The UX Energy Podcast

Gatekeeper & Gateway to UX (feat. Darren Hood)

Intro: 0:17 06:48: Work Ethic 13:00 How does a new designer know “what is good content?” 20:00 What advice do you give to people … so they don’t give up on UX? 22.32 - General Assembly rant 26:00 What is the solution to salvage the career? 28:00 Print Designers wanting to earn more money 30:00 UX Is tool agnostic 32.00 Summary: How to get good quality. 35:30 How does someone get more practical experience? Juniors 39:00 Hiring Seniors 41:00 - Disqualifer: follow instructions 42.30 Summary & Wrap Up 44:00 - Taking the discipline forward: Oversimplifying ux, with no accountability. 50:04 - Gatekeeping

Getting Started with Digital Storytelling (feat. Emma Wailes, Hippo)

Emma introduces UX as a way simplifying services that you use every day. Her previous experience has. Emma explains why digital transformation projects often fail. She argues that focusing purely on “digital” isn’t helpful. Since departments are run by people, it’s important that transformation is with people and processes, not just digitising their existing workflows. Digital innovation must be driven by your users. Getting stakeholders onboard is through effective communication. Emma explains how you can learn the soft skills to have those conversations. Emma then explained the importance of hand-drawn ideas and problem solving. People feel that they can collaborate and give feedback when there’s “messy” sketches. On Dribbble alot of people redesign apps, but 90% of the time this is the make up on the surface. But this doesn’t solve the problem! You can follow her on Twitter [https://twitter.com/doodle_em] & LinkedIn

Getting started as a CEO & Female Founder (feat. Emma Corbett, Insurin)

UX Designer at Puppet and Female Founder & CEO of Insurin. Building an app to engage with teens with Diabetes. 1st Class Honours from Ulster University. * Placements * Education vs Experience Insurin: * Your own journey with Diabetes. * Engaging with teens * How did you conduct your research? * Gamification: motivation * Well worth looking at your Figma prototypeInteractive bot Gluco provides guidances. Guides the user through logging food & administering insulin Maze Testing. * What’s your progress with the app? * What was your challenges with this, whilst juggling other work / studies? * Integration with FreeStyle glucose monitoring? * Catalyst, funding Puppet: * Design system redesignAccessibility Gov.uk [http://gov.uk/] style documentation To Share: * www.insurin.app * LinkedIn: Emma Corbett * Email: hello@emmacorbett.design

Why you shouldn't start a career in UX (feat. Debbie Levitt, Delta CX)

Debbie Levitt shares some excellent tips for starting out as a freelancer, and reasons why you shouldn't become a UX designer.  You can follow her great resources on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/deltacx].

Supporting Women in Tech with with UX Cheer (feat. Tanya Junell & Noa Carmel)

The uxcheer community [//We aim to nurture and strengthen the pipeline of global female ux and product designers on a pathway to leadership and financial success.] is for women and non-binary junior UX and product designers. It's a place to share, make friends, vent, access resources, and get your portfolios reviewed by Tanya Junell and special guest design leaders. Their aim is to nurture and strengthen the pipeline of global female ux and product designers on a pathway to leadership and financial success.