How I Learned to Make My Mother Talk

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I think that's where my love of technology really started was wow, that whole cause and effect thing. I can type some characters into this processor and I can hit enter or run and then all of a sudden I can make the computer do something like I was like, this is incredible. I feel so powerful. So it was really fun to dive into those two and understand even how those things got to work which was fascinating. And the whole floppy disk thing and all that fun stuff, definitely reminisce for days on that stuff. Oh, I know I'm so nostalgic about that stuff,. I think it's just neat.

Joe Johnston inspires us to embrace the superpowers of curiosity and empathy for our users and business owners. He motivates us to always stay curious, and ask why to get to the heart of the problem faster. He encourages us to make sure we use the shiny objects available to us to actually solve a problem.

"Merhl" Backstory (7:40)
Secret Identity (11:38)
Origin Story (13:46)
Empathy is Still Important (18:52)
Biggest Failure (24:46)
Design Leadership/Culture (28:41)
Awkward Testing Story (33:24)
Design Superpower (41:50)
Shiny Objects Syndrome (44:12)
UX of Ambient-Driven Experiences (50:46)
UX Superhero Name (56:14)
Habit of Success (57:11)
Invincible Resource (60:05)
Best Advice (61:00)
Contact Info (63:34)

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