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Explore " ui/ux" with insightful episodes like "Starting Your Software Project: Navigating Software Development with Courage and Determination", "Unlocking Innovation: Harnessing Users' Environments for Impactful Product Ideas", "ChatGPT - Ο προσωπικός βοηθός όλων", "UX in Software Development: A Practical Guide [2023]" and "Writing effective emails for Saas with Jane Portman @ Userlist" from podcasts like ""The Daily Me", "Tidbits by LUD", "Καφές & Κομπιούτερς", "Tidbits by LUD" and "Writers in Tech"" and more!
Episodes (65)
Unlocking Innovation: Harnessing Users' Environments for Impactful Product Ideas
In this episode we'll explore how to unlock Innovation by gaining insight into your user's environments that unlock impactful product Ideas.
ChatGPT - Ο προσωπικός βοηθός όλων
Creators & Guests
- Nico Orfanos - Host
- Dimitris_Orfanos - Host
- Constantine Foulidis - Host
UX in Software Development: A Practical Guide [2023]
User Experience (UX) is one of the most crucial components of software development. A poor UX can significantly impact your user’s perception of your company, adoption levels, and retention goals.
Writing effective emails for Saas with Jane Portman @ Userlist
Jane Portman, CEO at Userlist and UI Breakfast presenter, has tons of advice on how to write lifecycle emails for Saas.
If you’ve ever been involved in writing Saas lifecycle emails – for example onboarding, activation, or upgrade emails – you know that it’s easier said than done. That’s because the actual writing is just the tip of the iceberg. As UX writers, we need to think holistically, define a user journey and set up sensible conversion goals.
Jane goes through:
- Where to start designing effective emails
- The most important steps: The user journey, segmentation, and implementation
- How to truly measure which emails make an impact
- Why every Saas company needs a content resource library – and what to keep in your resource library
About Jane
Jane Portman is the co-founder and CEO of Userlist, an email automation platform that specializes in understanding customer data. She is also the founder and presenter of UI Breakfast, a UI/UX design strategy podcast that has been running since 2014.
Links
Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra
Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more people than at the Wikimedia Foundation. On this ep Abbey joins us to talk about what human-centered design research means, methodologies for conducting user-experience studies in a wide range of territories and contexts, designing products for billions of people, some of the ways design and research differ in open source versus the corporate world, and more.
SHOW NOTES
Find out more about Abbey's current work at: https://wearetrimtab.com/
And read about the research she conducted at the Wikimedia Foundation here:
New Editor Experiences: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences
New Readers: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
Figma plugins for UX pros with Punit Chawla @DesignWings
Punit Chawla has been serving bite-sized design tutorials on YouTube for years. Every Monday and Thursday, he posts tips and tricks on every design-related topic under the sun. He’s also the founder of DesignWings, a UI/UX design school offering 18-week bootcamps.
Our talk starts and ends with an exploration of the seemingly endless possibilities of Figma – Punit even uses it to manage his projects!
You’ll also hear Punit talk about:
- Personal branding for UX writers and content designers
- How to get started with video production using just a phone
- Creating value for everyone, instead of focusing on a specific audience
Links:
Check out Punit’s YouTube channel
Try our free UX writing course
Figma features and plugins to check out:
FigJam
Community
Blush
Feather Icons
Automator
Anima
17. UI/UX mistakes, misconceptions and best practices. And what about voice UI? - with Jessica Engström
Our friend of the day is Jessica Engström. We dive into User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX), the area of expertise she is passionate about, and where she really shines. We talk about bad UI/UX, common mistakes and examples, and the effect it has on users. Causing annoyance – often even rage-quitting – when encountering basic elements that should’ve worked in the first place. We zoom in on the mindset of the responsible developers and what they should strive for. And how does she herself define UI and UX? She shares quick fixes, practical tips, and best practices for optimizing UI/UX. We dive into voice UI, bots like Siri and Alexa, and their language and translation issues. Furthermore, we hear more about the origin and motivation behind the Coding After Work podcast and Twitch channel.
About this episode, and Jessica in particular: you can find @engstromjess on Twitter and her podcast Coding after work.
About Betatalks: have a look at our videos and join us on our Betatalks Discord channel
Best of Freelancers - Highlights from Gig Workers and Changemakers in the Future of Work
In this Best Of episode, we’re talking to Topcoder members, freelance trailblazers, and people who are making it easier for gig economy workers to enjoy the freedoms of freelance life with the same security enjoyed by the traditional workforce.
Hybrid Work vs. Hybrid Workforce - What’s the Difference?
Microsoft recently put out a great article about the future of work: The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready? It’s an awesome piece, AND there’s more to the story. We explain why it’s crucial to push beyond hybrid work to hybrid workforce—an actual new way that work is structured. We also cover how our model solves many of the problems associated with remote work.
