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The Art and Science of Doing Nothing
I read an article in the New York Times today about “niksen” which is a Dutch word meaning doing nothing. The article talks about how doing nothing can be good for you. Ironically the article touts the...
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Talking User Research With David Travis
David Travis joins us on the Human Tech podcast to talk about teaching people how to do user experience work and specifically how to do user research. Which means we of course talk about his latest...
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Creating Decision Points With Partitioning
How do you make large scary ideas seem small and not so scary, or the reverse — make small things seem more important? You use the behavioral economics idea of “partitioning”. It’s all explained in...
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Elizabeth Rosenzweig On The Human Tech Podcast
Elizabeth is the Founder and Director of World Usability Day. She joined us on this episode of the Human Tech podcast to talk about how World Usability Day got started, a little bit about the history...
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The Challenges (and Rewards) of User Testing: Danielle Cooley on the Human...
On this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with our guest Danielle Cooley about the challenges of user testing. What works, what doesn’t, and why. Your browser does not support the...
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Kristen Gallagher from Google asks “How do you know you are enough?” on the...
We met Kristen Gallagher from Google in Scottsdale in June at the UXPA conference. She intrigued us by sitting at a lunch table with strangers and asking the table to opine on gender differences in...
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UX Strategy: Making UX Teams More Efficient, Effective, and Impactful
On this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about user experience (UX) strategy: What is it, why it’s important and what it entails. We also talk about our new curriculum in UX Strategy that we...
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New Book on Behavioral Economics
I’m excited to announce that one of the Team W staff has just published a new book. If you’ve ever thought that Behavioral Economics was boring or incomprehensible, or not relevant to your life or...
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The Book: I Love You, Now Read This Book On The Human Teach Podcast
In this episode Guthrie and I talk about his new book, he reads a short excerpt, we discuss what’s in it, and what it was like for him to write it. Available in paperback or Kindle at Amazon....
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Read Your Heart Rate From Your Smartphone Camera: Dr. Phillip Alvelda from...
Dr. Phillip Alvelda has been working on AI projects for many years. His latest project with his new startup can measure medical vital signs, for example your heart rate, from looking at your face on...
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Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About Future Technology?
In this podcast episode we talk with Steve Field about whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about future technology. Where do you rate on an optimism vs. pessimism scale? To contact...
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The Future of Social Networking on the Human Tech podcast
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about the recent backlash against social networking companies, and what the future may look like as a result. Your browser does...
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Writing Is Designing
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Michael Metts and Andy Welfle about their new book: Writing Is Designing. The conversation includes: Why and how words and writing are part of...
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UX Research for Conversational AI
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Cheenu Chari, a UX Researcher from Austin Texas. We talk about how doing UX research on conversations differs from UX research on other...
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Our Digital Lives After Death
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Elaine Kasket, author of All the Ghosts in the Machine about our digital lives after we die. Who owns our data and what happens to it after we’re...
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What About User Experience in Government Policy?
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Dana Chisnell about the role of user experience in government technology and public policy. Dana just started a new job as a partner/founder,...
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Grant Crowell on the Human Tech Podcast
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Grant Crowell about communicating, using humor, marketing and about his new book: Grantasms. You can reach Grant here: info@onetwistedsquirrel...
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2nd Edition of 100 Things Book
When I wrote 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People I, of course, hoped people would like it (every author wants to be a “best seller”!). It has turned out to be even more popular than I...
View ArticleUserlytics User Testing Tool Helped Us Get Through a Difficult Semester
I teach courses in user experience as an Adjunct Professor at a campus of University of Wisconsin (the campus in Stevens Point Wisconsin). Like campuses around the world we are shut down because of...
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It’s Our 100th Episode of the Human Tech Podcast
This is episode 100 of our Human Tech podcast! We talk about how deep learning/AI might be different if machines learned via audio. And we talk a little bit about our current “Covid” world....
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