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Dollars to Donuts

The podcast where we talk with the people who lead user research in their organization.

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Announcing “Off the Path with Sam and Steve”

Sam Ladner and I have a new podcast, called Off the Path with Sam and Steve . It’s a limited series, where we talk about what a research career looks like, even when it goes “off the path.” Our first three episodes are live. Show Links Off the Path with Sam and Steve on Apple Podcasts Off the Path with Sam and Steve on YouTube Off the Path with Sam and Steve on Spotify Episode 1: The Good Enough…

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53. Remembering Tomer Sharon

Tomer Sharon passed away last week. I’m reposting his appearance on Dollars to Donuts from 2019. Show Links Episode transcript Episode (and show links) from 2019 From LinkedIn, announcement of Tomer’s passing The post 53. Remembering Tomer Sharon first appeared on Portigal Consulting .

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Interviewing Users anniversary and new audiobook!

It’s the first anniversary of the second edition of Interviewing Users, and it’s now available as an audiobook. Listen to this episode for a sample. Show Links Interviewing Users on Audible Interviewing Users, 2nd Edition (print and eBook) The post Interviewing Users anniversary and new audiobook! first appeared on Portigal Consulting .

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52. Emily Sun of Hipcamp

In this episode of Dollars to Donuts, I talk with Emily Sun, the head of Design and Research at Hipcamp. We discuss staying engaged in work, designers doing their own research, and research at a small, growing company. There’s actually a big opportunity with smaller companies. At small startups, you are much closer to the people who are making the long term vision for what the company is going to…

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51. Tamara Hale of Splunk

This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my conversation with Tamara Hale, the Director of Product Experience – Research & Insights at Splunk. We talk about the long tail of impact, being an anthropologist of work, and having a creative practice. The ‘doing the research’ bit is only about a quarter of your job. The rest of it is all the other stuff that goes around it. It’s about storytelling…

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50. Vanessa Arango Garcia of Delivery Hero

In this latest episode of Dollars to Donuts, I talk with Vanessa Arango Garcia, Director UX Research & Research Operations at Delivery Hero. We discuss creating an engaged research community across a global organization, being accountable for impact, and how today’s challenges provide an opportunity for the research progression to grow. We care a lot about our craft and we need to keep the quality…

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49. Sarah Gregory of Coinbase

This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my conversation with Sarah Gregory, Director of User Research for Consumer at Coinbase. We talk about research comms, archiving user research, and doing research that no one is yet asking for. Our email is designed for one very specific leadership stakeholder, and it is tailored to how that person likes to consume information. There’s a different…

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48. Jamika Burge of Capital One

In this episode of Dollars to Donuts I speak with Jamika Burge, the head of research for Data and AI at Capital One. We talk about her journey through academia, discovering user research, and intersectionality. Doing good – for me, as a researcher, and as someone who wants to do good in the world, it means understanding people’s needs in context and providing opportunities for them to succeed.…

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47. Akshay Verma of Duolingo

This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my interview with Akshay Verma, the head of User Research at Duolingo. We talk about being qualitative focused in an experimentation-driven organization, research team structures, team rituals, and sharing knowledge between researchers. I don’t actually want to bemoan or belabor this concept of a room that we’re invited to or not. At Duolingo, I feel it…

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46. Daniel Escher of Remitly

In this episode of Dollars to Donuts I speak with Daniel Escher, Director of UX and Research at Remitly. We talk about more ways for researchers to add value, business questions over research questions, and the things that researchers worry about. Where I think collective identity can be limiting is when someone thinks of themselves as a researcher and says, “Therefore, that means this is my small…

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