UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy

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The UI Audit: Interview with Rob Walling of Drip Apr 07, 2016

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This is the second founder interview from Jane’s new book, The UI Audit. Today Rob Walling, the founder of Drip, shares their story of finding the desired product-market fit. By positioning Drip as an email marketing automation tool they were able to reduce churn, rapidly grow the customer base, and gain a clear vision of new features. If you enjoyed the interview, you're welcome to get your copy of the book here while the launch discount is still active.

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HitTail
Software by Rob
MicroConf
Startups for the Rest of Us
Rob's and Derrick's audio documentary on building Drip: startupstoriespodcast.com
Rob Walling on Twitter: @robwalling
Drip's website: getdrip.com

The UI Audit: Interview with Tope Awotona of Calendly Mar 22, 2016

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This is a special founder interview from Jane's book, "The UI Audit." In this interview Tope Awotona, the founder of Calendly, shares his product development journey. To build this revolutionary scheduling tool, he reviewed over 30 competitors — all to find out their strengths and weaknesses. Tope shares how he developed his product as a non-technical founder, and how Calendly leverages free plans as a viral form of marketing.

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Jane's book: The UI Audit
Calendly website: calendly.com
Pivotal Tracker — for feature development
Intercom — for communicating with customers
Tope Awotona on Twitter: @TopeAwotona

Episode 14: Business of Podcasting Mar 15, 2016

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What impact can podcasting have on your personal and professional life? It can be a superb tool for making money, but money is never the direct goal. In this episode we talk with Christopher Hawkins about the long-term game of podcasting, building your own tribe, establishing relationships with guests, the art of interviewing people, and much more.

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Rocketship.fm — a podcast that has great landing pages for guests (pre-show, post-show, etc)
How To Interview Like The Best – With Andrew Warner (Mixergy) — Andrew Warner shares his interview secrets with Brian Casel and Jordan Gal
Chasing Product — Christopher's podcast
Record & Release — Christopher's book on podcasting (use code UIBREAKFAST to get $10 off).

Episode 13: Podcasting Fears and Goals Feb 29, 2016

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In this episode with Christopher Hawkins we discuss the biggest fears that prevent people from starting their own podcast. Surprisingly, it's not the technical part! Tune in to learn everything about fears, mistakes, and goals related to podcasting.

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Zencastr — the ultimate tool for recording podcasts (using it here at UI Breakfast, too)
Podcast Motor — premium podcast editing service
Fiverr — cheaper alternative for quick gigs
Christopher Hawkins on Twitter
Chasing Product — Christopher's podcast
Record & Release — Christopher's book on podcasting (use code UIBREAKFAST to get $10 off).

Episode 12: Introducing Christopher Hawkins Feb 19, 2016

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Welcome to the new season of UI Breakfast Podcast featuring Christopher Hawkins! He's been running his own awesome podcast for many years, wrote a book on podcasting, and is working on his own SaaS product. Today Christopher shares his product story and the lessons he learned along the way.

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Chasing Product — Christopher's podcast
Episode 32: Designing for Startups w/Jane Portman — two of us talking at Christopher's podcast a few months ago
SmallSpec — Christopher's SaaS product (in development)
Record & Release — Christopher's book on podcasting (use code UIBREAKFAST to get $10 off)
Follow Christopher Hawkins on Twitter
Sign up for Christopher's newsletter

Episode 11: Interviewing People Effectively Feb 11, 2016

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This is the final episode with Kai Davis! Today we discuss the art of interviewing people. How can interviews boost your business? What are the awesome side effects? What's better: written format, audio or video? How do you make the process as smooth and effective as possible?

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Book in a Box — done-for-you service by Tucker Max when audio interviews are turned into books
A dedicated page with outreach goodies that Kai put together for our listeners

Episode 10: Writing Technical Documents with Thomas Cannon Feb 09, 2016

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Writing support documents is no easy feat. How do you explain technical things to non-technical users? How do you balance being concise and going into details? Today we get together with Kai Davis to interview Thomas Cannon who's deeply passionate about technical documentation and support (while being a developer by trade).

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Freckle Time Tracking — an awesome company where Thomas works
Edgar — social media automation tool that re-uses your best content
Get started writing great technical docs — a dedicated guide that Thomas put together for our listeners

Episode 9: Designing Products with Amy Hoy Feb 01, 2016

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Fasten your seatbelt and greet Amy Hoy here at UI Breakfast! Join us for an exciting conversation focused on design. You'll learn about Amy's design background, strong product opinions, and the workflow she stands for when building SaaS products.

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Creating Passionate Users — Kathy Sierra's blog on creating better user experiences
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Brain Audit by Sean D'Souza
Just F---ing Ship — an awesome book by Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman
A dedicated page for our listeners at Amy's website

Episode 8: Writing the Perfect Email Jan 23, 2016

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Email remains the core way of communication online. Writing emails is true art. And my co-host Kai Davis is the true artist! Today you'll learn to line up you letters perfectly, from a subject line to a postscript, for the best results. Dive in for some hot writing strategies!

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Email Hunter — find email addresses quickly (free plan available)
All My Tweets — displays user's full Twitter history for easy text search
The Startup Chat — an awesome podcast by Steli Efti and Hiten Shah

Episode 7: Organizing a Podcast Tour Jan 20, 2016

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Podcasts are a great way to promote yourself and your ideas. But you don't have to run your own: instead, you can appear as a guest on other podcasts. My awesome co-host Kai Davis will teach you how to organize such podcast tour. You'll learn how to compile a list of podcasts, reach out to them, become a perfect guest, and promote new episodes.