Today, I'm in conversation with Jorge Arango, an information architect and author of several books. His most recent, duly noted, has just been released. Jorge is a consultant based across the Americas and teaches in the graduate interaction design program at the California College of the Arts. We talk about why we make notes, the concept of thinking with notes and how connected notes can be used to further your development and personal knowledge. Now, with big data being at the forefront of...

Today, I'm talking to Elizabeth Chesters. Born in Wigan, UK, Elizabeth now resides in Munich, Germany. We first met in 2015 when we both presented at a conference encouraging first-time public speakers. Since then, she has worked in-house for several organisations, both in the UK and Germany. I wanted to hear firsthand what it's like to move to another country for work when you don't know the language, the environment you're going to be in, and the personal and professional cultures. What I...

Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I’m Andy Parker, the UX Coach. And this is where I share people’s stories of career success and failure from across the tech industry. Today, I’m talking to Marvin Hassan, a UX designer from Germany, who wants to pay back the community with his insights into design leadership, and navigating the different phases of tech startups. What is the role of a designer when a business is operating on VC money? How do you create great products when the mission is to...

In this episode, I am talking to Pete Winchester. Pete and I have known each other for quite some time now. And he recently posted about his experience of taking on a Design MBA or the D.MBA, I was really curious to know what that was, and how it might differ from an MBA that you might have heard of people, Six Sigma, and all the rest of our business speakers talking about what benefit there might be in designers learning more about business. We got together at the beginning of September,...

In this episode, Erica Johansson shares how she went from being a journalist with a love of music to the first content designer, a little known startup called Amazon, and has blazed the trail for content strategy working with big tech, including Microsoft and slack. We talk about the role of content in design, and the differences between content design, strategy, marketing and UX design, what the role of a Content Designer is how design research differs from UX research, and how you can get...

This time around I am speaking to Tom Bird. Tom and I met a few years ago, and this actually the second time I’ve interviewed him for the show.  We first tried this the week before the UK closed its borders and shut the country down for COVID-19. After some time away I wanted to revisit the topics of design education, and see how Tom’s feelings on Bootcamps for UX had changed, if at all, and to hear Tom share what it was like to join a company the week before the world caught fire, the impact...

Our return to The UX Coach Podcast features an interview with Learning Experience Designer Fiona MacNeill. We talk about what the design industry can learn from education and visa versa, how to align professional development with business goals and the value of finding a community to lurk in. https://twitter.com/fmacneill

It's back! Season 3 of The UX Coach Podcast is returning Spring 2022 along with some other news from theuxcoach.com. Listen in for info on how to be a guest on the show and our debut course launching on the site.

This week I’m talking to Anna Kincses, head of research for Why? a Hungarian design agency.

In this episode I am in conversation with Jo O’Keefe, Lead User Researcher with  the Care Quality Commission in England.

In this episode I am in conversation with Vanessa Colina, founder of UX Backstage, a series of online courses for designers that aim to help develop the necessary skills to find your next job. --- Vanessa has some great advice for hiring managers of all kinds about what they can be doing to improve the quality of the candidates they attract and being honest about what they need, and how UX Backstage launched in order to support designers looking to move out of junior or mid-weight positions...

In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step down to make way for new voices, something he is greatly passionate about supporting. Thank you for joining me here on the debut season of The UX Coach podcast. In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Miles Reiter. Miles is both UX Designer and Product Manager at Bolstra, a Saas business that has developed a customer success management platform based out of Indianapolis in the United States of America. --- In this episode I’m in conversation with Miles Reiter. Miles is both UX Designer and Product Manager at Bolstra, a Saas business that has developed a customer success management platform based out of Indianapolis in the United States of...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Johnny Burch, founder of Progression app a new product to help design managers and team leaders that aims to Stop spreadsheet-wrangling, text-wordsmithing and ladder-shuffling when it comes to supporting team growth. --- In this episode I’m in conversation with Johnny Burch, founder of Progression app a new product to help design managers and team leaders that aims to Stop spreadsheet-wrangling, text-wordsmithing and ladder-shuffling when it comes to...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego is a User Researcher, Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, and Professional Dancer currently located in Brooklyn. --- In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego a User Researcher, Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, and Professional Dancer currently located in Brooklyn. We talk about the parallels in the digital product industry and creative arts, how the education sector is struggling to develop the career paths of Gen-Z and I...

In this episode I am in conversation with Tom Kerwin, Product Design Lead at Qubit, a personalisation platform where Tom has recently begun developing a UX research team. --- We talk about how Tom’s background in psychology and computer engineering lead him to user experience design, and the new skills required to be a design leader. Tom has a great view on the types of Manager there is, and how that relates to coaching and being a mentor. Links *...