Steve Portigal is an independent user research consultant. He is the author of Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries. Steve was previously on the show last year, talking about research skills. This conversation is a bit different: both of us have written new books, and we thought it’d be fun to compare notes about the process. We decided to split our conversation into two parts. This episode focuses on the motivations for writing, and the second part will focus on processes.

Show Notes

Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal - LinkedIn
Portigal Consulting
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights (2nd edition) by Steve Portigal
Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories by Steve Portigal
The Informed Life ep. 92 - Steve Portigal on Research Skills
Louis Rosenfeld
Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango
Blogger
The Informed Life ep. 118 — Maggie Appleton on Digital Gardening
Maggie Appleton
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design (4th edition) by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, and Christopher Noessel
Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
Obsidian
Building a Personal Knowledge Garden (Information Architecture Conference 2022 workshop)

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