What is Wrong with UX

In this episode, Kate and Laura overthink everything, as usual, and discuss how to take a feature that seems simple and be a total buzzkill by showing how complicated it really is.

Drink Pairing: Mint Juleps (because they're muddled)

Kate and Laura, having run out of actual topics, decide that designers need a new animal, now that unicorns have been stolen by big, private, profitless companies. This may be proof that Kate and Laura will argue about literally anything. Strap in.

Drink Pairing: Wild Turkey

Kate and Laura begrudgingly tolerate each other for just long enough to tell you how to work better with other people. Also, there's some stuff about how people and teams change each other, but it's not like there's any agreement.

Drink Pairing: A 12 pack of something

After a few podcasts talking about things they don't like, Kate and Laura decide to be slightly more positive and discuss a few tools that make their work lives easier. Besides booze.

Drink Pairing: Tequila Sunrise

Kate and Laura discuss whether some commonly misunderstood tools and frameworks (Surveys? Agile?) are bad or just really misunderstood a lot of the time.

Drink Pairing: Shot of Jager

In this episode, Kate and Laura go off on several tangents about why everything does not have to be designed and built from scratch by your organization. Seriously, you're not making artisanal, locally sourced pickles here, folks. Unless you are. In which case, carry on.

Drink Pairing: Small batch, home brewed cider made from cruelty free, free range, heirloom apples, obviously

In this episode, Kate and Laura fight about what it means to design things collaboratively and the ways in which everybody seems to screw it up. Hint: collaborative design does not mean everybody makes every single decision together! This is not a democracy, people.

Drink Pairing: Sidecar

Kate and Laura really don't like to be told what to do. That's why they get annoyed when people declare "Designers should really be able to..." In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of designers learning things like coding, story telling, and metrics, and then we leave it up to you, the listener, to make your own damn decisions.

Drink Pairing: Who are we to tell you what to drink? Make up your own mind!

In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about terrible things they hear people say when building products. Apparently, there are words more triggering than "chatbot."

Drink Pairing: Dirty Martini

In this episode, Kate and Laura give five reasons why everybody, even designers and researchers, need to understand how their products and companies make money.

Drink Pairing: Margaritas