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Can good design principles exorcise even the most diabolical of bad user experiences?
In our special Halloween episode, listen for a wild ride through Silicon Valley’s dark side. We’re trading our usual insights for incantations as we follow the misadventures of Sarah, Mike, and Emily, a UX team at the unicorn startup TechNova. Their world is turned upside down when they meet Mr. Deville, a new stakeholder who brings new meaning to the phrase “design from hell.”
Our intrepid team faces challenges that would make even the most seasoned UX professional weep: interfaces that change on their own, product roadmaps possessed by demons, and stakeholder requests that defy the laws of physics (and good design). As they realize the true nature of their predicament, they must use every UX trick in the book – and perhaps invent a few new ones – to save their product and their souls.
This episode is a tongue-in-cheek look at the sometimes hellish world of UX design, startup culture, and stakeholder management. It’s packed with laughs, gasps, and maybe even a few valuable lessons about staying true to good design principles, no matter how devilish the circumstances. Don’t miss this hilarious and horrifying journey into the dark side of UX!
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If you’re anything like me, when you heard the term “followership” for the first time, you thought it was a made-up word. Almost like it’s a joke… Who wants to be a follower when you can be a leader?
Lots of people.
A lot of folks have no desire to lead teams or become senior executives. Lots of people are perfectly happy being individual contributors, keeping their heads down, and doing great work.
But being a follower isn’t about blindly doing as you’re told. It’s not about being “a sheep” or “a robot.” Followership is about finding and maximizing the relationship with the leader and your teammates.
In fact, even if your goal is to be a great leader, you have to learn to be a great follower first. Learning to be a great follower will help those emergent leaders pick up opportunities to practice their leadership skills.
The reality is that being a great follower is an important skill for everyone on the team to learn.
If the concept of followership is new to you, you’ll learn quite a bit from Dr. David Leitner in this week’s episode.
Topics:
• 04:41 – What is followership?
• 10:00 – We’re exposed to followership at a very early age
• 11:02 – Followership vs managing up
• 16:46 – We shouldn’t aim to grow leaders, we should aim to grow followers
• 18:03 – Not everyone wants to be a leader, but most want to be great followers
• 22:57 – Great ICs don’t always make great managers
• 25:24 – How do we nurture followership skills?
• 28:28 – It’s OK to disagree but we should eventually commit
• 35:19 – Followership is not blindly following
• 39:31 – The West has become a leadership-centric culture
• 41:25 – Before we can talk leadership we need to start with followership
• 50:50 – Applying followership to cross-functional team relationships
• 58:47 – How does a good follower deal with a bad leader or a bad follower?
• 1:04:00 – Dealing with bad teammates is harder
• 1:05:54 – Emotional intelligence is critical for good followers
• 1:10:00 – Resources to learn more about followership
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Dr. D on LinkedIn
• Watch Dr. D on youtube
• drdleitner.com
Check out The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders by Ira Chaleff.
The Courageous Follower explores the vital role of followers in any leadership dynamic, emphasizing the importance of active engagement, critical thinking, and ethical responsibility for followers. The book offers practical advice on how to support and challenge leaders effectively. The book encourages followers to become more courageous, independent thinkers, and advocates for a healthy balance of power between leaders and their followers for successful and ethical leadership. It’s a great read.
About Dr. D
Dr. David Leitner is an educator specializing in Followership, Leadership, and Strategy. He’s spent the last 10 years helping people become effective followers to better support leadership and improve execution. Dr. D is also a disabled IDF veteran with a severe chronic pain disorder. He shares his experiences to teach leadership, followership, teamwork, grit, and determination. Through one-on-one work, lectures, and group workshops he covers topics like choosing followership, sacrifice, leadership understanding politics, and strategic thinking. Along the way, he’s had the opportunity to significantly impact the lives of an amazingly diverse group of people and give them a basis for their future success. And that’s what it’s all about to him – helping people succeed.
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What if you’re done with tech? What if tech is done with you?
This week, I welcome back UX strategist and author Debbie Levitt to discuss her latest book, “Life After Tech: Redefine Yourself and Discover New Work Opportunities.” Debbie shares her insights on the changing tech landscape and why tech professionals should start thinking about career options beyond traditional tech roles.
We explore Debbie’s motivations behind her book, including her personal experiences with job insecurity and the widespread layoffs in the tech industry. Debbie emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and planning for alternative career paths, even for those currently employed in tech. We discuss the challenges of transitioning out of tech, including salary expectations and the stigma associated with career changes.
