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  • Task-based personas to the rescue!

    Task-based personas to the rescue!

    18 August 2021
    🔎 Product Design & Strategy

    How I feel about user personas depends on whether they look more like a treasure map or a one-and-done printed page of unvalidated assumptions. Luckily, friends, there is a cure.

  • The UX of Upgrades | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#8)

    The UX of Upgrades | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#8)

    3 August 2021
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, Geoff Wilson and Guy Thompson team up and trade barbs in debating Guy’s reluctance to move to his new phone. As you know what they say, they just don’t make physical and digital products like they used to.

  • 5 Impressive yet impactless vanity metrics and how to correct them

    5 Impressive yet impactless vanity metrics and how to correct them

    2 August 2021
    🔎 Product Design & Strategy

    Being able to prove the value of our work is useful for any role. But celebrating ambiguous stats will only cover for so long. Learn what to do here.

  • The UX of Kids’ Things with Doug Collins | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#7)

    The UX of Kids’ Things with Doug Collins | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#7)

    8 July 2021
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, Geoff Wilson is joined by Doug Collins to explore the balance needed to design for customers who aren’t the users, but are ultimately the ones left cleaning up the mess… in this case being the parents of small humans.

  • Getting Hired: a job interview guide

    Getting Hired: a job interview guide

    1 June 2021
    💡 Personal Growth & Reflections

    All that I’ve learned to date in the way of job interviews, distilled down into an extensive guide for others embarking on the hunt.

  • The UX of Cables | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#6)

    The UX of Cables | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#6)

    29 May 2021
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, Geoff Wilson and Guy Thompson ‘plug back in’ to lament how easy it is to end up with the e-waste nighmare that is the cable drawer (we know you have one too).

  • The UX of Postal Services with Kate Rutter | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#5)

    The UX of Postal Services with Kate Rutter | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#5)

    22 March 2021
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, the fabulous Kate Rutter joins Geoff Wilson in tackling [read: deftly complaining about] the most complex customer experience covered on this show thus far: The Postal Service.

  • From product requirement to patient harm

    From product requirement to patient harm

    21 February 2021
    🔎 Product Design & Strategy

    The ear-piercing beeps and wails from this medical device puts smoke alarms to shame. Too bad it hurts fragile patients just as much as their parents sitting next to them.

  • The UX of Buttons | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#4)

    The UX of Buttons | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#4)

    23 January 2021
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, Geoff Wilson and Guy Thompson debate why it feels like there are no universally applied standards for digital or physical buttons. Communication technology standards have been rigorously documented and applied, yet button behaviour is seemingly left up to the whim of the designer.

  • The UX of Grocery Stores | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#3)

    The UX of Grocery Stores | Everyday Experiences Podcast (#3)

    28 December 2020
    🎙️ Everyday Experiences Podcast

    In this episode, Geoff Wilson and Guy Thompson ponder how grocery stores could be better designed for the customer, and whether that is in supermarkets’ best interests.

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