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The O'Reilly Design podcast explores how experience design -- and experience designers -- are shaping business, the Internet of Things, and other domains.

  1. 08/17/2017

    Julie Stanford on vetting designs through rapid experimentation

    In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rapid experimentation mindset, the design thinking process, and how to get started with rapid experimentation at your company. Hint: start small.

    51 min

  2. 07/27/2017

    John Whalen on using brain science in design

    In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with John Whalen, chief experience officer at 10 Pearls, a digital development company focused on mobile and web apps, enterprise solutions, cyber security, big data, IoT,  and cloud and dev ops. We talk about the “six minds” that underlie each human experience, why it’s important for designers to understand brain science, and what people really look for in a voice assistant.

    50 min

  3. 07/13/2017

    Cheryl Platz on designing the Amazon Echo Look

    In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Platz, senior designer at Microsoft for the Azure Portal and Marketplaces. We talk about the challenges of working on a top-secret design project, the research behind Amazon's Echo Look, the skills you need to start designing for voice, and how studying improv can make you a better designer.

    54 min

  4. 06/08/2017

    Cynthia Savard Saucier on design at Shopify

    This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keynoting at Velocity in New York, October 1-4, 2017. We talk about moving from working in design to leading designers, the real and sometimes negative impact that design decisions can have on users, and how design is organized at Shopify.

    27 min

  5. 05/25/2017

    Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich on building a customer-driven culture at Microsoft

    This week, I sit down with Travis Lowdermilk senior UX designer at Microsoft, and Jessica Rich, UX researcher at Microsoft; Lowdermilk and Rich are also co-authors of the Customer Driven Playbook. We talk about why failing fast is not always a good approach, sensemaking, and never losing track of the customer’s voice.

    32 min

  6. 05/11/2017

    Matt LeMay on the four principles of product management

    This week, I sit down with Matt LeMay, product coach, consultant, and author of Product Management in Practice. We talk about the four guiding principles of product management, what he has learned about himself as a product manager, and how to conduct meaningful research.

    39 min

  7. 04/27/2017

    Nate Walkingshaw on capturing the approaches and techniques of successful product managers

    This week, I sit down with Nate Walkingshaw, chief experience officer of Pluralsite and co-author of Product Leadership. We talk about hard and soft leadership skills, building cross-disciplinary product teams, and why it’s important to use the layover test when hiring.

    29 min

  8. 04/13/2017

    David Farkas on how to approach user research

    In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with David Farkas, associate director of user experience at EPAM and co-author of the book UX Research. We talk about his book, why everyone should learn to conduct research, and how to open up your mind to ask the right questions. Farkas and his co-author Brad Nunnally also are teaching a series of online courses: Learning UX Research: Understanding Methods and Techniques—May 8 or July 10, 2017. Learning UX Research: Analyzing Data and Sharing Results—May 22 or July 24, 2017.

    20 min
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