UX Design Huddle – Details, episodes & analysis

This week we speak with Servando Sanchez, Creative Director at Regex, SEO talks about SEO, web design, and what it takes to be a self-made designer in our industry. We also looked at his early beginnings with MySpace and how that grew into a real job. 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

James is the Founder and Chief Designer of Known Unknown, a global design community. James is a brand design and marketing aficionado.

As former VP of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company, James has spoken at 200+ events in 30 countries about design, brand strategy, entrepreneurship and company culture. Those also happen to be 4 of the most requested topics to discuss on Design Huddle.

At Coca-Cola, James led Design Thinking, Brand Design execution of 40+ identities, designed the Coca-Cola One Brand Strategy implemented in 200+ markets and led partnerships with Disney, Marvel, Google and Star Wars.

https://knownunknown.co/ 

https://www.jamessommerville.co/

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in Product, Business Development and UX Design.

Contact: designhuddlepodcast@gmail.com

This week we are speaking with Karl Salisbury, a product designer working at the payment processing company Adyen. Adyen serves enterprise clients such as Uber, Wise, Spotify, eBay, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to name just a few.

Before that, he was at Booking.com, joining during the company's hyper growth phase of 2017 and the crisis of 2020 with Covid. Having worked on both the customer and supply sides, Karl has a lot of experience regarding how travel sites and apps are designed. In this episode, we talk about the design process and the UX dark patterns. 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

This week Ryan and Mustafa are talking about Japanese design and how they have a persona that they present to the outside world, which is serene and straightforward, vs. their local style, which appears a lot more chaotic. They also look at other examples of international design that differ from our western styles and methods. 

Special thanks to Feedspot, who ranked our Podcast in the top 25 for design. Check it out here https://blog.feedspot.com/design_podcasts/ 

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

Matthew Mottola is a leading voice and entrepreneur building the ‘Human Cloud’, the remote and independent model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next five years.

As the author of #1 New Release The Human Cloud, he sets the standard for the Future of Work. As the CEO of Venture L, he enables freelancers and clients to execute remote outcomes at scale. As a Forbes Contributor, he shares the stories and operating insights driving our shift to the human cloud.

Matthew has led and transformed today’s leading companies. At Microsoft, in joint partnership with Upwork, he built the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit - the unlock for enterprises to embrace the human cloud at scale - bringing Microsoft from nascent to an industry leader in under two years. At Gigster, he built Ideation - connecting remote freelance developers, data scientists, and product managers with companies to consistently generate what should be built in the software development lifecycle. At Georgia Tech, he helped develop the entrepreneurship curriculum with Faculty of the Year awardee Arn Rubinoff and guest lectures.

Matthew is a recognized voice for leadership teams, public investors, and media. His work has been featured by Forbes and Fortune to name a few. He has been named a top 50 remote work expert to follow. He is an international keynote speaker, speaking at leading conferences Remote Work Summit and YPO’s Innovation Week to name a few. He advises through expert knowledge networks. He is the author of StartUp Not StartDown and contributor to leading industry reports.

The week we are speaking with Kevin Marshall. He has a background deep in a number of design roles and most recently laser-focused on UX design, Kevin is a true expert in the digital space. At The Basement, Kevin helps national clients achieve success across digital products. 

Kevin's talent lies within being a lifelong learner. Give him a package or technology and a few hours, and not only will I come back with a creation, but he'll also present it to the client and then show and teach all those around him on how to implement it. He has an extensive background in design theories including UX research and discovery, a desire to listen to the problem at hand, and then explore solutions via ideation. He believes that it just doesn’t end with all the creative, UX, product design stuff though folks. Kevin was awarded the honor of TechPoint's Top 25 in Technology in 2018.   


About The Basement:

• The Basement is a full-service integrated agency, founded by early pioneers of digital, bringing high-quality design and a media-first approach to branding campaigns via interactive storytelling. The agency works to deliver radical clarity to agile brands by leveraging modern storytelling and data acumen. Based out of Indianapolis, The Basement works with brands on the national stage like Schlage, NCAA, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, American College of Education, Transitions and more.

In this episode we cover the logo design news and trends, from logo mashups to rebrands. 

News stories covered

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/combined-logos

https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/pro-guide-logo-design-21221

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/visa-rebrand

https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/logo-typography-guide 

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/wasps-logo

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

In this episode, we look at content creation and several great tools you can use to streamline and scale your content creation.

Tools we looked at;

• Veed.io is amazing for auto-generating subs
• conversion.ai - writes copy for you
• goodsalesemails.com - campaign templates
• Pixelhunter.io - resize photos for all platforms
• Grammarly - blog copy, spell check
• Descript - All-in-one audio & video editing, as easy as a doc.
• Riverside - Locally recorded, separate audio and video tracks.

About the hosts

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

This week we are talking about the Top 10 design best practice for travel sites. Topics we cover; 'call to action' design tips, discuss the negative impact of dark patterns plus many more.  

About the hosts  

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. 

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.

This week we talk about the biggest flops and design fo-pars in tech history, from the Galaxy phone to Blockbusters rejection of Netflix.

About the hosts 

Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes.

Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years experience working in Business Development and UX Design.