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Aurelius Podcast
by Aurelius
Industry experts discussing design and product strategy. Hear from leaders how they are solving the right problems and building products and features that matter most.
Episodes
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Episode 70: Navigating the Art & Strategy of Product Management with Jessica Nelson Kohel
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 70 highlights with Jessica Nelson Kohel: - How UX Research fits into both large and small company product organizations - The role of Product Manager, its evolution and common misunderstandings - Importance of “the art” of product management like communication style,...
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Episode 69: The Role of UX Research in Product Management with Teresa Cain
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 69 highlights with Teresa Cain: - Evolution of the Product Management role over the years - Tips for collaboration between UX Research and Product Management - Vital role of UX research in product strategy - Stakeholder engagement in the prioritization and delivery of…
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Episode 68: The Current & Future State of UX, Research + DesignOps with Jon Fukuda
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 68 highlights with Jon Fukuda: - The ROI of UX, Research and DesignOps - Triple forces of change: Economics, Technology and Culture - Mitigating business risk through UX - Future outlook of the UX, Research and Product industry
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Episode 67: Customer Feedback with Janna Bastow
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 67 highlights with Janna Bastow: - Using UX research to inform product roadmaps - Stories about how to avoid major code and product rollbacks by simply conducting good UX research - Using customer needs to truly innovate and avoid building a better competitive copycat...
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Episode 66: Shadow Design with Audrey Crane
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 66 highlights with Audrey Crane: - Defining Shadow Design and its potential impact on your organization - Audrey and her team’s research study on Shadow Design - Shadow IT and it’s correlation to Shadow Design - Risks and implications of Shadow Design in the product...
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Episode 65: The ROI of UX Research with Ruby Pryor
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 65 highlights with Ruby Pryor: - Defining the ROI of UX and UX Research - The case for building confidence in speaking about UX Research in terms of dollars - Understanding how certain recommendations you make impact the fundamental business model of where you work -...
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Episode 64: Contextual Surveys, AI and the Human Touch in UX Research with Ryan Glasgow
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 64 highlights with Ryan Glasgow: - The story of Sprig and the gap Ryan identified in user research and market research tools - Problems and challenges with typical surveys for product research - Effectiveness and application of in-context survey research - AI in UX...
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Episode 63: UX Maturity with Darren Hood
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 63 highlights with Darren Hood: - UX Maturity: what UX maturity looks like at the organization and individual level - How UX maturity level impacts the planning and effectiveness of UX work - Tips for assessing your personal, team and organizational UX maturity - The...
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Episode 62: The Reality and Challenges of Being a Design Leader with Jesse James Garrett
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 62 highlights with Jesse James Garrett: - Discussing The Elements of User Experience and its impact - Defining and communicating the value proposition of design - What being a design executive and design leader actually looks like - Steps for success in a design...
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Episode 61: Navigating the UX/CX Landscape: Balancing Speed, Quality, & Empowerment w/ Debbie Levitt
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 61 highlights with Debbie Levitt: - Differences and similarities between CX and UX - How the UX industry has shifted and where it’s going - Tips for opening conversations with cross functional teams about UX Research - How to handle conversations where people mislabel...
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Episode 60 - The Current and Future Role of AI in UX Research with Cheryl Platz
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 60 highlights with Cheryl Platz: - What is AI, Machine Learning and how will it impact UX Research - What AI is currently good at and how it really works - Surprising ways you’re probably already using AI for UX Research today - Ethical considerations in the application...
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Episode 59 - Navigating the Challenges of UX in Real World Business Situations with Joe Natoli
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 59 highlights with Joe Natoli: - The importance of getting personal to influence decisions - Getting buy in for UX Research from stakeholders and other teams - Soft skills for making a bigger impact with research and insights - How new UX Researchers can bridge the gap…
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Episode 58 - From Detective to UX Researcher: Embracing Strategic Insights with Ari Zelmanow
Aurelius Podcast - Episode 58 highlights with Ari Zelmanow: - Being a strategic researcher and what that means - Learning how businesses work to speak that language and connect UX research to what matters across the organization - UX Research Democratization and Ari's thoughts about it - The role...
