Shows
Core: User to UX#16 Some interesting truths about user research with Sridhar RajendranThe danger sensing capability of user research (1:45) | The reason behind ed-tech crash (5:10) | Why user researchers will always be hated (8:08) | What to do when stakeholders says qualitative data is “not enough”(8:25) | Big data weds thick data (10:14) | Most practical advice for the first user research hire in a startup (10:44) | Don’t criticise creators who can’t empathise (25:02) | The silo-less nature of user research (26:03) |How being reflective helps in being a user researcher (32:24) | Sridhar’s story: From user research to mental health professional (35:17) | When you have to be user’s therapist (38:40) | Sridhar’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajendransridhar | Sridhar’s website: www.sri
2023-12-0839 min
Core: User to UX#15 Let’s talk career and growth with Jessica IvinsBeing one person army in user research (2:04) | How to convince stakeholders when you are the only user researcher (4:43) | How to pivot with a dynamic roadmap (8:41) | Benefits of proactively spotting research opportunities (13:10) | Educate your stakeholders how you can help (13:53) | How can a single user research build trust (15:38) | Keep your network warm (20:45) | Career management document: your career saviour (24:09) | Jessica’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaivins/
2023-11-2632 min
Core: User to UX#14 When the founder is the user researcher with Lindsey Witmer CollinsHow did Who farted (Lindsey’s app) come to life (00:52) | What goes into user testing with kids (8:37) | Note founders: don’t drown intro perfectionism (11:11) | From books to buttons: how UX changes with generation (13:27) | Empathy as the leading principle for a founder (14:47) | When you live the life of your user before building an app (23:32) | Founders, their fears and what they should cautious about (31:27) | Users don’t want to be educated about your product (38:10) | Who farted app- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/who-farted-kids-story-games/id1616569940
2023-11-1743 min
Core: User to UX#13 UX, content and other ways to research with Gregg BernsteinContent research and Gregg’s happy place (1:05) | Habit inducing context (3:08) | Parallels between product and content research (6:28) | Caution with the “new” user research ways (10:49) | Seeking validation from people of your own profession (14:42) | Business goals and how not to tunnel your approach (16:54) | The fine art of insight dissemination (21:29) | Highlight reels, make your report a little more interesting (25:35) | Gregg’s newsletter: https://buttondown.email/greggcorp
2023-10-1527 min
Core: User to UX#12 Let's dissect market and user research with Parmita JoshiParmita’s journey from qualitative market to UX research (1:19) | Difference between market and UX research (6:59) | Is there a need to know your consumer thoroughly? (9:35) | Honing you soft skills (11:20) | The environment that lets you grow as a researcher (12:53) | It’s a woman’s world (in consumerism) (16:31) | How tech products affect men and women differently (18:49) | Do gender neutral spaces exist? (21:57) | How to look at India as a researcher (23:26) | How to work with heterogenous populations (26:15) | Judging vs understanding the reality (27:46)
2023-10-0630 min
Core: User to UX#11 User research, its history and future with Bob SchumacherAirplanes and the origin of user research (1:06) | Not just digital (4:58) | The story behind Bold Insight (7:29) | The DNA of user research (8:46) | Telegram, AI and mental models (10:00) | Human behaviour, extrapolation and anxiety (17:06) | User research as the preventive hero vs AI (19:16) | Can AI identify the golden nugget in your research (24:38) | The positives of AI in user research (28:24) | Accessibility, AI and user research (32:55) | Bold insight- https://boldinsight.co.uk/
2023-09-2238 min
Core: User to UX#10 User research the practical way with Varun M.Timestamps - About Apple and Banana (00:23) | Research the practical way (2:01) | Accelerating the research process (5:27) |Research and replication (9:58) | Randomness and A/B testing (12:00) | The benefits of batch recruitment (13:44) | Chain sampling: pros and cons (16:52) | Which methodology is the best in your situation (17:56) | The pseudo-hack for startups (18:48) | Be brutal in what you choose to research (20:35) | Close the distance between stakeholder and research (25:59) | Designing surveys collaboratively (34:45) | Designing efficient surveys (39:45) | How to avoid data paralysis (42:57) | The benefits of writing as a user researcher (46:37) | Giving a shot to an analysis journal (51:37) | The analysis planet: breaking down analysis (54:05) | How startups can use research for survival (1:04:09) Asking...