Get Rid of the Whole Box: Talent Strategy & HR Highlights from 61 Episodes of the Uprisor Podcast
How will human capital management change in the future of work? We look at some of the best lessons and insights our guests have shared in the areas of talent strategy and HR.
23 | IRL Freelance Proposal
In this episode, Amy submits a freelance proposal to James for review. They discuss the terms, value-added, and review a mood board for James's rebrand.
Sponsors
Vercel
Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.
For more information, visit Vercel.com
ZEAL is hiring!
ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.
ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.
For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers
DatoCMS
DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."
For more information, visit datocms.com
Show Notes
- 0:00 Introduction
- 0:55 Sponsor: ZEAL
- 2:23 What we've been up to
- 4:06 Recording live from Twitch
- 4:39 Context / Writing Proposals
- 7:08 Pricing Structures
- 9:01 Business progression
- identifying problems
- objectives
- how you'll measure success
- Google Analytics
- Fathom
- 11:43 Sponsor: DatoCMS
- 12:37 Value to the Organization
- Scope Creep vs Scope Seep
- 16:40 Benefits of Branding
- Nathan Barry Show - Episode 41: Jack Butcher – Build Once, Sell Twice: Earn $1M a Year Selling Digital Products
- 18:58 Methodology and Phases
- What to expect on the project
- Scheduling
- Factors that affect completion
- 22:01 Joint Accountabilities
- Communication
- 24:10 Terms and Conditions
- Fees
- Payment Terms
- Project Scheduling
- Expiration Date
- 25:53 Sending Estimates
- 27:38 Sponsor: Vercel
- 28:51 Reviewing the Mood Board
- 29:41 Reference Images
- 31:55 Inspirational Pieces
- 35:20 How do you create a custom font?
- 38:26 Looking at Color and Styles
- 45:23 Picks and Plugs
- 45:32 James's Pick: Chicago Med
- 47:39 James's Plug: James Q Quick on TikTok
- 47:53 Amy's Pick: Notion.so
- 48:50 Amy's Plug: SelfTeach.me on Twitch
Genetically Unemployable: Networking & Mentorship in Freelancing with Emily Leach
Emily Leach is a pioneer in the world of freelancing, focused on helping other freelancers have equal access to the opportunities afforded to other workers in the traditional labor market. She joins Uprisor to discuss the importance of mentorship, collaboration, and human connection among freelancers, and the most important skills freelancers need to be successful.
Reimagining Collaboration in the Post COVID World of Work with Phil Simon
Phil Simon is a recognized collaboration and technology expert and author. He joins Uprisor to talk about his newest book, “Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post COVID World of Work”. The conversation delves into the advantages collaboration hubs provide over standard communication channels, and the most necessary skills for remote and freelance workers to possess if they hope to be successful on virtual teams.
Why Giving Clear Feedback is the #1 Skill You Need for the Future of Work
Part 2 of our series looking at how to make a world class commercial without an agency focuses on feedback. Why is giving clear feedback so important and how do you do it? Topcoder’s head of content interviews Uprisor’s usual host, Clinton Bonner, and Topcoder’s Creative Director, Trevor Gerring. They discuss how to gather, refine, and provide crystal clear feedback when working with creatives on distributed teams.
Speed + Decentralization: The Power and Potential of Edge Computing & 5G with Jeff Tennery
Jeff Tennery is COO at AlefEdge, the 5G Edge API company. He joins Uprisor to discuss Edge computing and why it matters to the enterprise, the convergence of 5G and Edge, and the power of open communities to drive innovation.
How to Make a World-Class Commercial Without an Agency
How do you make an amazing commercial with a distributed network of creatives? Topcoder recently made a live action commercial with the talent from Tongal, a creative community and platform focused on video. Hear from Topcoder’s Creative Director and VP of Marketing about what the experience was like, what made the project successful, and the surprising things they learned.
How HR Can Step Up and Lead in the Freelance Revolution with Jon Younger
Jon Younger is an HR thought-leader, author, advisor, board member, and early stage investor in HR tech startups. He joins Uprisor to discuss agile talent, HR’s role in architecting a workforce, and why the freelance revolution isn’t a threat to organizations, but instead a liberation of organizations and talent.
NFTs, the Value in Uniqueness, and Skills Based Identity Wallets with Chris DeLaurentis
Chris DeLaurentis is the global director of innovation at Topcoder and leads efforts to bring cooler, newer edge technology to our community. He joins Uprisor to explain what NFTs are, how you can create new value on top of them, and the things we’re working on at Topcoder including community trading cards and self-sovereign identity wallets.
How to Build Strong Culture When the Office is Optional with Larry English
Larry English is an expert in remote workforces and virtual collaboration. He’s the president and co-founder of Centric Consulting, which he founded 20 years ago as a fully virtual company, and author of “Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams.” On the episode, Larry shares strategies for creating engagement and connection on hybrid workforces, and what the future looks like for workers in a post-covid world.