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2023

• Ep 114: Dan Russell on The Joy of Search – May 21, 2023
• Ep 113: Sheryl Cababa on Systems Thinking for Social Change – May 05, 2023
• Ep 112: Jerry Michalski on Jerry’s Brain – April 23, 2023
• Ep 111: Andy Fitzgerald on Structured Content – April 09, 2023
• Ep 110: Nicole van der Hoeven on Obsidian – March 26, 2023
• Ep 109: Hugh Dubberly on Design Models – March 11, 2023
• Ep 108: Carrie Hane on Content Models – February 26, 2023
• Ep 107: Michael Becker on Knowledge Work – February 12, 2023
• Ep 106: Léonie Watson on Accessibility – January 29, 2023
• Ep 105: David Rose on SuperSight – January 14, 2023
• Ep 104: Marcia Bates on Search Systems – January 01, 2023

2022

• Ep 103: Scott Jenson on Open Source UX – December 18, 2022
• Ep 102: Amy Jiménez Márquez on Leading Information Architecture – December 03, 2022
• Ep 101: Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson on The Information Layer – November 20, 2022
• Ep 100: Listener Questions – November 06, 2022
• Ep 99: Mark Bernstein on Tinderbox – October 23, 2022
• Ep 98: Alice Albrecht on re:collect – October 09, 2022
• Ep 97: Rob Ashton on the Science of Writing – September 25, 2022
• Ep 96: Erin Malone on Pattern Libraries – September 11, 2022
• Ep 95: Natalie Marie Dunbar on Scaling Content Strategy – August 28, 2022
• Ep 94: Howard Rheingold on Tools for Thought – August 14, 2022
• Ep 93: Lorenzo Bernaschina on Gems Notes – July 31, 2022
• Ep 92: Steve Portigal on Research Skills – July 17, 2022
• Ep 91: Daniel Stillman on Conversation Design – July 03, 2022
• Ep 90: Mike Rohde on Sketchnote Thinking – June 19, 2022
• Ep 89: Kat King on Notes for Learning – June 05, 2022
• Ep 88: Sam Ladner on Managing Research Knowledge – May 22, 2022
• Ep 87: Austin Govella on the IA of Note-taking – May 08, 2022
• Ep 86: Veronica Erb on Annotating Books – April 24, 2022
• Ep 85: Dorian Taylor on Christopher Alexander – April 10, 2022
• Ep 84: Laura Yarrow on Trusted Agitators – March 27, 2022
• Ep 83: Oliver Caviglioli on Graphic Organizers – March 13, 2022
• Ep 82: Indi Young on Time to Listen – February 27, 2022
• Ep 81: Peter Bogaards on a UX Canon – February 13, 2022
• Ep 80: Madonnalisa Chan on Notes for Living – January 30, 2022
• Ep 79: Boon Yew Chew on Roam – January 16, 2022
• Ep 78: Dan Klyn on the BASIC Framework – January 02, 2022

2021

• Ep 77: Year in Review – December 19, 2021
• Ep 76: Dan Brown on IA Lenses – December 05, 2021
• Ep 75: Hans Krueger on the Cycle of Emotions – November 21, 2021
• Ep 74: Annie Murphy Paul on The Extended Mind – November 07, 2021
• Ep 73: Patrick Tanguay on Newsletter Curation – October 24, 2021
• Ep 72: Nathan Shedroff on Foodicons – October 10, 2021
• Ep 71: Sunni Brown on Deep Self Design – September 26, 2021
• Ep 70: Karl Fast on Interactionism, part 2 – September 12, 2021
• Ep 69: Karl Fast on Interactionism, part 1 – August 29, 2021
• Ep 68: Mags Hanley on Career Architecture – August 15, 2021
• Ep 67: Listener Questions – August 01, 2021
• Ep 66: Jim Kalbach on Jobs to Be Done – July 18, 2021
• Ep 65: Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan on India – July 04, 2021
• Ep 64: Sarah Barrett on Architectural Scale – June 20, 2021
• Ep 63: Sophia Prater on Object Oriented UX – June 06, 2021
• Ep 62: Alla Weinberg on Work Culture – May 23, 2021
• Ep 61: Jeff Sussna on Customer Value Charting – May 09, 2021
• Ep 60: Kat Vellos on Friendship – April 25, 2021
• Ep 59: Matt LeMay on One Page / One Hour – April 11, 2021
• Ep 58: Jesse James Garrett on Leadership and Information Architecture – March 28, 2021
• Ep 57: Ben Mosior on Wardley Maps – March 14, 2021
• Ep 56: Margot Bloomstein on Trust – February 28, 2021
• Ep 55: Hà Phan on Product Leadership – February 14, 2021
• Ep 54: Kourosh Dini on DEVONthink – January 31, 2021
• Ep 53: Jason Ulaszek on Healing Social Rifts – January 17, 2021
• Ep 52: Grace Lau on Information Architecture Events – January 03, 2021

