that language and connect UX research to what matters across the organization
- UX Research Democratization and Ari's thoughts about it
- The role of UX research, how it's evolving and thoughts about how UX and research can adapt be more valuable
Episode 57 highlights:
- UX Research consent
- GDPR and UX Research
- How to gain proper consent with your participants of user research
- What are the rights of potential participants of UX research
- The ethics of informed consent
Show highlights:
- An overview of Scott’s new book, How Design Makes the World
- Remote work for design, UX and product teams
- How to create a workplace for UX professionals to get their best work done
- How to explain the value of design to executives and stakeholders
- What to do when your product managers, executives and engineers “just don’t get” design
- Builder culture, what it is and how to work within it to promote higher quality UX
- Effects of industrialization on building products and how it translates to software management culture
Highlights from this episode:
- The history and evolution of UX
- How to present UX and design work
- Empathy for stakeholders and customers/users
- Using stakeholder expertise to improve your UX design and research
- Being an orchestrator and not a hero UX pro
Show highlights:
- How Mary got started on Tik Tok and began sharing UX knowledge there
- Deceptive UX patterns, what they are and how to avoid them
- Consent and interaction design to avoid building in deceptive design patterns
- Examples from popular sites that use deceptive UX patterns
Show Highlights:
- What it means to be human centered in your professional and personal life
- Hmnty Cntrd, their mission and the work Vivianne and her team are doing
- How Vivianne went from being a grief counselor and doing trauma studies to becoming a UX researcher
- What does it really mean to be empathetic
- The role of diversity, equity and inclusion in UX and research work
- Tips for self care and improving yourself as a UX professional and person
- Doing and beginning the personal work for doing your best professional work
Show highlights:
- “Zoom” levels of research and what they mean
- Figuring out when to do certain types of research and which methods to use
- Ways to avoid wasting resources and repeating research
- What’s the difference between UX Research and ResearchOps?
- How to you know when you need a dedicated ResearchOps person
Show highlights:
- Diversity, equity and inclusion in UX and tech culture
- Ways to recognize how tools and systems are directly contributing to inequity in our society and work
- Stories and examples of how our society created inequities and how to recognize the connections to the work we do
- Tips for doing more equitable UX and design research
- Working to identify your own thoughts, actions and behavior to help create a more just and equitable world for all
Show highlights:
- Sense-making and user research synthesis
- How to find hidden insights in the research data you collect
- Avoiding product backlog rot by simply reacting to things you hear about from customers
- Steps to take for a better UX research process
- Doing UX, research and sense-making better with product management
- Should UX researchers be doing design too?
- How to get into (or better at) UX, research and design
Show highlights:
- Social impact of UX and research work
- Remote research tips, tricks and challenges
- The future of UX research in a post-pandemic world
- Can you prove the ROI of UX research?
- Balancing the need for delivering a great story from the research and keeping good rigor in your study
- How to deal with people who don’t believe the findings from your research
Episode highlights:
- Design leadership and what it means to be a UX manager
- Differences between being an individual contributor and manager/leader
- Tips and tricks to being an awesome UX design/research leader
- Strategies for providing feedback and criticism effectively
- Common challenges for folks transitioning from team member to team leader