Folks, I am super pumped to bring to you our conversation with Jeffrey Boadi, one of the coolest people in the plant based world. Jeffrey and I decided to hop on a video call to get to know each other, exchange some plant based knowledge and talk about healthy diet and lifestyle in general. Jeffrey has built a good followership on Twitter at @Jeffr…

Folks, if you love technology and the cloud trends, you’re gonna love this conversation we had with Sarbjeet Johal! Sarbjeet has worked for companies like Visa, VMWare, PeopleSoft, Rackspace, Oracle and others and he accumulated an enormous amount of first hand experience and knowledge about the cloud industry. We intentionally skipped most of the …

What a blast it was to record this episode with Alisa! I hope you guys absolutely love it! Alisa has an undergraduate degree in math and philosophy and a master’s degree in teaching. Last year Alisa transitioned from teaching to UX design and she’s currently with Microsoft EDU in Seattle working on a really cool OneNote Education product for teache…

In this episode, I had a pleasure of speaking with Tom Chaffin from Lancaster, PA about his life story and how he found his passion in user experience. Tom and his team won a grant a few years ago and worked on a mobile app and that's when he knew UX is what he wanted to do next. We also discussed some constructive advice for people who are just st…

Hey folks! Thank you for tuning in! Today I had an awesome guest Libby Yeh who shared her story of transitioning from a career in Account Marketing to first a programming school and then UX. She also provided valuable advice for people who are just graduating college or are also contemplating a career change. It’s a fascinating conversation from wh…

Thank you so much for tuning in! Do we have something awesome for you! We got together with Doug Collins and Pavel Samsonov late last night to chat about Dark UX Patterns since these things have been getting out of hand lately and they are not always necessarily black and white. We have a lot of research based insights from Doug and rather interest…

Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in today! I want to share something interesting with you. About 8-9 months ago, I interviewed with a couple of companies for a product owner position here in Minneapolis but wasn't hired by them. What happened later is really funny and kinda fascinating! :) If you had similar experiences, I'd love to hear your…

Hey guys, this is a quick solo episode where I want to share something interesting I heard at a product conference here in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago. It's very fascinating imho and I hope you will find it useful as well. Thank you for tuning in!

In this episode I'm sharing a real life example of how some people are able to escape the tunnel vision and focus on the end goal without any mental limitations. I took a Lean training a few years ago while at one of my employers and I was blown away at what one of our teams did. Tune in and let me know what you think. I hope it's valuable!…

Hey guys, this episode is an experiment. It's a quick solo recording that I did just now right on my paddleboard in the middle of a lake here in Minnesota. I am explaining the difference between Product Manager and Product Owner. Let me know how you like it. I'd love to hear your comments!

In this episode legendary UX designers @DougCollinsUX and @PavelASamsonov join me in the very first three-way podcast conversation. We originally planned to talk about how UX designers deal with Product Owners but quickly pivoted into the subject of what career options UX designers have these days, Product Owner being one of them. This discussion w…

My guest today is Jeff Grigg who has over 20 years of experience of working as a developer for multinational corporations. He and I recently engaged into a short tweet exchange where he mentioned a few things that caught my attention. I figured we needed to talk it over on the podcast. In this episode we are briefly discussing Code Ownership and th…

In this episode I have a very special guest, Pavel Samsonov, a UX designer from Bloomberg LP. Our conversation is focused on challenges that product design and development organizations face these days. Pavel expresses his view on how Agile may be improved to better accommodate design processes. We discuss very interesting things like “respecting t…

In this episode, Oksana Ivanova and I discuss gaming - why today's games are easier than they were in the past, where the gaming industry is going, what can potentially happen to the Fortnite model as they expand into a social platform arena. This conversation provoked a few interesting thoughts that I hope you guys will find valuable. Oksana can b…

This episode is very special with a very special guest. Joe Natoli shares insights from his many years of UX consulting experience. We also discuss a rather important topic of product ownership inside product development organizations. Turns out "Product Owner" is a very important role and we talk about it in detail. This episode should be very ins…

I love Colorado! I snowboarded there many years ago (too many actually) and we also visited it last summer. Since Doug was born and spent almost all of his life in this beautiful state (he lives and works in Denver), I thought it would be a great idea to have him help me learn more about the state. We talked about job market in Denver, best mountai…

In this episode I let Doug Collins drive. He spoke about his learnings from some of his past failures. We also came up with some tips on how to negotiate with your business partners or managers when they prevent you from properly doing your job as a UX professional. Hope you guys enjoy it! Everything about Doug can be found at DenverUXer.com and on…

Today Doug Collins and I discussed a rather important topic - return on investment of user experience design. This is very often either not properly understood by executive decision makers or plain neglected. We talk about real life examples with high level numbers, left brain and right brain folks, liberal arts, and more. We would absolutely love …

Today Oksana and I dove into the current state of the crypto industry and blockchain. I shared my first hand experience related to investing, working for a crypto project, understanding the blockchain in general and things of that nature (i.e. what is Bitcoin, how Ethereum works, etc). Hope you find it interesting. As I mentioned at the end of the …

Hey guys, I always wanted to have audio versions of my ebooks but I didn't want to deal with all these logistics. Now that I have my podcast, I figured that I can simply narrate them myself here. The first ebook is "Create A Start" that basically tells almost my entire career story in under one hour while tracing some of my accomplishments back to …

The one and only Doug Collins and I discuss whether the current org model around product development truly sets up a UXer for success. We also talk about one of Doug's passions - Accessibility UX. Along the way we touch on a few other topics like sports apps, etc. Hope you guys enjoy it! You can follow Doug on Twitter @DougCollinsUX. He also runs a…

Hi everybody! I'm super excited to finally launch my podcast! In this very first, aka pilot, episode Oksana Ivanova and I discuss gamification in UX, battles with Marketing during product development and few other interesting things. To learn more about Oksana, you can find her on Twitter @OksanaIvanovaPM. You can learn more about me at www.vitalik…