Aurelius Podcast: Episode 9 with Melissa Perri on Product Management & User Research

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Podcast, Product Management, Product Strategy, User Research

Episode 9 highlights:

Melissa’s approach to product strategy
Setting good strategic goals for our product and user experiences
The difference between shipping features and shipping GOOD features
How to do user research to actually drive innovation
Case study examples from Melissa on how she used user research to increase user acquisition
Using product and UX goals to tie up into larger company vision and strategy

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 10 with Jeff Patton on Product Discovery and User Research

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Podcast, Product Discovery, User Experience Design, User Research, Ux, Ux Research

Episode 10 highlights:

What product discovery is and how to do it
The wrong way to do user research and how to avoid it
A process to make sure you’re building products and features that solve real problems
When product discovery starts and ends
4 steps to conducting product discovery
The importance, and dangers, confidence level in design or product ideas

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 13 with Andy Budd on Design Thinking, User Research Insights and Synthesis

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Design Thinking, Key Insights, Podcast, User Experience Design, User Research, Ux, Ux Research

Episode 13 highlights:

The beginnings of Clearleft
How the UX agency to client relationship has changed
Designing like a detective
Gathering the right evidence to do great UX design
The tools and application are of design thinking
How to go from research, synthesis and insights into actual design
Dangers of “research theater” and how to avoid them
Getting past the obvious solutions to create your most brilliant designs

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 14 with Steve Portigal on User Research, Analysis and Learning from Customers

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Podcast, User Experience Design, User Research, Ux Research

Episode 14 highlights:

Why you should be doing [more] user research
How to convince your stakeholders that user research is important
3 approaches to building brilliant products and features (and which one is best)
Convincing your stakeholders and leaders to do (more) user research
What is a user research process to make sure you’re learning the right things
The difference between research analysis and research synthesis

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 16 with Andy Vitale on Applying User Research and Gaining Business and Stakeholder Trust

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Business Strategy, Podcast, Stakeholders, User Research, Ux, Ux Design, Ux Research

Episode 16 highlights:

What makes experiences valuable?
Getting a “seat at the table” with design…and then what to do with it
Growing from a designer to a design leader
Speaking the language of the business to sell your vision and ideas
How to tie design decisions to business metrics

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 19 with Mariah Hay on Working with Developers, User Research and Doing UX at Scale

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Design Ops, Enterprise Ux, Podcast, Product Development, User Research

Episode 19 highlights:

How Mariah came into Human Centered Design from an Industrial Design background
Doing user research and how to include developers/technologists
What are customer feedback loops, how to create and act on them at scale
What it takes to build a truly customer centered organization
How Pluralsight conducts, analyzes and applies user research at scale
The process of Directed Discovery and how to do it
Doing human centered design at scale with a large and growing team
How to empower everyone at your organization to understand customers better

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 17 with Erika Hall on User Research, Collaborating with Stakeholders and Design Culture

Posted on May 3, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Podcast, Stakeholders, User Experience, User Experience Design, User Research, Ux

Episode 17 highlights:

Using research and design to create products and services that are more balanced in the world
Where to start helping your company make a bigger impact with user research
“Startup” culture and how it can be very unhealthy and unproductive
Why some companies still aren’t doing user research (or enough) and how you can help
How having shared goals boosts collaboration and creativity

Inside Aurelius – 002 with Joseph Szczesniak and Zack Naylor

Posted on May 1, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Development, Podcast, Product Management, Product Strategy, Technology

iA002 episode highlights:

The technology stack that we built Aurelius with and how it’s evolved over time
Understanding common development terms to better communicate design ideas
An inside look at how Joseph and Zack make decisions about the product and the company
Behind the scenes views and opinions on making technology upgrades and feature prioritizations
How we build Aurelius like Wyatt Earp

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 20 with Aarron Walter on UX Organization Models, DesignOps and User Research

Posted on April 17, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Design Ops, Podcast, Research Ops, User Research, Ux

Episode 20 highlights:

What does a high functioning design team look like and how are they organized?
The three types of successful enterprise UX organization models
How companies like Target, Spotify, Netflix, Google and more are doing designops and great UX design at scale
Creating and sharing user research findings across your organization

Inside Aurelius: Episode 001 with co-founders Zack Naylor and Joseph Szczesniak

Posted on April 12, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Designops, Devops, Podcast, User Research, Ux

In our very first episode of Inside Aurelius, we discuss a number of topics with highlights including:

Why we made Aurelius v2 and how we got there
How we used user research and customer feedback to completely re-design and re-develop our product and company focus
UX design, science and art
How Joseph, our CTO took an interest in UX as a developer and how UX can enrich a developers work and satisfaction
How and why developers should participate and have a stake in user research