• Deciding What’s Ethical

    Deciding What’s Ethical

    Sometimes I think we get so busy with designing ads, marketing campaigns, or the interfaces for digital products that we forget to stop and think about whether our products and campaigns are ethical. And if you do stop to think about ethics you might not…

  • Different Processes For Designing Stuff

    Different Processes For Designing Stuff

    You’d think there would be agreement on the best process to follow if you are going to design a digital product. But there’s not. In this podcast episode we go “into the weeds” a bit and talk about four popular methods for doing design, and…

  • What’s Wrong With Gamification?

    What’s Wrong With Gamification?

    A couple of years ago “gamification” was a hot topic. Product managers of software, apps, and internal company intranets and training programs attempted to take the factors that make games engaging and apply those to non-game digital products. The results have largely been less than successful.…

  • What We Learned At The Habit Summit

    What We Learned At The Habit Summit

    We just got back from attending and speaking at the Habit Summit conference in San Francisco. We share some of the things we learned from the speakers at the Summit, such as: a new app that purports to fix your tech/life balance, that instead of…

  • Photography and Design: James Chudley Is Our Guest On HumanTech Podcast

    Photography and Design: James Chudley Is Our Guest On HumanTech Podcast

    How much do you think about photography in the design of websites and digital marketing? James Chudley joins us on this podcast episode to talk about photography,  design, and lots more. And here are some links for things we talk about: James has a great…

  • Why We Still Love User Testing

    Why We Still Love User Testing

    User Testing as a way to get feedback from people about a product is still going strong. In this episode Susan quizzes Guthrie about the what and how of user testing, and talks about some of her fun and more memorable moments of the hundreds…

  • Memory

    Memory

    Did you see the movie Inside Out? Remember the colored memory balls — stacks and stacks of them? Well, that’s not how memory works. In this podcast episode we talk about the way we store and retrieve memories. You can subscribe to the HumanTech podcast through…

  • Updated Free Online Course: User Experience Fundamentals

    Updated Free Online Course: User Experience Fundamentals

    At The Team W we’ve updated our free User Experience Fundamentals online video course. This latest version of the course has been filmed in our new studio. We’ve expanded and updated the content. The video clip below will give you an idea of what’s in…

  • Rating Your Projects A- Vs A+

    Rating Your Projects A- Vs A+

    In the last blog post Guthrie Weinschenk explained his idea about saving time and money by rating your projects before you start them. In this podcast Susan and Guthrie discuss how this works and why it works. You can subscribe to the HumanTech podcast through iTunes,…

  • Increase Your Work Efficiency In 5 Seconds Or Less

    Increase Your Work Efficiency In 5 Seconds Or Less

    This post is written by Guthrie Weinschenk, J.D., Chief Operating Officer at The Team W, Inc. Giving your project a grade before you start working on it will improve your efficiency and the outcome of the project. Take a few seconds to decide whether the…