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UX Evolved - Strategically fusing UX+AI
by Eric Ellis - User Experience and Design Strategy | AI and UX Leader
UX is evolving, not dying. Host Eric Ellis brings two decades of design leadership to conversations with UX veterans who've navigated everything from Web 2.0 to mobile to AI. These aren't tool tutorials or hot takes—they're strategic discussions about professional resilience and the irreplaceable human elements of design. New episodes monthly. Because the future of UX isn't about choosing between human and machine—it's about designing the fusion.
Episodes
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Ep 202: When the PM Shows Up With a Prototype | Whitney Tolley Returns
Whitney's back. Third time on the couch, which officially makes her the Andy Richter to my Conan. I went into this one wanting to talk about knowledge hoarding. You know the instinct: if I'm the only one who knows how to do this, they can't get rid of me. Take my Tinker Toys and go home. Whitney...
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Ep 201: When Trust Becomes the Interface | Heidi Chow
Every AI feature makes a promise it can't fully keep: trust me, even when I'm wrong. Users rarely see a confidence score. They never see a training set. All they get is the interface in front of them. In this episode of UX Evolved, host Eric Ellis sits down with Heidi Chow — a product manager by...
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Ep 110: When Sports Media Wrote the UX Playbook | Dr. Travis Bell
What if the clearest view of where UX is headed isn't inside our industry — but outside of it? Dr. Travis Bell spent 12 years in broadcast journalism before stepping back to study what happens when technology reshapes a profession from the inside out. As an Associate Professor of Digital and…
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Ep 109: When You Stop Optimizing the Wrong Process | Whitney Tolley Returns
Whitney Tolley was our first-ever returning guest on UX Evolved — and for good reason. When she joined us last time, she left us with a line that stuck: if designers keep seeing themselves as UI generators, they'll be replaced. A lot has happened since then. Figma MCP is real. Agentic workflows…
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Ep 108: When Product Managers Start Prototyping | Blanca Barragan
"The biggest thing PMs get wrong about UX? That it's just about the UI. It's actually about psychology." Blanca Barragan — PM at Versapay, Forbes Technology Council member — knows that the best product decisions happen when there's healthy tension between disciplines. In this episode, we get into...
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Ep 107: When Resilience Becomes Your Superpower | Jen Blatz
Jen Blatz drops 26 bold predictions for UX in 2026 - and they're not comfortable ones. As a Principal UX Researcher at BECU and host of BlatzChatz, Jen brings a journalism background and "troublemaker" mindset to dissecting where our profession is really headed.We dig into the hard truths: Why...
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Ep 106: 3 Predictions for UX in 2026 That Will Change How You Work
The ground is shifting under our profession faster than ever. In this episode, I'm sharing three data-backed predictions about what's happening to UX in 2026 - not someday, but THIS YEAR. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Introduction02:00 - Prediction 1: Visual Polish is Table Stakes, Business Impact is the...
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Ep 105: A beautiful AI product that nobody bought | Amit Popat
Amit Popat built a beautiful AI product that nobody bought. Then he sat in a hotel watching managers use whiteboards to make pricing decisions in 2019. That's when everything changed.From Cambridge math to building EasyJet's personalization engine to leading AI/ML at Cloudbeds, Amit has learned…
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Ep 104: The Research Skills That Still Require Humans | Dan Zola (Google xWF)
Dan Zola (1,000+ user interviews, Google) on what changes with AI research tools—and what doesn't. Body language, organizational trust, and knowing which follow-up question matters most. The skills worth investing in now.
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Ep 103: “Did You Hallucinate?” - What a UX Researcher Taught Me About AI | Miwako Zosel
AI can analyze thousands of user interviews in seconds. So what's left for human UX researchers? Miwako Zosel explains why she's learning SQL and Python, where AI actually helps research (and where it dangerously fails), and why "research is glue"—the most human skill in UX. For researchers...
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Ep 102: When the Double Diamond Meets Machine Speed | Whitney Tolley
Two years before ChatGPT became a household name, Whitney Tolley was already seeing the cracks in how UX teams approached design thinking. Writing for the Cloudbeds Technology Blog in early 2023, she challenged the conventional wisdom around the Double Diamond—that beloved framework UX...
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Ep 101: UX Designer Explains What's Actually Different This Time | Adam Howell
Adam Howell launched Accomplice in 2021—one of the first generative AI design tools, before Midjourney or DALL-E 2. Now as Principal PM for AI at Versapay, he's seen both sides: building AI tools AND integrating them into real UX workflows. In this episode of UX Evolved, Adam breaks down what's...
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UX Evolved Intro
Every UX professional is asking the same question right now: Is AI going to evolve our craft, or replace it entirely? I'm Eric Ellis, and I've spent twenty years designing through every major technology shift—from static wireframes to AI-powered experiences. Here's what I know: UX was never just...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
UX is evolving, not dying. Host Eric Ellis brings two decades of design leadership to conversations with UX veterans who've navigated everything from Web 2.0 to mobile to AI. These aren't tool tutorials or hot takes—they're strategic discussions about professional resilience and the irreplaceable human elements of design. New episodes monthly. Because the future of UX isn't about choosing between human and machine—it's about designing the fusion.
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Eric Ellis - User Experience and Design Strategy | AI and UX Leader
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