UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
Jane Portman
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Join us for exciting conversations about UI/UX design, SaaS products, marketing, and so much more. My awesome guests are industry experts who share actionable knowledge — so that you can apply it in your business today.
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Episode 207: Scheduling & Calendar Design with Derrick Reimer
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
02/22/21 • 38 min
What makes a successful scheduling app? We may never know the exact answer, but we can learn from some of the best. Our guest today is Derrick Reimer, founder of SavvyCal. He shares the story behind his new product, calendar design tips, customer success insights, tool recommendations, and much more.
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Show Notes
- SavvyCal — Derrick’s product we’re talking about
- Episode 150: Understanding Product-Market Fit with Derrick Reimer
- Drip, Level, StaticKit — Derrick’s previous products
- Calendly — a popular scheduling tool
- The UI Audit: Interview with Tope Awotona of Calendly
- Episode 64: Making Freemium Work with Bridget Harris
- Episode 183: Customer Success with Anna Jacobson
- FullCalendar —a Javascript event library
- Userlist — Jane’s product
- Sunrise, Sunsama — popular calendar-based products
- Linear, Twitter, Stripe, Tailwind UI — examples of design that inspire Derrick
- Episode 154: Refactoring UI with Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
- Corey Haines — helps Derrick with Marketing
- SavvyCal on Product Hunt
- Follow Derrick on Twitter
- Get 25% off your first year of SavvyCal using promocode UIBREAKFAST
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This episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for SaaS companies. It’s perfect for sending smart onboarding campaigns, or any other behavior-based communication. We have everything you need to get started quickly and painlessly: developer-friendly API, campaign templates, and hands-on support from the founders. Try Userlist free at userlist.com.
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Episode 204: Cross-Device Experiences with Cheryl Platz
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
01/29/21 • 52 min
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As designers, we’re often used to one device format, and that may lead to mistakes. What about accessibility? How can we design seamless experiences for multiple devices? Our guest today is Cheryl Platz, author of Design Beyond Devices. You’ll hear about multimodal design, UX frameworks, system behavior models, accessibility, nudges vs notifications, brainstorming, and more.
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Show Notes
- Design Beyond Devices — Cheryl’s book
- Ideaplatz — Cheryl’s consultancy
- Amazon Alexa — the product Cheryl worked on, along with the Echo device
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Cheryl’s current consulting project
- Episode 202: Designing for Accessibility with Cat Noone
- CROW worksheets — a free download based on a framework for capturing customer context
- Capturing Customer Context — an upcoming workshop by Cheryl
- Swimlane diagram — a flowchart that visually represents job-sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process (Wikipedia article)
- Atomic Design — a book by Brad Frost
- Alexa notifications platform
- Userlist — Jane’s product
- Anna Abovyan — an interview of this multimodal designer is featured in Cheryl’s book
- Journey Mapping 101 — an introductory Nielsen Norman Group article
- ideaplatz.com — Cheryl’s design-focused website
- cherylplatz.com — Cheryl’s broader, professional website
- Use promocode UIBREAKFASTDBD0121 to get 20% off Cheryl’s book on Rosenfeld Media’s website until February 28, 2021
- Follow Cheryl on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium
Today’s Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for your SaaS product. At Userlist, our mission is to make your founder journey more enjoyable and less overwhelming. That’s why we built an email automation tool that does exactly what you need. No more, no less. Manage your users, segment them, and get in touch throughout their journey — all based on their behavior. Try Userlist free whenever you’re ready at userlist.com.
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Episode 247: Self-audit for Designers with Rajeev Subramanian
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
09/09/22 • 32 min
How can a self-audit help you move forward in your design career? Our guest today is Rajeev Subramanian, founder of Shift UX. You’ll learn about the three stages of doing a self-audit, why it’s important to lean into a specific niche, how this process can help inform your job search strategies, and more.
