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  • [Music] so welcome Brianna Camille and Nastasia thank you all for coming today ethnic podcast we're very happy to have you here sharing your UX experience thank you so to start off to really get people to understand what you do day to day I want to dive into how you work as UX designers and also UX researcher here which is a part of that job and I want to start with you you natasja I mean is it possible to explain how much time you actually spend with the users I mean talking with them observing them actually interacting with the users in a project or in a month well first of all I will start that I do have two jobs at the moment on the finish for Aaron tax which is coding in school here in Barcelona in part of my job 50% of my days writing and the content for students so it's not really a office job for their product but at the same time I'm working remotely for epilim which is part of so interactive school and I help them with research I help them with excerpt students in general and I make users to one or two weeks we're organizing a session and recruit the users and it is something we're testing something or it might be a focus group it might be something else thank right at the moment it's like one book two weeks you meeting them face to face ah yes face to face and the other time we might be working with so tracking tools and I speak with our product owners identify our KPIs what are we looking for and what are the problems the typical situations that they come to me we have troubles consuming right and we have a hypothesis where it's happening see the metrics menu like okay we can do how we can so we have an weirdest sense why it's happening and that's the kind of like that the amount of time that appalam needs a UX researcher like twice twice every second week is that yeah mainly because I don't have that much time at the moment right alright so you would like to do it more or yeah usually do it once a week okay but now because of the context writing force right you're busy yes so moving on to you Brianna I mean you're doing a UX that I form a company that most of us know I mean you have thousands of users and and you're also famous for being a user driven company I guess us is is very important for you it's impossible to do in any way kind of define what's UX in tight for me so UX in general I think for me is is the users voice right through a lens of somebody exchange and understanding and getting getting to understand problems that these are having right so I think that's general I don't think it's any different inside for music lamp for me we have the way we work is that we have our UX designers and joy signers embedded in forms and came working with developers actually and scrum masters and product people and customers and so what everybody kind of works together but so there's research happening all the time there's communication customers happening all the time and I like to look at it as per project so usually there's some hypothesis that you have and something that you want to find out and depending on that question you're designing the communication and the interactions customers our customers happen to me a lot of them overseas in the u.s.
  • so we talked to them via video via voice or phone and when we can like to have them come in and if it's the same I mean in terms of how much you talk with them it is possible to say it's probably very different from project to project but it seems like it's happening time right because each each team is working on its own project in a way right so there's a total of five experiments together and so there's I hear people a little dialing and making phone calls to customers every day you know it is somebody at work an it but I think generally probably what you say every every week or two at some point but like I said it's a project basis so there is a project currently that's happening where we're trying to map out the user journey for a particular type of customer and so but that's kind of a bigger project where everybody's talking and taking you know four to six weeks to put it together so how many times as many as needed yeah yeah exactly exactly sometimes we need more all right I mean that's four times four which I mean millions of users and then you have Camille you're here you're at khipu I mean a fairly big start a book in Spain in Europe but it still it's another scale and I mean you're you don't have like a huge team of UX people around you like most started they don't I mean how does your your approach yeah I think it's in keep with base well it's a team effort despite not having many designers here we share roles we have a product owner we have the customer support team and we try to collaborate it's a constant discussion collaboration between us then we have developers to find constraints but in terms of users I have a lot of metrics here we have a good VI to to monitor everything and do you have seen you do some UX interviews here at work is that like your main approach in terms of understand how people use your product yes but that's at the later stage when when we have a prototype and beforehand we identify problems with our project team with customer support um especially now for example with with the new project we have we identified problems of one particular customers like like you inside form and we tried beforehand we try to identify the main problems they have while working and it was that the problem is verifying their information I mean it's not like problems but more like I'm saying it so much in sorry yeah they they have problems verifying information in terms of it's a industry problem so they they are bookkeepers and they get to go through a lot of information and we had to type into their workflows and accommodate to that so you had a couple of calls with them beforehand what I did find the problem we went to the prototyping and NASA not this dot before the interviews that that you might have seen here and I mean you're also talking about that your approach having people face-to-face at your office especially with that balloon I mean what kind of people do you gather I mean you're going on series and getting ten random people or I mean what kind of users are you looking for well before you recruit any user of course you have to understand that your user types you will use a personal that's why before I was saying that you three sir it's not really that and you will invent it this is a hybrid roll that has a lot of academic research taking some from the past is delta T right it's just the perfect series that just defines that okay we're we're doing everything they are the principles of user experience to learn something a little bit but the research part is something that also don't by marketing people change because like they identify markets feed market acceptance with their own messages what we're doing and what I'm doing particularly at the moment I'm trying to search for people that are complement with the profiles of our user personas of our segment marketers and I call it signal Oracle user person so we just look for the profiles with the age that we're looking for with their occupation with same motivations as we have searched before and you know - yes yeah I mean as you say I mean this is a collaborative efforts of everyone inside the company and also we have many years which is not something new as you added Brianna I mean for me it's kind of hard to understand what's the westin what's the new thing about UX research compared to other research done by other people you know in other sectors it's hard to define or if they're kind of like the fish definition new or different yeah what's different is the kind of end product areas like the digital interfaces actual technology side but the way that you saw problems your creative thinking is that around for thousands of years right like you have really long industry - you know architecture and industrial design for a long time and these kinds of approaches like interviewing a customer Pena what their problem is you know designing for somebody else has they're out for very long time maybe something's tool the techniques of the bulb and we give them different