Andy Priestner

Andy Priestner is a global trainer and consultant on user experience, leadership, social media, and LEGO Serious Play. He's the originator and chair of UXLibs, among many things a best-in-show UX conference, as well as the title of the book he edited with Matt Borg.   In this episode, we were able to wrangle our timezones and chat about the upcoming conference, as well as Futurelib -- an open innovation program exploring the future role of academic libraries within the University of Cambridge through ethnographic studies -- and, really, what prompted Andy to resign. 4:00 - About the "team challenge" at UXLibs, plus shout-outs to Ned Potter, Matt Borg, and Donna Lanclos. 9:04 - The state of user experience design in these institutions 11:55 - What happened with Futurelib 18:02 - Andy on leaving his job and going freelance 20:48 - The Tracker Project: eye-tracking people in libraries with glasses  Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe