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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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39:41

Conferences

Surviving UX ·

2022/03/21

Do you remember your first UX conference? Has your conference proposal ever been rejected? Do I even like going to these things? Jessamyn & Meg reminisce about our favorite UX conference moments.

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34:40

Back to work

Surviving UX ·

2022/03/07

Does anyone want to hear about your maternity leave? How much should you share your mental health struggles at work? Should you ever do design work for friends? Jessamyn and Meg talk about the joys of returning to work after baby.

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42:58

Onboarding

Surviving UX ·

2022/02/06

Does anyone ever complete all those onboarding tasks? Is it better to be a solo designer or one of too many cooks in the kitchen? Are users lazy? Jessamyn talks to Eunju Tae, senior UX designer at Google.

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37:50

Half speed

Surviving UX ·

2022/01/24

How many meetings does it take to obliterate your productivity? Does being a thought leader matter? Are you supposed to be working on your own ideas? Jessamyn and Meg interview Uday Gajendar, design manager at Aurora Solar and curator at Rosenfeld Media.

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40:09

Turnover

Surviving UX ·

2022/01/11

What hot UX design trends will completely pass you by this year? Would you encourage your kid to become a UX designer? How do you handle beloved coworkers quitting the team?

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39:49

Out of office

Surviving UX ·

2021/12/20

Jessamyn & Meg welcome a living, breathing, male to the show, John Spann, director of Identity Platform at LogMeIn.

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35:36

Data friend

Surviving UX ·

2021/12/11

What do you do when your research disagrees with what your team believes? Have you ever had your user researched challenged or dismissed? How do you find new collaboration partners when your stakeholder sucks? Meg & Jessamyn talk to Britney LeBaron, UX quantitative researcher.

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37:14

Turn off your friendly

Surviving UX ·

2021/11/30

How do you know when you're seeing red flags at work? What can you do to keep from feeling overwhelmed with UX requests? What should you do when a co-worker is a bit too friendly?

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36:01

Rethinking my rethinking

Surviving UX ·

2021/11/23

What is the worst way to organize your project files? How can you embrace your UX burnout? Plus, Meg gives her hot take on "Think Again" by Adam Grant.

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34:03

Research ops

Surviving UX ·

2021/11/17

Is it even possible to piss off your design or research ops person? Briana Perry, lead research ops goddess at Procore, talks about her post-it obsession, how she blasted through obstacles with her legal team, and people who do research (PWDR).

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33:42

Blocked on mocks

Surviving UX ·

2021/10/26

Does anyone really use the design process? Are designers just a bottleneck? Is it so terrible to put lipstick on a pig? Jessamyn and Meg answer questions from designers in agony.

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30:55

Maternity leave

Surviving UX ·

2021/10/19

How do you tell your boss you’re pregnant? What if everyone on your team is single and you’re expecting? Can you breastfeed on conference calls? This week Meg and Jessamyn chat with guest host, Nidhi, an anonymous UXer and mom, about pregnancy and maternity leave during your UX career.

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30:34

Soft resistance

Surviving UX ·

2021/10/08

How can you figure out what other designers are making? Is there any hope of staying ethical in your design practice? How can you make waves on your team using “soft resistance” ala Richmond Y. Wong? Jessamyn & Meg talk to Associate Professor Lynn Dombrowski from Indiana University - Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI), who fell in love with design while she was learning to code. Find Lynn at www.lynndombrowski.com and https://twitter.com/lynndombrowski

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33:45

Hackathon hell

Surviving UX ·

2021/09/28

How do you squeeze blood from a stone...or requirements from your product manager? Are hackathons ever worth the time? How do you respond when your collaboration partner is a dud?

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36:41

Nobody's ever complained about it

Surviving UX ·

2021/08/30

What can airline stewardesses teach us about defending design decisions? Does anyone enjoy vision work? What happened to our happy path? Jessamyn & Meg answer questions from students getting into user experience.

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33:56

There’s some gestalt in your RACI chart

Surviving UX ·

2021/08/09

What happens when you get a design job without a design background? How do you deal with poor usability issues when everyone else just wants to launch? What do you do when that stakeholder wants another round of revisions? Join Jessamyn Edwards, Meg Cramer, and our special guest Laura Martin for a conversation about surviving these UX design scenarios and some design lingo you can use in your next meeting.

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29:15

How to grow old in UX

Surviving UX ·

2021/07/23

What's the most shocking thing you've encountered as a UX designer? How do you deal with dirty office politics? Can you age gracefully in design? Jessamyn and Meg share experiences for hanging in by your fingernails in your UX career.

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