names may be in this new words that were presented right like us user experience design it was a call down before it was like you know systems engineering information architects so there is and there's specific information architects to deal with just that but it's the out the process is very similar it's improved it's a wall that people right right so you I mean it is an advantage having a UX researcher onboarding or startup but it's not a necessity in the start or I think it is I think it is because the closer you get to the customer what they're actually doing the more you will have confidence or the more likely it will be that you will actually solve problems at Anthony's so right I don't think there is ever time with early enough or I think from the beginning you see the value of us and then there's you know there's really a lot of overlap usually I work for me personally I've usually worked somewhere from research and like hype stories wireframes right I think it's really important for the person who's doing a research and communicating if the customers were possible to be actually translating the findings and write something some kind of a solution because that person is there the reports that come out of it or the documentation that we deliver as a result of research it's a way to communicate what was discovered and what was found but there's no replacing correction being there at x1 we try to have as many people involved in actual interview process and product owners engineers are invited occasionally at least you know can't be there every day if there may not their core competency right like sure but see being there and seeing and emphasizing as a customer and seeing what happens when these product or seeing that they say is incredibly powerful anything is really valuable for it especially it may be a small start-up where there is a handful of people for everybody to be there at some point when the interviews are happening and actually listening to the customers it's not super valuable so I mean you know in the beginning some a lot of research is done also can be done by product donors I mean there's books out there like Erica Hall it's just enough research that I highly recommended for a team that's maybe starting maybe you know there's pacifically a youth designer but there's no reason why they can't talk to customers however it's doing for each understand how to talk to customers and what kind of questions to be asking and that's where the experience of the Europe researcher really or your designer general that through experience and through having talked to customers you find out what are the right questions tab that's because that's what the next thing I want to dive into like what I'm going to do right questions to ask I mean we can start with you Camille I mean I've actually been part of your UX what to research myself going through your project per product but I really don't remember what kind of questions you ask what do you what are your can you say like what are your favorite question well if I don't have my favorite questions I guess it depends on the exercise are we doing and that particular one we did was to test the set of wireframes and at that moment I like to just observe and watch users I ask them to speak out loud their chain of thought so whatever they doing whatever they think they're doing I like to hear that I look for reactions to to to the project to what they see on the screen and I generally like to see a user that's using the live thing in terms of questions I beforehand I asked users what do they expect to see and what do they expect this solution ideal solution would be to the to the problem and that I would say that that would be my favorite question hmm beautiful yes well I'll just point and add a little bit that there's a golden rule for researchers and us content nurses were always open questions never closed questions so we in like in to do multiple answers and act really naive so like so that we use are really true that you you don't even know nothing about this product right and that's way they kind of filled themselves okay I'm believing one here and I know the person account with experience or STI but don't be judgmental ative human here is naturally natural to want to kind of make the other person happy that way it looks so the customers come in and they start talking to you if you give them any indication what you want them to say they're going to try to say it if they see that you're interested in saying certain thing they're going to try to code those expectations so it's really important to be super neutral and kind of pretend you don't know or whatever that means to you so that you can just let them tell you what what they saying oh boy sorry yeah otherwise you lose and money when you invest in their advocacy money it's it's expensive you know expenses because you have to replace them you have to save them I mean it's super nice if they're ready to do it for free but it's a it's a it's a balance right because it is it's hard being both neutral super neutral and also getting really valuable answers right it seems to me or no it's more like go ahead my back I think you have to make it straight before the interview say there's no right or wrong and it's not that hard to be neutral in fact you just you guide users to write questions through small conversations and most importantly there's no right or wrong and I guess I mean soft skills got to be quite important as a UX designer then to get people getting people on your skin a bit you know getting them comfortable right and I mean I was ever I guess there is I mean both the positive approach that we're talking about now talking to users we also the quantitative you know approach looking at numbers we are not a size forum in what I mean at least because you're dealing with such a vast amount of users what's most important for you didn't give you one side of the story you're really lucky at typeform we have a great head of analytics and team who is focused on crunching the numbers and getting the insights and answering these recent big important business questions and sometimes they can also answer some of our user question so but analytics is one part of the story right the other part of the service what members can't tell you is what's actually much more specific so like how people are feeling what are the specific tax tests with their Jimmy why they're doing them there's all kinds of questions that so I advocate analytics and interviews very qualitative research as complimentary to one without the other really is not as powerful is to when they're combined are incredibly powerful articles so when we and there are certain types of questions that are better answered with analytics and we can check the questions that are better answers to interviews so what a skill uux when to employ the right tactic right so a lot of is and the answer always in your exercise seems to be like well it depends and because every situation is slightly different depending on your customer base and question you're seeking the answer if you're looking to be more explorative if you're looking to be more validated if you're seeking to innovate or the other word is incremental so if you're seeking to innovate in an open way or just itching to incremental improve their different techniques that are applied fruit right I mean it's something that I was always curious about this might be wrong but when doing research I mean how about how much it's about usability and how much it's about creating a great experience I mean because ya know say what do you think I was talking about usability is this something that actually exists for a long time I think it's like in the beginning of 90s oh the term was officially for define and you know it can be understood as a design slimmer design process even but also we can use your ability as heuristics to evaluate our user right so don't work like that you're right it's more like a mechanical part of user experience right right I'm probably less human yeah yeah I think the two are complementary so you have like the kind of heuristics and the overall because human biology hasn't change event mentions I'm going to anytime soon right like the st.
