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O'Reilly Radar tracks the technologies and people that will shape our world in the years to come. Each episode of O'Reilly Radar features an interview with an industry thought leader, with topics touching on everything from programming to data to experience design. We also take a step back from the breathless pace of the latest tech news to examine why new developments are important and what they might mean down the road.

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Angela Rufino chats with Jonathan Follett, principal of Involution Studios, about creative class workers, product life cycles, and enhancing company-customer relationships.

Emerging Technologies are Disrupting Product Design Life Cycles

Why do startups fail? What are the best ways to scale up and grow your customer base? How do you test and verify new business ideas? In this episode, we're joined by Brian Balfour (VP of Growth at HubSpot) to discuss different user acquisition and growth tactics, as well as the major mistakes that all startups should avoid.

"The landscape of user acquisition is rapidly changing. And it's actually changing at an accelerating rate. More and more platforms are becoming available to us and their cycle of peak effectiveness to depreciation is becoming faster and faster." — Brian at 3:25

Visit Brian's website: www.Coelevate.com
Email us: Hello@UXandGrowth.com
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Startup Growth Tactics with Brian Balfour (VP of Growth at HubSpot)

Des Traynor, Intercom co-founder, and Margaret Gould Stewart talk about product design at massive scale, the aesthetics of business software and the importance of diversity on design teams. 

Margaret Gould Stewart, Director of Product Design at Facebook

Intercom's Elizabeth McGuane sits down with Karen McGrane to discuss when startups should start thinking about content strategy, how to communicate your brand within a product, and why you should stop thinking in pages.

Karen McGrane, Managing Partner, Bond Art + Science

This episode of the O’Reilly Podcast features my discussion with Mohit Verma, Performance Engineering Evangelist for a healthcare company in Boston, about performance engineering: what it is, and how to implement it at your organization.



How to make performance engineering work for your organization

What are the important qualities that go into design leadership? What can design leaders do to help their teams collaborate and grow? In this episode, we sit down with Tim Merrill (Director of Product Design at HubSpot) to discuss the unexpected intricacies and challenges of leading a design team.

"When you're doing design critiques, which are ultra important to growth as a designer, you have to have that kind of trust and understanding that you're both coming from a place of wanting to make things better. Not from a place of ego or trying to show that you know what you're talking about and somebody else doesn't." — Tim at 10:30

Tim on Twitter: Twitter.com/timeril
Tim on LinkedIn: LnkedIn.com/in/timmerrill

Email us: Hello@UXandGrowth.com
Austin on Twitter: Twitter.com/ustinKnight
Geoff on Twitter: Twitter.com/dailydaigle
Matt on Twitter: Twitter.com/mattrheault

Design Leadership with Tim Merrill (Director of Product Design at HubSpot)

This week, we're featuring a special crossover podcast from our O'Reilly Design Podcast. O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product, Ben Yoskovitz. Yoskovitz talks about product design strategy and the benefits of lean approaches, where product teams tend to fall down, and why a bottom-up approach to product design is more successful—and more scalable—than a top-down approach.

Scalable and Sustainable Approaches to Product Design

In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with Carl Bass, president and CEO of Autodesk. He’s an articulate thinker on algorithmic design, collaborative tools, and the nature of craft, and we talked for nearly two hours when we visited him to record this episode.

Carl Bass on Design Tools

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Max Burton, founder of Matter. Before starting his own firm, Burton spent the last two decades at places like Frog, Nike, and Smart Design. We talk about the future of wearables, what he looks for when hiring designers, and what tech companies can learn from Nike’s and Disney's approach to product design.

Max Burton on What We Can Learn from Nike and Disneys Approach to Design

Julie Zhuo chats with Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman about what makes great product design, establishing early design principles, team building, and much more. Plus, Intercom director of product design Emmet Connolly talks about his principles of bot design.

Julie Zhuo, VP of Product Design at Facebook

Sean P. Kane discusses how to get your team using Docker in the real world.

Thinking with containers: 3 tips for moving to Docker

The immersive worlds of Instagram and Facebook 360 video empower journalists with new approaches to storytelling. In this workshop, gain insights and best practices from Lila King who leads news and media partnerships with Instagram and Paul Beddoe-Stephens who leads strategic partnerships for 360.

Facebook: Emerging Visual Storytelling on Instagram and 360 [Sponsored]

This week, I sit down with anthropologist, futurist, Intel Fellow, and director of interaction and experience research at Intel, Genevieve Bell. We talk about what she’s learning from current AI research, why the resurgence of AI is different this time, and five things that are missing from the AI conversation.

Genevieve Bell on Moving From Human-Computer Interactions to Human-Computer Relationships

This week, I sit down with Tom Davenport. Davenport is a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a senior advisor for Deloitte Analytics. He also pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics.” We talk about how his ideas have evolved since writing the seminal work on that topic, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning; his new book Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines, which looks at how AI is impacting businesses; and we talk more broadly about how AI is impacting society and what we need to do to keep ourselves on a utopian path.

Tom Davenport on Mitigating AI's Impact on Jobs and Business

In this week's Radar Podcast, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum chats with Sara Watson, a technology critic and writer in residence at Digital Asia Hub. Watson is also a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia and an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. They talk about how to optimize personalized experience for consumers, the role of machine learning in this space, and what will drive the evolution of personalized experiences.

Sara Watson on Optimizing Personalized Experiences

This week, I sit down with David Beyer, an investor with Amplify Partners. We talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence, the challenges he’s seeing in AI adoption, and what he thinks is missing from the AI conversation.

AI Adoption at the Atomic Level of Jobs and Work

This week, I sit down with Aman Naimat, senior vice president of technology at Demandbase, and co-founder and CTO of Spiderbook. We talk about his project to build a knowledge graph of the entire business world using natural language processing and deep learning. We also talk about the role AI is playing in those companies today and what’s going to drive AI adoption in the future.

Aman Naimat on Building a Knowlege Graph of the Entire Business World

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