2020

• Ep 51: Cheryl Platz on Multimodality – December 19, 2020
• Ep 50: Brian Breslin on Building Community – December 06, 2020
• Ep 49: Phillip Hunter on Design for Conversation – November 22, 2020
• Ep 48: Caroline Crampton on Curation – November 08, 2020
• Ep 47: Peter Morville on Emancipating Information Architecture – October 25, 2020
• Ep 46: Jeff Johnson on Design for Aging – October 11, 2020
• Ep 45: Tanya Rabourn on Ethnography – September 27, 2020
• Ep 44: Alexis Lloyd on the Granularity of Media – September 13, 2020
• Ep 43: Rob Haisfield on Roam – August 30, 2020
• Ep 42: Nataly Restrepo on Food Design – August 16, 2020
• Ep 41: Arvind Venkataramani on Rituals – August 02, 2020
• Ep 40: Heather Hedden on Taxonomies – July 19, 2020
• Ep 39: Stephen P. Anderson on Cognitive Environments – July 05, 2020
• Ep 38: Andy Polaine on Service Design – June 21, 2020
• Ep 37: Audrey Crane on Design in Organizations – June 07, 2020
• Ep 36: Louis Rosenfeld on Virtual Conferences – May 24, 2020
• Ep 35: Matt Nish-Lapidus on Art – May 10, 2020
• Ep 34: Ren Pope on Ontologies – April 26, 2020
• Ep 33: Abby Covert on Remote Work – April 12, 2020
• Ep 32: Aynne Valencia on Work Cycles – March 29, 2020
• Ep 31: Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz on the Long-term View – March 15, 2020
• Ep 30: Christian Crumlish on Product Management – March 01, 2020
• Ep 29: Maria Giudice on Purpose – February 16, 2020
• Ep 28: Peter Merholz on the Structure of Organizations – February 02, 2020
• Ep 27: Cyd Harrell on Design for the Long-term – January 19, 2020
• Ep 26: Andrew Hinton on Language and Environments – January 05, 2020

2019

• Ep 25: Mary Parks on Voice User Interfaces – December 21, 2019
• Ep 24: Michael J. Metts on Writing as Design – December 08, 2019
• Ep 23: Carol Smith on Artificial Intelligence – November 24, 2019
• Ep 22: Andrea Mignolo on Designerly Ways of Being – November 10, 2019
• Ep 21: Vanessa Foss on Event Planning – October 27, 2019
• Ep 20: Chris Chandler on Design Ethics – October 13, 2019
• Ep 19: Eduardo Ortiz on Social Impact – September 29, 2019
• Ep 18: Thomas Dose on Music Collections – September 15, 2019
• Ep 17: Rachel Price on Improvisation – September 01, 2019
• Ep 16: MJ Broadbent on Graphic Recording – August 18, 2019
• Ep 15: Jeff Sussna on Cybernetics – August 04, 2019
• Ep 14: Lis Hubert on Intentional Living – July 21, 2019
• Ep 13: Ariel Waldman on Antarctica – July 07, 2019
• Ep 12: Kim Lenox on Leadership – June 23, 2019
• Ep 11: Lisa Welchman on Governance – June 09, 2019
• Ep 10: Peter Morville on Seductive Information – May 26, 2019
• Ep 9: Jessica Ivins on Getting Things Done – May 12, 2019
• Ep 8: Trip O’Dell on Dyslexia – April 28, 2019
• Ep 7: Donna Lichaw on Stories – April 14, 2019
• Ep 6: Beck Tench on Tinderbox – March 31, 2019
• Ep 5: Kevin M. Hoffman on Proposals – March 17, 2019
• Ep 4: Andrea Kates on Innovation – March 03, 2019
• Ep 3: Fabricio Teixeira on Publishing – February 17, 2019
• Ep 2: Gretchen Anderson on Writing – February 03, 2019
• Ep 1: Louis Rosenfeld on Managing – January 20, 2019
• Ep 0: Introduction – January 15, 2019

