The UX Coach – Details, episodes & analysis

Today, I'm in conversation with Jorge Arango, an information architect and author of several books. His most recent, duly noted, has just been released. Jorge is a consultant based across the Americas and teaches in the graduate interaction design program at the California College of the Arts.

We talk about why we make notes, the concept of thinking with notes and how connected notes can be used to further your development and personal knowledge. Now, with big data being at the forefront of the current evolution of computing and artificial intelligence, it kind of stands to reason that we should be thinking about how we make more of our personally generated data. 

Our return to The UX Coach Podcast features an interview with Learning Experience Designer Fiona MacNeill. We talk about what the design industry can learn from education and visa versa, how to align professional development with business goals and the value of finding a community to lurk in.

https://twitter.com/fmacneill

It's back! Season 3 of The UX Coach Podcast is returning Spring 2022 along with some other news from theuxcoach.com.

Listen in for info on how to be a guest on the show and our debut course launching on the site.

In this episode I am really happy to be in conversation with Caroline Jarrett. Caroline has been an important voice in digital design for many years. Her mantra fix-the-forms is what lies behind her timeless book Forms that Work, designing web forms for usability, and her forthcoming book on survey design I am sure will become a go-to for years to come.
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I wanted to hear about Caroline’s diverse career, her thoughts on design leadership, management and career progression, as well as the state of education and what challenges lie ahead for people coming into digital design in 2020.

This was a really deep dive and so this episode is a little longer than usual, I hope you agree with me that it was well worth it.

This week I’m talking to Anna Kincses, head of research for Why? a Hungarian design agency.

In this episode I am in conversation with Jo O’Keefe, Lead User Researcher with  the Care Quality Commission in England.

In this episode I am in conversation with Vanessa Colina, founder of UX Backstage, a series of online courses for designers that aim to help develop the necessary skills to find your next job.
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Vanessa has some great advice for hiring managers of all kinds about what they can be doing to improve the quality of the candidates they attract and being honest about what they need, and how UX Backstage launched in order to support designers looking to move out of junior or mid-weight positions into organisations that will help you develop skills and spaces for the future.

https://uxbackstage.com/

In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step down to make way for new voices, something he is greatly passionate about supporting.

Thank you for joining me here on the debut season of The UX Coach podcast.

In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step down to make way for new voices, something he is greatly passionate about supporting.

I reached out to Dylan after he made a comment that he had reluctantly accepted his first job as a Manager. For someone who has been driving change, and leading design for almost 20 years I was fascinated to find out where this statement came from.

We covered a lot of ground, and there were so many things we explored that it has genuinely been a challenge to edit this down and I really didn’t want to go full blown Sam Harris on you all.

We pick things up with a bit of background.

In this episode I met with Mark Branigan, head of research at Hippo Digital a digital service design consultancy from the UK to talk about his career to-date, what it’s like being responsible for the hearts and minds of future generations and how a move into civil service opened his eyes to the amazing world of user research.

Welcome to The UX Coach podcast, I’m Andy Parker and this is the show where we explore careers in digital design.

You made it! This is our debut episode and boy have we learnt a lot already. Not as easy as you think stitching this together you know.

In this episode I met with Mark Branigan, head of research at Hippo Digital a digital service design consultancy from the UK to talk about his career to-date, what it’s like being responsible for the hearts and minds of future generations and how a move into civil service opened his eyes to the amazing world of user research.

We also discuss whether there really is such a thing as a mid-weight designer.

For more info about Hippo Digital
https://hippodigital.co.uk/

Follow Mark on Twitter
https://twitter.com/markbrani