UX Research Geeks

James Mckinnon is a human-technologist and human-centered researcher in digital health and service design. His work explores areas where business, technology, and design merge together to impact digital services, people, and society. You. Me. Us. We. is a human-centered research lab led by James. The studio’s work is driven by inclusive and equitable practices in care delivery, lowering barriers to access to novel life-saving digital health services and tools. The studio work with governments, health care systems, pharma, start-ups, and hospital administrators working in public and private care settings. These are places where services are lacking and an understanding of people's social, economic, and cultural mindsets has to deeply be taken into account. Follow James & his work here: https://jamesmckinnon.com/ https://studioyoumeuswe.com/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Michaela Mora, the founder of Relevant Insights, is an insights professional with a diverse background and more than 20 years of experience working at the intersection of market research and UX research. She is also a founding member of the Multicultural Insights Collective, which conducts research about topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Michaela holds an MS. in Marketing Research from The University of Texas at Arlington, an MS. in Marketing, Advertising & PR from Stockholm University, and a BS. and MS. in Psychology from Havana University. She also holds a UX Master Certification with a focus on User Research and Interaction Design from the Nielsen Norman Group. Feel free to follow Michaela and her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelamora/ https://www.relevantinsights.com/ https://www.relevantinsights.com/articles/ https://twitter.com/rinsights https://www.youtube.com/c/Relevantinsights If you want to dig deeper into her work, check out these articles: https://www.relevantinsights.com/articles/how-to-do-a-research-problem-audit/ https://www.relevantinsights.com/articles/market-research-vs-ux-research-why-we-need-integration/ https://www.relevantinsights.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-the-market-research-process/ https://www.relevantinsights.com/articles/when-is-it-time-for-outsourcing-research/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Elizabeth Akpan is a User researcher at YUX. She is a curious person and has worked on multi-country UX research projects on the African continent and in various sectors - open knowledge, fintech and agritech. Camille Kramer-Courbariaux is a Senegal-based entrepreneur, UX researcher, and co-founder of YUX, a pan-African UX research, and design agency. She specializes in health and education research projects. She also launched the YUX Academy, a UX design training center. Follow Elizabeth on her social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heyakpan/ Feel free to follow Camille and her work here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-kramer-courbariaux-1933a420/ Website: https://yux.design/ State of User Research in Africa 2021 study: https://yux.design/studies/state-ux-research-africa-2021 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Camille Kramer-Courbariaux is a Senegal-based entrepreneur, UX researcher, and co-founder of YUX, a pan-African UX research, and design agency. She specializes in health and education research projects. She also launched the YUX Academy, a UX design training center. Feel free to follow Camille and her work here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-kramer-courbariaux-1933a420/ Website: https://yux.design/ State of User Research in Africa 2021 study: https://yux.design/studies/state-ux-research-africa-2021 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Stéphanie Walter is a UX Researcher & Designer based in Luxembourg. She has 12+ years of experience and specializes in enterprise UX and mobile. She teaches, speaks, and writes about design, UX research, accessibility, cognitive biases, design-dev relationship, etc. She is better at keeping her teammates alive in video games than her plants but she tries nonetheless. Don't hesitate to reach out to her for questions about research and design here: Stephanie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniewalterpro/ Stephanie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/walterstephanie/ Stephanie's Website: https://t.co/rZqavMf9dr Podcast transctipt is available by clicking on the following link: https://blog.uxtweak.com/ux-geeks-transcript-stephanie-walter/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Debbie Levitt, MBA is the CXO of DeltaCX and a long-time researcher, UX strategist, designer, and mentor. Besides her great Youtube channel where she shares many valuable insights on UX, she's also an author of “Delta CX“ and “Transforming Toward Customer-Centricity“ which trains businesses on how to mitigate and predict business risk, increase ROI, and much more! Follow Debbie here: https://deltacx.com Delta CX on YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DeltaCX Debbie on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/debbielevitt Debbie on Medium: https://deltacxdebbie.medium.com/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak

Kevin Liang - founder and mentor at Zero to UX discusses his career, working within the UX industry, employment opportunities within UX, and his love of teaching. Follow Kevin here: https://zerotoux.com/ https://www.youtube.com/kevinliang https://www.instagram.com/zerotoux/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinliang-1/ This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak Thanks to kununu for providing their podcast studio for the duration of the recording.

Jessica Pidoux - a sociologist and a digital humanities PhD. and Laurie Dutheil - a dating coach are a match made in heaven! They have been working together to unravel the secrets of mobile dating apps algorithms to make sure the next match you have will be the right one for you. Turns out you are not only dating a human on the other end of the screen but also dating the app's algorithm!  Check out Jessica’s research and social media here: https://wiki.personaldata.io/wiki/Project:Dating_Privacy#Presentation https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapidoux/ https://dating-privacy.hestialabs.org/en/ https://twitter.com/datingprivacy Check out Laurie as well here: https://www.instagram.com/glorious_day_for_love/?hl=en http://agloriousdayforlove.com/ ❗TW: Rape is briefly discussed, if you wish to skip this part of the podcast, ❗skip section 24:45 - 28:30 This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak Thanks to kununu for providing their podcast studio for the duration of the recording.

Nick Morgan-Jones, product designer and founder of Decibels, talks about fighting the social stigma connected to the hearing aids by designing them as a fashionable piece of technology and more!   Where to find Nick? https://www.decibels.so/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-morgan-jones-22985960/  This podcast is brought to you by UXtweak Thanks to kununu for providing their podcast studio for the duration of the recording.