2022-12-211h 15
Core: User to UX#9 Learning to become a great user researcher with Arvind ChandrashekarTime stamps - Arvind’s newsletter (00:50) | How to develop the researcher’s instincts (2:12) | Develop your instincts but make sure the cost of error is not high (8:13) | The information hoarding behavior of a researcher (8:50) | Research report and understanding your audience (13:24) | How effective is the question “why”? (18:13) | Do no ask “why” excessively, here’s why (20:08) | What else if not “why” (23:00) | Doing research with children (25:00) | Learning from acupuncture (25:35) | Why learning different languages is important (metaphorically and literally) (26:33) | Simplifying vs dumbing down (32:16) | How to include elements of on-site research in remote research (37:36) | Understanding semiotic analysis and its cautions (43:11) | Introspection and research (45:32) | Blurring lines between profession...
2022-11-1354 min
Core: User to UX#8 India: a user researcher's most interesting puzzle with Dharmesh BaTime stamps - How India is different from the west for a user research (1:31) | India and the best research methods (5:33) | The plateau in the Indian user base (7:23) | Scaling to Indian tier 2 and tier 3 cities (13:53) | How user researcher fits seamlessly with the product creators (16:56) | The minority rule and why we need cultural research (18:17) | Challenges of implementing cultural nuances (20:09) | Why the founder should be the first user researcher (23:27) | The bootstrapped vs funded startup and user research (30:09) | Make sure your experiments don’t threaten your survival: the small and fast approach (35:41) | understanding rural and semi-urban Indian population (40:43) | Why public spaces are not pu...
2022-10-281h 01
Core: User to UX#7 Data science and UROps: an underrated combination with Grishma JenaTime stamps - Let’s understand what is a data scientist doing in user research operations (2:35) | Creating an in-house repository: Understanding how research ops at IBM work (6:24) | The journey of creating a research repository (9:36) | Hunting for honest textual data (15:30) | Natural Language Processing for data analysis (18:35) | Sentiment analysis (19:40) | Clustering (20:07) | Named entity recognition for competitive analysis (20:52) | Choosing the appropriate source of data (22:24) | Benefits of having a vision for your data and data analysis (23:43) | Human intelligence and artificial intelligence going hand in hand (24:43) | Connecting the dots between qualitative and quantitative data (28:19) | Pitfalls of NOT triangulating (31:05) | Getting more honest data out of surveys (33:05) | Ac...
2022-09-301h 07
Core: User to UX#6 Learning from real-world UX experiences with Jonah McLachlanTime stamps - The principles of a mentor: Jonah’s story (1:32) | What articles can’t teach you (3:44) | Learning from struggles of getting into UX (4:33) | The UX vs UI debate (7:09) | Creating for the sports and entertainment industry (9:12) | What worked for Sportbuff (14:21) | The ignored but pervasive “Second screen phenomenon” (17:13) | Back to basics: Jonah’s story of working for e-commerce (22:12)| Balancing the general and the particular (27:53) | Learning from mistakes: what new UXers can learn from Jonah’s mistake (30:58) | Data hunting: how different kinds of data help a user researcher (39:27) | How a learning plan helps (40:56) | Crossing the hurdles of stakeholder engagement (43:31) | Links discussed in the episo...
2022-07-0555 min
Core: User to UX#5 Clinical UX: applying its learnings to other UX domains with Dr Gyles MorrisonTime stamps - What is clinical UX? (2:04) | When to be cautious about the feeling called “empathy” (6:16) | What are the “unknown unkowns” and why Users should be cautious about it? (8:17) | The major difference between clinical UX and other UX domains (9:22) | When failure can cause death (14:20) | The organisational challenges with clinical and healthcare UX (17:09) | Why is our obsession with “simplicity” a problem (19:01) | What happens when we don’t learn from previous crises: The Elizabeth Holmes fraud (21:59) | How do entrepreneurs and investors look at healthcare UX (24:58) | When users who face the problem and those who can pay are not the same (27:30) | How to apply an lo...
