Author: Susan Weinschenk
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4 Influencers of Corporate Ethics
In this podcast episode we talk about the 4 ways that ethics are influenced inside an organization: The Free Market The Government Corporate Leadership Employees
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Human Factors in Healthcare: An interview with Russ Branaghan
Every day around the world thousands of people receive medical treatment. They, or their health care practitioner are using a medical device: an xray machine, a pacemaker, a medication infusion pump… So how well designed is that medical device? Did a human factors expert work on the design to help make it error proof? How…
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Humans Calculate By Feel on the Human Tech Podcast
In this Human Tech podcast episode we talk about behavioral economics, specifically about the idea that people don’t calculate the value of products and services rationally, but they do so by following how they feel about what something is worth. Guthrie walks us through the research and the practical implications.
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East vs. West Design: A conversation with Sydney Anh Mai
In this Human Tech podcast episode we talk with Sydney Anh Mai from Kickstarter about differences in design between the East and the West. Sydney grew up in Vietnam, but then came to school and to work in the US. A Product Designer for Kickstarter, we talk about product design, interaction design, and cultural differences.
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We Overestimate Our Own Knowledge, the latest episode on the Human Tech Podcast
If you ask someone how much they know about a particular topic they tend to overestimate their own knowledge. And we tend to rely on our social network to fill in our knowledge gaps. This illusion about how much we know is the topic of the latest Human Tech podcast episode, where we talk with…
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Dean Barker, VP for UX at United Health Group on the Human Tech Podcast
On this episode of Human Tech we talk with Dean Barker who is the VP for User Experience for United Health Group, and is also a long time friend and colleague. We talk about the challenges of finding UX staff, challenges in doing UX work at a large corporation, and some of the past projects…
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Are Virtual Meetings Stressing You Out?
These days my workdays often consist of one online meeting after another. Sometimes I have long streams of back to back meetings with less than 30 seconds in between. Sound familiar? So on a recent call with a client last week I asked if we could all change our meeting settings so that the default…
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Authors Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson on “Figure It Out”
WOW, WOW, WOW. If your job involves designing anything, or communicating information to others, then I think you need to read this book. On this episode of Human Tech we interview Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson about their recently published book: Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding. On the episode I act like…
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Amy Bucher and Behavior Change Design on the Human Tech podcast
Amy Bucher, Vice President of Behavior Change at MadPow, and author of Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change, joins us for this episode on Human Tech. And if you are interested in purchasing the book the publisher, Rosenfeld, has a coupon code for us: Go to this webpage: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/engaged-designing-for-behavior-change/ and when you are checking out use…
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Remote User Research Episode on Human Tech
In this episode we talk about remote user research — the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges.
