Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦
Welcome to the Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis podcast, your go-to destination for exploring the intersection of UX research, design, and product. Do you share a passion for developing and launching products that deliver superior and ethical experiences? If so, join your host, Brendan Jarvis, as he talks to industry and thought leaders in UX, product management, and product design. Get inspired and informed, and challenge yourself to become a better leader and think outside the canvas, both in what you do and occasionally in who you are.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Daniel Rosenberg speaks frankly about executive design leadership, why he’s trying to take the field back to first principles, and how the sun is setting on design as we know it.
Highlights include:
⭐ Which Jedi would Don Norman say is most like you?⭐ How did your first presentation to Larry Ellison at Oracle go?⭐ Why is design education being overly intuitive a problem?⭐ What is Semantic IxD and why is it important?⭐ How do you remove enemies while maintaining moral authority?
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Who is Daniel Rosenberg?
Daniel is the Chief Design Officer at r-CDO and during his 40+ year career, he has forged a near unparalleled path as a world-leading and highly respected UX practitioner, global design executive, consultant, author and educator.
Recently, Daniel has been working at the intersection of AI and interaction design, advising a number exciting startups, including WellDoc, CanSurround, Workato and Kleeen Software.
Before starting r-CDO, Daniel was the top UX executive at Oracle where he served as VP of UI Design, and then at SAP, where he was SVP of Global User Experience.
Prior to joining Oracle, while he was at Ashton-Tate and then Borland, Daniel invented several design patterns that are still popular in product design today, including tabbed UI.
Daniel’s latest book UX Magic was published in 2020; a groundbreaking book that lays out a complete system for Semantic Interaction Design.
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Find Daniel here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielrosenbergux/Website: https://rcdoux.com/
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Jason Buhle discusses what’s important when moving from academia to industry, UX research as a career path, and why usability research matters.
Highlights include:
⭐ Why is Neil Gaiman’s Sandman your LinkedIn banner image?⭐ What did you learn when you moved from academic research to UX research?⭐ Have you hired someone for a UXR role from a UX bootcamp background?⭐ Why is there less rigorous usability research being conducted as UX research grows?⭐ Do academic-origin UX researchers see usability research as beneath them?
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Who is Jason Buhle?
Jason is a Managing Director at AnswerLab, the world’s largest independent consultancy, exclusively focused on UX Research.
At AnswerLab, Jason leads a team of a dozen UX Strategists, responsible for designing research programmes for some of the world’s most important and innovative companies, such as Google, Meta, Amazon, eBay, FedEx and Wells Fargo.
In 2012, Jason was awarded a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Columbia University, for his research into cognitive and emotional control.
His related academic work has been cited over 5,000 times and features in 16 peer-reviewed publications, including top journals such as Psychological Science, Cerebral Cortex, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
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Find Jason here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbuhle/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonbuhleWebsite: http://www.jasonbuhle.com/
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Becky Priebe shares what it’s like to design at the edges of technology, the role of systems thinking in design, and design’s relationship with engineering.
Highlights include:
⭐ What drew you to practice design at the edges of technology?⭐ Are we getting better or worse at shaping technology for humans?⭐ What does giving equal value to design and engineering look like?⭐ Why is it important to take a systems perspective when designing?⭐ What does it mean to ‘make space’ and how have you applied that?
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Who is Becky Priebe?
Becky is the VP of Innovation Design & GTM Lab 13 at MRM, a leading global marketing agency, with offices in 30 countries.
For the past 15 years, Becky has worked at the messy, exciting and emerging end of design technology, creating positive experiences for people.
Amongst other things, Becky’s designed an entertainment system for a McClaren super car, interactive TV for Deutsche Telekom, pre-iPad era tablets for NVIDIA, and an industrial-grade AR headset for RealWear.
Becky was the co-founder of Innovative Converged Devices, where some of the technology used in SNAP AR and Microsoft HoloLens was conceptualised.
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Find Becky here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckypriebe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/t3chgrrlWebsite: https://www.beckypriebe.com/
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Aditi Sharma openly discusses being woman of colour in banking, how she’s building a diverse and inclusive design culture, and why she’s used design to dismantle injustices.