  • causing their biases that we have and emotional reactions or intellectual reactions whatever it is that the humans a direct list that human part is really the same but what's changed is the environment in which we dislike the technology part so it's adapting that so that I think here is success complot sistah men visiting but you know using something easily and being able to get your task in at the end of the day actually get whatever job that you want to get them and then moves like a huge thing right now it is talking about jump students product size this is really new tremendously overlaps with us we have tons of children to commuter exactly that so giving allowing the customer to do what they wanted to do not what we want to do what they want to do creates the experience of the value and then in addition we have the emotional component and how that feels from like a very visual side so it's a women is one of two parts work really well I think that's a great experience like it functions really well in it super good and it looks really nice and pleasing to you and that's more the emotional component I don't think is really important I really can't yeah you can that the functionality is very utilitarian hmm I want to move on richer you're talking about how you're interacting with other people in the company as well which is a big part of the UX role I mean you're not solo players and and I mean I wanted to ask you can be a first this is hard to get like buying for from other people in companies it's hard to convince other people in khipu of your findings I mean if you have something that's you know conflicting with with the your developers thoughts I mean how do you convince them that I mean what you found is the right thing right way to go I guess unlock enough not to have these problems but always after every research after every every interface we do or any kind of research I buy summary and action action items and you know there are reasons in those documents and I just present every all my findings to them and if there is anything unclear on the screen that they see that they have to develop I just bring up these reasons and it's fairly easy people try is a pretty much I wouldn't say design mature company because we don't have a huge design UX team but definitely this is something that we will follow in the next years we will grow our design team and we put a strong focus on the line hmm how it stands for you I mean you also talk about how you're bringing engineers into interviews how you are trying to like merge everyone into the same process but it is has been times when it's hard to commit people that's what you found is truth yeah yeah it has been super difficult I think we're lucky as well but I think what critical is evolving in any company involving people from the beginning letting them go through the journey with you and having experience and sitting an interview and seeing what happens has a tremendous impact on people of course there's you know sometimes there's people that have their own opinion and you know they feel very strongly about it and so the way I've gotten around that is essentially to bring those especially those individuals and really as possible and let them see what was happening because the point of view of being in when you're doing it agrees is not to supplement or to to supersede to users opinions your own or to get what you want is to get what they want and there is little difference I think that it's easy sometimes lose track yeah all right yeah so yeah getting people involved early is it just sort of it I mean self skills are needed talking with the users those are the death same self skills are used talking with other people in the company I think so I think where does difficulty comes in maybe it some day companies to where I've been past the business side that's the most remove around the customer hi can sometimes have the hardest time because there is there's this balancing act that's happening between business needs it into me and it for the to overlap its business can thrive because the business cannot sustain itself than sustain itself in this you know that were fire but its customers are kitchens the leader doing what they need to do if they want to do then they're going to be custard so it's really fine going to overlap and what it sounds really effective is communicating the customers needs and business terms always tying the two together so this is what the customer wants and it's going to serve a business like this and this is how they overlap and really showing that over and that wants to prove hmm no no and everybody has their things right like you can get attached to solution you know it's really important to talk about huh and also I mean tech formers apparently become say now 150 people I mean Apple one how many people are working up on the element Center which is in Minsk I think something around hundred people so the furniture company as well yeah yeah we have some profiles and I think quite a quite similar to to your cases I also try to involve people to take participation even if it's remotely I asked them for deserves online what's going on run interesting some see it on your own and just take the nose run usually when you do submit usability testing there's always a note taker and in the commitment and that's exactly what I'm asking to do either a product manager or a developer sometimes I mean you told me earlier that you came in at a later stage in Apple on and that they they've been doing their things I used to reach user research researcher wise and without the UX specialist but do you have do you have an opinion on when should a company or a start-up or technology company hire a dedicated use