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Show Notes
- Shift UX – Rajeev’s career advisory program for UX designers and researchers
- The UX Self-Evaluation Guidebook
- UI Breakfast Episode 237 with Yuval Keshtcher
- UI Breakfast Episode 178 with Meg Lewis
- Branding Pays – a book by Karen Kang
- Reinventing You – a book by Dorie Clark
- Follow Rajeev on LinkedIn and Twitter
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Episode 248: Mapping Conversations with Rebecca Evanhoe
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
09/23/22 • 41 min
These days, you can talk with the digital things around you, like voice assistants and chatbots. How are these experiences designed? Our guest today is Rebecca Evanhoe, co-author of Conversations with Things. You’ll learn about the four pillars of conversational design, what prototyping looks like for this field, how to develop a personality for your voice application, and more.
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Show Notes
- Conversations with Things – Rebecca’s book with Diana Deibel
- UI Breakfast Episode 68 with Jonathan Stark
- UI Breakfast Episode 173 with Sina Kahen
- Siri, Alexa – some of the first voice assistants
- Wizard of Oz testing
- Roo – Planned Parenthood’s chat bot
- Voiceflow, Botmock, Botsociety – popular mapping tools
- Follow Women in Voice on Twitter and LinkedIn
- Lisa Falkson, Cathy Pearl – conversational designers
- Follow Rebecca on Twitter
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Episode 132: Feature Audit with Brian Rhea
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
02/24/19 • 38 min
How do you know what features in your product bring the most value? How can you "make your strengths stronger" and gracefully remove unpopular features? Today our guest is Brian Rhea, product strategist and the founder of Feature Audit. You'll learn the story behind his analytics tool, how to conduct your own feature audit, and how to apply the results in your product strategy and consulting work.
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Show Notes
- Feature Audit — Brian's tool we're talking about
- “hirebrianrhea.com”...One Year Later — Brian's article at Brad Feld's blog
- The best stats you've ever seen — a TED talk by Hans Rosling that inspired Brian's visualization
- Before you plan your product roadmap — an article by Des Traynor of Intercom about performing a feature audit
- Userlist.io — Jane's SaaS product
- Heap, Pendo — "heavy" analytics tools that collect all data to allow its retrospective analysis
- Brian's website
- Use coupon code UIBREAKFAST to get 50% off your first 3 months of Feature Audit on all paid accounts
- Get free product materials like worksheets and templates at Brian's Jobs to Be Done Resource Library
- Follow Brian on Twitter: @brhea
Today's Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Abstract — design workflow management for product design teams using Sketch. Like GitHub, but for designers, Abstract is your team's version-controlled source of truth for design work. Sign your team up for a free 30-day trial today by heading over to goabstract.com.
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Episode 130: Deep Work with Jonathan Anderstrom
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
01/25/19 • 30 min
There are many creative methods to stay productive; this story is no exception! Our guest today is Jonathan Anderstrom, co-founder and president of Creed Interactive. We talk about the deep work culture in their agency, and their unique way of seamlessly blending onsite and remote collaboration.
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Show Notes
- Creed Interactive — Jonathan's agency
- Deep Work: Our Secret Sauce to an Effective Work Environment — an article by Jeremy Dean at their blog
- 37 Lessons on Productivity and Work from Basecamp’s Jason Fried — an article by Steve Glaveski
- Deep Work — a book by Cal Newport
- Episode 18: Staying in Flow with Anders Thue Pedersen — our past episode on TimeBlock method
- Creed Interactive Office Tour
- Follow Jonathan and Creed Interactive on Twitter: @anderstrom, @creed_all_in
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This episode is brought to you by Abstract — design workflow management for product design teams using Sketch. With Abstract, you can version design files, present work, request reviews, collect feedback, and give developers direct access to all specs — all from one place. Sign your team up for a free 30-day trial today by heading over to goabstract.com.
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Episode 143: Designing for Healthcare with Chris Kiess
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
07/27/19 • 39 min
Healthcare industry involves enormous resources, but has always been "playing catchup" when it comes to software. Our guest today is Chris Kiess, a user experience designer and author. You'll learn about his unique story within the industry, different areas of healthcare UX, typical use cases, professional challenges, and how to pave your own path in healthcare design.
