David FriedlandAre you wanting to learn more about user-centered design ? Well you’ve come to the right place. This is a curated list of the best user-centered design podcasts of 2021.
We have selected these podcasts for a variety of reasons, but they are all well worth a listen. We tried to select a variety of podcasts across the spectrum from hosts with a wide breadth of experience.
We are always keen to hear your feedback, if we have missed a podcast, tweet us @MagazineWelp and we will check it out!
Best User-centered Design Podcasts 2021
With thanks to ListenNotes, Crunchbase, SemRush and Ahrefs for providing the data to create and rank these podcasts.
Designed Today
- Publisher: Dillon Winspear
- Total Episodes: 103
Designed Today brings you insights to help bridge the world of Design & Business. I’ve centered my career on being the bridge between the “design eye” and the “business mind”. Learn how you can improve your design, branding, marketing, and advertising skills all in one place. In this show, we’ll explore the startup world, flexing the entrepreneurial muscles, from a User Experience perspective.
Experiencing Data with Brian T. O’Neill
- Publisher: Brian T. O’Neill from Designing for Analytics
- Total Episodes: 67
How do you create innovative machine learning and analytics products? Brian T. O’Neill reveals the strategies and activities that CxOs and innovative leaders in technical product management, data science and analytics are using to deliver indispensable experiences around data. From traditional analytics to machine learning and AI, Brian and his guests explore how extraordinary value can be created when the outputs of data science and analytics are turned into engaging, valuable decision support applications and user experiences centered around the humans in the loop. Experiencing Data also features special guests on design, ethics, explainable AI (XAI), and innovation who relate their expertise to the world of data-driven software. If you’re in charge of creating simple, valuable, human-centered data products that produce business value in the last mile, you’ll enjoy #ExperiencingData. Transcripts available at: https://designingforanalytics.com/ed ABOUT THE HOST Brian T. O’Neill is …
UX Soup
- Publisher: Strategy Analytics UX Innovation Practice
- Total Episodes: 40
Join Chris Schreiner and Lisa Cooper from Strategy Analytics as they discuss the latest developments impacting the user experience across personal devices, automotive, and the smart home. Digest the latest research news from SA’s UX Innovation Practice, listen to interviews from leading UX practitioners in industry and academia, and hear the team discuss the latest products and services from a human-centered design perspective. Email us at [email protected]
This is HCD – Human Centered Design Podcast
- Publisher: This is HCD
- Total Episodes: 173
This is HCD is the Number 1 human-centered design podcast on the internet! We aim to educate and empower about human-centered design. This podcast brings together thought-leaders from various disciplines such as service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management to discuss the craft, and to better understand what it means to work within a human-centric method.
User Centered by Design
- Publisher: Sunrise Labs UCD Team
- Total Episodes: 5
How can you leverage a User-Centered Design mindset in your product development efforts? In this series by Sunrise Labs, our UCD Team talks about challenges you might face when creating a smooth user experience in MedTech. Hear our experts discuss topics related to systems-level thinking, UX/UI Design, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Design, and more.
RISING DESIGN AFRICA PODCAST
- Publisher: RISING DESIGN AFRICA PODCAST
- Total Episodes: 4
Hosted by Aziz Sy, CEO of Impact Hub Dakar, Rising Design Africa is a monthly podcast exclusively dedicated to the impact of design in Africa through Human Centered Design and User Experience. This podcast aims at giving a clear picture of the african design landscape by showcasing the impact of design on primary, secondary and tertiary sectors on the continent. Different design players will share their experience in Africa (The challenges they faced and the impact of their work on local people). Case studies and success stories are the main focus of this podcast.
Human-Centered Machine Learning
- Publisher: Halmstad University
- Total Episodes: 13
In this course we will explore the challenges presented when designing AI-powered services. In particular, we will take a look at Machine Learning (such as deep learning and generative adversarial networks), and how that can be used in human-centered design of digital services. This course is created for User Experience (UX) professionals, Service Designers, and Product Managers as a way to help take a human-centered approach to AI in their work. The course is also useful for developers and engineers who want to both learn more about different Machine Learning techniques, and at the same time get a deeper understanding of the importance of a human-centered approach to digital design. The podcast is developed by Pontus Wärnestål, Stefan Byttner, Cristofer Englund and Jeanette Sjöberg at Halmstad University in Sweden, and is financed by VINNOVA. Music by Lee Rosevere. Read more: dap.hh.se
Sangre x startups
- Publisher: Sangre
- Total Episodes: 3
Sangre x startups is a podcast series for people who like to get inspired by digital products and new business growth. Join us for discussions with some of Finland’s most interesting startups on topics like product development, digital strategy, and the role of user-centered design in developing exceptional digital products and services.
The UX Blog: User Experience Design, Research & Strategy
- Publisher: Interviews with User Experience (UX) professionals hosted by Nicholas Tenhu
- Total Episodes: 18
Every week on The UX Blog Podcast, Nicholas Tenhue interviews user experience professionals about current trends, hot topics, and their careers. Learn about user-centered design, information architecture, user research, UX strategy, and interaction design. Nicholas interviews UXers at different stages in their career, from interns to executives. Find out more: www.theuxblog.com
Tech Connect
- Publisher: Catapult Systems
- Total Episodes: 1
Tech Connect is your go-to podcast for all things IT. We’ll discuss cutting edge technology as well as historical trends within the industry. We love to hear from our listeners, so reach out if you have an idea for a future podcast or if you just want to say hello. Catapult Systems is an IT consulting company that offers a full spectrum of services including application development, software integration, infrastructure, managed services, user centered design solutions and enterprise mobile applications. A Microsoft National Solutions Provider (NSP), Catapult is in the top 0.1% of Microsoft Partners worldwide, by holding 11 gold and 2 silver Microsoft competencies.