person well depends of course depending on what depending on I think a lot of factors startups they they do hello they do have a lot of problems apart from UX in general there are a lot of challenges first of all to cope with and yeah you may hire a UX specialist in the very beginning and that will help you with the preliminary research and into phi user problems user needs probably build your product around that but there's a different approach which can also work lining up a little case for example by offering they had a nice marketing people sales people and business intelligence data scientists so all together all these skills make a good mixture together and they found a way to build products that went well so possible yeah so now i'm i'm more like i you know a new way of and up to my being the product right right I mean Camille you you're a part of what you can call like fairly at an early stage startup but you know a hundr know hundreds of people and I mean you're the first UX designer right yes do you did you see that they were doing things different than before you arrived are you doing things different now again I tried to be a voice for customer before that it was a product owner product manager who did to do these things so they were doing collies UX to some extent but there was no no dedicated person to do just that so I would say you should hire as early as possible but your ex isn't cheap UX is time consuming and also you have to budget for it right to recruit people and then pay for for them to have interviews it's these metrics is that - it's an investment and is the kind of investment that reduces risk so having a us designer on board really helps you reduce the risk of totally getting it wrong yes and I think to me that's super valuable right like especially in a noose or as a start-up tremendous a matter is not just whether the product is going to work right yes and so any way that you can do that so I look at it as something that can begin I would start up I would even I know it's a bit higher somebody senior hire somebody to spend the money his time like the same way you would invest in development and we have to say kind of my hiring developers that's hiring you're in so important yeah there are two sides of the same coin right like and the stronger structure it's like having a two-footed stool versus a three citizens tool right yeah so because you worked in fairly a fair amount of early phase start with yourself right and you came in at the early stage as well or yes there was some of my clients incentives it essentially hired you know kind of a contract on a contract basis and that's entirely possible - right and if you can't afford to have fun equal time for every day higher than beginning stages to set the course of some extent now the more experienced that person has a more quickly they're going to be able to you know give you the right advice and so it's like spending more now so that you can save later in a way yeah I'm curious you worked in several really say started but now you're working inside from evolving into like a real company and and I mean talking with a lot of people in the beginning and you're trying to kind of find the path for your product and you're getting all this feedback from people telling you that would be great if you did this that would be amazing I mean how do you stand this is for all of you but how do you stay focused on near vision or your I mean your yet your product what do you want to build yeah that's where it becomes an art form at the end of the day I think with in the early stages more than anything that's important is defining the problem right like what's the real problem that needs to be solved and really focusing on that and if she understands technology that you're trying to build or capabilities that you have then you can apply to that and go okay we're the to connect like this is the problem that need to be solved this is the kind of direction that we're building in trying to find little Rob it's super hard I mean it's easy for me to sit here and say this but in a moment and it's not a magic magic one of the things that you see way will wand it happens right like it doesn't eliminate risk and introduces it and more informed it's still really easy to fail I mean how many startups are out there that we've never heard of so few can take it or we don't talk about those stories it's important you've done right and not only that actually was just a US LX and just patent was there and then the his talk was that failure is not what you should be afraid of it's that kind of in between like it's neither right nor wrong kind of like it's not terrible but it's not good either that kind of like dead them in the middle where it's like something's happening but we don't know what yeah so it's not failure that we should really be afraid of it kind of restoring I guess yeah we should you feeling is good because it tells you what you're really doing wrong and gives you a lot more information then like kind of sort of getting it and I think that so so it is in an effort to eliminate that I think that's a problem in the beginning and not solving for a problem until you know with the real problem in sort of like that knowing how long to stay there yeah I knew you talked about also in regard to this understanding Nexus technology because I wondered I mean how how develop do you need to be at the quarter and Camille and I know that you do so developments in coding but I mean how advanced of a code or do you need to be developed or do you need to be to work you know my patient class every year designer UX in general is a quite interesting field because you can have many backgrounds and I happen to have some