Highlights include:
⭐ Do you carry the weight of patriarchally imposed stigma on your shoulders?⭐ Was it personally risky to help bring female condoms to women in India?⭐ Is it fair to characterise the banking industry as a boys’ club?⭐ Why isn’t design seen as the most important or credible voice in the room?⭐ What do aspiring design leaders need to know about design leadership?
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Who is Aditi Sharma?
Aditi is an Executive Director of Digital Experience Design at JP Morgan Chase, a leading global financial services firm, where she is championing user-centred design and innovation in payment operations and is working to increase inclusivity, sustainability, and business growth.
Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, Aditi was a Design Director at Accenture Interactive in New York, where she established customer-centric design programmes for clients such as Walmart, Dupont and Cargill.
A lecturer at the Pratt Institute since 2018, recognised in 2020 by Authority Magazine as an inspirational woman in STEM, and honoured by the Government of India in 2021 with the prestigious ‘Dr. Sarojini Award’, Aditi is certainly someone to watch in design.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-sharma9/
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Christian Crumlish blows up some myths that product and UX people believe about each other and shares his insight into how designers can find themselves ‘at the table’ more often.
Highlights include:
⭐ Do you consider yourself to be UX person or a product person?⭐ Are UXers simply clueless when it comes to product management?⭐ Are product managers just beancounters in disguise? ⭐ Where does the tension between product management and UX come from?⭐ How can UXers be responsible for ethics if they’re not responsible for strategy?
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Who is Christian Crumlish?
Christian is the Benevolent Monarch of Design In Product, the UX and product management, strategy, and leadership consultancy he founded in 2019.
Through Design In Product, Christian has worked with organisations like NEST Health, EduWorks, and Listen App, and he’s currently working for the State of California as the Product Lead for COVID19.ca.gov and cannabis.ca.gov .
Prior to ascending to the throne, Christian was the VP of Product at 7 Cups, a mental health and wellbeing startup that is scaling compassion globally. There, Christian built and ran the product team, helping the company to become profitable without VC funding.
Christian is also the author of a number of books, including “Designing Social Interfaces” which he co-wrote with Erin Malone and, most recently, of “Product Management for UX People”, which was published earlier this year.
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Find Christian here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mediajunkie/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mediajunkieWebsite: https://designinproduct.com/Community: https://bit.ly/3EWYrfg
Books:
Product Management for UX People:https://bit.ly/39iUDsZ
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Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Susan Weinschenk shares a deeply personal account of why she’s a behavioural scientist, the role of ethics in design, and how deciding her self-story helped her while battling cancer.
Highlights include:
⭐ How critical is skepticism for making effective design decisions?⭐ Why hasn’t ethics always been part of the big tech design conversation?⭐ How do you help people to become comfortable with finding truth?⭐ Do designers understand what’s ethical and what’s not?⭐ What story are we telling ourselves that we should change?
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Who is Susan Weinschenk?
Susan is the Founder, CEO and Chief Behavioural Scientist at The Team W, a behavioural science and user experience consultancy and training company, with clients including a few companies you may have heard of before, such as Amazon, Disney and Target.
With her deep knowledge of behavioural science, underpinned by a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and developed over 35 years in the field, Susan has shared her knowledge with audiences across the globe, at events such as UX Brighton, the USI conference, and Convey UX.
Susan is also the author of several widely respected books, that are at the intersection of behavioural science and UX design, including: Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?, 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, and How To Get People to Do Stuff.
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Find Susan here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanweinschenk/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebrainladyWebsite: https://theteamw.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheteamwPodcast: https://www.humantech.theteamw.com/
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Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Michaela Mora discusses the challenges of categorising race, why homogenous leadership is bad for businesses, and what UX researchers could learn from market research.
Highlights include:
⭐ Why do we care about and continue to categorise race?⭐ How does knowing things like race and gender lead to better products?⭐ What is the most important decision a researcher can make? ⭐ How does the homogenous nature of boards & C-Suites affect design?⭐ Why do UXers resist getting closer to ‘the business’?
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Who is Michaela Mora?
Michaela is the Founder and President of Relevant Insights, a full-service market and UX research firm that’s on a mission to help companies make profitable business decisions based on outstanding research insights.
Prior to founding Relevant Insights in 2007, Michaela was the Market Research Director for Blockbuster Online 📼, where she was responsible for both qualitative and quantitative consumer and UX research, fielding more than 60 projects and delivering stellar business results.
