010: Pay Attention to the Unseen with Jeff Barnaby

010: Pay Attention to the Unseen with Jeff Barnaby: Jeff Barnaby inspires us to pay attention to the unseen and always keep it simple. He shares with us that organization is the most important factor to success. He also encourages us to keep ourselves and our clients educated and that ours and our clients by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

36 min listen

019: The Power of Design Patterns with Pek Pongpaet: Pek Pongpaet teaches us that the key to successful UX is in pattern recognition and application. He reminds us of the power of visual hierarchy in that if something’s important, it should never be buried. He reminds us of the power of observation a by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

44 min listen

027: Looking Down the Road with Aarron Walter: Aarron Walter inspires us to always try and see the big picture. He challenges us to produce more grounded work by getting outside our bubbles, and feeling a bit more pain. He shows us how storytelling is central to the human experience and transcends ou by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

63 min listen

021: Designing for Happiness with Drew Lepp: Drew Lepp encourages us to learn the business side of technology in order to achieve greater success with our designs. She encourages us to always know why we’re doing what we’re doing, and to be able to clearly articulate why every element on the pag by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

81 min listen

022: The Little Details can Make a Big Difference with Jordan Dobson: Jordan Dobson inspires us to never stop learning and be generous in sharing knowledge with others. He encourages us to craft prototypes in order to gain valuable insight early and often. He challenges designers to gain empathy for their developers by lea by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

69 min listen

015: Going the Distance with Rachel Andrew: Rachel Andrew inspires us to understand people who are not like us because most often the products we design are not for us. She motivates us with her successful habit of GTD (Getting Things Done). She teaches us that solid attention to detail and abilit by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

51 min listen

011: The Best Interface is No Interface with Golden Krishna: Golden Krishna teaches us that it’s possible to reduce our amount of screen time and still solve people’s problems elegantly in the background. He enlightens us to how much we’re all drowning in screens. He also shares with us that our by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

68 min listen

002: Don’t Let Anything Get in the Way of What You Want to Build with Josh Tucker: Josh Tucker shares with us the importance of determination and resolve when building whatever it is you desire to build. He also stresses the importance of knowing everything you possibly can about your users and designing experiences that delight them a by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

49 min listen

008: There’s a Lot of Opportunity for Those Who Are Willing to Take Some Risks with Ben Callahan: Ben Callahan inspires us to be passionate about the interfaces we design and put ourselves in the shoes of the people who are using them to do amazing things. He shares a really interesting parallel from Jazz music to the work we do. He reminds us to mak by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

44 min listen

016: Meaning Comes from Making with Alexa Leigh Herasimchuk: Alexa Leigh Herasimchuk inspires us to go find our why and to not fear reaching out to people who inspire us. She teaches us that the future of UX should be integrated into our education system. She reminds us that we can’t make people care, but we by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

48 min listen

2015 Year End Review: In lieu of our normal episode, I wanted to do a quick Year End Review to offer a retrospective of 2015 and a glimpse into 2016 by addressing these three things: Things Accomplished Top 3 Learnings From Guests This Year What to expect from UX/UD in 2016 I by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

17 min listen

Hitting Pause…: After nearly a year of consistent podcasting, it’s time for me to hit pause… You can also read about this. by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

11 min listen

006: Let Go of the Things You Can’t Control…Focus On The Things You Can with Chloë Bregman: Chloë Bregman inspires us to not get caught up with titles like UX Designer, but to find what we’re great at and focus our energy on building those strengths to build products that not only solve problems, but bring happiness to people. She reminds by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

45 min listen

012: You Can Only Keep What You Have if You’re Willing to Give it Away with KaL MichaeL: KaL MichaeL teaches us that empathy is less of something we practice and more of a result of patience and perseverance. He challenges us to remain humble enough to know that we do not know everything, and what we don’t know will always far surpass by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