The Culture Cast
- Publisher: This is HCD – Human Centered Design Podcast
- Total Episodes: 7
This is HCD is the Number 1 human-centered design podcast on the internet! We aim to educate and empower about human-centered design. This podcast brings together thought-leaders from various disciplines such as service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management to discuss the craft, and to better understand what it means to work within a human-centric method.
UX Joburg
- Publisher: UX Joburg
- Total Episodes: 10
UX Joburg explores User Centered Strategy, Research, Design and Testing processes, techniques, and much more. Each episode features engaging presentations from experts in the field.
Rising Design Africa Podcast
- Publisher: YUX Design
- Total Episodes: 4
Hosted by Aziz Sy, CEO of Impact Hub Dakar, Rising Design Africa is a monthly podcast exclusively dedicated to the impact of design in Africa through Human Centered Design and User Experience. This podcast aims at giving a clear picture of the african design landscape by showcasing the impact of design on primary, secondary and tertiary sectors on the continent. Different design players will share their experience in Africa (The challenges they faced and the impact of their work on local people). Case studies and success stories are the main focus of this podcast.
Product with Panash
- Publisher: Panash
- Total Episodes: 1
Product with Panash is where we explore new perspectives and practices in enabling product decisioning in companies through user/human-centered design and research. We set out to meet pioneers and thought leaders who can share their knowledge and experience around what worked and why so you can really embed a product discovery culture in your own context. We’re obsessed with putting users at the heart of every conversation.
Decoding Culture [Archive]
- Publisher: This is HCD – Human Centered Design Podcast
- Total Episodes: 6
This is HCD aims to educate and empower about human-centered design. This podcast brings together thought-leaders from various disciplines such as service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management to discuss the craft, and to better understand what it means to work within a human-centric method.
User Centered Software Design
- Publisher: Institut für Informatik III
- Total Episodes: 114
The goal of user centered software design is a product that is optimized for its users, rather than a product, for which the users have to adapt their behavior. User centered software design includes a broad spectrum of approaches, techniques and tools from computer science and psychology. In addition to a basic introduction into the methodology of user centered design, this lecture course focuses on User Interface Engineering, since the User Interface is on of the core aspect of Human-Machine Interaction.
Designing Interactive Systems I ’18
- Publisher: Prof. Jan Borchers
- Total Episodes: 127
This class introduces students to the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and user interface design. Specifically, the course covers the following topics: Fundamental characteristics of human cognition, such as reaction time, rules of perception, and memory performance Models of interaction between people and their environment, such as affordances, mappings, constraints, slips, and mistakes Milestones in the history of human-computer interaction Principles of iterative design User interface prototyping techniques User studies and evaluation methods Golden rules of user interface design User interface design notations After this class, students will know how user interfaces have been developed over the past decades, and what constants of human performance need to be considered when designing them. This class forms the basis for the classes “ Designing Interactive Systems II ” (which looks at more technical aspects of user interface development) and “ Current Topics in HCI and Media Computing ”, as well as the “ Post-Desktop User Interfaces ” seminar and other courses from our research group. Students will be able to apply iterative design, prototyping, and evaluation methods to design usable, appropriate user interfaces in a user-centered fashion. All assignments are group assignments to foster collaboration skills, and project-based to strengthen project planning, conflict management and presentation skills. Learning to think in designers’ terms is a crucial competence for computer scientists working on user interfaces, a job that requires collaboration in interdisciplinary teams.
KD Conversations
- Publisher: Kinneir Dufort Design LTD
- Total Episodes: 15
Kinneir Dufort is a user-centered innovation and product development consultancy. We focus on designing a better world; creating value through tomorrow’s products and experiences with creative, technical and user experience expertise.
Designing Interactive Systems I ’17
- Publisher: Prof. Jan Borchers
- Total Episodes: 127
After the class, students will know how user interfaces have developed over the past decades, and what constants of human performance need to be considered when designing user interfaces. They will be able to apply a series of prototyping and evaluation methods to design usable, appropriate user interfaces in a user-centered fashion.
Designing Interactive Systems II ’18
- Publisher: Prof. Jan Borchers
- Total Episodes: 96
This course builds on the foundations of Designing Interactive Systems I, and provides an understanding of how interactive multimedia systems are built from a computer science point of view. It covers the principles of event-based operating systems, window system architectures, input and output device technology for multiple modalities, as well as User Interface Management Systems and UI development toolkits and their relative merits. In the labs, you will develop a minimalistic window system yourself, but also learn to work with various real-life development environments, including window systems such as Java Swing and multimedia development environments, to develop user interfaces. After this class, you will know how the technology behind interactive systems works. You can analyze, design, and implement graphical and other user interfaces for existing and emerging technologies, both for the desktop and beyond, and including interfaces for multimedia contents. Group-based, project-centered assignments and lab activities convey hands-on experience building user interfaces and foster project management and teamwork skills. The class consists of weekly lectures, labs, reading assignments, project-based group assignments, and graded written midterm and final examinations.
