97 UX Things: Recent Episodes

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Authors of the book 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know discuss their chapters, career trajectories, and give advice for anyone working in user experience

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Taking notes while moderating user interviews is an important and underrated skill for UX researchers. This episode provides tips on taking great notes during UX research.

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Kaaren Hanson discusses her book chapter "Observed Behavior is the Gold Standard" and offers insight on effectively building UX teams.

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Amanda Rotondo, PhD discusses her book chapter "Ask Participants to Tell You What You Don't Know to Ask" and provides some insight about building team empathy in a remote world.

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Dan Berlin discusses the pitfalls of relying too much on unmoderated usability studies and missing out on deeper insights.

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Erin Malone discusses her book chapter "Follow These Principles of Gestalt for Better UX Designs."

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Amy Bucher, PhD, discusses her book Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change, and provides practical tips to UXers who want to incorporate these methods into their work.

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Margot Bloomstein, author of the 2012 book Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project, and her 2021 book Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap, discusses how we can build trust with our users through design.

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Daniel Diener discusses his book chapter "Don't Underestimate the Power of Coworkers as Usability Participants."

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Abby Covert discusses her book Stuck? Diagrams Help.

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Katelyn Thompson discusses her chapter "The Right Screener Sets Up Your Recruit and Research for Success."

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Jen Briselli, our first guest from outside the book, discusses how to bring systems thinking to UX.

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Theo Johnson discusses his book chapter, "Design Thinking Workshops Will Change Your Process."

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Danielle Cooley discusses her chapter "The Participant's Well-Being is Your Responsibility."

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Dan Berlin, editor of the book 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know, and host of this podcast, kicks off season three of the 97 UX Things podcast with a discussion of his book chapter "Leverage Your 'Psychologist Voice' for Effective UX Research Moderation."

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Susan Mercer gives tips on producing effective research reports that address business goals

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Al Lopez discusses their chapter Work Together to Create Include Products and provides tips on fostering a diverse work environment

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Christy Ennis-Kloote provides tips on how to keep large teams informed and collaborating efficiently.

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Brian Sullivan provides pointers about not letting solutioning get in the way of brainstorming.

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William Ntim discusses how waiting to do a competitive analysis can improve your design ideation.

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Megan Campos provides practical tips for ensuring a diverse recruit during user research.

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Michelle Morgan tells us how to make learning part of your design process.

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Liz Possee Corthell provides tips on incorporating futures thinking into your design process.

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Shanae Chapman provides best practices for building a UX portfolio

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Bob Thomas discusses his experience implementing rapid research at a large company.

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Adam Connor discusses UX maturity in organizations and best practices for critique.

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Holly discusses her chapter about advocating for accessibility and provides practical ways for everyone to keep accessibility in mind.

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Annie Persson discusses how to make the most out of your survey questions.

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Todd Zazelenchuk discusses the various ways task cards help improve usability studies.

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Julia Cowing discusses her chapter about a method to choose the right UX research method for your questions about end-users

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Benson Chan discusses his chapter about gaining trust through design insights

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Shipra Kayan discusses her chapter about how workshops can help align teams and stakeholders

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Eduardo Ortiz chats about service design and how it can be implemented in an organization.

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Joe Sokohl discusses how information architecture is the backbone of a good design.

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Priyama Barua discusses how emotional intelligence can help a practitioners in their UX careers. 

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Kathi Kaiser discusses finding and addressing information architecture problems in your design.

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Marli Mesibov discusses her chapter on designing for content first.

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Julie Meridian chats about her chapter about improving designs by employing an InfoSec lens

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Anna Iurchencko discusses her chapter about using sketches to improve communication

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Mike Hawley discusses his chapter about using design artifacts to get more out of your formative user interviews.

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Kyle Soucy discusses her chapter about how we can improve our research readouts by focusing on the presentation, not the report.

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Morgane Peng discusses how enterprise, information rich interfaces don't necessarily need to be simplified.

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Jon Robinson discusses his chapter about staying humble in our UX work.

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Cindy Brummer discusses her chapter about maximizing the utility of personas by focusing them on behaviors.

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Becca Kennedy discusses her chapter in the book: Include Non-Users in Your Research.

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Kristina Hoeppner discusses her chapter about visualizing product requirements during workshops.

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Darren Hood talks about his chapter from the book 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know: "Know the Difference Between Experience Mapping and Journey Mapping."