Design sprints. Some people love them, some hate them. Some have altered them into being way better but still call them design sprints. What are they? Where did they come from? Why are they bad for UX jobs and professions? Let’s dive in.

Join the always awesome Dr Nick Fine for a discussion of: is UX a mindset? Is it a “state of mind”? Are you “doing UX” if you can get into the mindset? Are you “doing UX work” if you care about users or consider customers as you design?

Join guest Tatawan Sütő to learn more about learning design and instruction design. How are they different than UX? How can we partner with them?

What's the difference between collaboration, design by committee (or other work by committee), decentralization, and democratization? What are these things? Which do we want? Which are good for our jobs and careers? Which are bad for our jobs and the whole UX profession? How can we tell when we're doing design by committee (whether or not we meant to do design by committee)?

Wondering if UX is a fit for your personality, talents, or skills? Let’s talk about the most important traits someone can have in our profession. Special surprise guest Darren Hood joins later in the broadcast to share a few more slides and ideas around Emotional Intelligence.

What is a narcissist? How can we recognize one in our workplace? And then… what can we do about it? Join psychologist Dr Seth Finkle as we have another lively discussion. You rarely win against a narcissist, but you can “manage” or “deal” with them. Good luck!

Candidates want to turn to recruiters for help in finding jobs. But there are so many types of recruiters. Which ones are really working for and with us? Which ones don’t care? How can we tell when it’s worth investing time into the recruiter relationship? And when isn’t it worth our time? Veteran expert Lee Andrese from akathame will clear it all up for us, plus take live questions.

Join in the never-ending battle! Should CX/UX jobs require us to write code? Does writing code make you better at UX work? Does writing code make you a better pal or collaborator to Engineering roles? Let’s pour through this and more. We landed on a pretty interesting conclusion, so I hope you’ll listen to the whole episode.

The title just about says it all! Join special guest Uyen Vicky Vo, who wrote a very popular Medium article about neumorphism. We discuss this visual design trend and why it’s bad for accessibility and UX. The live YouTube stream ended up with tech difficulties, but I’ve edited those out for the listeners.

The awesome Darren Hood is back! We’ll be talking about conflicts between junior/up-and-coming UXers and seniors. Are seniors just dinosaurs with outdated ideas, avoiding using the newest techniques? Juniors are often told to fake it until they make it… well then how did today’s seniors and leaders make it? Did they fake it too? If someone who graduated a boot camp 6 months ago is qualified (according to the boot camp) to teach the next cohort of boot campers, why do seniors act like the best learning comes from them? So much fighting. Let’s fix or improve this.