Podcasts

Adaptive Path Workshops & Events

MX San Francisco: Managing Experience Through Creative Leadership

As the business value of design becomes clearer, creative managers building the next generation of products and services are confronted with an increasingly demanding set of challenges. MX brings together thought leaders from the experience design industry to share how to get great experiences out into the world.

MX San Francisco 2007

• Listen at IT Conversations
• Subscribe via iTunes
• Grab the RSS feed
• Watch Peter Merholz's "Experience is the Product" slidecast
• All eight sessions available; 30-60 minutes each

UX Week

UX Week is the premier experience design conference where thought leaders share the latest experience design thinking and identify emerging industry trends. UX Week brings together a diverse group of user experience professionals from all levels -- directors, managers, and practitioners -- and a variety of industries.

UX Week 2007

• Subscribe via iTunes
• Grab the RSS feed
• Watch Bill DeRouchey "Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects" slidecast
• Over 20 sessions available; approximately 45 minutes each

UX Week 2006

• Listen at IT Conversations
• Subscribe via iTunes
• Grab the RSS feed
• Over 20 sessions available; approximately 45 minutes each

Expert Interviews

Brandon Interviews Scott Hirsch About Bridging Design and Business Strategy: Brandon Schauer chats with Scott Hirsch, founding principal at Management Innovation Group, a strategy consulting firm that works with clients to understand where to play and how to win in world of rapid (and often disruptive) change in markets, technologies, and business models.
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Peter in Conversation with Don Norman About UX & Innovation: Peter Merholz chats with Don Norman, author and co-author of fourteen books, including the seminal The Design of Everyday Things, and his recently released The Design of Future Things, about what he thinks about user experience design today and what companies need to do to innovate.
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Peter Talks Shop with Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith: Peter Merholz talks with Scott Griffith about the balance of user experience and business concerns in the design of Zipcar's unique customer experience.
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Peter Interviews Hotel CEO Chip Conley: Peter Merholz and Chip Conley talk about recession planning, service design, systematizing experience design (Joie de Vivre Hotels uses a tool called "experience report cards"), team dynamics, succession planning, and all manner of things.
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Jesse Interviews Wells Fargo VP Secil Watson: Jesse James Garrett and Secil Watson talk about managing customer experiences through Wells Fargo's web sites and its phone and electronic servicing channels.
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Peter Interviews Virgin USA's Julie Peters: Peter Merholz and Julie Peters talk about launching new Virgin brands in North America.
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Adaptive Path Appearances

Interview with Kate Rutter on Evaluating your Web Site: A website costs money. It's your job, as a web professional, to make sure your website is written and designed well, that visitors can use it easily, that it's accurate, and that it's contributing to the achievement of your company's mission.
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Interview with Henning Fischer - Developing a Mission Statement: Henning addresses the question "Should small businesses have mission statements too" and talks about the value of the "Elevator Pitch" technique.
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SpoolCast: Product Evolution with Adaptive Path's Peter Merholz: Peter and Jared Spool discuss how the best products never offer their users an incomplete feeling experience.
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10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment, SXSW, Bryan Mason & Sarah Nelson: Bryan and Sarah introduce you to 10 techniques used by creative management professionals to get great work from a wide range of employees.
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The Long Wow, IA Summit 2008, Brandon Schauer: Brandon lays out an experience centric approach to fostering and creating loyalty by systematically impressing your customers again and again.
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How to be a User Experience Team of One, IA Summit 2008, Leah Buley: Leah teaches techniques that any individual can use to generate and refine ideas, outlining flexible, simple activities that can be used quickly, wherever they're needed.
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Presence, identity, and attention in social web architecture, IA Summit 2008, Andrew Crow: In this discussion about presence, identity, and attention in social web architecture the panel talks about core IA related issues.
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It's the Experience That Counts, Business Week, Peter Merholz: Peter discusses how focusing on consumers' experience of new products and services through rapid prototyping and other means can inform and shape design.
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Avoiding Ready-Fire-Aim UX Design, Pixel8 Podcast, Dan Harrelson & Kim Lenox: Dan and Kim share their experiences in how to think through the UX design process and the many tools to help guide their thinking like research-based design and injecting users directly into designs.
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"Subject to Change" Authors on Product Development: Brandon Schauer, David Verba and Peter Merholz provide insights about how prosperous businesses can — and should — use customer experiences to inform and shape the product development process, from start to finish.
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The End of Products, Emergence 2007, Todd Wilkens: Todd shares his thoughts on the emerging field of service design and its implications for product design.
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Multi-media Web Content, .net magazine, Peter Merholz: Peter participates in a panel with Andy Budd of ClearLeft and Hammad Khan (persona creative) to discuss the creation of a positive user experience and the importance of user experience design.
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The Coming Age of Magic, ETech Conference 2007, Mike Kuniavsky: Mike discusses how information processing is integrated into everyday objects, and the 'desktop' metaphor is obsolete. This post-desktop model of computing is known as ubiquitous computing.
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