53 min listen

013: Practice What You Do with Dan Mall: Dan Mall inspires us to get really good at what we do by constantly practicing it. He reminds us of the importance of work/life balance and setting the right priorities. He also reminds us that there’s a big difference between being a leader and be by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

37 min listen

009: There is No “Big Time”, There’s Always Something Ahead with Josh Clark: Josh Clark inspires us to not forget to splash in puddles and give ourselves permission to play in our work. He encourages us to not just tell our story, but to find out our users’ story and craft our experience and technology around that. He also by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

54 min listen

024: Seeing the Invisible with Francisco Inchauste: Francisco Inchauste teaches us that the best design is invisible. He enlightens us to how we can learn something from anyone, and to appreciate the people who surround us. He reminds us of the importance of validating our work. He also inspires us to alw by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

55 min listen

029: Be Relentless with Ling Lim: Ling Lim inspires us to be relentless in our pursuit of the person we want to become. She teaches us to create products that connect with our users and their lives by becoming them as much as possible. She challenges us to not sacrifice the sentimental q by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

58 min listen

Part I: Mixed Reality & the Future of Design with Austin Knight: We are now in the midst of the largest technological revolution of our lifetime. Like that of the dawn of the PC or smartphone. by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

70 min listen

020-2: Stay Enchanted with Jeffrey Zeldman (Part II): Don’t miss Part I of this unforgettable interview. Jeffrey Zeldman inspires us to not underestimate our users by always testing our assumptions–because we’re often wrong. He reminds us of the tremendous value of writing and synthesizing our by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

59 min listen

014: Design Write with Khoi Vinh: Khoi Vinh teaches us that designers can do their best work by drawing on many different sources and working on different challenges simultaneously. A big fan of breaking large problems up into actionable chunks and making lists of all those things that n by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

36 min listen

Design for Real Life with Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher: Design for Real Life is a profound and inspiring book. The more things become automated and robotic, the more evident the need to remain human becomes. This book compels us to strive to stay human especially in our approach to how we design for other hum by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

64 min listen

007: Focus More on Solving Problems and Less On Dribbble Likes with Rafal Tomal: Rafal Tomal inspires us to focus more on solving complicated problems for clients, and less on Dribbble likes. He also emphasizes the importance of keeping our UI and layouts minimal to make room for typography and especially to limit the number of choic by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

34 min listen

028: Be Persistent with Chris Coyier: Chris Coyier teaches us that if we care about succeeding in something, we need to be willing to persist for a long time. by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

71 min listen

An Episode Apart with Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman: On this special episode, Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman and I discuss the premiere web and UX design conference they started over a decade ago. by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

31 min listen

035: Minding the Product Gap with Samuel Hulick: Samuel Hulick shows us how to build bridges for our users. by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

69 min listen

031: Getting Scrappy with Mat Marquis: Mat Marquis reminds us that web design is scrappy business. He inspires us to fight for what we truly believe in. He shows us how we can take our designs and skills further by learning a little code. He motivates us to continue to hone our communication by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

74 min listen

020-1: Stay Enchanted with Jeffrey Zeldman (Part I): Don’t miss Part II of this unforgettable interview. Jeffrey Zeldman dives deep into his origin story to enlighten us on how he got started on the Web. He inspires us to not get caught up in the buzzwords, but to keep it simple and clear. He also ge by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

42 min listen

Cultivating a Creative Culture with Justin Dauer: Buy the Book Buy Justin’s great book through my Amazon affiliate link, and help User Defenders at no additional cost to you. Win/win! Buy Book “We create human-centered interactions and experiences in our field. Empathetic purpose drives our by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

54 min listen

036: No Designer Left Behind with Nick Finck: Nick Finck teaches us the value of being a connector, and mentoring other designers. He gives us a really compelling, dare I say accurate look into the future of UX. He inspires us to make sure we unplug every once in a while. He also motivates us to fin by User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

81 min listen

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