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Explores Ray Tiong's shift from graphic design to UX research, highlighting his unique approach to blending creativity with analytical insights for a dynamic UX landscape.

A full episode of 3 topics: Adobe acquires Figma, Tips for getting a Design job, Digital hygiene.

Armando Torrealba: design is intention, find what’s your unique way to add value to your work, mindful design and tips for non-native speakers

Life Coach Ciao Chen shared her ways of working as a digital nomad travelling in China(currently) and running an international coaching business. It all started because of COVID :)

Brendan Jarvis shared what he learned from 2 years of podcasting experience on finding and interviewing top UX influencers.
Highlights
💡 A better experience for guests and audience: look at the camera and active listening
💡 Be authentic or professional?
💡 How to find guests for a UX podcast?
💡 How to get the workflow organised?
💡 How to deal with “I don’t want to do it today”
💡 Tips for releasing a high-quality podcast every week?
Who is Brendan Jarvis
Brendan Jarvis is the Managing Founder and Principal Researcher of The Space InBetween - New Zealand’s only specialist evaluative UX research practice and world-class UX lab: enabling brave teams across the globe to de-risk product design, and equally brave leaders to shape and scale design culture.
Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis
Timestamp
[12:39] A great tip for online communication: look at the camera, listen carefully
[17:33] Tip for managing podcasting: batch the invites
[18:25] Tip for managing a podcast: templates for show notes, LinkedIn posts, tweets etc.
[19:23] Spend at least 1 day preparing for each episode
[21:20] Practice writing questions like speaking, so that don’t need to check the notes often, just go naturally during the conversation
[26:21] The difference of being authentic or being professional?
[33:08] How to find guests for his podcast
[40:45] How to save time? Hire a professional editor!
[46:20] Challenge for making a podcast: finding his voice on the podcast
People or things we mentioned
Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis
Jared Spool
Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Seth Godin
Fiverr for finding a podcast editor
On Writing by Stephen King
Tim Ferriss on podcasting and blog

Shared my journey of being a bilingual content creator on Chiwi Journal podcast.