We talked with Radhika Dutt in this week’s episode of the Human Insight Podcast. Radhika is an engineer, entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies she founded. She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator. 

She is also the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. 

Among the topics discussed included: 

Fanny Pourcenoux is the Director of Global Design at Contentsquare. Fanny is leading Contentsquare’s redesign and rebranding efforts and she’s leaning heavily on data informed design decisions. On this episode, Fanny talks about using data to make design and content decisions and how data can support UX Research efforts.

Monal Chokshi is the Senior Director, Head of Research & Insights at Dropbox. She has built and led UX teams for over 10 years, including those at Lyft, Intuit, and SoundCloud. On this episode she reflects back on some of her past talks about leadership and shares ways researchers can build a team from the ground up as well as elevating research teams that already exist.

Alec Levin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Learners, a community that provides professional education to UX Researchers, designers, and product managers. In this episode, we hear about the value of engaging in a multidisciplinary community and why in order to be a strategic researcher, it’s necessary to understand the economics of business.

In this episode, we talk with Beverly May, VP of Research and Design at Allstate about her efforts leading a large design platforming initiative. And we hit on a hot topic in our industry: CX. Hear how Beverly is defining customer experience and how it’s helping to deliver insights at scale.

Andrew Schall is the Senior Director of Experience Design Research at Mayo Clinic, where he’s working with his team to create the next generation of healthcare technology. He has over 20 years of professional experience in user experience with expertise in eye tracking. This episode we hear how and when a UX Researcher could use eye tracking technology.

Christian Rohrer, Vice President of Experience Design at TD Bank shares his expertise in UX measurement, specifically the PURE Method. Pure stands for Pragmatic Usability Rating by Experts and is a usability-evaluation method that attempts to quantify how difficult a product is to use and provides qualitative insights into how to fix it, without costing a lot of time or money.

Susana La Luz-Hawkins is the Research Department Director of Design & Customer Experience at J.P. Morgan Chase. Susana gave a talk at the Epic Conference 2015 titled “The Missing Tool in the Design Leadership Toolbox: Integrating Conflict Management into Collaborative Design.” As design and UX teams continue to grow, managing conflict might be even more critical today, and in this episode, Susana shares some best practices for managing conflict.

Kevin Newton is Manager of UX Research Practice at LinkedIn; in this episode, he shares insights on how he’s scaling a research team at a large and growing company. His team is also working on a unique effort to quantify what it means to have a “simple” user experience, and its relationship to LinkedIn's metrics and revenue.

Temitayo Olasimbo is instrumental in advocating for measured Inclusion and Diversity goals with Best Buy's research platforms, as well as leading the work on exploring inclusive terminology to implement in Best Buy's I&D roadmap. In this episode, we talk with Temmy about doing the good and difficult work of DE&I and how it impacts research and larger strategy design and business decisions.