• Albrecht, Alice – Ep 98: re:collect
• Anderson, Gretchen – Ep 2: Writing
• Anderson, Stephen P. – Ep 39: Cognitive Environments
• Ashton, Rob – Ep 97: The Science of Writing
• Barrett, Sarah – Ep 64: Architectural Scale
• Bates, Marcia – Ep 104: Search Systems
• Becker, Michael – Ep 107: Knowledge Work
• Bernaschina, Lorenzo – Ep 93: Gems Notes
• Bernstein, Mark – Ep 99: Tinderbox
• Bloomstein, Margot – Ep 56: Trust
• Bogaards, Peter – Ep 81: A UX Canon
• Breslin, Brian – Ep 50: Building Community
• Broadbent, MJ – Ep 16: Graphic Recording
• Brown, Dan – Ep 76: IA Lenses
• Brown, Sunni – Ep 71: Deep Self Design
• Brysiewicz, Nicholas Paul – Ep 31: The Long-term View
• Cababa, Sheryl – Ep 113: Systems Thinking for Social Change
• Carlson, Gary – Ep 101: The Information Layer
• Caviglioli, Oliver – Ep 83: Graphic Organizers
• Chan, Madonnalisa – Ep 80: Notes for Living
• Chandler, Chris – Ep 20: Design Ethics
• Chew, Boon Yew – Ep 79: Roam
• Covert, Abby – Ep 33: Remote Work
• Crampton, Caroline – Ep 48: Curation
• Crane, Audrey – Ep 37: Design in Organizations
• Crumlish, Christian – Ep 30: Product Management
• Dini, Kourosh – Ep 54: DEVONthink
• Dose, Thomas – Ep 18: Music Collections
• Dubberly, Hugh – Ep 109: Design Models
• Dunbar, Natalie Marie – Ep 95: Scaling Content Strategy
• Erb, Veronica – Ep 86: Annotating Books
• Fast, Karl – Ep 69: Interactionism
• Fast, Karl – Ep 70: Interactionism
• Fitzgerald, Andy – Ep 111: Structured Content
• Foss, Vanessa – Ep 21: Event Planning
• Garrett, Jesse James – Ep 58: Leadership and Information Architecture
• Giudice, Maria – Ep 29: Purpose
• Govella, Austin – Ep 87: The IA of Note-taking
• Haisfield, Rob – Ep 43: Roam
• Hane, Carrie – Ep 108: Content Models
• Hanley, Mags – Ep 68: Career Architecture
• Harrell, Cyd – Ep 27: Design for the Long-term
• Hedden, Heather – Ep 40: Taxonomies
• Hinton, Andrew – Ep 26: Language and Environments
• Hoffman, Kevin M. – Ep 5: Proposals
• Hubert, Lis – Ep 14: Intentional Living
• Hunter, Phillip – Ep 49: Design for Conversation
• Ivins, Jessica – Ep 9: Getting Things Done
• Jenson, Scott – Ep 103: Open Source UX
• Jiménez Márquez, Amy – Ep 102: Leading Information Architecture
• Johnson, Jeff – Ep 46: Design for Aging
• Kalbach, Jim – Ep 66: Jobs to Be Done
• Kates, Andrea – Ep 4: Innovation
• King, Kat – Ep 89: Notes for Learning
• Klyn, Dan – Ep 78: The BASIC Framework
