Author: Susan Weinschenk
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Read Your Heart Rate From Your Smartphone Camera: Dr. Phillip Alvelda from Brainworks on the Human Tech podcast
Dr. Phillip Alvelda has been working on AI projects for many years. His latest project with his new startup can measure medical vital signs, for example your heart rate, from looking at your face on your smartphone camera. In this podcast episode we talk with him about artificial intelligence, especially in healthcare, and privacy and…
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The Book: I Love You, Now Read This Book On The Human Teach Podcast
In this episode Guthrie and I talk about his new book, he reads a short excerpt, we discuss what’s in it, and what it was like for him to write it.
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New Book on Behavioral Economics
I’m excited to announce that one of the Team W staff has just published a new book. If you’ve ever thought that Behavioral Economics was boring or incomprehensible, or not relevant to your life or work, then I suggest you check out this book. I think it will change your mind. The author is our…
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UX Strategy: Making UX Teams More Efficient, Effective, and Impactful
On this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about user experience (UX) strategy: What is it, why it’s important and what it entails. We also talk about our new curriculum in UX Strategy that we recently launched at courses.theteamw.com Here are the links we mention in the the episode: The free UX Strategy…
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Kristen Gallagher from Google asks “How do you know you are enough?” on the Human Tech Podcast
We met Kristen Gallagher from Google in Scottsdale in June at the UXPA conference. She intrigued us by sitting at a lunch table with strangers and asking the table to opine on gender differences in answering the question: “How do you know if you are enough”. So we brought her on the podcast to talk…
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The Challenges (and Rewards) of User Testing: Danielle Cooley on the Human Tech podcast
On this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with our guest Danielle Cooley about the challenges of user testing. What works, what doesn’t, and why.
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Elizabeth Rosenzweig On The Human Tech Podcast
Elizabeth is the Founder and Director of World Usability Day. She joined us on this episode of the Human Tech podcast to talk about how World Usability Day got started, a little bit about the history of photography, her definition of usability, and the possible future of UX conferences. We also talk about her book,…
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Creating Decision Points With Partitioning
How do you make large scary ideas seem small and not so scary, or the reverse — make small things seem more important? You use the behavioral economics idea of “partitioning”. It’s all explained in this episode of the Human Tech podcast.
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Talking User Research With David Travis
David Travis joins us on the Human Tech podcast to talk about teaching people how to do user experience work and specifically how to do user research. Which means we of course talk about his latest book, Think Like A UX Researcher.
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The Art and Science of Doing Nothing
I read an article in the New York Times today about “niksen” which is a Dutch word meaning doing nothing. The article talks about how doing nothing can be good for you. Ironically the article touts the idea of doing nothing so that you can be more productive. Which to me would mean you are…