development background but it was a long time ago I understand how programming works and that helps me understand constraints at developer project to me you don't have to be color at all but in a start-up the more Skills you have the better of you are so I would say coding is a is a good complement complementary skill I do coding only because sometimes there is a development team works hard on the product heavy on the product I use the small things yeah just as a night soon to my team anyways it's at the same point of university I do you think your sign is shoot code or do you think it's important the moms say let's see that's one different perspective they're different types of developers Universal with face we're having for example Apple we have matrix about developing but we also have machine learning deep learning computing which is a little bit advanced and it's a little bit more complex than just a usual second one and these people are creating amazing things that users do already feel that it's working they feel that interfaces become more and more smart now and they require more and more reason to face it and I'm speaking to users like once and week one too apart from you know solving our daily problems from a catch-all project I also see them demanding more and more every day about that about the way interface should be now in the future so I guess going forward maybe becomes more and more important or yeah it becomes one more but probably not having the skills of a developer but just understand what they're doing and understand the limitations I mean do you do go to yourself you know I went to a 10-week dev bootcamp Ruby on Rails training right man is so hard but I think Canosa is really depend on the environment I'm going to start up having being a really strong generalist will be really helpful at a big company where you have these very very narrow roles goes deep into one subject it's more useful to really get expert it's really hard to be good at everything and by the time somebody is good at everything usually you know it takes two mutants decades right like you'd have to and then think they're changing so much with the line of almonds and shift all the time then it's how you're not doing one job for a while what stays is used as overall concepts and understanding where the pitfalls might be but I don't know if to some extent you know sometimes diction also be good enough to not to have any of that background because it's then you're now limit or you're less limited maybe you know I like to out it's that story of the bumblebee like the reason it applies because nobody's golden can't there's so not your anchor and look at a bumblebee like how does that happening but so it's sometimes it's good to have that naive friend that's cool you're talking about how the you know anything so fast and it's hard to keep updated and I'm guess that's the same for us I mean UX is evolving as well you expiry search as well it's evolving and I wanted to here with you guys that are working with this every day I mean what's you acting 2010 and things probably not what you what what's you know a couple years ago coming in I mean are you are you working in the same way as you did a couple years ago are you seeing some trends changing I guess while working the same or not you adapt to environmental projects so not really aware of the one working very much different I always stay true to the problem that endured by us all but I think in terms of trends for 2017 or maybe even 20 18 19 I I was getting to anticipatory design and I explained in that Wow I it has to do something with with a I backed design this is the interface changes as user uses it and and it that's fed to it by if I see at which is sorry that's fed to it by artificial intelligence and that's more as overall concept and not an expert so about that so I'm already gonna know know in detail but that mean it's more or less it right I know you guys are working with conversational interfaces and some AI powered stop on me we're doing really can't like that the right direction go in it so as an industry as a as a job I don't think you have changed time I think that develop that changed a lot more in the sense of like language is constantly evolving this is good this is great decisions getting better like there's the technologies really changing quite a bit in UX truly creative problem-solving from beginning right like it's not so fluid design trends are fluid with the like with popular kind of you know colors what kind of interactions animations things like that or of all these are quickly if it's fundamental like research and UX design many think I think it's evolving quickly but to kind of anticipatory design and using AI to essentially make the interface more intelligent response the person where they're working in the moment so that it can it's predicting what they might do stand right so a typo me a conversation what a conversational means I think that we're kind of defining that right like where does it mean to our customers are we going to have the same customers today as we have in two years probably might not be the same things like us are days men would have conversation designing to them so those are the questions are trying to answer but I think no no no I mean I feel like you're your own board the same thing zone we do not thought that you're you're teaching the UX you Xer of the future as iron hack I mean are you are you teaching them the latest trends or I mean what what do you think our 2017 we're giving them the basics of what are the trends in society what are the trends in technology for us we're not really you know it's really hard to predict what we totally all understand if that things are going to