• Krueger, Hans – Ep 75: The Cycle of Emotions
• Ladner, Sam – Ep 88: Managing Research Knowledge
• Lau, Grace – Ep 52: Information Architecture Events
• LeMay, Matt – Ep 59: One Page / One Hour
• Lenox, Kim – Ep 12: Leadership
• Lichaw, Donna – Ep 7: Stories
• Lloyd, Alexis – Ep 44: The Granularity of Media
• Malone, Erin – Ep 96: Pattern Libraries
• Merholz, Peter – Ep 28: The Structure of Organizations
• Metts, Michael J. – Ep 24: Writing as Design
• Michalski, Jerry – Ep 112: Jerry’s Brain
• Mignolo, Andrea – Ep 22: Designerly Ways of Being
• Morville, Peter – Ep 10: Seductive Information
• Morville, Peter – Ep 47: Emancipating Information Architecture
• Mosior, Ben – Ep 57: Wardley Maps
• Murphy Paul, Annie – Ep 74: The Extended Mind
• Nish-Lapidus, Matt – Ep 35: Art
• Ortiz, Eduardo – Ep 19: Social Impact
• O’Dell, Trip – Ep 8: Dyslexia
• Padmanabhan, Udhaya Kumar – Ep 65: India
• Parks, Mary – Ep 25: Voice User Interfaces
• Phan, Hà – Ep 55: Product Leadership
• Platz, Cheryl – Ep 51: Multimodality
• Polaine, Andy – Ep 38: Service Design
• Pope, Ren – Ep 34: Ontologies
• Portigal, Steve – Ep 92: Research Skills
• Prater, Sophia – Ep 63: Object Oriented UX
• Price, Rachel – Ep 17: Improvisation
• Rabourn, Tanya – Ep 45: Ethnography
• Restrepo, Nataly – Ep 42: Food Design
• Rheingold, Howard – Ep 94: Tools for Thought
• Rohde, Mike – Ep 90: Sketchnote Thinking
• Rose, David – Ep 105: SuperSight
• Rosenfeld, Louis – Ep 1: Managing
• Rosenfeld, Louis – Ep 36: Virtual Conferences
• Russell, Dan – Ep 114: The Joy of Search
• Shedroff, Nathan – Ep 72: Foodicons
• Smith, Carol – Ep 23: Artificial Intelligence
• Stillman, Daniel – Ep 91: Conversation Design
• Sussna, Jeff – Ep 15: Cybernetics
• Sussna, Jeff – Ep 61: Customer Value Charting
• Tanguay, Patrick – Ep 73: Newsletter Curation
• Taylor, Dorian – Ep 85: Christopher Alexander
• Teixeira, Fabricio – Ep 3: Publishing
• Tench, Beck – Ep 6: Tinderbox
• Ulaszek, Jason – Ep 53: Healing Social Rifts
• Valencia, Aynne – Ep 32: Work Cycles
• Vellos, Kat – Ep 60: Friendship
• Venkataramani, Arvind – Ep 41: Rituals
• Waldman, Ariel – Ep 13: Antarctica
• Watson, Léonie – Ep 106: Accessibility
• Weinberg, Alla – Ep 62: Work Culture
• Welchman, Lisa – Ep 11: Governance
• Wessel, Bram – Ep 101: The Information Layer
• Yarrow, Laura – Ep 84: Trusted Agitators
• Young, Indi – Ep 82: Time to Listen
• van der Hoeven, Nicole – Ep 110: Obsidian