Debbie’s book offers practical advice on diversifying income streams, reassessing personal values, and preparing for a potential life after tech. Tune in to gain a fresh perspective on your career and discover how to thrive in an ever-changing job market.
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Debbie on LinkedIn
• LifeAfterTech.info
• DeltaCX.com
• CanettiPerfetti.com
About Debbie
Debbie is a Customer Experience (CX) and User Experience (UX) strategist and change agent specializing in setting houses in order in record time. Clients call her “Mary Poppins” because she flies in, improves everything she can, sings a few songs, and then flies away to her next adventure. Debbie is an experienced leader with a track record of building and leading diverse research and design teams, shaping product vision, influencing strategies, and driving initiatives. She also coaches tech workers, leaders, and career changers. Her new book, Life After Tech, is available in digital, print, and audiobook formats. Debbie isn’t sure when she’ll leave tech, but she loves finding and solving problems. It’s one of her Core Personal Qualities.
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If that’s the case, how do you break into the UX industry?
In this episode, I sit down with Mitch Clements, a senior product design manager at nCino, to unravel the paradox many aspiring UX designers face: needing experience to get a job but needing a job to get experience. Mitch, who has grown his design team from 2 to 30 members, shares what types of applicants grab his attention.
We dig into strategies for gaining experience outside of traditional employment, the power of networking, and how to craft a portfolio that catches a hiring manager’s eye. Mitch emphasizes the importance of curiosity, problem-solving, and entrepreneurial thinking in creating opportunities.
Whether you’re a career shifter or fresh out of a boot camp, this episode offers actionable advice on standing out in a sea of applicants and landing your first UX role. Don’t miss Mitch’s insider tips on what hiring managers really look for and how to avoid common pitfalls in your job search.
Topics:
• 08:00 – Mitch’s origin story
• 11:58 – Ignore the title for a minute and think about skills to learn
• 14:42 – How do you get experience without a job?
• 20:00 – Career shifters have a big advantage here
• 29:17 – Networking is invaluable
• 33:50 – Find Slack channels or Discord servers
• 38:58 – Referrals are powerful for hiring teams
• 41:55 – How Mitch decides who to interview after 100s of applicants
• 44:41 – Mitch’s red flags
• 52:59 – You may need to create your opportunities
• 56:59 – Avoid the fanciful, unrealistic solutions
• 58:19 – Take an entrepreneurial mindset
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Mitch on LinkedIn
• Don’t miss our LIVE Q&A on Friday Oct 25 @ 11 Eastern
About Mitch
Mitch is a Senior Product Design Manager at nCino where he’s built a design team from two to 30 designers and has helped the mortgage business unit grow from a startup to a 1.2 billion dollar industry leader. With a diverse career background as a developer, product manager and designer, Mitch brings a unique perspective and leadership to product vision, strategy, storytelling, and building design teams. Mitch is deeply passionate about fostering the design community and regularly makes appearances as a speaker at design conferences and shares his thoughts regularly on LinkedIn. Mitch enjoys speaking on a variety of topics, including helping designers level up in their careers, design leadership, and demonstrating the business value of design.
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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Hang Xu, a brilliant UX designer and familiar face online. He’s been refreshingly open about his mental health journey. Today, we’re peeling back the layers on a topic close to both our hearts: the mental health of our fellow UX Designers.
We explore the pressures of the tech industry, recent layoffs, and social media activity and how they can exacerbate mental health issues. We also discuss how these challenges have pushed us to be more open without issues and advocate for others to do the same.
This isn’t your typical design talk—it’s unfiltered, it’s real, and there aren’t any key takeaways. It’s just an open conversation among friends and colleagues who want everyone else to know that they’re not alone. Tune in for a dose of honesty, humor, and hope as we navigate mental health and design.
Hang 🤙 XuAbout Hang
Hang Xu is the founder and lead recruiter for Collective Supply, a talent-centric design recruiting agency based in NYC. Before that, Hang was a senior Staff UX Designer at Boston Dynamics and designed the user interface, and workflow for their first warehouse robot. His experience in both doing hands-on design work and recruiting for design roles gives him a unique perspective on the state of UX and design hiring in the US. You can read his writing on design strategy, activism in tech, and salary negotiation techniques on his LinkedIn. Aside from his work in UX design, Hang has a keen interest in film photography and enjoys tinkering with instant film cameras. And if you’ve ever wondered if there’s a fully manual Instax/Polaroid rangefinder camera, he’d love to chat.
