Honest UX Talks
By Anfisa Bogomolova & Ioana Teleanu
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Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the UX field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone transitioning to design overcome the fears.
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#180 The state of job hunting in 2026
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May 27, 2026 |
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#179 Building career capital with intention w/Dan Cariño
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May 06, 2026 |
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#178 What we got wrong about AI replacing design?
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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#177 What even is a design engineer? w/ Mehmet Baytaş, Senior Design Engineer @ Attio
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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#176 Design is not dead, but has changed
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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#175 The "dream job" has changed. What are designers aspiring to in 2026?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#174 What makes a portfolio feel senior in 2026?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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#173 How to build taste in the age of AI?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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#172 You don’t need a bootcamp to become a designer anymore
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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#171 Inside Lovable & Intercom: what top design talent looks like in 2026
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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#170 Lessons learned from 4y at a scale up
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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#169 How to speak the business language
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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#168 Will we still have design jobs in the future?
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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#167 How to stay sane in the age of AI
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#166 How to get hired in 2026
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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#165 Skills and traits UX designers need in 2026
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#164 Year-End Reflections
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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#163 Surviving Design - Why I Wrote a Book
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#162 These skills will increase your salary in 2026
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#161 How design industry is changing and what is getting behind us
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#160 The design tools we actually use
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#159 Should you get into UX design if you are starting out in 2026?
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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#158 The biggest hardships in our UX careers
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#157 5-Step plan to get started with vibe-coding
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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#156 How to Become an Entrepreneur as a UX Designer
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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#155 Balancing Parenthood and a UX Career w/ Ran Liu
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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#154 Important Ideas from TED AI Vienna
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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#153 What I relearned from being a Product Manager
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#152 How to nail your portfolio one-liner
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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#151 Designers become curators: UX in the age of generative UI
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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#150 What are design interviews really screening you for in 2025?
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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#149 Tech world has changed
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#148 Lessons that shaped my design principles
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#147 What designers really need to know about business w/ Ryan Rumsey
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#146 Does product design quality still matter in 2025?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#145 The UX of Agentic AI w/Andrei Clodius
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#144 Being a Junior Designer in the Age of AI
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#143 Inclusive design w/Tej Kalianda
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#142 Building the portfolio in the age of AI
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#141 Designing Perplexity - The Builder's Guide to AI Design w/Henry Modisett
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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#140 Designers Coding with AI - Inside Intercom’s AI x Design Revolution w/Caitlin Rich
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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#139 Are designers best positioned for the age of AI?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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#138 Live Maven Session: "Transition to an AI Design Role: Skills + Strategy"
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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#137 Growth design in the age of AI w/Kate Syuma
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May 28, 2025 |
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#136 From corporate to creative freedom: The Lumo studio story
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May 21, 2025 |
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#135 What should you do when you know you're underpaid?
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May 14, 2025 |
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#134 How to run a successful creative agency w/Hannah Carver
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May 07, 2025 |
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#133 How AI is Transforming UX Research w/Tina Ličková
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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#132 Running UX workshops
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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#131 Finding your strengths
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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#130 AI's Impact on the Design Process
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#129 How to become an AI designer
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#128 UX leadership during the tech crisis
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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#127 How to get promoted in UX design
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#126 I am a senior designer now, what's next?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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#125 A director's perspective on hiring UX designers in 2025 w/Chris Abad
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#124 The skills UX designers need in 2025
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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#123 Year-End Reflections
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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#122 The State of Design Jobs in 2024-2025 w/Lena Kul
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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#121 How to prevent burnout? w/Meg Rye & Laurence Galland
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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#120 Favorite product design books
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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#119 Emerging and future design roles
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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#118 Mastering Whiteboarding and Take-Home Assignments in UX Design
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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#117 Designing for AI at Miro
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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#116 Making design decisions w/Tommy Geoco
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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#113 Making a difference as a designer w/Rachel Wu
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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#112 What to look for in a UX Role?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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#113 Collaborating with developers
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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#112 Design market predictions
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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#111 Becoming a mature UX designer
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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#110 Storytelling in UX portfolios
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#109 How AI is Shaping Design /w Pablo Stanley
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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#108 Landing a junior job at META amidst tech crisis /w Nitya Kumar
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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#107 How can your side interests help in you UX career?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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#106 Remote vs. Office Jobs: Pros and Cons
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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#105 Discovering what you are good at as a UX designer
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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#104 Collaborating with content designers (at MEWS)
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May 29, 2024 |
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#103 When to stop hustling
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May 22, 2024 |
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#102 How to win against pushbacks in UX industry?
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May 14, 2024 |
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#101 Am I good enough?
