What is Wrong with UX
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What is Wrong with UX
Kate and Laura drink and fight about what is wrong with user experience design.
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Kate and Laura finally agree on something. Unfortunately, it's to end the podcast. They reminisce about the good parts and talk a bit about what comes...
Why Would You Use That Product
In this episode, Kate and Laura complain about a lot of stuff they use every day and then wonder why they do that.
Drink pairing: Prosecco
Consistency
The two least consistent people in the world argue about why consistency matters. And why it doesn't. It's pretty much what you'd expect.
Drink...
Looks Old Works Great
In an episode that should have been called "a cry for help," Kate and Laura shriek about how old things can actually work just fine and please stop ch...
High Level UX Jobs
In this episode, Kate and Laura really go off the rails talking about the similarities, differences, and issues with various different higher level UX...
Some Things Are Harder than Others
In this episode, Kate and Laura whine about how hard it is to actually make things and Laura makes fun of The Future, again.
Drink Pairing: Har...
Journeys
This episode is like being on a long car ride with two loud friends (Kate and Laura) who won't shut up about the journey. They yell a bit about how de...
Collaboration vs Design by Committee
In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about semantics. Again. This time they try to decide why collaboration is good and committees are bad.
Dr...
Predicting Disaster
In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about how to best predict disasters when deciding what to build. Obviously they never applied this framework bef...
Designing in Triples
Kate explains why she likes to make everything three times as hard as it needs to be. If you're playing the What is Wrong with UX drinking game and dr...
Your Design Voices
In this episode, Laura and Kate talk about the many voices that talk to them while they're designing things and frankly, we think maybe 2020 was a lit...
Design for Lazy Irrational People
In this episode, Kate and Laura discuss designing for lazy, irrational people. Or, you know, people.
Drink Pairing: Veuve Clicquot Rose
Designing for Complex Products
In this episode, Kate and Laura contradict pretty much everything they've ever told you so that Laura can brag about her new electric car that she doe...
Why Do You Believe That?
In this episode, Kate and Laura ask a fundamental question - why on earth do you believe that completely unbelievable thing? Or anything really? What...
Design with Real Content
In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about what it means to design with real content and actual user data, which is a weird thing to argue about, sin...
Consequences and Second Order Effects
In this episode, Kate and Laura get a little more serious than usual when yelling about how you never think of the consequences of your actions.
Decoding Design Briefs
In this episode, Kate and Laura not so briefly discuss design briefs and how you should approach them. Laura almost achieves enlightenment when she as...
Get Paid
Kate and Laura lecture you on when you should demand cash and when you shouldn't, and the answer isn't "demand cash all the damn time" like you'd thin...
The Intrinsic Value of a Product
In this episode, Kate and Laura quibble about why on earth people would use anything that they designed. Apparently some people get value out of it? W...
Make Your Own UX Podcast
In this episode, Kate and Laura reveal all the secrets (ed note: there are no secrets and they're probably wrong) to creating a successful (ed note: H...
Design Principles
In this episode, Kate and Laura take a decidedly unprincipled look at design principles. Kate proves that drinking does, in fact, affect your memory,...
UX Debt
In this episode, Kate and Laura complain about how UX Debt is like a terrible gift from Past You that you now have to clean up. Kate tries to put a go...
User States
In this episode, Kate and Laura blather on about how you’re probably not doing nearly enough work to build UIs for every single possible state a user...
User States
In this episode, Kate and Laura blather on about how you’re probably not doing nearly enough work to build UIs for every single possible state a user...
Audio fail puudubTimeboxing
Kate and Laura take a break from getting almost nothing done to tell you how to get more done with timeboxing. Laura, of course, doesn't use it becaus...
The Three Phases of a Career
Kate and Laura really start to crack under the pressure as they offer advice about the three phases of your career: smartass, kickass, and badass. Mos...
Remote User Research
Kate and Laura continue to panic this week as they talk a bit about how remote user research is different from in person (besides being, you know, not...
Remote Design
In this week's episode, Kate and Laura yell about how to pretend you're still getting work done while you're actually searching online for toilet pape...
People Doing Interesting Things
In this episode, Kate and Laura talk about a few interesting people who are doing interesting things and how we can apply some of their lessons to des...
Technical Literacy
In this episode, Kate and Laura insist that, while designers don't need to know how to code, they do need to learn every single other aspect of techno...
Story Telling for Designers
In this episode, Kate and Laura tell long winded stories about telling stories, bringing the drunken blathering to a whole new level. And no, it's not...
The ROI of Design
In the interests of clarity, this episode should be called "The ROI of shouting about design and also contradicting each other" but that wasn't as cat...
Problems with Agile UX
In this episode, Kate and Laura yell even more than usual about how hard it is to design things in environments that say they're agile (but probably a...
Advocating for UX
In this episode, Laura and Kate blather on about how Words Have Meanings and debate what on earth people mean when they say that they "advocate for UX...
Unpacking Visual Design
Once again, Kate and Laura decide to talk endlessly about a visual medium. In this episode, they talk about what we mean when we talk about visual des...
Tips for New UX Designers
In this episode, Kate and Laura attempt to give advice to new UXers (something neither of them has been since dinosaurs roamed the earth). Laura advoc...
What We Learned
It's a totally arbitrary milestone! On this, their 99th episode, Kate and Laura pretend that they're capable of learning and argue about what's change...
UX Education
In this episode, Laura's off yelling at clouds, and the notable Jess Ivins steps in to talk about learning, education and how to keep growing as a UX...
Requirements
In this episode, Kate and Laura yell about PRDs, MRDs, and FRDs which are things that nobody under 40 has ever heard of or cared about. They also talk...
Troubleshooting
In this episode, Kate and Laura talk about absolutely nothing design related whatsoever. It's pretty much all just Laura whining about reinstalling Py...