User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

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006: Let Go of the Things You Can’t Control…Focus On The Things You Can with Chloë Bregman Nov 23, 2015

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Chloë Bregman inspires us to not get caught up with titles like UX Designer, but to find what we’re great at and focus our energy on building those strengths to build products that not only solve problems, but bring happiness to people. She reminds us to focus on the team and that all ideas are valuable. She also shares that the most satisfaction we’ll ever find in our work happens when we invest time in helping others.

Chloë Bregman is the Director of Design & Brand Experience at OneLogin where she leads a team of designers and developers. She’s a blogger who has a published article on TechCrunch. She’s the founder of Street Art SF which showcases the evolving art landscape throughout the San Francisco’s bay area. She’s also a wonderful human being who thrives on finding inspiration anywhere and investing in others everywhere.

LINKS Chloë’s Website Chloë’s Twitter Street Art SF Going For “Pretty First” Is Wrong: A Designer’s Take On App Development

[RESOURCE] Rely on your own power of observation and measure everything. [BOOK] 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People [BOOK] The Call of the Mall

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SUPER-CRED Artwork by Cesar Lemus | Editing by Chris Combs | Music by Wyman Gentry

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005: Surround Yourself with People That Reflect Who You Want to Become with Andi Galpern Nov 16, 2015

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Andi Galpern inspires us to ask where do we want to go, and then encourages us to meet a mentor who can help take us there. She states that community is the key to becoming all we can be and that five minutes with the right person can change our lives.

Andi Galpern is founder of the design and technology organization Cascade SF. Located in the Bay Area, Cascade SF puts on events as a go-to space for designers to learn new skills, connect with industry leaders, mentor and stay relevant to the job market. She also is a fantastic designer and UX strategist who designs for human emotion.

LINKS Cascade SF Andi’s Twitter CooperU

[RESOURCE] Your brain and the community. Pinterest is great for design inspiration. Revisiting 3rd grade and learning grammar, English and how to construct a really clean sentence. Because that’s the core of User Experience. You’re combining visuals and words and people have to be able to comprehend what you’re creating. [BOOK] Just Enough Research [BOOK] Mobile First [BOOK] Lean Analytics

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SUPER-CRED Artwork by Cesar Lemus | Editing by Chris Combs | Music by Wyman Gentry

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004: Use the Materials You’re Given with Christopher Schmitt Nov 09, 2015

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Christopher Schmitt reminds us to use the materials that we’re given and that we can learn something from everybody if we keep an open mind. He also encourages us to share what we know through exercising our superpower of writing and we can never go wrong with practicing kindness in our field.

Christopher Schmitt is a pioneer of Web Design. He’s a member of the Web Standards Project and author of several books including the O’Reilly published CSS Cookbook. He’s the Founder of Heatvision: a Web Design and new media publishing studio. He’s also co-founder of Environments for Humans, in which he hosts well-attended online conferences such as CSS Summit and jQuery Summit.

LINKS Christopher Schmitt’s Website Christopher Schmitt’s Twitter Environments For Humans Christopher Schmitt’s Github

[RESOURCE] Evernote [BOOK] Understanding Comics [BOOK] The Design of Everyday Things [BOOK] Rocket Surgery Made Easy

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SUPER-CRED Artwork by Cesar Lemus | Editing by Chris Combs | Music by Wyman Gentry

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003: Don’t Launch Anything. Validate and Test Everything with Craig Morrison Nov 02, 2015

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Craig Morrison inspires us to know why we’re building what we’re building by looking for an opportunity in a market that needs something, and then by giving it to them. He also reminds us to do all the user research needed until we’ve built a product that people want to use.

Craig Morrison (Validation Man) is an extremely curious and generous UX Design Consultant focusing in the area of startups. He’s an active blogger who’s authored some very popular UX articles including “Why You Shouldn’t Hire a UI/UX Designer” and my personal fave “How to Land a Job in UX with No Experience“. He’s also quite the comedian and has a video channel where he and a buddy set some really peculiar records.

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002: Don’t Let Anything Get in the Way of What You Want to Build with Josh Tucker Nov 02, 2015

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Josh Tucker shares with us the importance of determination and resolve when building whatever it is you desire to build. He also stresses the importance of knowing everything you possibly can about your users and designing experiences that delight them and improve their lives.

Josh Tucker (The Interactioneer) is an Interactive Designer at Google and an insatiably curious prototyping innovator. He’s a master of one of my favorite prototyping tools “Framer.js” and is constantly experimenting with and documenting super-creative, out-of-the-box gestures and innovative UI solutions for users. He’s a very generous knowledge contributor to our great community, and in the time I’ve gotten to know him, just one heck of a friendly, smart and enthusiastic guy.

LINKS Josh Tucker’s Website Follow Josh on Twitter

[RESOURCE] Sketch and Framer.js [BOOK] The Illusion of Life

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SUPER-CRED Artwork by Cesar Lemus | Editing by Jason Ogle | Music by Wyman Gentry

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001: The Lines Between Designer and Developer are Starting to Blur with Daniel Hooper Oct 28, 2015

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Daniel Hooper declares that any designer who desires to code, can and even should. He shares about how the industry still has a lot to learn from the amazing things that have been accomplished (and sadly forgotten) by the brilliant software design engineers of old. He also shares his excitement of how prototyping really is design now, and how as designers we need to balance modern trends with an understanding of first principals and the root truths that are not going to change over time.

Daniel Hooper is a former Apple engineer and creator of the exciting new prototyping software application Principal. He designed and engineered a super-innovative iOS keyboard concept and the YouTube video is approaching a million views. He’s also created some creative game concepts like “Percepto” for iOS.

LINKS Principle App Daniel’s Tumblr Daniel’s Twitter

[RESOURCE] Brett Victor’s Website [BOOK] The Inmates are Running the Asylum [VIDEO] Inventing on Principle

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SUPER-CRED Artwork by Cesar Lemus | Editing by Jason Ogle | Music by Wyman Gentry

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000: Welcome to the User Defenders Podcast! Sep 09, 2015

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The story behind the mission, the host and the future of User Defenders Podcast.

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