UX Discovery Session… by Gerard Dolan

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This episode features an interview with Whitney Quesenbery of Center for Civic Design.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Whitney Quesenbery.

Links / topics mentioned:

• Dana Chisnell
• The Future of California Elections (FOCE)
• Lighting designer
• Laurie Anderson
• A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experience (Rosenfeld Media, 2014)
• Sarah Horton
• Responsive Web Design
• Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World (Morgan Kauffman, 2012)
• Daniel Szuc
• Storytelling in User Experience (Rosenfeld Media, 2011)
• Kevin Brooks
• Elections Canada
• USA 2000 Elections: Florida election recount
• County Clerk
• Accessibility
• Uber
• Airbnb
• What is Civic Design?

22:25 End

Contact Information:

• @whitneyq
• @ChadButterfly
• Center for Civic Design

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This episode features an interview with Karen McGrane of Bond Art + Science.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Karen McGrane.

Links / topics mentioned:

• Razorfish
• HCI – Human–computer interaction
• The New York Times
• Condé Nast
• Disney
• Citibank
• SVA – School of Visual Arts
• IXDA
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• Content Strategy
• Deep Throat (Watergate)
• The Full New York Times Innovation Report
• Khoi Vinh’s blog
• Content Strategy for Mobile
• NPR API: Create Once Publish Everywhere
• Automating Layouts Bring Flipboard’s Magazine Style To Web And Windows
• Insert Content Here Podcast
• Benedict Evans Newsletter

19:36 End

Contact Information:

• @karenmcgrane
• Karenmcgrane.com/
• Bond Art + Science

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This episode features an interview with Dan Brown of EightShapes.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Dan Brown.

Links / topics mentioned:

• Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
• Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals
• Washington, D.C.
• AOL
• Discovery Channel
• Refresh DC
• General Assembly Education Washington DC
• Lower Manhattan, New York
• Upper West Side, New York
• Gopher
• Psychology
• US Web
• Dot-com bubble
• EightShapes
• Nathan Curtis
• Modular Web Design Book
• Adobe Design Suite
• Surviving Design Projects Game
• Board Games
• Matt Leacock
• Forbidden Desert
• Forbidden Island
• Pandemic
• Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
• Apples to Apples board game
• Co-operative Games

28:10 End

Contact Information:

• @brownorama
• Dan Brown on Linkedin
• Dan Brown on Slide Share
• Blog: http://blog.greenonions.com/about/

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This episode features an interview with Chris Risdon of Adaptive Path.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Chris Risdon.

Links / topics mentioned:

• SXSW
• Austin Center for Design
• University of Washington
• Corbis Images
• Getty Images
• PhotoDisc
• Dot-com bubble
• Savannah College of Art and Design
• Guitar World
• Revolver Magazine
• Jesse James Garrett
• Adaptive Path
• Midwest UX ’12: Mapping the Experience
• Anatomy of an Experience Map
• Mapping the User Experience
• UX Week 2013: The New Me Generation: Behavior Change as Value Proposition
• SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition
• ReadyForZero
• Interaction design
• Design strategy
• Macaw Software
• Webflow
• Sketch App
• Paper by Fiftythree
• Paper by Fiftythree Pencil
• Service Design
• TSA – Transportation Security Administration
• Interface design
• LCD Screen (Liquid-crystal display)

28:49 End Contact Information:

• @chrisrisdon
• Chris Risdon on Linkedin
• Chris Risdon on Slide Share
• www.chrisrisdon.com

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This episode features an interview with Steve Portigal of Portigal Consulting.

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00:00 Intro Theme.

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Steve Portigal.

Links / topics mentioned:

• University of Toronto
• Computer Science
• Computer Graphics
• As We May Think by Dr. Vannevar Bush
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• University of Guelph
• Change Agent
• Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
• Links about “Interviewing Users”
• Rosenfeld Media
• 99% Invisible Podcast
• TLDR Podcast
• Blue Apron
• Soft Skills
• Corporate Communication
• I’m a bit curious and a bit scared “coconut gel bits”

31:31 End Contact Information:

• @steveportigal
• Steve’s blog: All This ChittahChattah
• Steve Portigal on Linkedin
• Steve Portigal on Slide Share

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This episode features an interview with Kerry Bodine, Consultant & Co-Author of Outside In

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Kerry Bodine.

Links / topics mentioned:

• Carnegie Melon
• Forrester Research
• Customer Success Manager
• Customer Experience Professionals Association
• Wells Fargo
• SXSW Panel
• Netflix
• Customer Centric Approach
• Responsive Web Design
• World Usability Congress
• Service Design Network Global Conference
• User Experience
• Service Design
• Customer Experience
• Journey Mapping
• Doberman
• EISE – Service Innovation School & Startup Accelerator
• Hyper Island
• Livework São Paulo
• Trello
• Hipmunk
• Tripit
• Interviewing users by Steve Portigal
• styleborg.com
• ieee
• Samsung Wearable Tech
• Apple iPhone

23:52 End Contact Information:

• @kerrybodine

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This episode features an interview with Ben Fullerton of Morse Project & Interaction15

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Ben Fullerton.

Links / topics mentioned:

• LBi
• Front End web Developer
• Live | Work
• Service Design
• Orange
• Interaction15 San Francisco
• Bill DeRouchey
• Jennifer Bove
• Interaction13 Toronto
• Interaction14 Amsterdam
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Kevin Rose
• Automatic
• Fitbit
• JawBone
• Nike Fuel Band
• Samsung Gear
• Industrial Designers
• Interaction Designers
• Graphic Designers
• Electrical Engineers
• Mechanical Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Marine Biologist
• Dairy Farming
• Stilton Cheese

28:06 End

Contact Information:

• @BenFu

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This episode features an interview with Teresa Brazen of Cooper.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Teresa Brazen.

Links / topics mentioned:

• California College of the Arts
• Adaptive Path
• Designing Culture workshop
• Design Leadership class
• UX Boot Camp
• K9 Companions
• Fluxible 2014 | A User Experience Event
• Video: Teresa Brazen on “Make Culture, Not War: The Secret of Great Teams & Organizations”
• Financial crisis of 2007–08
• Fox News
• CNN
• Stitcher
• Medium
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Epic Magazine
• Facebook Paper App

32:58 End

Contact Information:

•  TeresaBrazen.com
• @TeresaBrazen
• Teresa@cooper.com

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This episode features an interview with Larry Cornett of GigaOm, Primal & Brilliant Forge.

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00:00 Intro Theme

00:11 Introductions/Interview with Larry Cornett.

Links / topics mentioned:

• Facebook’s $19 Billion WhatsApp Acquisition, Contextualized
• 27 Major Companies That Are Worth Less Than WhatsApp
• Instagram
• Psychology Department at Rice University
• Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction
• IBM
• Apple
• Western Digital
• What was Silicon Valley like after the bubble burst in the early 2000s?
• eBay
• GigaOm
• Big Data
• Analytics
• Internet of Things
• Semantic Search
• Mobile First
• Luke Wroblewski
• Apple Keynote
• Keynotopia
• Steve Blank
• The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
• Udacity: How to Build a Startup by Steve Blank
• Fluxible | A User Experience Event
• Konrad Sauer at Fluxible

21:27 End

Contact Information:

• @Cornett
  

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