Interviews with inspiring researchers from all around the world

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Join us while we geek out over UX research with industry experts! Each episode will introduce you to unique fields and cultures researchers operate in.

Episodes

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Latest
Season 3 Episode 1
18 September 2023

From goals to deep motivations: The beauty of UXR terminology

Nikki Anderson-Stanier, an experienced user researcher, consultant, and educator specializing in qualitative research, talks about why words matter in UX research and unpacks the importance of terminology.

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42min
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Season 2 Episode 12
4 July 2023

UXcon Special with Aurelia Alston

Aurelia Alston, a Senior UX Research Manager, talks about her upcoming presentation in September and discusses how to handle research strategy shifts in large-scale organizations!

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15min
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Season 2 Episode 11
28 June 2023

UXcon Special with Zariah Cameron

Zariah Cameron, an equity-centered UX Strategist, talks about diversity and inclusivity as well as equity and what it actually means in the UX research field.

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16min
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Season 2 Episode 10
28 June 2023

UXcon Special with Kathleen Asjes

Kathleen Asjes, a research & insights leader with 15+ years' experience in digital product development, talks about research democratization in companies and shares insights from her extensive experience in that area!

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14min
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Season 2 Episode 9
14 June 2023

UXcon Special with Yao Adantor

Yao Adantor, a UX Researcher and Co-Founder of the @Research Bookmark UX education platform talks about his upcoming lecture and gives career advice for UX professionals.

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17min
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Season 2 Episode 8
29 May 2023

Inside Content Design: Unpacking its Strategic Potential

Erica Jorgensen, a content designer, content strategist, and an author of the “Strategic Content Design” book talks about the importance of content research and gives some great examples of how it helps businesses grow.

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30min
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Season 2 Episode 7
16 May 2023

Embodiment in VR as the future of user research

Evie Gavrilovich, a UX Researcher and Strategist working in the VR industry joins Tina to discuss embodiment in VR and explain where to look for the meaning that UXR brings to other stakeholders.

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36min
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Season 2 Episode 6
1 May 2023

Special: UXR podcasters geeking out

Mike Green, an award-nominated freelance user researcher, podcast host and digital consultant joins Tina in this UX Geeks Special to talk about traditions and struggles of UX research and discuss their experiences working in different countries.

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39min
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Season 2 Episode 5
3 April 2023

The beauty of practical philosophy and it's meaning for the art of questioning

Elke Wiss, the founder of De Denksmederij, speaker, author and trainer talks about the beauty of practical philosophy, critical and creative thinking and introduces us to the art of asking the right questions.

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34min
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Season 2 Episode 4
16 March 2023

Fall in Love with UX: The trajectory, maturity, and a little bit of criticism of our field

Darren Hood, a 27+ year veteran of the UX discipline, serving at several successful organizations during his career, talks about where we are currently in the UX industry, where we are heading, how mature the discipline is, and shows how he loves UX and what he does.

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56min
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Season 2 Episode 3
15 February 2023

The Strategic Importance of ResearchOps

Julian Della Mattia is UX Research Lead at Kiwi.com and founder of the180 Agency. Based in Spain, Julian helps teams build up research practices from scratch and specializes in Facilitation & ResearchOps.

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46min
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Season 2 Episode 2
17 January 2023

Gender Philosophy and Politics 2.0

Elham Mohtashamzadeh, an Iranian researcher from Central European university, talks about differences of sex and gender and scratches the surface on topics like heteronormative social constructs and how capitalism influences our gender realities.

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48min
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Season 2 Episode 1
7 December 2022

Intersection of Content Strategy and UX Research

Sina Schreiber, UX Researcher & Content Strategist @Condens talks about connecting user research and content strategy and the role of a repository in research democratization.

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30min
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Season 1 Episode 12
21 September 2022

Use of AI in Healthcare and the Push for Fair Research Practises in Enterprise Enviroments

Dr. Gyles Morrison, a Clinical UX Strategist with 10 years history in healthcare, talks about pains and gains that artificial inteligence brings into healtcare and what principles can help us to design inclusive products.

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40min
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Season 1 Episode 11
05 September 2022

Healthcare digitalization and its implementation around the world

Tjaša speaks about the current situation with global healthcare digitalization and the current issues in healthcare.

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40min
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Season 1 Episode 10
22 August 2022

The Use of Behavioral Science in the Healthcare Space

Sayali Phatak is a senior UX researcher working in the digital health industry. Prior to making the jump to industry, she did research in academia focused on designing digital solutions for health promotion and behavior change.

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39min
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Season 1 Episode 9
8 August 2022

Bias-aware UX Research in Healthcare

Today we interviewed James Mckinnon, a human-technologist and human-centered researcher in digital health and service design. James talks about biases in healthcare, the digitalization of healthcare, and the “fear of finding out.”

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50min
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Season 1 Episode 8
25 July 2022

Using Market Research For Better Context in UX

In this episode we interviewed Michaela Mora, a senior UX researcher and a founder of Relevant Insights. Micheala talked about market research, its methods and the push towards product decisions based on research.

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1h 8min
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Season 1 Episode 7
11 July 2022

Conducting UX research in the Pan-African continent

We interviewed Elizabeth Akpan & Camille Kramer Courbariaux about conducting UX research on the Pan-African continent. They shared some insights on how research is done in Africa, how this field evolved throughout the years, and the realities of conducting it disconnected from the "western context."

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40min
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Season 1 Episode 6
27 June 2022

Running a UX business in the Pan-African continent

Camille Kramer-Courbariaux is a Senegal-based entrepreneur, UX researcher, and co-founder of YUX, a pan-African UX research, and design agency. She specializes in health and education research projects. She also launched the YUX Academy, a UX design training center.

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40min
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Season 1 Episode 5
31 May 2022

Building Trust in Enterprise Projects with Stéphanie Walter

Stéphanie Walter is a senior UX researcher with over 12 years of experience specializing in enterprise UX. Tina asked Stéphanie about building trust in UX, her experience as a UX designer working for a large enterprise, and, surprisingly, about cranes.

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48min
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Season 1 Episode 4
16 May 2022

The current state of UX/CX, start-up & business management with Debbie Levitt

Debbie Levitt, MBA is the CXO of DeltaCX and a long-time researcher, UX strategist, designer, and mentor. Debbie talks about the current state of UX/CX and business management.

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1h 11min
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Season 1 Episode 3
25 April 2022

Mentoring the next generation of UX professionals with Kevin Liang

Kevin Liang, Senior UX Researcher, founder of Zero to UX and mentor, gives an interview about finding his calling in teaching and helping aspiring researchers to land their dream job

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48min
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Season 1 Episode 2
25 April 2022

The art of seducing dating app algorithms with Laurie Dutheil & Jessica Pidoux

Jessica Pidoux, a post-doctoral researcher and Laurie Dutheil, a dating coach, joined to talk about the realities of online dating - the good and the bad effects of it on people's love lives.

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1h 5min
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Season 1 Episode 1
25 April 2022

Designing hearing enhancing wearables with Nick Morgan-Jones

Nick Morgan-Jones, product designer and founder of Decibels, talks about fighting the social stigma connected to the hearing aids by designing them as a fashionable piece of technology.

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47min