go really fast really really fast and as I said before during my research studies I can see that users are becoming more and more demanding in terms of the quality of these interfaces and being yet especially if you do test with visual native people that were born like after a middle of 19th right they got used to solve their problems with digital solutions already so they expect warm and for example our generation we're still can use the paper for something yes and the younger like my nephew for example when he was not in 10 but when you were five he expected he had seen the comics like an elephant or something but he also saw an iPad already and he was like you want to send this one to be inlay I've had and that's exactly what he's expecting because that's what and his mental ones already so no one section it ain't good that's the way it's going to change a little bit we will have to develop new principles of evaluating a user experience I think generally let's say time between users and computers will reduce time in the future the going interaction was going to be essentially less interaction that's great yeah yeah yeah the thing that we can do for people and that's even something now that I think about all the time I calculate me essentially agreeing with this tent is there something you can do for users that they don't have to do like we can thanks for them and finding all those little things to reduce cognitive load so that it seemed like the computer knows what you want it doesn't really arrive but it's going to predict it and maybe there will eventually be some kind of intelligent enough a eye that can support things every time descent maybe you're taking away rather than having more interaction and then switching some of the interaction to voice things that can be done with voice easier than interface and then there's of course things that can be done in your pen interface rather than a voice like an ugly voices like everything's going to be with probably not realistic yeah taking a screen away so later what does the next reality look like instead of having the screen with the information is there any this problem it's all their problems with that too right you need to be able to vary around the world and not be too distracted at the same time but we'll see what other this area plating I think there's a lot of things yeah I think sexology for giving you some insights into the future of of UX and our digital products so I probably have like 20 more questions I would like to ask you guys get seminary or you're sharing a lot of interesting experience with us but at some point you have to say stuff but I just want to say Camila Brianna and also you know thank you so much for coming thank you so much for for for sharing [Music]

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[00:22] thank  you  so  to  start  off  to  really  get
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[00:27] people  to  understand  what  you  do  day  to
[00:29] 
[00:29] day  I  want  to  dive  into  how  you  work  as
[00:33] 
[00:33] UX  designers  and  also  UX  researcher  here
[00:36] 
[00:36] which  is  a  part  of  that  job  and  I  want
[00:39] 
[00:39] to  start  with  you  you  natasja  I  mean  is
[00:42] 
[00:42] it  possible  to  explain  how  much  time  you
[00:45] 
[00:45] actually  spend  with  the  users  I  mean
[00:47] 
[00:47] talking  with  them  observing  them
[00:50] 
[00:50] actually  interacting  with  the  users  in  a
[00:52] 
[00:52] project  or  in  a  month  well  first  of  all
[00:55] 
[00:55] I  will  start  that  I  do  have  two  jobs  at
[00:57] 
[00:57] the  moment  on  the  finish  for  Aaron  tax
[01:00] 
[01:00] which  is  coding  in  school  here  in
[01:03] 
[01:03] Barcelona  in  part  of  my  job  50%  of  my
[01:07] 
[01:07] days  writing  and  the  content  for
[01:09] 
[01:09] students  so  it's  not  really  a  office  job
[01:13] 
[01:13] for  their  product  but  at  the  same  time
[01:17] 
[01:17] I'm  working  remotely  for  epilim  which  is
[01:20] 
[01:20] part  of  so  interactive  school  and  I  help
[01:23] 
[01:23] them  with  research  I  help  them  with
[01:24] 
[01:24] excerpt  students  in  general  and  I  make
[01:29] 
[01:29] users  to  one  or  two  weeks  we're
[01:33] 
[01:33] organizing  a  session  and  recruit  the
[01:35] 
[01:35] users  and  it  is  something  we're  testing
[01:38] 
[01:38] something  or  it  might  be  a  focus  group
[01:40] 
[01:40] it  might  be  something  else  thank  right
[01:42] 
[01:42] at  the  moment  it's  like  one  book  two
[01:45] 
[01:45] weeks  you  meeting  them  face  to  face
[01:46] 
[01:46] ah  yes  face  to  face  and  the  other  time
[01:50] 
[01:50] we  might  be  working  with  so  tracking
[01:52] 
[01:52] tools  and  I  speak  with  our  product
[01:56] 
[01:56] owners  identify  our  KPIs  what  are  we
[02:00] 
[02:00] looking  for  and  what  are  the  problems
[02:01] 
[02:01] the  typical  situations  that  they  come  to
[02:04] 
[02:04] me  we  have  troubles  consuming  right  and
[02:07] 
[02:07] we  have  a  hypothesis  where  it's
[02:08] 
[02:08] happening
[02:08] 
[02:09] see  the  metrics  menu  like  okay
[02:12] 
[02:12] we  can  do  how  we  can  so  we  have  an
[02:14] 
[02:14] weirdest  sense  why  it's  happening  and
[02:16] 
[02:17] that's  the  kind  of  like  that  the  amount
[02:18] 
[02:18] of  time  that  appalam  needs  a  UX
[02:20] 
[02:20] researcher  like  twice  twice  every  second
[02:25] 
[02:25] week  is  that  yeah  mainly  because  I  don't
[02:29] 
[02:29] have  that  much  time  at  the  moment
[02:30] 
[02:30] right  alright  so  you  would  like  to  do  it
[02:32] 
[02:32] more  or  yeah  usually  do  it  once  a  week
