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It's back! Season 3 of The UX Coach Podcast is returning Spring 2022 along with some other news from theuxcoach.com.Listen in for info on how to be a guest on the show and our debut course launching on the site.

In this episode I am really happy to be in conversation with Caroline Jarrett. Caroline has been an important voice in digital design for many years. Her mantra fix-the-forms is what lies behind her timeless book Forms that Work, designing web forms for usability, and her forthcoming book on survey design I am sure will become a go-to for years to come.---I wanted to hear about Caroline’s diverse career, her thoughts on design leadership, management and career progression, as well as the state of education and what challenges lie ahead for people coming into digital design in 2020.This was a really deep dive and so this episode is a little longer than usual, I hope you agree with me that it was well worth it.

This week I’m talking to Anna Kincses, head of research for Why? a Hungarian design agency.

In this episode I am in conversation with Jo O’Keefe, Lead User Researcher with  the Care Quality Commission in England.

In this episode I am in conversation with Vanessa Colina, founder of UX Backstage, a series of online courses for designers that aim to help develop the necessary skills to find your next job.---Vanessa has some great advice for hiring managers of all kinds about what they can be doing to improve the quality of the candidates they attract and being honest about what they need, and how UX Backstage launched in order to support designers looking to move out of junior or mid-weight positions into organisations that will help you develop skills and spaces for the future.https://uxbackstage.com/

In this episode I met with Mark Branigan, head of research at Hippo Digital a digital service design consultancy from the UK to talk about his career to-date, what it’s like being responsible for the hearts and minds of future generations and how a move into civil service opened his eyes to the amazing world of user research.Welcome to The UX Coach podcast, I’m Andy Parker and this is the show where we explore careers in digital design.You made it! This is our debut episode and boy have we learnt a lot already. Not as easy as you think stitching this together you know.In this episode I met with Mark Branigan, head of research at Hippo Digital a digital service design consultancy from the UK to talk about his career to-date, what it’s like being responsible for the hearts and minds of future generations and how a move into civil service opened his eyes to the amazing world of user research.We also discuss whether there really is such a thing as a mid-weight designer.For more info about Hippo Digitalhttps://hippodigital.co.uk/Follow Mark on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/markbrani

In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step down to make way for new voices, something he is greatly passionate about supporting. Thank you for joining me here on the debut season of The UX Coach podcast. In this our final episode, I’m in conversation with Dylan Wilbanks. Dylan has been part of the digital design community since the mid-90s, a frequent writer Dylan was present a lot in the speaker circuit but in recent years has chosen to step down to make way for new voices, something he is greatly passionate about supporting. I reached out to Dylan after he made a comment that he had reluctantly accepted his first job as a Manager. For someone who has been driving change, and leading design for almost 20 years I was fascinated to find out where this statement came from. We covered a lot of ground, and there were so many things we explored that it has genuinely been a challenge to edit this down and I really didn’t want to go full blown Sam Harris on you all. We pick things up with a bit of background.

This is a rebroadcast of The UX Coach with guest Tom Walker

In this episode I’m in conversation with Miles Reiter. Miles is both UX Designer and Product Manager at Bolstra, a Saas business that has developed a customer success management platform based out of Indianapolis in the United States of America.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Miles Reiter. Miles is both UX Designer and Product Manager at Bolstra, a Saas business that has developed a customer success management platform based out of Indianapolis in the United States of America.We got deep into what it is like being the first hire in a startup, and more than that, how to tell if you’re geared up for the baptism of fire that comes with joining a startup straight out of school.Miles tells us about his degree in infomatics and its potential for creating great digital products, we discuss our favourite reads of 2018 and other ways to seek advice and develop your skills when you are the design-team of one.

In this episode I’m in conversation with Johnny Burch, founder of Progression app a new product to help design managers and team leaders that aims to Stop spreadsheet-wrangling, text-wordsmithing and ladder-shuffling when it comes to supporting team growth.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Johnny Burch, founder of Progression app a new product to help design managers and team leaders that aims to Stop spreadsheet-wrangling, text-wordsmithing and ladder-shuffling when it comes to supporting team growth.Johnny’s experiences as a design manager at Deliveroo, one of the world’s fastest growing startups in the gig-economy gave him insight into the murky world of team management and career development that resulted in progression which is now in Alpha.We discuss how better tools for design leadership and management may be able to address and improve the current inequalities and balances in the design industry and his long-term dreams for how Progression could contribute to better identifying and remedying this problem.We dig into the definition of an Individual contributor, the transition to being a manager adjusting from maker mode to a calendar full of half our 1:1s.We met up with Johnny finding a rare hour in his day as he announced finding a partner to join him on the Progress journey.## Links:[progressionapp.com](http://progressionapp.com)[https://makegrow.co/podcast](https://makegrow.co/podcast)[anchor.co/progressionpod](anchor.co/progressionpod)[https://www.jonnyburch.com/](https://www.jonnyburch.com/)

In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego is a User Researcher, Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, and Professional Dancer currently located in Brooklyn.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Bradley Orego a User Researcher, Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, and Professional Dancer currently located in Brooklyn.We talk about the parallels in the digital product industry and creative arts, how the education sector is struggling to develop the career paths of Gen-Z and I ask how you continue to develop your own skills once you reach a senior level of experience.* [https://www.1010data.com/](https://www.1010data.com/)* [https://bradorego.com/](https://bradorego.com/)* [https://medium.com/performing-design](https://medium.com/performing-design)* [Google Machine Learning Course](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/)

In this episode I’m in conversation with Hugo Jenkins, owner of The 25th Company, a user experience and product design consultancy from Melbourne Australia.---In this episode I’m in conversation with Hugo Jenkins, owner of The 25th Company, a user experience and product design consultancy from Melbourne AustraliaHugo and his wife also run Things For Kids,A childrens' activity directory born from their own experiences of becoming parents and the struggles with wellbeing and the all important work-life balance.We discuss overcoming the fears of leaving tradition employed life and going out on your own as a contractor or starting your own business, the connections between musicians, designers and the by-gone era of myspace skinning.

In this episode I am in conversation with Tom Kerwin, Product Design Lead at Qubit, a personalisation platform where Tom has recently begun developing a UX research team.---We talk about how Tom’s background in psychology and computer engineering lead him to user experience design, and the new skills required to be a design leader.Tom has a great view on the types of Manager there is, and how that relates to coaching and being a mentor.Links* [Progression.FYI]([https://www.progression.fyi/])* [http://www.tomkerwin.com/](http://www.tomkerwin.com/)* [https://twitter.com/uxdesigntom](https://twitter.com/uxdesigntom)* [So you want to break into UX but don't know where to start](https://uxdesign.cc/so-you-want-to-break-into-ux-but-you-dont-know-where-to-start-8ae95567f7e0)* [Why content needs to get into the sea](https://medium.com/@CorissaNunn/why-content-needs-to-get-in-the-sea-74e2fce63e13)* [Icarus Paradox Exceptional Companies Downfall](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Icarus-Paradox-Exceptional-Companies-Downfall/dp/0887304532/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?hvadid=80333100300556&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=the+icarus+paradox&qid=1552906743&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull&tag=mh0a9-21)