UX IRL

In honor of International Women’s Day, in this episode we talk about some of the women in UX that we admire! For our mini-sode on career goals, we dive into talking about yourself, which can be harder than you think. Which women in UX inspire you? How have you made it easier to talk about yourself as you network or go through interviews? Comment below or reply on  Twitter @uxinreallife or on Instagram @ux.inreallife.

In this episode we talk about what running workshops is like IRL! We cover some best practices for running them remotely, too. Our mini-sode for career goals touches on why and how to research companies. We’d love to hear any tips you’d like to share when it comes to workshop facilitation and researching companies. Comment below or reply on Twitter @uxinreallife or on Instagram @ux.inreallife.

For our main episode we talk about prototyping and how you can apply it outside of work! For our mini-sode on career goals, we discuss design challenges. We’d love to hear how you’ve used prototyping outside of work and we’d also love to hear any tips or best practices about design challenges. Comment below or reply on  Twitter @uxinreallife or on Instagram @ux.inreallife.

In this episode, we cover the lost art of sketching and wrap up with a career goals mini-sode about auditing your online presence.

This episode includes a mini-sode for our career series. Our main topic is around pandemic experiences we’d like to keep in a post-pandemic world. Then we spend a little bit of time talking about our goal setting process, where we ended up, and pro tips as you iterate on your goal.

This is the last episode of the year and we wanted to reflect on some of the highlights both personally and in the field. As we’re ready to say goodbye to 2021, we wanted to make some predictions about what we’ll see in our field next year. Will we predict the future as intended or will we be way off target? Who knows, we have a whole year to find out!

Now is a great time to start thinking about goals for next year. When the new year starts, it’s easy to feel unprepared and you rush to make some goals. Hopefully as you have some downtime with the holiday season, start thinking about what you’d like to accomplish in 2022.  In this episode, we’ll go over some tips to get you started when thinking about goals. For 2022, we’ll be starting a small series where we go into various aspects of achieving your career-related goals. In future episodes, we’ll spend some time talking about working toward your career-related goals and we’ll deep dive into bigger topics like UX portfolios.

In this episode, we share our holiday gift guide! Maybe you’re looking to get something for your UX colleagues or you’ve been asked, “What do you want for the holidays?” We hope you find these ideas helpful - and please share any additional recommendations that would be great for our listener community!

In this episode we talk about a little bit of everything around Thanksgiving — food, being thankful, how to show appreciation, tech-based nonprofits to donate to for Giving Tuesday, and more! Say, “Hello!” or let us know how you feel about turkey, what your favorite foods are, or what non-profits would be great for those looking to donate to on Giving Tuesday. Comment below or reply on Twitter @uxinreallife or on Instagram @ux.inreallife.

In this episode we talk about UX in video games and what lessons we can apply to our day-to-day work. Comment below or reply on Twitter @uxinreallife or on Instagram @ux.inreallife.