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  • What UX Can Learn from Ouija Boards

    In this episode of Metric: the UX Podcast, we investigate what ouija boards and World War 1 teach us about design solutions, that innovation lies in not immediately thinking that the problem can be solved by an app.

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    31 min
  • Questions UXers should ask in Job Interviews

    In this episode of Metric, we talk about questions UXers should ask during job interviews, and what about that interview or organization are red flags.

    In the gloss, look for chatter about the origins of our usernames, how to pronounce "schoeyfield" (and how that's not my last name!), and a game recommendation for Ninja Theory's Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.


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    33 min
  • Thirsty UXers

    How do you get the experience you need -- or want -- to take that next step in your career? In this episode of Metric: the User Experience Podcast, Michael Schofield and Tim Broadwater try to define how they want to evolve their career - and how one goes about getting that experience if it's not an obvious step-up from the current job.

    This episode has been transcribed (!). You can find the transcription at metricpodcast.com.


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    30 min
  • French Creek Freddie

    What can regional ground hogs teach us about UX design? In this episode of Metric, we talk about designing services and products that have a demonstrable need. Hear everything you ever wanted to know about about projects that never get off, the shelf of domain-name good intentions, that there are alternatives to Punxsutawney Phil.

    Tim Broadwater is @uxbear on Twitter

    Michael Schofield is @schoeyfield on Twitter

    Metric is @metricpodcast on Twitter.

     

     



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    32 min
  • The Persona Zoo

    In this episode of Metric, we pick up where we left off in 65: Mazes and Monsters and hit the user archetypes known as whales, fish, and barnacles - the persona zoo! We start with a travelogue about visiting creepy Facebook in Menlo Park. Eventually we delve into jobs to be done and critique of personas.

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    34 min
  • Mazes and Monsters
    This episode of Metric is about tabletop game design and play testing. Enter the awkward ass world of Michael explaining to Tim his slack-based Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Hear Tim's crazy interesting foray into play testing and its cross-overs with user onboarding.

    In addition to the banter, we touch on:
    • NUIs: natural user interfaces
    • lessons learned by other industries about how games onboard users
    • Tom Hanks in Mazes and Monsters

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    42 min
  • Fitness and Gamification (?) - and Goth LARPing
    How do you title this episode? Tim Broadwater and Michael Schofield expertly tangent between fitness, gamification of health, tabletop games,
     

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    31 min
  • Measure the Future
    Jason Griffey on ethically designing a service to heatmap physical spaces that respects users' privacy - on open software, to boot.   Jason Griffey is a librarian, technologist, consultant, writer and speaker, an Affiliate Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University where he studies decentralization, access to information, intellectual property, and more.  

    A transcript of this show fully marked-up with links and the like will be available at at www.metricpodcast.com.

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    37 min
  • 62: Service Design and User Experience Design

    This episode of Metric: The User Experience Design Podcast is a no-guester: a shorty, but a goodie. It's about how to talk about service design and user experience design in the same sentence - which nobody can seem to figure out how to do coherently without writing a whole article!

    Also, I wrote a whole article.

    A transcript of this show fully marked-up with links and the like is at www.metricpodcast.com.

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    9 min
  • 61: Personal Information in the name of "User Experience" with Donna Lanclos

    In this episode of Metric: The User Experience Podcast, Donna Lanclos - an unaplogetic anthropologist and folklorist - talks about the ethics of gathering personal data in the name of good UX, and how that's incredibly complicated to justify. We chat about learning analytics in universities, the concept of "UX Washing", and privacy as a social justice issue.

    A transcript of this show fully marked-up with links and the like will be found at www.metricpodcast.com in the next couple of days.

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    Support this podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelschofield



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    33 min

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"The user experience is a metric." Brief high-level practical design strategy by Michael Schofield. Metric was ranked by DScout as one of the best podcasts for leveling-up.