Michaela is also a founding member of the Multicultural Insights Collective, a partnership of veteran researchers from different racial, generational, and geographic backgrounds, who collaborate on large-scale multicultural research initiatives.
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Find Michaela here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelamora/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rinsightsWebsite: https://relevantinsights.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Relevantinsights
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Katie Swindler shares her insights into designing for the human stress response, agency vs. in-house work-life balance, and how the NASA space suits came to be.
Highlights include:
⭐ How has your experience in theatre management served you in design?⭐ What does good design feedback look like?⭐ What is the story of the design of the NASA space suits?⭐ Why is it important for our products to be designed for humans under stress?⭐ What are the four main ways we can design for the human stress response?
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Who is Katie Swindler?
Katie is an Innovation Design Strategist and Senior Manager at Allstate, the insurance company that has protected American’s from life’s uncertainties, for more than 85 years.
At Allstate, Katie is responsible for the design strategy of the Innovation Department, including the hiring, development and design of the consumer research practice. She is also the bridge between her department and Allstate’s internal design, creative and consumer research teams.
Prior to joining Allstate, Katie was a User Experience Director at FCB in Chicago, where she was the UX lead for the redesign of the global Jack Daniels website, amongst many other projects.
In late 2021, Katie’s first book - Life and Death Design - was published by Rosenfeld Media. In the book, Katie takes a deep dive into the human stress response and how everyday designers can learn to help their users think clearly and act safely.
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Find Katie here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katieswindler/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatieSwindlerUXWebsite: http://www.katieswindler.com/
Books & Speaking:
Life & Death Design:https://www.lifeanddeathdesign.com/
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Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Sarah Doody gives her assessment of UX education, shares how she’s helping UXers to have brave career conversations, and what it’s really like being a creative entrepreneur.
Highlights include:
⭐ Is the lack of standards in UX education a good thing?⭐ How do you help people to have brave career conversations?⭐ Does having a strong vision blind you from our customers’ needs?⭐ How do we help people to slow down and focus on problems first?⭐ What framework have you used to understand your users better?
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Who is Sarah Doody?
Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Career Strategy Lab, the business she started in 2017 as a 45-minute lunch and learn, that has since grown into a leading career coaching company for user experience professionals.
By helping her clients to develop career skills and confidence, Sarah’s clients have secured jobs at companies including Google, Amazon, American Express, Home Depot, Harvard, Warner Brothers Entertainment and Salesforce.
Sarah has been invited to give talks and to teach workshops all over the world, including across the pond at UX London, at Start Con in Australia and at Productized in Portugal, to name a few.
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Find Sarah here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdoody/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahdoodyCareer Strategy Lab: https://www.uxportfolioformula.com/Personal website: https://www.sarahdoody.com/
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
David Dylan Thomas shares practical ways of making design more inclusive, reassures us that other people can’t read our minds, and suggests a fresh approach to tackling systemic harms.
Highlights include:
⭐ What is the Illusion of Transparency?⭐ How do we rise above our biases in design?⭐ What is an assumption audit and how does it work?⭐ How do we change bad behaviour without cancelling people?⭐ What separates bias from the isms - racism, sexism, ageism etc?
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Who is David Dylan Thomas?
David is the Founder and CEO of the appropriately named David Dylan Thomas LLC, the company he established to further his mission to educate people about inclusive design and the role bias plays in our decision making.
The author of “Design for Cognitive Bias”, a book that helps people to understand the logic powering our bias and how to start designing more consciously , AND the host of The Cognitive Bias Podcast, a show with over 100 episodes, David knows a thing or two about bias.
An experienced speaker, David has delivered powerful talks about bias, design and civil discourse across the world, at events such as TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, UX Copenhagen, An Event Apart and the IA Conference.
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Find David here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddylanthomas1/Twitter: https://twitter.com/movie_punditWebsite: https://www.daviddylanthomas.com/
Books:
Design for Cognitive Bias:https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-cognitive-bias
Podcasts:
The Cognitive Bias Podcast:https://apple.co/37zsYng
Lately, I’ve been thinking about…https://apple.co/38932im
References:
Exterminate All the Brutes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8396314/
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