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Episode 57 with Phil Hesketh on UX Research & Consent
Episode 57 highlights: - UX Research consent - GDPR and UX Research - How to gain proper consent with your participants of user research - What are the rights of potential participants of UX research - The ethics of informed consent
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Episode 56 with Scott Berkun on How Design Makes the World
Show highlights: - An overview of Scott’s new book, How Design Makes the World - Remote work for design, UX and product teams - How to create a workplace for UX professionals to get their best work done - How to explain the value of design to executives and stakeholders - What to do when your...
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Episode 55 with Donna Spencer on Presenting UX Design & Research to Stakeholders
Highlights from this episode: - The history and evolution of UX - How to present UX and design work - Empathy for stakeholders and customers/users - Using stakeholder expertise to improve your UX design and research - Being an orchestrator and not a hero UX pro
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Episode 54 with Mary Formanek on UX Deceptive Patterns & Sharing UX Insight on TikTok
Show highlights: - How Mary got started on Tik Tok and began sharing UX knowledge there - Deceptive UX patterns, what they are and how to avoid them - Consent and interaction design to avoid building in deceptive design patterns - Examples from popular sites that use deceptive UX patterns
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Episode 53 with Vivianne Castillo on What it Means to Be Human Centered
Show Highlights: - What it means to be human centered in your professional and personal life - Hmnty Cntrd, their mission and the work Vivianne and her team are doing - How Vivianne went from being a grief counselor and doing trauma studies to becoming a UX researcher - What does it really mean…
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Episode 52 with Roy Olende on ResearchOps & Scaling UX Research
Show highlights: - “Zoom” levels of research and what they mean - Figuring out when to do certain types of research and which methods to use - Ways to avoid wasting resources and repeating research - What’s the difference between UX Research and ResearchOps? - How to you know when you need a...
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Episode 51 with Timothy Bardlavens on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in UX
Show highlights: - Diversity, equity and inclusion in UX and tech culture - Ways to recognize how tools and systems are directly contributing to inequity in our society and work - Stories and examples of how our society created inequities and how to recognize the connections to the work we do -...
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Episode 50 with Jon Kolko on Design Thinking & UX Research Analysis
Show highlights: - Sense-making and user research synthesis - How to find hidden insights in the research data you collect - Avoiding product backlog rot by simply reacting to things you hear about from customers - Steps to take for a better UX research process - Doing UX, research and…
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Episode 49 with Nate Bolt on Remote Research, Impact & Social Responsibility
Show highlights: - Social impact of UX and research work - Remote research tips, tricks and challenges - The future of UX research in a post-pandemic world - Can you prove the ROI of UX research? - Balancing the need for delivering a great story from the research and keeping good rigor in your...
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Episode 48 with Erin Casali on UX & Design Leadership
Episode highlights: - Design leadership and what it means to be a UX manager - Differences between being an individual contributor and manager/leader - Tips and tricks to being an awesome UX design/research leader - Strategies for providing feedback and criticism effectively - Common challenges…
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Episode 47 with Alba Villamil on UX Research Ethics, Inclusion & Social Change
Show highlights: - Design ethics and ways to examine if your work is doing more harm than good - Inclusion in business and design - Things you can do to make your participants feel more comfortable and welcome - Using your position and influence to make positive ethical change in your company -...
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Episode 46 with Nick Finck on leadership, career progression, hiring & job hunting in UX
Show highlights: - The difference between leadership and management in UX - Being a UX mentor and coach - Expectations and differences between junior, mid level and senior UX practitioners - What it takes to be a great UX professional - Myths about hiring and working with a junior UX person…
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Episode 45 with Komal Faiz // International & Cross Cultural Research
Show highlights: - Komal’s research on international women’s mobility challenges - Tips for doing research across multiple countries and cultures - Culture differences and considerations when doing research in other countries - How language can make so much of a difference in research - Small but...
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Episode 44 with Susan & Guthrie Weinschenk on Psychology, Behavioral Economics & UX
- Psychology and UX Design - How behavioral economics applies to UX design - Common behavior patterns we can design for - Design ethics and moral implications in UX design and research - How do you decide your design, product or service is ethical or not? - Examples of non-ethical design and...
