Episode 298 is a linkshow. Per and James discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention - we feature articles about how car culture colonised our thinking, and how Figma is making you a bad designer.

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#298 Colonised thinking and Figma

Rich Brophy joins us to talk about best practice and why it should die and effective practice should take its place.
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#299 Best practice with Rich Brophy

We've been tacking jokes onto the end of our shows since Episode 138. So to celebrate Episode 300, we take a look at jokes and humour. We're joined by Professor Delia Chiaro, who has spent decades researching humour to learn more about what makes things funny and if it's safe for us to be humorous in our digital products.

#300 Jokes and humour with Delia Chiaro

Informed consent is a critical part of the research process. We talk to Kim Foulds and Joyce Rafla about how they made use of videos featuring Sesame Workshop muppets to make the consent process more inclusive and accessible.

#301 Informed consent with Kim Foulds and Joyce Rafla

How do we talk about our designs effectively with stakeholders? Every designer has to explain (and justify) their design decisions to non-designers but what are the skills tactics and methods that are needed to pull this off in a way that opens the door for your project to create or improve the user experience?

#302 Articulating design decisions with Tom Greever (UXP Classic)

We take a dive into neuroscience and metacognition. Thinking about thinking and thinking about other minds. We are joined by Professor Stephen Fleming, neuroscientist and author of the book Know Thyself to learn more about how our cognition works and the implications of that in our work as creatives and applications of AI.

#303 Metacognition with Steve Fleming

Getting anything up and running takes both time and planing. Content strategist Natalie Marie Dunbar joins us to talk about her content strategy practice blueprint and how it can help you when building a practice.

#304 Building a content strategy practice with Natalie Marie Dunbar

Episode 305 is a linkshow. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention - we feature articles about designing for people with dyscalculia and low numeracy, and How ChatGPT is blowing Google out of the water: a UX breakdown.

#305 Dyscalculia

We are constantly simplifying the world around us and the people within it. This is a perfectly understandable reaction to the messy things we have to work with. But with every step back we are building a wall between the user and what it is to be human. We talk to Alastair about human centred design. How to use your senses and perception and take in the world around you.

#306 Human centred design with Alastair Somerville (UXP Classic)

We talk to Alexandra Schmidt about policy and design - A conversation around the contents of her book Deliberate Intervention.

#307 Policy and design with Alexandra Schmidt

What are the key pieces of a great portfolio? What are the best tools for building and launching one? And what are the pitfalls to avoid? In this episode, Martijn van den Broeck (Designer at Google) joins me to talk about the art and science of design portfolios. For years, Martijn has closely studied portfolios, developing expertise in everything from the ideal number of case studies to the right way to handle an NDA and beyond. He shares a comprehensive approach to building, launching, and leveraging a portfolio.

"I'm surprised by how few people actually have read their NDA and tried to understand it. One thing I did was write an article about what I learned while interning at IDEO. So I couldn't go into the specifics of projects, but I could still say, 'Hey, I went to IDEO and I learned all these amazing things' that weren't NDA protected." — Martijn at 22:56

Martijn's portfolio guide: https://medium.com/portfolio-principles

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