#289 Diagramming with Abby Covert

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#289 Diagramming with Abby Covert

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Diagrams are everywhere and used by many people in many professions. But what is a diagram? When are they useful? And what makes a good one? Information architect and author of “How To Make Sense of Any Mess” joins us to talk about diagrams and diagramming – which is the topic of her second book...
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#250 Factfulness with Anna Rosling Rönnlund: Anna and the Gapminder foundation work to promote a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. They want to help all of us move away from a dramatic worldview that is stressful, wrong and contributes to poor decision-making. by UX Podcast
45 min listen
#245 Cognitive bias with David Dylan Thomas: We all have cognitive biases, flaws in our reasoning and judgement due to our personal beliefs and hidden pattens that we’ve subconsciously adopted over time. David Dylan Thomas joins us to discuss cognitive bias and how we can design for it and work w... by UX Podcast
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#243 Answering surveys with Caroline Jarrett (UXP Classic): Form and survey specialist and author Caroline Jarrett joins us on this classic episode of UX Podcast. Unsurprisingly we chat about surveys and forms beginning with the subject’s roots in data capture and motion studies. by UX Podcast
35 min listen
#253 The state of accessibility with Derek Featherstone: For years, accessibility was seen as the domain of the engineer. Fixing an accessibility would be about writing code. As a maturing industry, and as we understand people with different types of disabilities, by UX Podcast
40 min listen
#249 Digital anthropology with Genevieve Bell: How will your design be used in 10,000 years? When we produce designs and create technical systems we rarely think in such time-frames, yet many of today’s technology includes ideas decades old, even hundreds. by UX Podcast
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#252 Toxic dogmatism: Episode 252 is a linkshow. Per and James discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – We discuss a number of serious issues that the design industy and we take a look at “Stories” and their abundance. by UX Podcast
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#255 Trustworthy with Margot Bloomstein: Do you trust brands? What created and maintains that trust? We look at designing for trust together with content strategist Margot Bloomstein, author of Trustworthy. How does brand personality impact the user experience and how it can influence our des... by UX Podcast
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#266 Target size: From this summer, target size is going to become something we hear much more about. In this topic show, we look into what it is, what it means, why we’re going to start hearing more about it and how this will design work (and design discussions). by UX Podcast
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#258 Ends with Joe MacLeod (UXP Classic): We talk Closure experiences with Joe Macleod. The lack of endings was something that Joe kept noticing again and again. There are so many examples in the digital space where there wasn’t an end, or there was an expectation of controlled or ability to e... by UX Podcast
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#254 Sorting out this mess with Abby Covert & Andrew Hinton: A conversation with information architects Abby Covert and Andrew Hinton about dealing with digital change and how to make future changes better. Originally Recorded at UXLx 2015, we touched on numerous subjects and challenges, by UX Podcast
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#263 Creating a better society with Don Norman (part 1): In this 10th anniversary 2-part special, we are joined by Don Norman. We talk to Don about how design education needs to change so the designers of the future are better equiped to work at the crossroads of business, technology, people, by UX Podcast
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#277 Business unusual with Nathalie Nahai: As the covid pandemic struck and upended her art school project, Nathalie Nahai showed tremendous foresight when reflecting on the societal upheaval and its implications for sustainable business practice. In her newly released book, Business Unusual, by UX Podcast
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#259 Japanese design culture with Rishma Hansil: We are joined by Rishma Hansil to look at Japanese design culture and how this impacts digital design in Japan. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Rishma has been living and working in Tokyo for the past 4 years. by UX Podcast
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#267 UX Theatre with Tanya Snook: Are we all just putting on a show? A few years ago, Tanya Snook coined the phrase UX Theatre to describe when we are just acting like we’re doing user-centred design rather than actually doing it. We learn from Tanya how to recognise UX theatre, by UX Podcast
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