Keith Instone and Adam Deardurff join the show to talk about their work doing research for the State of UX in Ohio. We talk about common issues facing many UX communities, but now armed with research.

We talk about the difference between creating research plans vs. research protocols. It's a niche topic that we think you'll enjoy.

We take a brief detour to talk about running Chatbots locally on Guthrie's Mac, and then talk about some issues that design systems have been facing, and why most organizations have trouble with design systems.

Tech is always looking for the next big thing to replace our old way of doing things. Screens have been around for decades, but are they actually the best? Do we need to move beyond screens? Are screens good?

We make some predictions about what some of the big UX trends of 2024 will be. Happy New Year!

Todd Cherches visits the show to talk about visual leadership, management books, and frogs jumping into ponds

If you are in UX how do you satisfy your creative outlet? What sorts of hobbies and work strategies exist to make you feel fulfilled?

We discuss our experience publishing numerous books, how the book publishing industry has changed, and what to do if you want to publish a book.

We discuss the dynamic between ease and resiliancy, the easier life is, the less resiliant people, or users, might be in the future.

We discuss the upcoming antitrust lawsuits that might be coming for the biggest of tech companies.

We discuss the pros/cons of UX teams working in a project or squad formation.

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to conclude Objects and Views for Part 6, covering where do Objects and Views fit within the broader design context?

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 5, covering metaphor.

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 4, covering Spotify as an example and answering the question "is cheesecake cake or pie?"

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 3, covering more history and background of how we got to today.

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views for the Part 2, covering the history and background of how Objects and Views sprung up.

We welcome Dean Barker to the show to talk about Objects and Views, the first of several episodes with Dean.

Have we turned a corner on the era of the social web? Have we moved into a different phase of the internet?

We talk about the differences in philosophy between designing for centralization or decentralization.

This episode is our last for this lecture series. We talk about design systems and dive deeper into the intersection between UX and service/marketing design and design systems.

This episode is an introduction to behavioral design, and the intersection of service design/marketing and UX.

This episode is about mental and conceptual models Part 2. Very abstract but very important, but now we are digging deeper.

This episode is about mental and conceptual models. Very abstract but very important.

This episode is about UX and Design Research, talking more deeply about the topic with examples.