Shows
The Bike Shed241: What If We Just Put a Phone Number?On this week's episode Steph and Chris dig into MVP thinking and asking how we can write as little code as possible before finding out if any user will actually want the thing we're building.
They also tackle a listener question around Vim and the general ROI on honing our developer tools, discuss some of the subtleties of HTTP and forms as well as the difficulties when half of our UI is in React and the other half Rails, and lastly chat a bit about their adaptation to full-time remote work.
VS Code
Mastering the Vim...
2020-04-2836 min
Awkward Silences#2 - When Research Doesn't Go As Planned with Jaclyn PerroneWhat do you do when your user research session doesn’t go according to plan? It happens all the time, in a lot of ways, for a lot of reasons. Fortunately we have Jaclyn Perrone, Design Director at thoughtbot, on the pod today to talk us through it all. She shares stories of times things didn’t go quite right, what to do when participants get stuck on the wrong things, and how to avoid (avoidable) mishaps. Episode Highlights[4:05] Things go wrong when you do things with other humans (like user research)[7:06] Jacly...
2018-12-0427 min
Tentative33: Design SpeakKyle is joined by Jaclyn Perrone to talk about designing with seed data, and how to make a new interface not look empty. They discuss using jobs-to-be-done to influence a product through interviews and job statements, as well as how they approach designing with users in mind, and the value of real users' reactions when testing interfaces.
Jobs-to-be-done
Design sprints
Alan Klement
Design sprint episode with Reda
Remote design sprint episode with Dawn
Jaclyn Perrone
Support Tentative
2017-02-2430 min