Surviving UX

Surviving UX

By Jessamyn Edwards & Meg CramerComedyTechnologyComedy Interviews
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Surviving UX episodes

  • Conferences

    Do you remember your first UX conference? Has your conference proposal ever been rejected? Do I even like going to these things? Jessamyn & Meg reminisce about our favorite UX conference moments.

    40 min
  • Back to work
    Does anyone want to hear about your maternity leave? How much should you share your mental health struggles at work? Should you ever do design work for friends? Jessamyn and Meg talk about the joys of returning to work after baby.
    35 min
  • Onboarding
    Does anyone ever complete all those onboarding tasks? Is it better to be a solo designer or one of too many cooks in the kitchen? Are users lazy? Jessamyn talks to Eunju Tae, senior UX designer at Google.
    43 min
  • Half speed

    How many meetings does it take to obliterate your productivity? Does being a thought leader matter? Are you supposed to be working on your own ideas? Jessamyn and Meg interview Uday Gajendar, design manager at Aurora Solar and curator at Rosenfeld Media.

    38 min
  • Turnover

    What hot UX design trends will completely pass you by this year? Would you encourage your kid to become a UX designer? How do you handle beloved coworkers quitting the team?

    41 min
  • Out of office

    Jessamyn & Meg welcome a living, breathing, male to the show, John Spann, director of Identity Platform at LogMeIn.

    40 min
  • Data friend

    What do you do when your research disagrees with what your team believes? Have you ever had your user researched challenged or dismissed? How do you find new collaboration partners when your stakeholder sucks? Meg & Jessamyn talk to Britney LeBaron, UX quantitative researcher.

    36 min
  • Turn off your friendly

    How do you know when you're seeing red flags at work? What can you do to keep from feeling overwhelmed with UX requests? What should you do when a co-worker is a bit too friendly?

    38 min
  • Research ops
    Is it even possible to piss off your design or research ops person? Briana Perry, lead research ops goddess at Procore, talks about her post-it obsession, how she blasted through obstacles with her legal team, and people who do research (PWDR).
    35 min

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None of the answers you need to surviving your UX design career. Jessamyn Edwards and Meg Cramer field questions from real UX designers struggling through the career choice you wonder why you made. No…