What is UX?
The show dedicated to inspiring, educating, and motivating UX designers both new and seasoned. Guests share their UX journey, career, and industry experience.
Episodes
60 episodes
S6E10 An interview with Natalia Vargas, Director of Product Design for Cariloop
Natalia is a design leader from La Paz, Bolivia and now works in Dallas, Texas as Director of Product Design for Cariloop, a caregiver support company focused on relieving the stress and anxiety felt by all caregivers. After interning at adv...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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25:03
S6E9 How to find job opportunities with Meesh Lin, Product Designer at Okta
Meesh Lin began designing and launching websites at age eight by learning from her self-taught web designer mother. She's had an unconventional path to design—having freelanced, contracted, and designed-in house for start-ups and public comp...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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47:36
S6E8 AI, and what it means for the future of design with Peter Szalontay
Peter Szalontay is the DataGoat/CEO at DataMilk, it is a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predict...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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42:26
S6E7 An interview with Alicia Warren, Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling
Alicia is a Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling - the platform that frees smart people to work on hard problems! She has been a designer across industries, including higher education, academia, insurance, pharmacy, e-commerce...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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34:56
S6E6 An Interview with Erick Arias, Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.)
Erick Arias is an Experienced Product Designer with a demonstrated history of transforming the way enterprises build software. He is currently the Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.)In this episode, ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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32:32
S6E5 An interview with Nima H. K., Design Director at First Republic
Nima H. K. graduated from York/Sheridan Program in Design, and is a passionate storyteller obsessed with user experience and telling the right story at the right time. Currently a design director in San Francisco, and just recently designed ...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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42:06
S6E4 An interview with Glen Lipka, Product Design Leader
Glen Lipka is a product leader who has created innovative products for B2B companies since 1995.Previously, he was the first employee at Marketo, best in class marketing automation software acquired by Adobe and helped guide th...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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46:48
S6E3 An interview with Ari Krzyzek, Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia
Ari Krzyzek is the Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia), she helps Femtech DTC and women-led companies craft a brand that delights their customers beyond a pretty design, delivers no-brainer user experie...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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29:08
S6E2 An interview with Erik Kennedy, Designer & CEO at Learn UI Design
Erik Kennedy is the creator of Learn UI Design and Learn UX Design. He’s also a freelance UX/UI designer based in Seattle, WA. He has also spoken in the US and abroad at businesses, meetups, and universities (like UC Berkeley, Yale, and UW). Hi...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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32:44
S6E1 An interview with Jeany Ngo, Co-Founder at Kairos
Jeany Ngo is the co-founder at Kairos, which provides the tools for anyone to create, publish and sell NFTs without touching a single line of code. She blends her love of visual storytelling with thoughtful understanding of user behavior. 10...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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33:03
S5E10 An Interview with Marissa Louie, Sr. Director of Design at Pandora and SiriusXM
Marissa Louie is the Director of UX Design at SiriusXM Pandora, she leads a design organization that thoughtfully creates experiences for 100m+ users.She also serves as the Chairwoman of Animoodles, and runs Designers Club and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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42:01
S5E9 An Interview with Pawel Bak, Lead Product Designer, Manager at AbbVie
Pawel Bak is a strategic and passionate product/service designer with 12+ years of experience designing for mobile, wearables and IoT devices. Designs and helps develop high-performing design solutions and engaging customer experiences which...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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29:06
S5E8 An Interview with Sarah Higgins, Experience Designer at Patagonia
Sarah is currently the Experience Designer at Patagonia. She also worked with Google, Pinterest and Nike, leading strategy and UX in a highly collaborative work environment. Mentored junior staff. Participated in the hiring process, project ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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39:12
S5E7 An Interview with Katie Swindler, Innovation Design Strategist at AllState, author
Katie Swindler is a human-centered design strategist with 15 years of experience. Originally educated as a theatre director, her creative approach combines storytelling and technology, emotion and utility to enable brands to connect deeply w...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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33:40
S5E6 An Interview with Nicole Torgersen, Vice President of Design at Dialpad
Nicole Torgersen is Vice President of Design at Dialpad. She’s been working in digital design since the late '90s working with a range of industries including cloud collab and storage at Dropbox, retail at Gap, and recruiting at Monster Worl...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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42:57
S5E5 An Interview with Ryan Tauss, Ex-Associate Director of Product Design at Tide Cleaners
Ryan Tauss is the leading product design for Tide Cleaners. The past almost 4 years, along with a talented crew have greenfield an entire suite of applications that help run operations, customer service, and improve the guest experience maki...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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37:22
S5E4 How Google Designs for the Next Billion Users with Sumier Phalake
Sumier Phalake is Head of Design, Next Billion Users at Google, which focuses on products that bring connectivity to users in emerging markets. He has over 15 years of experience across both consumer and enterprise products.
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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40:28
S5E3 An Interview with Tessa Rodes, Senior Design Manager at IBM
Tessa Rodes joined the very first cohort of IBM Design Bootcamp in 2013, and since then has seen the design organization and company grow and evolve into a truly design-led system. She has reviewed 100s of portfolio applications in the 8.5 y...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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38:11
S5E2 An Interview with Ryan Hudson-Peralta, Staff Product Designer at RocketMortgage
Ryan has spoken all over the world at schools, and organizations sharing his story and inspiring others to live their dreams. Ryan is a father, husband, mentor, motivational speaker, and designer.His current role, le...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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35:37
S5E1 An Interview with Jared Spool
Jared Spool is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in website and product usability, He is also the Maker of Awesomeness at @CenterCentre/@UIE. Helping designers...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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46:31
S4E10 An Interview with Michaela Mucha, Creative Advertising Manager at The Walt Disney Studios
Michaela Mucha is an award-winning designer, art director, & matcha-drinker currently making fun things (virtually!) at The Walt Disney Studios. Michaela is a first generation Mexican–Filipina–American with over a decade of experience in...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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40:41
S4E9 An Interview with John Yesko, Senior Director, Head of User Experience & Service Design At Walgreens
John Yesko is a veteran experience design, creative, and digital business leader; now Head of User Experience and Service Design at Walgreens. Responsible for the digital experience on Walgreens websites, consumer mobile apps, and in-store r...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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46:16
S4E8 An Interview with Jesse Gaskin, HCD and Patient Experience Lead, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Jesse Gaskin serves as a Co-Program Director for the Design Leaders Council of The Conference Board. In addition to his work with The Conference Board, Jesse is a patient experience and human-centered design lead at Kaiser Permanente who specia...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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43:46
S4E7 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast
Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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52:54
S4E6 Interview with Ana Lara, Lead UX Designer at Cisco, Sr UX Manager at T-Mobile
Ana Lara is an award-winning app product and strategic designer with more than ten years of experience. She has worked with different clients such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Hilton. She was one of the earliest UX team members at T-Mobile, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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41:22