Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦
Welcome to the Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis podcast, your go-to destination for exploring the intersection of UX research, design, and product. Do you share a passion for developing and launching products that deliver superior and ethical experiences? If so, join your host, Brendan Jarvis, as he talks to industry and thought leaders in UX, product management, and product design. Get inspired and informed, and challenge yourself to become a better leader and think outside the canvas, both in what you do and occasionally in who you are.
Episodes
Vidya Dinamani shares important strategies for building belief, healthy product cultures, and positive cross-functional relationships.
Highlights include:
- How have you increased your chances of your initiatives being supported?
- How do you determine what is needed for a product org to improve?
- What do you do when a leader is preventing the product org’s success?
- How do the best leaders manage the demands on their team’s time?
- W...
Suj Premachandran shares how Digital Influx brings UX to children, how they integrate Eastern educational philosophy, and the challenge of changing archaic education systems.
Highlights include:
- How are you helping children to become creative thinkers and designers?
- Are some of Digital Influx’s practices too ‘foreign’ for UK educators?
- How are you bringing design to people of colour through Digital Influx?
- What inspiration have...
Andy Vitale shares his experiences as an executive design leader, how he’s successfully scaled several design orgs, and why a career in pro wrestling wasn’t for him.
Highlights include:
- Why do you create a five year plan for the design orgs you lead?
- How has Grey’s Anatomy informed the design of your design organisations?
- Why go to the trouble of helping someone who’s struggling in an interview?
- How do you navigate the expectat...
Ben Sauer shares why designers need to be better presenters, how to keep stakeholders awake and engaged, and what to do when disaster inevitably strikes.
Highlights include:
- Is how design is presented more important than the design itself?
- How do you help stakeholders to relate more powerfully to design work?
- What is the Goldilocks Zone and how can designer’s find it quickly?
- Why can it be useful to show stakeholders design wor...
Aylin Uysal shares her story of leading enterprise design, the reality of being an exec and a parent, and how patience and perseverance have served her well.
Highlights include:
- Why is it important to have a good grasp of the details as a senior design leader?
- How do you know when you haven’t got the work-parent balance quite right?
- What changed at Oracle to enable the culture to significantly support design?
- How do you work ac...
Monal Chokshi shares the lessons learned from growing three UX research orgs, what makes research impact a reality, and reflects on the next step in her career.
Highlights include:
- What do you wish you knew about management before becoming a manager?
- What do researchers leaders need to do to increase their impact and influence?
- Did you become a manager to have more influence on product decisions?
- What do you look for in a compa...
Jakob Nielsen addresses some of the criticism he’s faced, calls on UXers to urgently adopt AI, and shares why he believes the commoditisation of UX is a good thing.
Highlights include:
- Are you surprised by how much you’ve offended some people?
- Why do UXers need a greater sense of urgency about adopting AI?
- Were the hiring practices at your previous company elitist?
- What is the state of UX today and where is the growth potential...
Justin Dauer shares how he conquered his ego to become a better designer, why he’s left executive design leadership, and how unfulfilled designers make bad products.
Highlights include:
- Has digital visual design become a little bit boring?
- Why is humility the most important trait for a designer?
- What made you realise you were done with in-house design leadership?
- Why is it unacceptable for design leaders to ‘coast’ in their car...
Rob Hamblen shares his insights on effective sprint facilitation, why he asks clients if they’re designing for today or tomorrow, and why design sprints have a PR problem.
Highlights include:
- What do you do when senior leaders aren’t willing to be wrong?
- What types of business challenges are most suited to a design sprint?
- What have you learned from facilitating sprints with tricky team dynamics?
- Does dot voting to enable effec...
Adam Perlis shares why it’s important to always treat interns well, how he’s trying to solve bad recruitment practices, and some practical advice for navigating the job market.
Highlights include:
- How did an intern play a pivotal role in your career?
- What do the most successful design portfolios demonstrate?
- Why are you deeply surprised that you’ve become a design recruiter?
- How do you assess a candidate before deciding to pres...
Ash Ivory shares what they’ve learned from burning out as a product leader, why gender and orientation can’t be left at home, and why inclusive design matters.
Highlights include:
- Why is it important not to seperate personal from professional values?
- What work experiences made you feel you had to keep your identity at home?
- Why is it important to get comfortable with saying ‘no’ in a product role?
- How can not celebrating wins n...
Rakesh Patwari shares what’s made him a better manager, why a career in acting wasn’t for him, and how designers can give better portfolio presentations.
Highlights include:
- Is Information Architecture still relevant in today’s practice of UX?
- What has and hasn’t worked well for you when facilitating 1-on-1’s?
- How do you engage with your team on the topic of work-related stress?
- How do the dynamics of product and engineering ch...
Janna Kimel shares her remarkable story of meeting Stephen Hawking, how she's growing grassroots accessibility, and how to better navigate today’s job market.
Highlights include:
- How did you come to meet Stephen Hawking?
- What approaches to increasing inclusive design have worked for you?
- Do people without accessibility needs care about accessibility?
- Why should people bring some of their personal life into job interviews?
- How c...
Alen Faljic shares the gap he observed between design and business while at IDEO, what he’s doing to address it, and how quantitative data can lead to greater empathy.
Highlights include:
- What does a business confident designer look like?
- Where does the disconnect between design and business come from?
- What do designers who have the most business impact do differently?
- What is the difference between being strategic and understa...
This is a special archived episode of Brave UX.
Christina Wodtke reminds us to stop carrying the weight of the world, to start giving others the benefit of the doubt, and to make the most of the gift that is feedback.
Highlights include:
- What did you learn about collaboration from swing dancing?
- Why do we need to give other people the benefit of the doubt?
- What was it like being an executive in big tech?
- Where can people start ...
This is a special archived episode of Brave UX.
Jesse James Garrett reminds us that once we were pirates, encourages us to understand how soft-power works, and to know and be true to our red-lines.
Highlights include:
- How are UX designers like classical composers?
- What is the role of personal preference in design?
- Should design leaders leave strategy to product leaders?
- Is design leadership about actively resisting the status q...
Clara Kliman-Silver shares how she brings together humour, people and cognitive psychology for research impact, and how teams can make the most of their design ecosystems.
Highlights include:
- How do you use cognitive psychology to support your findings?
- What is a design ecosystem and why is it a helpful framing for our work?
- How have you used humour when engaging with stakeholders?
- What is the right balance between AI and human...
Hang Xu shares why he’s trying to make recruitment more ethical, how candidates can secure the best possible compensation, and what to watch out for when working with recruiters.
Highlights include:
- Why is it important to always go for the maximum salary available?
- What can a candidate do to positively influence a levelling decision?
- Why do candidates with the same skills get paid vastly different amounts?
- Do you still believe ...
A’verria Martin shares her remarkable story of reinvention, the challenges of establishing a global ReOps practice, and how she’s making the ‘seat at the table’ her own.
Highlights include:
- How did you become a licensed marriage and family therapist?
- How did you navigate the transition from academia to industry?
- How have you worked with UXR leaders as you’ve built ReOps?
- How have you been developing your executive presence?
- How...
Alla Weinberg constructively unpacks unsafe workplace cultures, shares her thoughts on how we can change them, and why we should do just that.
Highlights include:
- Why is the opposite of fear safety and not courage?
- What do you focus on first when changing a culture?
- How can people read between the lines to better understand a culture?
- What have corporations forgotten about the humans that work for them?
- Can you create safety ...
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