• 2021 Year in Review
• A UX Canon, with Peter Bogaards
• Accessibility, with Léonie Watson
• Annotating Books, with Veronica Erb
• Antarctica, with Ariel Waldman
• Architectural Scale, with Sarah Barrett
• Art, with Matt Nish-Lapidus
• Artificial Intelligence, with Carol Smith
• Building Community, with Brian Breslin
• Career Architecture, with Mags Hanley
• Christopher Alexander, with Dorian Taylor
• Cognitive Environments, with Stephen P. Anderson
• Content Models, with Carrie Hane
• Conversation Design, with Daniel Stillman
• Curation, with Caroline Crampton
• Customer Value Charting, with Jeff Sussna
• Cybernetics, with Jeff Sussna
• DEVONthink, with Kourosh Dini
• Deep Self Design, with Sunni Brown
• Design Ethics, with Chris Chandler
• Design Models, with Hugh Dubberly
• Design for Aging, with Jeff Johnson
• Design for Conversation, with Phillip Hunter
• Design for the Long-term, with Cyd Harrell
• Design in Organizations, with Audrey Crane
• Designerly Ways of Being, with Andrea Mignolo
• Dyslexia, with Trip O’Dell
• Emancipating Information Architecture, with Peter Morville
• Ethnography, with Tanya Rabourn
• Event Planning, with Vanessa Foss
• Food Design, with Nataly Restrepo
• Foodicons, with Nathan Shedroff
• Friendship, with Kat Vellos
• Gems Notes, with Lorenzo Bernaschina
• Getting Things Done, with Jessica Ivins
• Governance, with Lisa Welchman
• Graphic Organizers, with Oliver Caviglioli
• Graphic Recording, with MJ Broadbent
• Healing Social Rifts, with Jason Ulaszek
• IA Lenses, with Dan Brown
• Improvisation, with Rachel Price
• India, with Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan
• Information Architecture Events, with Grace Lau
• Innovation, with Andrea Kates
• Intentional Living, with Lis Hubert
• Interactionism, part 1, with Karl Fast
• Interactionism, part 2, with Karl Fast
• Introduction
• Jerry’s Brain, with Jerry Michalski
• Jobs to Be Done, with Jim Kalbach
• Knowledge Work, with Michael Becker
• Language and Environments, with Andrew Hinton
• Leadership, with Kim Lenox
• Leadership and Information Architecture, with Jesse James Garrett
• Leading Information Architecture, with Amy Jiménez Márquez
• Listener Questions
• Listener Questions
• Managing, with Louis Rosenfeld
• Managing Research Knowledge, with Sam Ladner
• Multimodality, with Cheryl Platz
• Music Collections, with Thomas Dose
• Newsletter Curation, with Patrick Tanguay
• Notes for Learning, with Kat King
• Notes for Living, with Madonnalisa Chan
• Object Oriented UX, with Sophia Prater
• Obsidian, with Nicole van der Hoeven
• One Page / One Hour, with Matt LeMay
• Ontologies, with Ren Pope
• Open Source UX, with Scott Jenson
• Pattern Libraries, with Erin Malone
• Product Leadership, with Hà Phan
• Product Management, with Christian Crumlish
• Proposals, with Kevin M. Hoffman
• Publishing, with Fabricio Teixeira
• Purpose, with Maria Giudice
• Remote Work, with Abby Covert
• Research Skills, with Steve Portigal
• Rituals, with Arvind Venkataramani
• Roam, with Boon Yew Chew
• Roam, with Rob Haisfield
• Scaling Content Strategy, with Natalie Marie Dunbar
• Search Systems, with Marcia Bates
• Seductive Information, with Peter Morville
• Service Design, with Andy Polaine
• Sketchnote Thinking, with Mike Rohde
• Social Impact, with Eduardo Ortiz
• Stories, with Donna Lichaw
• Structured Content, with Andy Fitzgerald
• SuperSight, with David Rose
• Systems Thinking for Social Change, with Sheryl Cababa
• Taxonomies, with Heather Hedden
• The BASIC Framework, with Dan Klyn
• The Cycle of Emotions, with Hans Krueger
• The Extended Mind, with Annie Murphy Paul
• The Granularity of Media, with Alexis Lloyd
• The IA of Note-taking, with Austin Govella
• The Information Layer, with Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson
• The Joy of Search, with Dan Russell
• The Long-term View, with Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz
• The Science of Writing, with Rob Ashton
• The Structure of Organizations, with Peter Merholz
• Time to Listen, with Indi Young
• Tinderbox, with Beck Tench
• Tinderbox, with Mark Bernstein
• Tools for Thought, with Howard Rheingold
• Trust, with Margot Bloomstein
• Trusted Agitators, with Laura Yarrow
• Virtual Conferences, with Louis Rosenfeld
• Voice User Interfaces, with Mary Parks
• Wardley Maps, with Ben Mosior
• Work Culture, with Alla Weinberg
• Work Cycles, with Aynne Valencia
• Writing, with Gretchen Anderson
• Writing as Design, with Michael J. Metts
• re:collect, with Alice Albrecht