2022-06-171h 14
Core: User to UX#4 Switching from arts into UX and navigating the UXverse with Deepika Dutta KapoorTime stamps - Switching from arts to UX (1:33) | Things to keep in mind when switching to UX (6:34) | “Fight for the $50 feature instead of the 5 cents feature” (8:47) | Sometimes UXers need to blur the lines between business, design and research (12:19) | Why a new UXer NEEDS a solution-oriented mindset (14:06) | One challenge every new user researcher faces (15:09) | Moving different teams towards the same goal (16:36) | How to be resourceful to your team as a user and UX researcher (20:35) | Making your research honest, holistic and bottom-up: Deepika’s story (25:26) | Decoding your user research: when to start, stop and come back (33:54) | Understand the present of your users...
2022-06-071h 13
Core: User to UX#3 The ABC of becoming a good user researcher with Joel BarrTime stamps - How to smoothly switching sectors in user research (1:02) | The analysis process (6:38) | What homelessness taught Joel (11:17) | Finding balance between user empathy and business goals (16:48)| Applying Buddhism to user research (20:59) | UX goes beyond the digital world (26:04) | Is UX a science or just common sense? (27:27) | The beginnings of human factors an ergonomics psychology (31:59) | The bright and dark side of business science and research (34:18) | Science can enable and disable humans (36:15) | Usability testing in the real stressful environment (42:03) | How to improve your usability tests (43:27) | How will Web 3.0 affect a user and UX researchers? (46:41)| Blockchain and Twitter: The noise and the signal (1:00:51...
2022-05-221h 08
Core: User to UX#2 The current state of UX and why UXer is a superhero job with Darren HoodSo many new understandings and fields emerged from this two letter adventure called User experience. It is still constantly changing, sometimes for good and sometimes for not so good. If you want deeply to retrospect your moves and strategies as a UXer, there is no better person to guide you than the OG Darren Hood. A UXer since 1995, Darren had the beautiful chance of witnessing the evolution of UX. He has never hesitated to call out ineffective and misdirected UX practices. One of the current missions of Darren is to make budding UXers aware of the misinformation out there...
2022-05-101h 02
Core: User to UX#1 Getting started with UX research in new settings and startups with Debbie LevittDebbie Levitt is a veteran in the UX and CX industry. She knows every nook and corner of the UX universe. The foundation of UX was set by the likes of Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen, it is people like Debbie who grew the field to what it is today.In this episode Debbie shares her stories of working with various clients. She shares some common mistakes newbies and startups make in user and UX research. Whether you are starting your career in UX research or part of a startup wanting to understand its users thoroughly, you...
2022-04-191h 10
Azure & DevOps PodcastReal-World DevOps on the MAUI TeamOn today's episode of the podcast, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by two special guests, Alex Blount and Sweekriti Satpathy. Alex is a Principal Software Engineer Manager on the Customer Engagement Team for the Microsoft Developer Edition, and Sweekriti is a Senior Software Engineer on the same team. In their conversation, Alex and Sweekriti discuss real-world DevOps on the MAUI team, how to get up and running with MAUI, a rundown of the products that the team uses (and how they're configured), and much more. Topics of Discussion:
2021-06-0741 min
DevTalk with Kerry W. LothropWorking on the Mobile Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. With Sweekriti SatpathyOn episode 52 of DevTalk I speak to Sweeky Satpathy about working on the Mobile Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Links: Xamarin Customer Showcase Xamarin Podcast (episodes from the customer series: episodes 78, 80, 82) XamCAT Repo .NET Conf: Developing Performant Apps Best practices Async Await Advanced Async Await Memory Management and Profiling Reach out … Continue reading 52: Working on the Mobile Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. With Sweekriti Satpathy →
2020-12-1532 min
Kahaniwala- Hindi StoriesEpisode 6 I Sweekriti I Acceptance I Kahaniwala I Hindi PodcastRaju was eagerly waiting for his friend from a big city. But to his dismay, everything changed. In this world of materialism, the importance of human values surely gets diminished. Exploring these parameters, Kahaniwala brings to you a new story - Sweekriti (Acceptance)
2020-09-1206 min