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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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Investing in bonds

Surviving UX ·

2025/03/25

What does it feel like to lose everything? What's left over when you walk away from your corporate job and your dream home burns to the ground? Margot Dear faced this unthinkable scenario and has risen from the ashes to rebuild her career, reasses her life, and rediscover the bonds she formed over years of working with UX teammates. Support Margot's GoFundMe to support Altadena, CA: https://gofund.me/175fa8bf

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36:38

Lead into Gold

Surviving UX ·

2025/02/04

What's the biggest irony of our jobs? Can maximize your productivity if you also have care tasks? How many times do you read your layoff notice? And does your manager really care when you get laid off? Uday Gajendar returns to the podcast. Zirp Soda Tshirt Zirp Soda Sticker

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46:58

Reject all

Surviving UX ·

2024/12/30

Can you take on a chatbot and win? Are you making your users do chores? Are you pumped about automatic renewal laws? Get hyped with us about UX in 2025.

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40:06

Case studies

Surviving UX ·

2024/12/20

Are you in UX for the right reasons? If you lost your job would you walk away from the UX field or fight for your passion? Do you have the stamina to apply to over 1,000 jobs? We talk to seasoned UX professional Shawn Kenney who is navigating the UX job market in these insane times.

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37:00

Sophisticated naivete

Surviving UX ·

2024/12/17

Do designers have enough supervision? Can you be proactive about your destiny in this job market? And who’s a worse train passenger: babies or bachelorettes? User Experience Research Leader Ben Basilan joins the podcast to talk about mastering the research interview and evolving in your career.

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37:26

Prettiest screen in the room

Surviving UX ·

2024/11/23

What proved to be most sticky from UX Y'all the TriUXPA conference? What does it take to get the tech obessesed to look up from their phones? Is there anything that can make bad team dynamics better? More tales of UX survival with guest Matt Rogers, Product Design Lead and fellow UX Y'all presenter.

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29:47

Mini episode: UX Y'all (5 of 5)

Surviving UX ·

2024/09/21

It's the final countdown! Join us for all the conference fun 1 day before, 2 hours before, and 1 hour after our talk at UX Y'all in Raleigh.

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21:49

Mini episode: UX Y'all (4 of 5)

Surviving UX ·

2024/09/18

Nearing the finish line! Is our stress a manufactored crisis? Perhaps a Meg-ufactured one? We forge on and share reflections on the final, tired days of prep.

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Mini episode: UX Y'all (3 of 5)

Surviving UX ·

2024/09/09

We continue to collaborate on our conference talk and ponder: After all this time, how could we be learning new things about each other? What makes all this effort worth it? And, this is going to be fun, right? Right?

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16:07

Mini episode: UX Y'all (2 of 5)

Surviving UX ·

2024/09/04

We continue to prep for UX Y'all and the rewriting and second guessing is in full swing! This week we talk about nervously crafting slides and talk tracks: What's gonna hit? What's gonna land?

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11:55

Mini episode: UX Y'all (1 of 5)

Surviving UX ·

2024/08/26

In a few short weeks Jessamyn and Meg will present at UX Y'all. Will we get the presentation done in time? Will our friendship hold out? And what is it like to get ready for such a UX professional extracurricular?

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34:41

The notebook

Surviving UX ·

2024/07/14

What would you do to save your most precious notebook? Is the remote-worker promotion penalty real? How many chicken nuggets can your AI order?

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33:26

Get out of Figma

Surviving UX ·

2024/06/28

How do you move from mocks to strategy? Does anyone appreciate UX consultants? Courtney Campbell joins Surviving UX to talk about her big switch to UX strategy and why she tells designers to get out of Figma.

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37:45

Community feels

Surviving UX ·

2024/06/22

What happens when you stay at the same company for over a decade? Do you feel represented by UXPA or Figma's communities? Joshua Ledwell joins me and Meg Cramer to talk about staying put.

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38:45

Summer cold

Surviving UX ·

2024/06/14

What sets you off? Have you ever had an emotional freak out at work? Does it matter if we stay professional or is okay to cry?

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39:07

Thank you, brain!

Surviving UX ·

2024/06/01

UX research practitioner Troy Effer joins the podcast! What is work like after a dyslexia diagnosis? How might you sell your super powers to the business? And where can you look to find what nourishes your brain?

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42:20

Surviving UX Draft

Surviving UX ·

2024/05/14

Join Meg, Jessamyn, and two special guests for the first Surviving UX Draft to determine the best ever conditions for UX design work. Laura Martin returns and Patrick Kovacich joins for draft day 2024.

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31:31

After dark

Surviving UX ·

2024/04/30

Are you a UX saint or sinner? Do dark patterns have a place in design? Should you push back if you're asked to design "dark"?

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33:51

Icebreakers

Surviving UX ·

2024/04/17

When's the last time you had the courage to look your stakeholder in the eye and put a design workshop on their calendar? Sami Lee joins us to talk about extra long coffee runs and agenda-less meetings.

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34:12

It's not you

Surviving UX ·

2024/04/04

Tension? Boredom? Burnout? Are you stuck professionally? It's the perfect time to explore career moves with UX coach Amy Santee.

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