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May 01, 2024 |
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#100 Sustainable UX Design w/Jonas Thorsten
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#99 Being too easy vs too hard to work with as a designer
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#98 Is it the time to quit UX and move on?
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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#97 Being an intern and pursuing a full-time role
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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#96 Designing for accessibility w/ Anna Cook
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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#95 How to negotiate salaries in UX design
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#94 Designing in Uncertainty
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#93 Juggling a Design Role and Parenthood
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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#92 AI's Impact on the Design Industry w/Jakob Nielsen
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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#91 Growing as UX designers
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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#90 Reflections and predictions from 2023
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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#89 My startup founder-designer story
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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#88 Choosing to work full time over freelancing
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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#87 How we failed a podcast re-branding project
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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#86 The Long-Awaited Return: UX and Life Check-in
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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#85 The Impact of AI on UX Design industry
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May 25, 2023 |
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#84 UX job hunting strategies
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May 17, 2023 |
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#83 Building a strong UX case study
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May 10, 2023 |
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#82 Standing out as a UX designer during job hunting
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May 02, 2023 |
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#81 Navigating UX career as a non-native English speaker
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#80 Red flags in UX job postings (+big news drop)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#79 Finding your niche in UX design
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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#78 Freelancing as a UX designer
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#77 Asking for design feedback
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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#76 Growth design w/Sera Tajima
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#75 Dealing with UX job rejections w/Tanner Christensen
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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#74 Collaboration between designers and PMs
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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#73 A day in the life of a UX designer
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#72 Design processes: expectations vs. reality
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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#71 Should we be worried about tech layoffs?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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#70 Typical archetypes of designers
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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#69 Lessons learned in 2022
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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#68 Growing design maturity within the company
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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#67 Collaborating with UX researchers
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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#66 Getting started in UX design in 2023
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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#65 UX Design Research Tools
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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#64 Why did we choose a career in UX design?
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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#63 Building UX design educational program
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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#62 UX Design Horror Stories
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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#61 Why you are not getting UX job interviews?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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#60 Surviving in a very technical company
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#59 UX design conferences
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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#58 Should designers learn how to code?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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#57 Typical mistakes designers are doing while applying for a job
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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#56 Freelancing as a UX Designer
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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#55 Future of UX design. Will robots steal our jobs?
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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#54 Retaining joy with side projects w/Design Life
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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#53 UX Writing w/Yuval Keshtcher
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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#52 Micromanagement at the workplace
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May 24, 2022 |
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#51 Working with old-school designers
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May 17, 2022 |
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#50 How to move from Junior to Mid Level Designer
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May 04, 2022 |
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#49 The role of UI in UX design world
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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#48 Designer at a fast-growing startup
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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#47 White-boarding challenges | Job hunting
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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#46 Being a design team of one
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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#45 Salaries and payments in UX industry
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#44 UX job interviews. What to expect and what questions to ask?
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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#43 Applying to hundreds of jobs w/Sarah Doody
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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#42 Selling UX research to stakeholders
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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#41 Design agencies. Pros and cons
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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#40 Big vs small product companies. pros & cons
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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#39 Juggling UX career and motherhood (or other important roles)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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#36 How I got fired twice
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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#38 Job hunting process for UX designers
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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#37 Wins and failures from 2021
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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#35 Things you'll hate about UX design
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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#34 Design estimations and time management
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#33 Design mentoring. Our stories
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#32 UX design: Art or science?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#31 Handling the rejection during UX job hunting
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#30 Transitioning to UX from a non-tech background
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#29 What goes wrong in UX projects?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#28 Does it ever get easier to be a designer?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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#27 How to find a first UX design job?
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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#26 UX Education. Behind the Scenes
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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#25 Communicating design to stakeholders
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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#24 Empathy in UX Design Process
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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#23 Critical thinking in UX Design Process
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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#22 Design Feedback vs Design Critique
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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#21 Being a beginner in the UX
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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#20 Time management and productivity for designers
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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#19 Between bootcamps and your first UX job
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May 25, 2021 |
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#18 UX job interviews
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May 11, 2021 |
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#16 Is UX design for you?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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#15 UX Design titles and roles
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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#14 Being women in Tech
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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#13 UX & Product design tools
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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#12 UX Design systems
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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#11 Impostor syndrome for UX designers
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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#10 UX design ladder. Career levels, stages & titles
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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#9 UX design education
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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#8 UX design portfolio
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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#7 Reflection on 2020 and plans for 2021
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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#6 Starting a new job in 2020
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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#5 Mental health. Burnout. Bare minimun | w/Gabriel Kirmaier as UXbites
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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#4 Do you need an online presence?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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#3 UX design processes
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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#2 Defining UX design
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#1 How to transition to UX Design
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Jan 04, 2021 |