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PODCAST

Surviving UX

Jessamyn Edwards & Meg Cramer

None of the answers you need to surviving your UX design career. Jessamyn Edwards and Meg Cramer field questions from real UX designers struggling through the career choice you wonder why you made. No inspiration, snobby career advice, or success stories here!

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32:25

I was right

Surviving UX ·

2024/03/15

Have you ever been right at work but had to let someone else believe they were? Did your latest performance review's negative feedback ring true? Is it possible not to get tricked by online shopping UX compliance patterns?

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34:02

Confetti from the ceiling

Surviving UX ·

2024/03/12

When do employees not want cupcakes? How can one keep calm and M&A on? Is any tech actually improving our lives? Meg and Jessamyn tackle these and other UX quandries spurred by recent tech headlines.

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32:49

That old chesnut

Surviving UX ·

2024/02/22

Dinner with the family or drinks after work? Users' time or engineering time? Candy or pain relievers? Jessamyn and Meg tackle the tough judgement calls that come with UX.

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37:58

Beginner's mind

Surviving UX ·

2024/02/13

Can coaching and meditation get you through a tough job market? Can you to push past pixel pushing to UX strategy? And are true offsites just a fleeting memory now? Meg and Jessamyn welcome Dvir Adler and Dor Reich to talk about their warmest onboarding memories.

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34:52

Holiday party

Surviving UX ·

2023/12/19

Glad to see the end of 2023? Meg survives a return to work, including cat attacks. Jessamyn survives on vending machine snacks in a race to the bottom of the cheapest eats in the office.

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35:04

Question snob

Surviving UX ·

2023/12/06

What's it like to work at a big company with your spouse? What's it like to work in a small space, also with your spouse? And what's it like to be hitched to a UX professional? Surviving UX tackles love and marriage with two special guests.

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36:56

Whole self

Surviving UX ·

2023/11/20

Do fur babies get more perks at work than children? What’s it like to dip back and forth between military service and big tech? Why is Product put in charge of UX teams and not the other way around? Join us and special guest, UX leader Laurie Lynch, as we sort out which self is the right self to bring to work.

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31:43

Your day in court

Surviving UX ·

2023/10/31

Where can you have the most public of romance/work breakups? What is especially disgusting about cryptocurrency? And how can you archive the toxic work experiences you just want to forget? Join Jessamyn and Meg for their hot investment tips and the trials of tech.

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39:27

On the ice

Surviving UX ·

2023/10/09

Can you design away a one-thousand-page manual? Does saying yes to UX mean letting go of other passions? Meg and Jessamyn talk to Bahar Espiritu, creative director of Essence of Hockey.

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38:45

The friends we made along the way

Surviving UX ·

2023/10/02

Are you scared to go to reunions? How great would it be to bring your work bestie along to your next gig? What fun things could you learn if you take a virtual tour of your colleague’s home? Senior Product Designer Brianna Koch joins Jessamyn and Meg for a chat.

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39:15

Open to work

Surviving UX ·

2023/09/22

Have you ever dreamed of hanging out your consulting shingle? Can you signal that you're open to new jobs without risking your current one? Amber Braden and Jill Christ join the podcast to share how they founded GLOW Insights, a user research consultancy.

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34:13

Enough days in the (work) week

Surviving UX ·

2023/09/11

How attractive are 4 day work weeks? Can one UX individual actually get more done in less time? When’s the last time you used a new product or service where it felt like they really talked to users?

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33:37

Open water

Surviving UX ·

2023/08/28

What are you willing to do to put food on the table? Do you bother applying to jobs where 300 people have already applied? How do you keep swimming without anything to hold on to? We welcome freelance UX designer and researcher Tim Duffield.

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34:02

Jess's Lunch

Surviving UX ·

2023/08/16

Back in the office? Starting over yet again? Climb aboard this UX career train and join Jessamyn and Meg to talk LinkedIn desperation, following dreams, and the glamorous return of commuting.

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35:38

Everyone's on vacation but me

Surviving UX ·

2023/07/31

Do you miss cubicle walls? What do you do with a piece of hot gossip? Why don’t senior designers share their secrets? Meg and Jessamyn chat with designer Jo Carroll.

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32:19

Enforced Positivity

Surviving UX ·

2023/07/26

Are UX card decks back, or just more divine? Does anyone really want to know about your bad weekend? Do melancholic leaders (wherever they might be hiding) wield power? Meg and Jessamyn ponder the Bittersweet (book by Susan Cain) and try desperately to beat the summer heat.

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26:07

Still in love

Surviving UX ·

2023/06/03

Are you awake at night wondering if your design is ready for users? Are designers scared of talking to their own customers? Can you "borrow" research from other teams? Jessamyn welcomes Shilpa Bhat, senior designer in ML/AI at AWS.

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31:05

Rear-facing

Surviving UX ·

2023/05/30

Can cars be designed any worse for infants? Does GDPR protect us from getting too many catalogs? Is your workplace menopause-friendly?

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50:55

Contradictions

Surviving UX ·

2023/05/24

Have you been on a project team that released a chatbot but detest them in real life? Can you navigate your job like a roomba while smashing through walls? How do you work through the evening and have dinner with your kids? Meg and Jessamyn consider talk chat crap, dreaming big, and mealtime etiquette.

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32:51

Bathroom UX

Surviving UX ·

2023/05/14

Could women's bathrooms be designed any worse? Do theme parks even realize people come in different sizes? Is my brastrap showing on this video call? Jessamyn and Meg doubt anyone would understand their LinkedIn posts, so they don't even bother.

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