UX Research Geeks

Evie is a UX Researcher and Strategist from Estonia. She specializes in building meaningful digital experiences for humans with unconventional problems. Whether it's creating spatial sketches of a future car in VR or exploring new frontiers in sexuality, her focus is always on ensuring that the user's needs are front and center.  For more than seven years, Evie contributed to enhancing human experiences in digital settings, with a particular focus on UX research for four of those years. During this time, she has worked with establishing Support and Research functions in scaling startups, led foundational discovery initiatives, and delivered action-oriented needs-centred research artefacts to support product-led growth and innovation. Currently, Evie works at Gravity Sketch, the 3D design software for sketching and modelling in VR. Prior to this, she spent 6 years working for a dating app for alternative relationships exploration.   Follow Evie & her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgenia-gavrilovich/ Article about Spotify, that we are talking about in this episode: https://response-ability.tech/why-spotify-is-making-recommendations-more-meaningful/   This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak.

Mike Green MBPsS is an award-nominated freelance user researcher, podcast host and digital consultant based in the UK. His clients range from start-ups to UK Government departments and FTSE100 companies. He is a passionate believer in user-centred design and has interviewed hundreds of research participants in the course of his career to help ensure product teams design and build digital services that really meet user needs. He holds a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Bristol and has lived and worked in more than seven countries. Find out more about his work at Researchable UX. Follow Mike & his work here: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikejrgreen https://www.researchable.uk/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/understanding-users-a-ux-podcast/id1591604213 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak.

Elke is the founder of De Denksmederij and works as a speaker, author and trainer. She guides philosophical conversations and provides training and education in critical thinking, practical philosophy, the art of asking questions and creative thinking. Elke develops thinking materials, e-books, workshops and thinking processes and online products around thinking and creativity. Follow Elke & her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elke-wiss/  https://www.denksmederij.nl/ "How to Know Everything", a book by Elke Wiss: https://www.amazon.de/How-Know-Everything-questions-answers-ebook/dp/B08NPWYCJL/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2L23BWW7KUMIQ&keywords=elke+wiss&qid=1679668190&sprefix=elke+wiss%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-2 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak.

Darren Hood is a 27+ year veteran of the UX discipline, serving at several successful organizations during his career including the Fortune 50. He holds 2 UX-related Master's degrees and is a doctoral candidate. Among his many engagements, he's an adjunct professor at 6 universities, a podcaster, an author, and a global mentor. Darren loves all things UX and relishes the opportunity to share with the community whenever opportunities arise. Follow Darren & his work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwhood/ https://www.dhoodux.com/ Darren’s podcast: https://www.worldoux.com/ --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-world-of-ux-with-darren-hood/id1514004102 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Julian Della Mattia is UX Research Lead at Kiwi.com and founder of the180 Agency. Based in Spain, Julian helps teams build up research practices from scratch and specializes in Facilitation & ResearchOps. Follow Julian & his work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdelmat/ If you interested to learn more about ResearchOps, we also recommend: The Youtube channel of Kate Towsey https://www.youtube.com/@katetowsey5455 The podcast of Roy Opata Olende https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scaling-research/id1546142497 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Eli is a Iranian researcher from Central European university. Her main fields of interest are gender, women’s rights, media representation, social movements, and women’s representation in cinema. She is also a poet with two published books in her home country and an experimental filmmaker. She is now relocating to Canada to continue her research in Phd of sociology and cultural studies. Follow Eli & her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elham-mohtashamzadeh-4388927a/ https://www.facebook.com/elham.mohtashamzadeh/ https://www.clubhouse.com/@elimohtasham This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Welcome to the new season of UXR Geeks! This is the first episode, with the one and only Sina Schreiber, UX Researcher & Content Strategist who many of you may know from the research repository software Condens. We talked about her path to user research and the role of a repository in research democratization. We also dived into the intersection of user research and content strategy that Sina connects in her role in Condens. Tune into her learnings from doing research with UXR professionals. Follow Sina & her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinaschreiber/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/condens/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Welcome to the last episode of series 1 of UX Reasearch Geeks. Don't worry, we are not going to be stopping anytime soon, we just have to have a small break to bring you even more great guests! With the last episode of the season, we felt like we should go out with a bang! That's why we invited Dr. Gyles Morrison, who is a Clinical UX Strategist with 10 years history in healthcare, digital health and clinical UX. We talked about pains and gains that artificial inteligence brings into healtcare, how patients need to be pro-active in their own health management and what principles can help us to design inclusive products. Follow Dr. Gyles Morrison here: http://drgylesmorrison.com/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Tjaša Zajc is an internationally recognized digital health moderator and speaker focused on global healthcare digitalization. Brainlab put her on the list of 9 Digital Health Experts to Follow on LinkedIn in 2021, Health Tech listed her among 30 Healthcare IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2021. She is the founder and host of Faces of digital health podcast, which is consistently ranked among the top digital health industry podcasts, she works as a business developer at the healthcare IT company Better, and is a patient advocate. Follow Tjaša and her work here: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com better.care Alternatively, subscribe to her newsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Sayali Phatak is a senior UX researcher working in the digital health industry. Prior to making the jump to industry, she did research in academia focused on designing digital solutions for health promotion and behavior change. Follow Sayali on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayaliphatak/ You can also take a look at some of her frameworks mentioned in the episode: IDEAS Framework: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5203679/ Behavioral Design Thinking approaches: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8968622/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak