UX & Growth Podcast
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UX & Growth Podcast
Stories, debates and advice. Austin Knight, a designer at Google (formerly HubSpot), sits down with friends from around the world to discuss User Experience and Growth tactics. This show is entirely non-profit and independent, to ensure that the content is always of the highest quality. It does not...
Recent Episodes
41 episodes
Necessity, Innovation & Rapid Launches with Cambria Davies (Product Manager at Ro)
What factors breed innovation? How do you take a product from zero to one, launching and iterating quickly? What does it mean to create sustainable gr...
Podcast Mastery with Jason Ogle (Host of User Defenders)
So you've started a podcast. Now, how do you book guests? What about sponsors and affiliates? Where should you be promoting your show? In this episode...
Design Portfolios with Martijn van den Broeck (Designer at Google)
What are the key pieces of a great portfolio? What are the best tools for building and launching one? And what are the pitfalls to avoid? In this epis...
Designer at Scale with Joel Beukelman (Designer at Google)
What do designers do after they've achieved their career goals? Why aren't designers typically founders, and why is creative burnout so common? In thi...
Starting & Growing A Podcast
What are the basic steps to take when starting a podcast? And how do you grow it? In this episode, Matt, Geoff and I recap what we've done to run the...
Side Projects & Incremental Growth with Lee Munroe (Director of Design at OneSignal)
How do side projects impact a designer's career? What are the incremental growth tools that can turn a side project into something bigger? In this epi...
Design at Planet Scale with Hannah Lee (Designer at Google)
The UX & Growth Podcast is back, and we’re kicking things off right. In this episode, I sit down with Hannah Lee (Designer at Google) to discuss how s...
Freemium Growth with Dexter Zhuang (Growth Manager at Dropbox)
How do companies like Dropbox, Spotify, Slack, and HubSpot leverage freemium strategies to grow? What are the different approaches to freemium, and wh...
WebVR & A-Frame with Casey Yee (UX Engineer at Mozilla)
WebVR is Virtual Reality that runs in the browser, on anything from a smartphone, to a laptop, to an HTC Vive. And it's much easier to build for than...
Growth in Emerging Economies with Daniel Patiño (Co-founder, Digifianz)
Emerging economies are expected to contribute up to 70% of global GDP growth between now and 2025. The opportunities to internationalize have never be...
Re-Engaging & Retaining Users (Plus, an Announcement)
What is the best way to define churn and how should this affect your retention techniques? What are the right and the wrong ways to re-engage users? I...
Remote Work & Digital Nomadism
Is remote work possible in design? How can designers transition to remote work, and what are the pros and cons of doing so? In this episode, we cover...
Balancing Design & Conversion with Dr. David Darmanin (CEO of Hotjar)
What is the relationship between design and conversion? Is one more important than the other? Is it possible to quantify the aesthetics of a design? I...
Creating & Measuring Delight
What is delight, beyond the buzzword? How should it really be used and can it be measured? In this episode, we examine how delight fits into the hiera...
Keys to Running Successful Experiments & Documenting Results
What should you do if your experiments are regularly failing? How can you turn every experiment into a success and scale those benefits across all of...
Technical Debt & Design Debt
What are Technical Debt and Design Debt, and why they so important in the experimental process? What can we do to identify and combat them? In this ep...
Building a UX Team & Educating Designers with Aarron Walter (VP of Design Education at InVision)
What does it mean to build a strong UX team and when should a company look to do that? With no formal education path, how should designers be cultivat...
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, & the Internet of Things
With the dawn of VR, AR, and IoT, how will things change for designers? What opportunities could lie within these emerging technologies? In this episo...
Design Leadership with Tim Merrill (Director of Product Design at HubSpot)
What are the important qualities that go into design leadership? What can design leaders do to help their teams collaborate and grow? In this episode,...
Why Accessibility Matters & How to Design for It
What is Accessibility and why should businesses care about it? How difficult is it to design for disabled audiences? In this episode, we discuss the m...
Effective Design Reviews with Tom Greever (Author of Articulating Design Decisions)
What makes for an effective design review? And how should designers be preparing for them? In this episode, we sit down with Tom Greever (Author of Ar...
The Next Frontier of Competition: Data Security, Privacy, and User Trust
What makes Apple’s recent customer letter on iPhone privacy so important? How will data security play into future business strategies and customer pur...
Lean UX & Organization Design with Jeff Gothelf (Author of Lean UX & Sense and Respond)
What is Lean UX and how does it change the way that designers work? What are the most effective ways for design organizations to be structured? In thi...
SEO with Matthew Barby (Global Head of Growth and SEO at HubSpot)
What are the most effective SEO plays today and what are the best tools available? If you're running a business, how should you build your SEO strateg...
Personas, Content, and Growth Marketing with Anum Hussain (Senior Growth Marketer at HubSpot)
What is Growth Marketing and what are the most effective ways to do it? How does content, SEO, and persona creation play into growth? In this episode,...
Big Learnings in 2015: Experiments & Culture
What were our biggest learnings in 2015? And how can they be applied in the coming years? In this episode, we cover what we've learned about factorial...
Why Site Speed Matters & How To Improve It
How important is site speed and what can you do to improve yours? As it turns out, the average user will abandon a site if it does not load within 3 s...
Design Machines & The Death of Creativity in Web Design
Are data-driven design and copycat culture destroying creativity on the web? Are designers oppressed by terrible content and templated frameworks? Or...
Project Comet with Demian Borba (Product Manager at Adobe)
What makes Adobe's new UX tool, Project Comet, so awesome for designers? What are the details behind the tool and it's unique features that are aimed...
Importance of Education & Other UX Myths
Is a college education really a prerequisite to working in UX and Tech? Is it acceptable to copy design ideas from best-in-class companies and direct...
Statistical Significance & Getting Data You Can Trust
What is statistical significance and why is it so critical to the success of experiments? What are some things that you can do to ensure that you're c...
Launching HubSpot.com & Running Effective Experiments
We're back from INBOUND! What is it like to design and launch a site seen by millions of people every month? And how do you run the highly effective e...
Hiring & Getting Hired with Mike Gaiss (Founder of ThinkB1G)
What are the qualities and skillsets that the world's best companies look for in candidates? How can you position yourself or your company to win in t...
The Death of the Popup & Rise of the Modal
What are the differences between popups and modals? More importantly, why are they so widely used despite the fact that they're so ineffective? In thi...
Growth vs. UX Tools & Processes
What are the best UX and Growth tools at our disposal today and what are the differences between them? How does the UX process differ from the Growth...
Startup Growth Tactics with Brian Balfour (VP of Growth at HubSpot)
Why do startups fail? What are the best ways to scale up and grow your customer base? How do you test and verify new business ideas? In this episode,...
Human to Human UX
User Experience exists not only in the digital medium, but also in the human interactions that companies have with their customers. Personal phone cal...
Onboarding Best Practices
Onboarding is the process of introducing a user to a new software, app, website, or feature update. It is commonly cited as the most critical componen...
Design Trends: Good or Bad?
As technology and devices have evolved, many new trends have made their way into design. How should we think about these trends? When should we use th...
The Data Behind Why Apps Fail
A shocking study published by comScore found that most smartphone users download an average of zero apps per moth. What does this mean for app develop...