[02:34] 
[02:34] okay  but  now  because  of  the  context
[02:36] 
[02:36] writing  force  right  you're  busy
[02:39] 
[02:39] yes  so  moving  on  to  you  Brianna  I  mean
[02:42] 
[02:42] you're  doing  a  UX  that  I  form  a  company
[02:46] 
[02:46] that  most  of  us  know  I  mean  you  have
[02:48] 
[02:48] thousands  of  users  and  and  you're  also
[02:50] 
[02:50] famous  for  being  a  user  driven  company  I
[02:53] 
[02:53] guess  us  is  is  very  important  for  you
[02:56] 
[02:56] it's  impossible  to  do  in  any  way  kind  of
[02:59] 
[02:59] define  what's  UX  in  tight  for  me  so  UX
[03:06] 
[03:06] in  general  I  think  for  me  is  is  the
[03:08] 
[03:08] users  voice  right
[03:11] 
[03:11] through  a  lens  of  somebody  exchange  and
[03:14] 
[03:14] understanding  and  getting  getting  to
[03:19] 
[03:19] understand  problems  that  these  are
[03:21] 
[03:21] having  right  so  I  think  that's  general  I
[03:23] 
[03:23] don't  think  it's  any  different  inside
[03:25] 
[03:25] for  music  lamp  for  me  we  have  the  way  we
[03:30] 
[03:30] work  is  that  we  have  our  UX  designers
[03:33] 
[03:33] and  joy  signers  embedded  in  forms  and
[03:38] 
[03:38] came  working  with  developers  actually
[03:41] 
[03:41] and  scrum  masters  and  product  people  and
[03:47] 
[03:47] customers  and  so  what  everybody  kind  of
[03:51] 
[03:51] works  together  but  so  there's  research
[03:55] 
[03:55] happening  all  the  time  there's
[03:57] 
[03:57] communication  customers  happening  all
[04:00] 
[04:00] the  time  and  I  like  to  look  at  it  as  per
[04:02] 
[04:02] project  so  usually  there's  some
[04:05] 
[04:05] hypothesis  that  you  have  and  something
[04:08] 
[04:08] that  you  want  to  find  out  and  depending
[04:10] 
[04:10] on  that  question  you're  designing  the
[04:12] 
[04:12] communication  and  the  interactions
[04:14] 
[04:14] customers  our  customers  happen  to  me  a
[04:17] 
[04:17] lot  of  them  overseas  in  the  u.s.  so  we
[04:19] 
[04:19] talked  to  them  via  video  via  voice  or
[04:22] 
[04:22] phone  and  when  we  can  like  to  have  them
[04:25] 
[04:25] come  in  and  if  it's  the  same  I  mean  in
[04:28] 
[04:28] terms  of  how  much  you  talk  with  them  it
[04:31] 
[04:31] is  possible  to  say  it's  probably  very
[04:32] 
[04:32] different  from  project  to  project  but  it
[04:34] 
[04:34] seems  like  it's  happening  time  right
[04:36] 
[04:36] because  each  each  team  is  working  on  its
[04:39] 
[04:39] own  project  in  a  way  right  so  there's  a
[04:41] 
[04:41] total  of  five  experiments  together  and
[04:44] 
[04:44] so  there's  I  hear  people  a  little
[04:47] 
[04:47] dialing  and  making  phone  calls  to
[04:48] 
[04:48] customers  every  day  you  know  it  is
[04:51] 
[04:51] somebody  at  work  an  it  but  I  think
[04:53] 
[04:53] generally  probably  what  you  say  every
[04:56] 
[04:56] every  week  or  two  at  some  point  but  like
[05:00] 
[05:00] I  said  it's  a  project  basis  so  there  is
[05:04] 
[05:04] a  project  currently  that's  happening
[05:06] 
[05:06] where  we're  trying  to  map  out  the  user
[05:08] 
[05:08] journey  for  a  particular  type  of
[05:09] 
[05:09] customer  and  so  but  that's  kind  of  a
[05:13] 
[05:13] bigger  project  where  everybody's  talking
[05:15] 
[05:15] and  taking  you  know  four  to  six  weeks  to
[05:17] 
[05:17] put  it  together  so  how  many  times  as
[05:20] 
[05:20] many  as  needed  yeah  yeah  exactly  exactly
[05:23] 
[05:23] sometimes  we  need  more  all  right  I  mean
[05:27] 
[05:27] that's  four  times  four  which  I  mean
[05:29] 
[05:29] millions  of  users  and  then  you  have
[05:30] 
[05:30] Camille  you're  here  you're  at  khipu  I
[05:33] 
[05:33] mean  a  fairly  big  start  a  book  in  Spain
[05:36] 
[05:36] in  Europe  but  it  still  it's  another
[05:37] 
[05:37] scale  and  I  mean  you're  you  don't  have
[05:40] 
[05:40] like  a  huge  team  of  UX  people  around  you
[05:43] 
[05:43] like  most  started  they  don't  I  mean  how
[05:46] 
[05:46] does  your  your  approach  yeah  I  think
[05:49] 
[05:49] it's  in  keep  with  base  well  it's  a  team
[05:52] 
[05:52] effort  despite  not  having  many  designers
[05:54] 
[05:54] here  we  share  roles  we  have  a  product
[05:57] 
[05:57] owner  we  have  the  customer  support  team
[06:00] 
[06:00] and  we  try  to  collaborate  it's  a
[06:03] 
[06:03] constant  discussion  collaboration
[06:05] 
[06:05] between  us  then  we  have  developers  to
[06:08] 
[06:08] find  constraints  but  in  terms  of  users  I
[06:11] 
[06:11] have  a  lot  of  metrics  here  we  have  a
[06:14] 
[06:14] good  VI  to  to  monitor  everything  and  do
[06:20] 
[06:20] you  have  seen  you  do  some  UX  interviews
[06:22] 
[06:22] here  at  work  is  that  like  your  main
[06:25] 
[06:25] approach  in  terms  of  understand
[06:28] 
[06:28] how  people  use  your  product  yes  but
[06:30] 
[06:30] that's  at  the  later  stage  when  when  we
[06:32] 
[06:32] have  a  prototype  and  beforehand  we
[06:35] 
[06:35] identify  problems  with  our  project  team
[06:38] 
[06:38] with  customer  support  um  especially  now
[06:41] 
[06:41] for  example  with  with  the  new  project  we
[06:44] 
[06:44] have  we  identified  problems  of  one
[06:46] 
[06:46] particular  customers  like  like  you
[06:48] 
[06:48] inside  form  and  we  tried  beforehand  we
[06:52] 
[06:52] try  to  identify  the  main  problems  they
[06:54] 
[06:54] have  while  working  and  it  was  that  the
[06:56] 
[06:56] problem  is  verifying  their  information  I
[06:59] 