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Episode 43 – Articulating Better Design Decisions with Tom Greever
- Sharing design decisions effectively - What is a design decision? - Who’s responsible for design decisions? - Similarities between cultural differences and different team role differences in tech - Getting stakeholder approval and agreement on your work - Preparing for a design review meeting
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Episode 42 - UX Research Process & Practice with Bethany Stolle
- Quantitative vs Qualitative Research - Starting a new UX research team and practice - How to sell UX research to your company - Pitfalls to avoid when starting a UX research practice at your company
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Episode 41 – DesignOps 2.0 with Erica Rider
- DesignOps 2.0 at Paypal - Shifting the focus from scaling designers to scaling design itself - Comparing DesignOps and DevOps - Changing the responsibilities of UX designers so a small team can focus on the work that matters - Scaling design without hiring more designers - Tools and processes…
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Episode 40 – What UX People Need to Know About Business with Jane Portman
- The critical things you can learn about business to make you a better UX designer or researcher - How important is UX in the success of building new products - The business of consulting versus the business of products or software - How to stand out as a UX person in the world of generic…
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Episode 39 - Designing Ballots & the Voter Experience with Dana Chisnell
- Dana’s stories about usability testing on ballot design prototypes - Overcoming stakeholder objections for doing user research - Challenges of local and federal elections in the United States - Ballot design and voter experience - Doing research for civic design and overcoming very complex...
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Episode 38 - UX & Product Management with Laura Klein
- The differences and similarities between UX and product management - How planning a heist is just like building digital products - Who owns the responsibility of “knowing your customers” - Using both quantitative and qualitative research to improve your designs and products
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Episode 37 - DesignOps & ResearchOps in the Enterprise with Fred Beecher
- DesignOps and ResearchOps at a large enterprise like Best Buy - Fred’s story of how he got introduced to and a job working in DesignOps - A day in the life of a job in DesignOps - The part an insights repository plays in DesignOps and ResearchOps at a large company - Dealing with the unsexy…
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Episode 36 - Sharing and Communicating User Research with Natalie Hanson
Episode 36 highlights with Natalie Hanson - Differences between in house and external UX teams and the unique challenges of each - Tips for collaborating with others on your user research work - How to encourage non-designers and non-researchers to collaborate on user research and insights - Tips...
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Episode 35 with Rob Walling on Startups and Making Tough Design and Product Decisions
Episode 35 highlights with Rob Walling: - How Rob started and/or acquired multiple SaaS apps over the years and some product and design lessons he’s learned from that experience - Rob’s background as a software engineer and what made him decide to become an entrepreneur - The story of founding…
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Episode 34 with Jason Voiovich on the Dangers of Quant Data and Empathy
Episode 34 highlights with Jason Voiovich: - Jason’s background in marketing and consumerism as well as what led him to become an author on the topics - The pitfalls of focusing too much on analytics and quantitative data to understand your customers - Why empathy is a key to the future of our…
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Episode 33 with Kate Towsey
Episode 33 highlights with Kate Towsey: - Kate’s background and how she got into user research and ResearchOps - What it was like to “research the researchers” - The global ResearchOps community and how it all began - Research repositories and libraries - Leading research operations at Atlassian…
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Episode 32 with Gregg Bernstein
Episode 32 highlights with Gregg Bernstein: - How Gregg and his team are doing user research at Vox Media - Doing user research for broad audiences and industries - Using smaller research projects to lead to larger more strategic research - How to most effectively share your user research…
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Episode 31 with Hana Nagel
Episode 31 highlights with Hana Nagel: - How the President of the United States did “user research” and what you can learn from that in your work as a UX designer, researcher and product maker - Doing user research...about user research, so that you can see much more success with your…
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Episode 30 with Dave Malouf
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…
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Episode 29 with Jorge Arango
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...
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Episode 28 with Jim Kalbach on Experience Mapping and Design in Business
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…
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Episode 27 with Brianna Sylver
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...
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Episode 26 with Jeffrey Zeldman
- 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…
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Episode 25 with Michelle Fitzpatrick
- 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?
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Episode 24 with Denise Jacobs
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 -...
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Episode 23 with Lindsey Redinger
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...
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Episode 22 with Peter Morville
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…
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Episode 21 with Lou Rosenfeld
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...
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Industry experts discussing design and product strategy. Hear from leaders how they are solving the right problems and building products and features that matter most.
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