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In this episode, I get to chat with Ruby Pryor, whose career has taken her from the bustling streets of Melbourne to the vibrant cities of Southeast Asia. Ruby’s unique perspective, shaped by her experiences at Boston Consulting Group, Grab, and her own consulting firm, Rex, offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of designing for a global audience.
We dig into the subtle yet profound ways culture influences our experience. Ruby shared fascinating anecdotes about how seemingly minor details like work schedules and currency symbols can significantly affect the users’s experience across different countries and cultures.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro working on global products or a designer just beginning to consider international audiences, this episode provides insights and actionable strategies for creating user experiences that truly resonate across boundaries.
Topics:
• 04:54 – Ruby’s origin story
• 06:35 – You may not realize how your culture affects your perspective until you move
• 14:13 – How do remote teams understand the target cultures
• 15:10 – Low context vs high context cultures
• 18:30 – When we’re taught research, culture is chronically under-discussed
• 24:20 – Where do we start if we’re designing for a global market?
• 30:32 – The role of service design in global products
• 32:29 – Finding international research participants
• 40:01 – How do we measure whether we’ve accounted for culture in our metrics
• 42:00 – How do you promote this within your team to push for this idea?
• 44:20 – Being globally inclusive doesn’t mean building something new every time
• 52:47 – Reading fiction is a great way to build empathy
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Ruby on LinkedIn
• rexhq.io
About Ruby
Ruby Pryor is the founder of Rex, a UX research and strategic design consulting firm. Ruby has worked in Design and Customer Experience for a decade across Australia and Asia. Her experience includes working for Boston Consulting Group, Grab and Nous Group. She has spoken at UX conferences in 5 countries, appeared on multiple podcasts and been interviewed on Channel News Asia.
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I sit down with Dagna Bieda, a software engineer turned career coach and author of “Brain Refactor: Optimize Your Internal Code to Thrive in Tech & Engineering.” Dagna shares her journey from experiencing burnout to discovering the power of “brain refactoring” – a concept that applies software engineering principles to personal growth and career development.
We dig into the four main obstacles tech professionals face: imposter syndrome, burnout, interpersonal challenges, and self-marketing struggles. Dagna offers insights on debugging our mental “code,” emphasizing the importance of psychological distancing, openness to feedback, and developing strong interpersonal skills. We also discuss the often-overlooked value of soft skills in tech careers and how bootcamp graduates often progress faster due to their balanced skill set.
Whether you’re a UX designer, software engineer, or tech professional, you’ll find actionable advice on optimizing your mindset for success. Don’t miss this conversation that goes beyond technical skills to explore the human side of thriving in the tech industry.
Topics:
• 05:08 – Where did Brain Refactoring come from?
• 08:40 – About the book
• 12:06 – How do we debug our brain?
• 12:22 – Psychological distancing
• 13:20 – Be open to feedback
• 14:48 – Are you trying to DIY everything?
• 21:37 – Internal vs external dependencies
• 25:02 – How do we get feedback from colleagues
• 32:10 – Four obstacles that we generally run into
• 43:51 – When it comes to self-promotion, our mental model may be off
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Dagna on LinkedIn
• themindfuldev.com
• Get your copy of Brain Refactor
About Dagna
Dagna is an Engineer turned Coach for Engineers and ambitious professionals in tech. With 10+ years of coding experience and coaching since 2019, she’s the tough love, “been in your shoes” kinda Coach. Her clients’ backgrounds include a spectrum ranging from ICs to CTOs, from small startups to FAANG+ companies, from 2 to 20+ years of experience, and from self-taught devs through career-changing Bootcamp grads to college grads and PhDs. She helps her clients reach their potential and exciting career opportunities by refactoring their brains.
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This week, Joseph Mercieca, a UX designer whose career has spanned multiple European countries, joins us to share his experience applying for jobs across different cultures. He offers a unique perspective on navigating the often perplexing world of international job hunting.
Joseph reveals how expectations can vary dramatically from country to country – from the emphasis on visual design in Germany to the focus on growth design in Poland. He discusses the challenges of language barriers, the importance of understanding local work cultures, and the sometimes surprising criteria that hiring managers in different countries prioritize.
Whether you’re a UX designer looking to expand your career internationally or a hiring manager working with global talent, this episode provides valuable insights. Joseph’s experiences show that understanding different cultures in the global job market is just as important as having technical skills.
Topics:
• 12:18 – What are the challenges of finding work in a place like Europe
• 17:50 – What is finding a job abroad like?
• 26:28 – Some countries are less direct than others
• 31:08 – Spend the first month getting to know everyone
• 34:07 – What do various countries look for?
