Aurelius Podcast

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Episode 30 with Dave Malouf Sep 18, 2018

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Episode 30 highlights with Dave Malouf: - What is ResearchOps and DesignOps? - Challenges of operationalizing research and design in growing organizations and how to overcome them - Dave’s tips and insights in how to grow design and research in your company more efficiently - Who owns “ResearchOps” and what does that person(s) do? - How to determine when you should be thinking about DesignOps and ResearchOps

Episode 29 with Jorge Arango Sep 11, 2018

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Episode 29 highlights with Jorge Arango: - The similarities between physical architecture and UX design - Tips we can apply from the process of architecture to digital design - How to think about physical spaces to inform the digital information spaces you create - Feedback loops in digital information spaces - How the rate of change in physical buildings vs. digital spaces has changed our expectations as a culture - The ways language greatly impact our expectations and design of digital spaces - Design ethics in digital places where civic discourse happens and how we as designers can be more mindful in creating them

Episode 28 with Jim Kalbach on Experience Mapping and Design in Business Aug 27, 2018

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Episode 28 highlights with Jim Kalbach: - What is the difference between user experience, customer experience and marketing - Jim’s background in UX design and how that helped him transition to his role now in customer experience and product education - Remembering that the “grass is never greener” and no organization is perfect in order to have a longer term impact where you work - What is the true secret to becoming a kick ass design leader - The long term effects of even the smallest UX and user research decisions - Experience mapping principles and tips from Jim’s book - Building empathy and understanding for your stakeholders and business to be a more successful designer

Episode 27 with Brianna Sylver Aug 07, 2018

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Listen to Episode 27 for highlights with Brianna Sylver including: - The difference between user research and market research -Using both market research and user research to build a better design strategy - Why market research may not be what you think it is - How and when you should think about doing user research more like a market researcher - Project mindset vs. product mindset - Tactical vs. strategic UX design

Episode 26 with Jeffrey Zeldman Jul 24, 2018

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- How Jeffrey and the team at An Event Apart design the experience of the conference - The dangers in the seduction of building “cool” stuff as opposed to the things people need - What’s the difference between junior designers and senior designers? - Design ethics, mindfulness and inclusiveness in UX design and product management - How the web and design has changed since 1995

Episode 25 with Michelle Fitzpatrick Jul 10, 2018

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- Product management at Intercom - Choosing the right problems to solve for your customers - What user research looks like at Intercom - How Michelle and the product team at Intercom chooses which projects to work on - Where does UX design start and Product Management end?

Episode 24 with Denise Jacobs Jun 22, 2018

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Episode 24 Highlights: - What is creativity? - The concept of “flow” and its role in identifying and harnessing your creativity - Denise’s story of her very own zone of genius and how you can find yours - Dangers of burnout, how you got there, how to dig yourself out and also how to avoid it - Different types of motivation and what they have to do with your work - How making custom earrings helps Denise be a better writer and speaker - Using HALT to take care of yourself and foster your inner creativity

Episode 23 with Lindsey Redinger Jun 05, 2018

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Episode 23 Highlights with Lindsey Redinger: - What is ResearchOps and how do you operationalize user research? - Making research accessible to everyone in the organization - How InVision documents and stores user research insights - Lindsey’s trick for helping all of InVision build empathy with their customers - Getting new employees at InVision up to speed with who their customers are as part of their new hire onboarding - How to get started in your ResearchOps practice or operationalizing user research and your company - Keeping individual projects aligned to broader company goals - How Lindsey and InVision uses the Jobs To Be Done framework to keep user research focused https://blog.aureliuslab.com/lindsey-redinger-user-research-and-research-ops-podcast

Episode 22 with Peter Morville May 15, 2018

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Episode 22 highlights: - Peter’s new book “Planning for Everything” and what led him to decide to write a book about planning - What we can learn from the U.S. Marines about planning better design and research projects - Peter’s framework of S.T.A.R.F.I.N.D.E.R and how to use it for better planning of your ux, design and research projects - How Agile development process can help...and hinder your design and software project planning - Are you OVER-planning? How to determine if you are and if so work at getting better at improvising - Tips for convincing your stakeholders to do (or do more) user research - Systems thinking and how it applies to UX design and product management - Ways to be more self-aware in the design, features and decisions we make in our work as UX designers, researchers and product managers more here: https://blog.aureliuslab.com/peter-morville-interview-on-ux-user-research-and-design-planning

Episode 21 with Lou Rosenfeld May 08, 2018

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Episode 21 Highlights: - Lou’s background, the beginning of the internet and how UX/IA all started - The stories behind Lou meeting Tim Berners Lee and Larry Page - How Lou started Rosenfeld Media, the UX book publishing company - The story of the blind men and the elephant and how it applies to building a great user experience - DesignOps, ResearchOps and how Lou began major conferences around those topics - Lou’s advice for those of us working in large organizations doing UX design

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