Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Debbie Levitt, a UX research leader, accomplished author, and career coach who's tackling the tech industry's most critical challenges head-on. Drawing from her latest book, Debbie explores how professionals can navigate the seismic shifts happening in tech – from widespread layoffs to AI's growing influence on the workforce.

In this timely conversation, we explore practical strategies for future-proofing your career. Debbie shares invaluable insights on developing your "Plan B," helping you assess your transferable skills, uncover hidden opportunities, and chart a course toward career resilience. Whether you're concerned about job security or simply wanting to expand your professional horizons, this episode offers concrete steps to transform uncertainty into opportunity.

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Today, I’m chatting with ⁠Manuel Lima⁠, a UX design thought leader, author, and leading figure in visual culture development, the intersection between art and technology, and data visualisation. Manuel Lima's latest book, The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change, challenges traditional notions of design by emphasizing designers' ethical responsibilities in today's society. 

In this thought-provoking conversation, we explore how design shapes not just what we see but also how we live, think, and interact with the world around us. Manuel dismantles traditional design paradigms and presents a compelling case for designers to embrace their role as architects of change, addressing crucial challenges at personal, societal, cultural, and environmental levels.

Today, I’m chatting with Lawton Pybus and Thomas Stokes, UX Research veterans and founders of Drill Bit Labs, a research strategy consultancy.

They have also researched and authored several UX industry meta-reports and educational articles that can help UX researchers, designers, and UCD leaders stand out from the crowd.

In this riveting episode, we explore:

💼 The evolving UX industry job market: insights into the skills, roles, and opportunities defining the next generation of UX researchers.

🤖 AI's growing role in UX Research: how artificial intelligence is reshaping our methodologies and deliverables.

🔬 Essential and more advanced research methods: tried and tested, and innovative techniques that are pushing the boundaries of marrying user needs with tech advancements.

And much more.

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My guest today, Wolfgang Bremer, is an award-winning UX leader and design executive who has worked in multiple Fortune 500 companies. In his career to date, he has managed several highly performing global design orgs and teams.

In this conversation, we delve into a few topics surrounding design leadership:

And much more.

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Thomas Wilson is a UX design thought leader, service designer and industry veteran currently focusing on CX/UX/EX and AI strategies.

In this session we delve into a few hot topics: service design and its stark differences across the UK and the US, how future digital services can be shaped with AI, why absolutely everyone needs a portfolio and what makes for good and bad design leadership.

We also discuss the recent theme of 'founder mode' and how it's masking more pertinent issues of innovators vs adaptors in tech.

This episode offers valuable perspectives for design professionals and enthusiasts on staying ahead in the rapidly evolving field of experience design.

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Greg Nudelman is a UX thought leader, serial design book author and speaker. With over 32 projects in AI, he's a true veteran in emerging tech-powered user experience design.

In this session, we discuss the evolving landscape of UX design in the era of AI. Greg shares key challenges, principles and how to pick the right tools to deliver great user experiences and become more future-proof. We also delve into how tech teams can pick the right use cases for AI projects, the value of field research and user interviews, and the concept of digital twins, value matrix and more in UX design.

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Christian Crumlish is a UXer turned product management leader. He's also an author of the Product Management for UX People book and a host of Design in Product community and conferences on the same topic.

In this conversation, we delve into the turf wars between UX and PMs, the unique challenges from both sides, potential career transition strategies and tactics for those keen to take their UCD skills to more business-oriented realms and much more.

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Mike Green is a user research leader specialising in research and service design for public services. He's also a host of the Understanding Users podcast.

In this episode, we delve into the current state of user research with AI: tools, limits and opportunities. Additionally, we also cover Mike's rich background in government public services and what private companies and UX designers and researchers can learn from it. We also discuss the state of the general UX job market and share advice for newcomers and existing people struggling to find the next job.

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Ha Phan is an inventor, speaker, product and design leader. She specialises in emerging tech, user-centric product innovation and experimentation.

In this episode, we delve into her product innovation experiences at Zillow, GoPro and many others. We explore the evolution of design beyond traditional UX practices, especially in the realm of emerging technologies like AI. This conversation will spark new ideas and perspectives.

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Dr. Nick Fine⁠ is user research leader, known for advocating standards within the broader UX design community. He is also a recurring guest on our podcast. In this follow-up session, we continue exploring the theme of 'Better at UX Research than AI' and delve into the future of user research practices. We discuss how the UX industry and its user-centric approach will evolve over the next five years, emphasizing the significance of evaluative research in today's landscape, among other topics.