The UX Coach
The UX Coach podcast gives people space to share their experiences of working in Digital Design and Technology. Each episode tells the story of someone's career. We focus on career progression, and challenges encountered at every step, at every level of seniority. Your host is Andy Parker, a career coach and founder of UX Coaching.
Episodes
24 episodes
You are capturing information for a user who is you, but you of the future
Today, I'm in conversation with Jorge Arango, an information architect and author of several books. His most recent, duly noted, has just been released. Jorge is a consultant based across the Americas and teaches in the graduate interaction des...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:01:00
You have to eat, live, breathe, sleep, everything to do with your passion
Today, I'm talking to Elizabeth Chesters. Born in Wigan, UK, Elizabeth now resides in Munich, Germany. We first met in 2015 when we both presented at a conference encouraging first-time public speakers. Since then, she has worked in-house for s...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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47:16
You don't have to be Director of Design to be impactful - It's just a job title
Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I’m Andy Parker, the UX Coach. And this is where I share people’s stories of career success and failure from across the tech industry. Today, I’m talking to Marvin Hassan, a UX designer from Germany, who wants...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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31:18
Now you’re using a thicker Sharpie
In this episode, I am talking to Pete Winchester. Pete and I have known each other for quite some time now. And he recently posted about his experience of taking on a Design MBA or the D.MBA, I was really curious to know what that was, and how ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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54:22
How to dig into the why?
In this episode, Erica Johansson shares how she went from being a journalist with a love of music to the first content designer, a little known startup called Amazon, and has blazed the trail for content strategy working with big tech, includin...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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39:51
UX Bootcamps, your results may vary
This time around I am speaking to Tom Bird.Tom and I met a few years ago, and this actually the second time I’ve interviewed him for the show. We first tried this the week before the UK closed its borders and shut the country...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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27:37
Make yourself an action plan
Our return to The UX Coach Podcast features an interview with Learning Experience Designer Fiona MacNeill. We talk about what the design industry can learn from education and visa versa, how to align professional development with business goals...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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57:13
The UX Coach Season 3 trailer
It's back! Season 3 of The UX Coach Podcast is returning Spring 2022 along with some other news from theuxcoach.com.Listen in for info on how to be a guest on the show and our debut course launching ...
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Season 3
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2:13
How I became an AI feasability investigator (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I am really happy to be in conversation with Caroline Jarrett. Caroline has been an important voice in digital design for many years. Her mantra fix-the-forms is what lies behind her timeless book Forms that Work, designing web ...
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Season 2
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50:06
If you want to know others you have to know yourself (Rebroadcast)
This week I’m talking to Anna Kincses, head of research for Why? a Hungarian design agency.
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Season 2
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1:01:58
It works best when things are a little blurry (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I am in conversation with Jo O’Keefe, Lead User Researcher with the Care Quality Commission in England.
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Season 2
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43:03
How do you find the right company for you? (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I am in conversation with Vanessa Colina, founder of UX Backstage, a series of online courses for designers that aim to help develop the necessary skills to find your next job.---Vanessa has some great advice for hiring ...
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Season 2
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43:01
With great power comes great responsibility (Rebroadcast)
In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step d...
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Season 1
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50:19
What makes a good user researcher (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I met with Mark Branigan, head of research at Hippo Digital a digital service design consultancy from the UK to talk about his career to-date, what it’s like being responsible for the hearts and minds of future generations and h...
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Season 1
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43:06
Should I stay or should I go? (Rebroadcast)
This is a rebroadcast of The UX Coach with guest Tom Walker
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Season 1
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46:16
Is joining a startup right for you (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I’m in conversation with Miles Reiter. Miles is both UX Designer and Product Manager at Bolstra, a Saas business that has developed a customer success management platform based out of Indianapolis in the United States of America...
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Season 1
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1:03:16
Measuring progression (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I’m in conversation with Johnny Burch, founder of Progression app a new product to help design managers and team leaders that aims to Stop spreadsheet-wrangling, text-wordsmithing and ladder-shuffling when it comes to supporting...
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Season 1
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1:11:58
Why don't we practice design every day? (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego is a User Researcher, Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, and Professional Dancer currently located in Brooklyn.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego a User Resea...
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Season 1
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1:03:52
Make your work fit around your life (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I’m in conversation with Hugo Jenkins, owner of The 25th Company, a user experience and product design consultancy from Melbourne Australia.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Hugo Jenkins, owner of The 25th Comp...
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Season 1
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52:26
Is anything really new anymore? (Rebroadcast)
In this episode I am in conversation with Tom Kerwin, Product Design Lead at Qubit, a personalisation platform where Tom has recently begun developing a UX research team.---We talk about how Tom’s background in psychology and computer e...
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Season 1
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54:16