Aurelius Podcast

- The technology stack that we built Aurelius with and how it’s evolved over time - Understanding common development terms to better communicate design ideas - An inside look at how Joseph and Zack make decisions about the product and the company - Behind the scenes views and opinions on making technology upgrades and feature prioritizations - How we build Aurelius like Wyatt Earp

Episode 20 highlights - What does a high functioning design team look like and how are they organized? - The three types of successful enterprise UX organization models - How companies like Target, Spotify, Netfilx, Google and more are doing designops and great UX design at scale - Creating and sharing user research findings across your organization

First episode of our new series, Inside Aurelius where Zack Naylor and Joseph Szczesniak, co-founders at Aurelius discuss important topics and the inner workings of Aurelius. This episode's topics include: - Why we made aurelius v2 and how we got there - How we used user research and customer feedback to completely re-design and re-develop our product and company focus UX design, science and art - How Joseph, our CTO took an interest in UX as a developer and how UX can enrich a developers work and satisfaction - How and why developers should participate and have a stake in user research

- How Mariah came into Human Centered Design from an Industrial Design background - Doing user research and how to include developers/technologists - What are customer feedback loops, how to create and act on them at scale - What it takes to build a truly customer centered organization - How Pluralsight conducts, analyzes and applies user research at scale - The process of Directed Discovery and how to do it - Doing human centered design at scale with a large and growing team - How to empower everyone at your organization to understand customers better

Aurelius Podcast Episode 18 Highlights - How user research directly applies to making businesses more successful - Doing customer research to inform pricing strategy - Figuring out what is most valuable to your customers - Using customer research to develop buyer personas - How you’re probably doing surveys wrong and how to fix that - Helping people understand what you learned from user research and put it to use - Potential pitfalls of building and using personas and how you can avoid them

Erika Hall, co-founder at Mule Design on the Aurelius podcast Episode 17 highlights: - Use research and design to create products and systems that are more balanced - Where to start helping your company make a bigger impact with user research - “Startup” culture and why it can be very unhealthy and unproductive - Why some companies still aren’t doing user research and how you can help - How having shared goals boosts collaboration and creativity

Andy Vitale, Director of UX at Polaris Industries on the Aurelius podcast Episode 16 highlights: - What makes experiences valuable - Getting a “seat at the table for design” - How to grow from a designer into a design leader - Speaking the language of business to sell your ideas - How to tie design decisions to business metrics

Episode 15 highlights: - Non dominant thinking styles, diversity in product design and user research - Difference between problem space research and solutions research and why it matters - The concept of “thinking styles” in research and how to apply them in UX design - How machine learning and AI can create emergent experiences in the future - Different types of empathy (cognitive and emotional), what they are and how to use each one - A brilliant, tactical example of how to make sense of what you learn from user research

Aurelius podcast episode 14 with Steve Portigal Full show notes here: https://goo.gl/WN2NBJ - Why you should be doing [more] user research - How to convince your stakeholders that user research is important - 3 approaches to building brilliant products and features (and which one is best) - Convincing your stakeholders and leaders to do (more) user research - What is a user research process to make sure you’re learning the right things - The difference between research analysis and research synthesis

Episode 13 highlights: - The beginnings of Clearleft - How the UX agency to client relationship has changed - Designing like a detective - Gathering the right evidence to do great UX design - The tools and application are of design thinking - How to go from research, synthesis and insights into actual design - Dangers of “research theater” and how to avoid them - Getting past the obvious solutions to create your most brilliant designs