Work Association

Miles and Nick take a look into the past to see how certain app views have changed over time, and think about how UX decision making has shifted since the early days of the web.

If you want to try this yourself, visit http://web.archive.org

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

It's often said that the difference between art and design is that art's purpose is to communicate or provoke thought and emotion, while design's purpose is to perform or enable a function. But often, in order to perform that function, design does need to provoke thought or emotion as well. On this episode, we talk about how design principles can be used to communicate ideas and convey emotions–often without words. Oh yeah, and we also talk about dinosaurs.

Why Jurassic Park Looks Better Than Its Sequels from Films&Stuff on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKALxKbjOaE

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

Having proper form, in the world of exercise and sport, is extremely beneficial in maximizing the efficiency of a movement and reducing the chance of injury. In this episode, Miles looks into what it could mean to have good form in business, and how good "work form" can result in a more successful workflow and healthier business. 

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

It seems like every time Nick researches a word for this show, he finds something really weird about how the human brain works and subsequently blows Miles' mind. This time we talk about the ways that things like the sense of sight, color, language, speech, and imagination intersect. And then we unpack how these things relate to the worlds of branding and business leadership. It's a shorter episode than the past few episodes of Work Association, but there's just as much of an insight-per-minute factor.

Gavin Evans: How Language Changes the Way We See Color from Tech Insider

Vision: Crash Course A&P #18 from CrashCourse

Noah Zandan: How Visionary Leaders Talk from TED Archive

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

On today's episode, Miles asks the question "How do we know we can trust experts?"

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

When you're using the Internet to do research, falling down a rabbit hole is pretty easy to do. And when that happens, things can get...strange. Join us as Nick talks about how he went from a Google search for "ubiquitous technology" to learning about the electromagnetic spectrum and how technological innovation tends to be followed by conspiracy theories.

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

When it comes to how the word "attraction" relates to things like user experience design and digital marketing, your mind may go to concepts like attracting customers or getting and holding a user's attention. But on this episode, Miles takes us in a completely different direction. Find out how theme park attraction design can help digital designers approach their work in new ways.

Here's a link to the clip from Imagineering In a Box that Miles references in the show: https://youtu.be/KiVwNsp4zXE

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

On the first full episode of Work Association, Nick takes the first word of the series–Trigger–and explores how technology can enable more dynamic communication with audiences. 

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.

Nick and Miles discuss starting a podcast based on a word association game.

Work Association is a show hosted by two creative agency founders that started playing a word association game to help them expand the way they think about design, technology, and branding. Each episode is a discussion based around a featured word, researched by one of the two hosts. That host then chooses the next word for the other host to research for the following episode, and the cycle continues. We hope to use Work Association to get listeners thinking differently about how they approach problems and design challenges. Thanks for listening.