First, enable no harm Transcript Gerry Gaffney This is Gerry Gaffney with the user experience podcast. My guest today is a principal designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. She is founder of the Inclusive Safety Project. She’s also worked as a domestic violence educator and rape crisis ... Read More
Supporting contextual design with models that communicate and enable interaction Transcript Gerry Gaffney This is Gerry Gaffney with the User Experience podcast. Today’s guest is the inventor of contextual enquiry or inquiry, depending on your neck of the woods; a fundamental user research method. She’s received a lifetime award for practice from the ACM. She co-founded InContext Design in 1992 ... Read More
How do you know your idea is any good? Through validation or invalidation Photo: Don O’Brien Transcript Gerry Gaffney: This is Gerry Gaffney with the User Experience podcast. Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research is the latest book from Tomer Sharon. He was on UXpod about four years back talking about his book [It’s Our Research: ]Getting Stakeholder Buy-In ... Read More
How to understand your customers and design effectively for them Photo: David Bleasdale Transcript Gerry Gaffney: This is Gerry Gaffney with the User Experience podcast. My guest today is a former documentary filmmaker. Nowadays she lives in Brooklyn, New York and her focus is on helping organisations drive user engagement through storytelling. She’s also on the Adjunct Faculty at the ... Read More
ThinkPad’s evolution design strategy – an interview with David Hill. David, vice-president of brand management and design at Lenovo, talks about his preference for “minimalist utilitarian design”, and about the benefits of re-building the same house year after year. Transcript Gerry Gaffney: This is Gerry Gaffney with the User Experience podcast. My guest today has received a multitude of international ... Read More