...And we’re back! We’ve had a heck of a summer and are ready to kickstart Season 2 of the Hotline Design Pod! Join us as we continue sharing our exciting experiences, top tips and pearls of wisdom.

This season you can look forward to episodes about communicating design decisions, tackling whiteboarding challenges and generally navigating the fantastic worlds of UX and product design!

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to Stephen Brown for all our interlude music!

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Join us this week in the studio for a very special episode - and the last of our first season - where we reflect on our learnings from 22 episodes of Hotline Design Pod so far on a live retrospective session. Thank you to all of our guests, first-time callers and long-time listeners - we’ll be back in the autumn!

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to Stephen Brown for all our interlude music!

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Do you crave speed, collaboration, innovation and action? In this week's episode, the cohosts get off the treadmill and onto the mic to explore design sprints, the ultimate fast-paced, agile approach to product design.

Wisdom comes with age, but so can degeneration across the senses. Aging is an inevitable part of life, no matter how much botox we use. Given we’re all aging, how can we ensure we are making design decisions that are inclusive and accessible to older users? The trio shares their tips for gallant and glamorous geriatric design in this week’s episode.

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to Lauren for calling the Hotline Design Hotline this week.

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Join the cohosts this week as they talk to a long time friend and first time guest, Mr. Dan Foster. From the safety of corporate life to an exciting departure into freelancing and co-creating the fantastic immersive murder mystery experience start-up, Session Mysteries, Dan shares his experiences as an entrepreneur extraordinaire.

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and too our Hotline Design Hotline caller this week.

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This week the trio chats about the infamous 'art' art of dark UX and how it led to one of the hosts to completely changing their identity and hiding into witness protection. Needy parrots also get a special mention.

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to Aga for calling the Hotline Design Hotline this week.

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This week, join us in the studio as we carry on with Part II of our Job Hunt series and talk all about the exciting but sometimes dreaded application and interview phases. We cover the Ten Commandments of the perfect application process, drawing on Lavinia's recent experiences of applying ("Helping you nav with Captain Lav"!) Special shout-out to Stephen Brown (our friend and guest from Episode 5), whose amazing audio transition tracks make a feature on this week's episode. 

In this episode & highly anticipated job hunt series, the co-hosts talk all about how to narrow down on the perfect job. Lavinia, YuXin and Lauren highlight the most important questions & considerations for identifying fantastic working opportunities & environments... even in this economy.

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to our Hotline Design Hotline caller this week.

Don't forget you can always record a question for us at https://anchor.fm/hotlinedesignpod

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In this episode & highly anticipated job hunt series, the co-hosts talk all about how to narrow down on the perfect job. Lavinia, YuXin and Lauren highlight the most important questions & considerations for identifying fantastic working opportunities & environments... even in this economy.

This week, the trio welcomes a new guest, Dragos Neagu. Senior developer by day and Bootcamp teacher by night, Dragos also has his own app, KINN, and has a driving passion for equality.

For this episode, he's bringing the developer perspective to the table, sharing how we can all collaborate better as essential team mates of multi-disciplinary teams.

Special thanks to @matt_beadnall for the music and to Ben for calling the Hotline Design Hotline this week.

Don't forget you can always record a question for us at https://anchor.fm/hotlinedesignpod

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