Complexity
In this episode, Kate and Laura overthink everything, as usual, and discuss how to take a feature that seems simple and be a total buzzkill by showing how complicated it really is. Drink Pairing: Min...
1 Aug 201729min
The New UX Bestiary
Kate and Laura, having run out of actual topics, decide that designers need a new animal, now that unicorns have been stolen by big, private, profitless companies. This may be proof that Kate and Laur...
18 Jul 201722min
Tips for Working with Teams
Kate and Laura begrudgingly tolerate each other for just long enough to tell you how to work better with other people. Also, there's some stuff about how people and teams change each other, but it's n...
3 Jul 201729min
A Few of Our Favorite Tools
After a few podcasts talking about things they don't like, Kate and Laura decide to be slightly more positive and discuss a few tools that make their work lives easier. Besides booze. Drink Pairing: T...
13 Jun 201731min
What Makes a Tool Bad?
Kate and Laura discuss whether some commonly misunderstood tools and frameworks (Surveys? Agile?) are bad or just really misunderstood a lot of the time. Drink Pairing: Shot of Jager
30 Mai 201727min
Stop Designing (and building) Everything!
In this episode, Kate and Laura go off on several tangents about why everything does not have to be designed and built from scratch by your organization. Seriously, you're not making artisanal, locall...
9 Mai 201726min
Collaborative Design
In this episode, Kate and Laura fight about what it means to design things collaboratively and the ways in which everybody seems to screw it up. Hint: collaborative design does not mean everybody make...
25 Apr 201728min
4 Possibly Useful Skills for Designers
Kate and Laura really don't like to be told what to do. That's why they get annoyed when people declare "Designers should really be able to..." In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of designe...
4 Apr 201729min