• 42:44 – UI is subjective, especially across cultures
• 46:59 – Don’t take culture and geopolitics for granted
• 47:47 – Understand the icons you’re using
• 49:40 – Dealing with cross-generational norms
• 55:58 – How do we learn these things?
• 57:02 – You need to be interested and want to learn about other cultures
• 64:39 – There’s only so much you can learn from a book
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Joseph on LinkedIn
• anotherconcept.net
About Joseph
With over a decade of experience, Joseph has guided multinational stakeholders in leveraging UX, CX, CRO, and KPIs to drive growth through optimized products and services, including enterprise SaaS, ML software, web, and apps. His expertise lies in leading research and design initiatives through strategic planning with multi-disciplinary stakeholders, tackling complex challenges, and fostering design culture across diverse settings. His interests encompass design futures, cognitive behaviorism, ubiquitous computing, AI, ethics, and the geopolitical influence on the digital ecosystem. In his downtime, he enjoys traveling, writing articles, volunteering, and performing music.
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This week, we dig into the psychological aspects of personal branding with Anais Wittrock-Roske, a UX designer who transitioned to UX design from a career in nursing. Anais shares her insights on the mental hurdles many professionals face when developing their personal brand, particularly in the tech industry.
We explore the concept of “cringe mountain” – the psychological barrier that prevents many from effectively promoting their skills and experiences. Anais discusses strategies for building the confidence necessary to authentically showcase one’s expertise in UX design.
Whether you’re new to UX design or a seasoned professional looking to elevate your career, this episode provides valuable insights into the psychological dynamics of personal branding and how to leverage them for career growth.
Topics:
• 04:42 – Anais’s origin story
• 16:05 – Think of yourself as the product
• 16:32 – If you don’t tell people who you are, they’ll decide for themselves
• 22:41 – reframe it as a positive way to influence the conversation about yourself
• 23:45 – Present your work like you would your colleague’s work
• 25:03 – What is personal brand NOT
• 33:10 – You need to get over cringe mountain
• 45:49 – Tactics to start thinking about personal brand
• 46:33 – Think about what legacy you want to leave behind
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Anais on LinkedIn
About Anaïs
Anais, a dedicated nurse turned product leader, excels in both saving lives and crafting exceptional products. Her leadership extends to cultivating high-performing teams with expertise in product strategy, UX, consumer behavior, human-centered design, and team development.
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Jeff’s toolkit offers actionable insights on storytelling for UX designers. Jeff walks you through how to present work to clients and stakeholders, how to craft compelling case studies, and how to improve portfolio presentations for job interviews. Jeff’s approach goes beyond your basic once upon a time kind of stuff.
And because I know this course will help you out so much, I’ve partnered with Jeff to get everyone listening to a 10% discount if you use the code BEYONDUX when you check out. So head on over to beyonduxdesign.com/storytelling to get 10% off today!
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Pavel Samsonov is a design leader currently building design practices and leading innovation engagements at AWS. With an extensive background in managing enterprise product teams at Bloomberg and rapid prototyping in startups, Pavel joins the show to give us a reality check.
In this episode, we discuss the pitfalls of focusing on high fidelity at the wrong time. Pavel shares his insights on why many designers fall into this trap and how it can lead to wasted efforts and misaligned expectations. We dive into actionable strategies to flip the conversation and emphasize the importance of low fidelity stages. Pavel’s advice is invaluable for anyone looking to refine their design process and deliver meaningful outcomes.
This conversation is packed with actionable strategies that can transform your approach to how you work with your team. Join us to learn how you can avoid the pitfalls of high fidelity and leverage low fidelity techniques for more effective stakeholder engagements.
Topics:
• 03:39 – What’s wrong with high fidelity?
• 10:16 – how do we flip the conversation?
• 11:36 – Start from the bottom up
• 15:58 – 30% feedback vs 90% feedback
• 27:08 – Stakeholders expected a professional who is responsible for outcomes
• 32:36 – Stakeholders don’t know design, you know design
• 34:26 – Stakeholders are not your professors
• 43:09 – Try, measure, learn instead of build, measure, learn
• 51:25 – Low fidelity and high fidelity tools do different things
Helpful Links:
• Connect with Pavel on LinkedIn
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About Pavel
Pavel Samsonov is a New York-based UX leader exploring the applications of design as a decision-making framework for all areas of product development. He currently builds design practice and leads innovation engagements at AWS. His approach to product & design draws on his experience managing enterprise product teams at Bloomberg, design-driven rapid prototyping in the start-up world, traditional graphic design education, and an academic background in human-computer interaction.
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