UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy

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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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

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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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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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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

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