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Show Notes
- Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond — a book by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville & Jorge Arango
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — a Wikipedia article
- Epic, Cerner — some of the popular out-of-the-box solutions for hospitals
- HL7 — standards for electronic health information
- Healthcare Design Is About More Than Aesthetics
- UX Ecosystems: Designing a Patient’s Path to Health Care
- Healthcare: The other UX design
- Healthcare UX: a journey just begun
- Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience — a book by Peter Jones
- UXD Healthcare, Connected Health Conference — popular healthcare UX conferences
- Follow Chris on Medium
- Follow Chris on Twitter: @chris_kiess
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Episode 124: Deciphering GDPR with Aleth Gueguen
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
11/02/18 • 35 min
The avalanche of GDPR updates has passed, but regulations are here to stay. Can you sleep well? Our guest today is Aleth Gueguen, an independent software consultant focusing on privacy regulations. You'll learn about the philosophy behind GDRP, the key terms, and what compliance means for you and your customers.
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Show Notes
- GDPR for SaaS — Aleth's website
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — a Wikipedia article
- How To Protect Your Users With The Privacy By Design Framework — an article by Heather Burns at Smashing Magazine
- 10 examples of best practice UX for obtaining marketing consent — an article by Ben Davis
- Privacy in mobile apps — an ICO guide
- Userlist.io — Jane's SaaS product (a typical data processor)
- The GDPR Package — Aleth's consulting package for SaaS companies
- Follow Aleth on Twitter: @pl4n3th
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This episode is brought to you by Userlist.io. This new tool helps SaaS founders get a better understanding of each individual user journey, and send users relevant behavior-based email. To learn more, join the waiting list at userlist.io.
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Episode 134: UX Writing with Yuval Keshtcher
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
03/24/19 • 41 min
With all technology available, words remain our #1 design tool for creating engaging experiences. How do you write an interface? Our guest today is Yuval Keshtcher, founder of UX Writing Hub. You'll learn about the craft of UX writing, how to define the voice and tone of your product, and how to capture it in a content style guide — like big brands do.
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Show Notes
- UX Writing Hub — Yuval's website
- Shopify Content Style Guide
- Mailchimp Content Style Guide
- Episode 59: International UX with Joe Leech
- Episode 96: Building a Global Customer Base with Ed Freyfogle
- Userlist.io — Jane's SaaS product
- The Three-Hour Brand Sprint — a framework by Jake Knapp
- John Saito — UX writer at Dropbox
- Writing guidelines for Material Design
- Microcopy & UX Writing — Yuval's Facebook community
- Follow Yuval on Twitter: @KeshYuval
- Ask Yuval any questions at yuval@uxwritinghub.com
Today's Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Abstract — design workflow management for product design teams using Sketch. No more searching for the right version of the file, exporting and importing between tools, or trying to consolidate feedback. Now everything is in one place! Sign your team up for a free 30-day trial today by heading over to abstract.com.
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Episode 126: Company Values Done Right with Haraldur Thorleifsson
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
11/30/18 • 35 min
How do you stay true to yourself when your company grows and changes? How do you document the principles for your communication and decision-making? Our guest today is Haraldur Thorleifsson, the founder & CEO of Ueno — an award-winning digital agency. We talk about his unique personal story and how it translates into their company values, tying together people in four offices around the world.
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Show Notes
- Ueno — Haraldur's company
- Ueno’s Culture Values — Haraldur's article describing their company values
- Radical Candor — a book by Kim Scott
- Follow Haraldur on Ueno's blog, Lorem Ipsum
Today's Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Frontify. Frontify provides cloud-based brand management software for increased brand consistency, efficiency, and design collaboration. It's the single source of truth for all your digital assets, enriched with guidelines. Sign up for a free trial at frontify.com/uibreakfast, and get your first three months free of charge if you start a subscription.
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