[06:59] mean  it's  not  like  problems  but  more
[07:02] 
[07:02] like  I'm  saying  it  so  much  in  sorry  yeah
[07:11] 
[07:11] they  they  have  problems  verifying
[07:13] 
[07:13] information  in  terms  of  it's  a  industry
[07:15] 
[07:15] problem  so  they  they  are  bookkeepers  and
[07:18] 
[07:18] they  get  to  go  through  a  lot  of
[07:20] 
[07:20] information  and  we  had  to  type  into
[07:21] 
[07:21] their  workflows  and  accommodate  to  that
[07:24] 
[07:24] so  you  had  a  couple  of  calls  with  them
[07:27] 
[07:27] beforehand  what  I  did  find  the  problem
[07:30] 
[07:30] we  went  to  the  prototyping  and  NASA  not
[07:32] 
[07:32] this  dot  before  the  interviews  that  that
[07:34] 
[07:34] you  might  have  seen  here  and  I  mean
[07:37] 
[07:37] you're  also  talking  about  that  your
[07:39] 
[07:39] approach  having  people  face-to-face  at
[07:42] 
[07:42] your  office  especially  with  that  balloon
[07:44] 
[07:44] I  mean  what  kind  of  people  do  you  gather
[07:47] 
[07:47] I  mean  you're  going  on  series  and
[07:49] 
[07:49] getting  ten  random  people  or  I  mean  what
[07:51] 
[07:51] kind  of  users  are  you  looking  for  well
[07:54] 
[07:54] before  you  recruit  any  user  of  course
[07:57] 
[07:57] you  have  to  understand  that  your  user
[07:58] 
[07:58] types  you  will  use  a  personal  that's  why
[08:01] 
[08:01] before  I  was  saying  that  you  three  sir
[08:03] 
[08:03] it's  not  really  that  and  you  will  invent
[08:05] 
[08:05] it  this  is  a  hybrid  roll  that  has  a  lot
[08:09] 
[08:09] of  academic  research  taking  some  from
[08:13] 
[08:13] the  past  is  delta  T  right  it's  just  the
[08:17] 
[08:17] perfect  series  that  just  defines  that
[08:19] 
[08:19] okay  we're  we're  doing  everything  they
[08:22] 
[08:22] are  the  principles  of  user  experience  to
[08:23] 
[08:23] learn  something  a  little  bit  but  the
[08:25] 
[08:25] research  part  is  something  that  also
[08:28] 
[08:28] don't  by  marketing  people  change  because
[08:32] 
[08:32] like  they  identify  markets  feed  market
[08:35] 
[08:35] acceptance  with  their  own  messages
[08:38] 
[08:38] what  we're  doing  and  what  I'm  doing
[08:40] 
[08:40] particularly  at  the  moment  I'm  trying  to
[08:44] 
[08:44] search  for  people  that  are  complement
[08:47] 
[08:47] with  the  profiles  of  our  user  personas
[08:51] 
[08:51] of  our  segment  marketers  and  I  call  it
[08:54] 
[08:54] signal  Oracle  user  person  so  we  just
[08:57] 
[08:57] look  for  the  profiles  with  the  age  that
[09:01] 
[09:01] we're  looking  for  with  their  occupation
[09:04] 
[09:04] with  same  motivations  as  we  have
[09:07] 
[09:07] searched  before  and  you  know  -  yes  yeah
[09:10] 
[09:10] I  mean  as  you  say  I  mean  this  is  a
[09:12] 
[09:12] collaborative  efforts  of  everyone  inside
[09:15] 
[09:15] the  company  and  also  we  have  many  years
[09:17] 
[09:17] which  is  not  something  new  as  you  added
[09:19] 
[09:19] Brianna  I  mean  for  me  it's  kind  of  hard
[09:23] 
[09:23] to  understand  what's  the  westin  what's
[09:27] 
[09:27] the  new  thing  about  UX  research  compared
[09:29] 
[09:29] to  other  research  done  by  other  people
[09:31] 
[09:31] you  know  in  other  sectors  it's  hard  to
[09:34] 
[09:34] define  or  if  they're  kind  of  like  the
[09:36] 
[09:36] fish  definition  new  or  different
[09:41] 
[09:41] yeah  what's  different  is  the  kind  of  end
[09:43] 
[09:43] product  areas  like  the  digital
[09:45] 
[09:45] interfaces  actual  technology  side  but
[09:51] 
[09:51] the  way  that  you  saw  problems  your
[09:53] 
[09:53] creative  thinking  is  that  around  for
[09:55] 
[09:55] thousands  of  years  right  like  you  have
[09:57] 
[09:57] really  long  industry  -  you  know
[10:01] 
[10:01] architecture  and  industrial  design  for  a
[10:05] 
[10:05] long  time  and  these  kinds  of  approaches
[10:09] 
[10:09] like  interviewing  a  customer  Pena  what
[10:11] 
[10:11] their  problem  is  you  know  designing  for
[10:13] 
[10:13] somebody  else  has  they're  out  for  very
[10:16] 
[10:16] long  time  maybe  something's  tool  the
[10:19] 
[10:19] techniques  of  the  bulb  and  we  give  them
[10:21] 
[10:21] different  names  may  be  in  this  new  words
[10:23] 
[10:23] that  were  presented  right  like  us  user
[10:27] 
[10:27] experience  design  it  was  a  call  down
[10:29] 
[10:29] before  it  was  like  you  know  systems
[10:32] 
[10:32] engineering  information  architects  so
[10:35] 
[10:35] there  is  and  there's  specific
[10:37] 
[10:37] information  architects  to  deal  with  just
[10:39] 
[10:39] that  but  it's  the  out  the  process  is
[10:44] 
[10:45] very  similar  it's  improved  it's  a  wall
[10:48] 
[10:48] that  people  right  right  so  you  I  mean  it
[10:53] 
[10:53] is  an  advantage  having  a  UX  researcher
[10:55] 
[10:55] onboarding  or  startup  but  it's  not  a
[10:57] 
[10:57] necessity  in  the  start  or  I  think  it  is
[10:59] 
[10:59] I  think  it  is  because  the  closer  you  get
[11:03] 
[11:03] to  the  customer  what  they're  actually
[11:04] 
[11:04] doing  the  more  you  will  have  confidence
[11:09] 
[11:09] or  the  more  likely  it  will  be  that  you
[11:11] 
[11:11] will  actually  solve  problems  at
[11:13] 
[11:13] Anthony's  so  right  I  don't  think  there
[11:16] 
[11:16] is  ever  time  with  early  enough  or  I
[11:19] 
[11:19] think  from  the  beginning  you  see  the
[11:21] 
[11:21] value  of  us  and  then  there's  you  know
[11:25] 
[11:25] there's  really  a  lot  of  overlap  usually
[11:27] 
[11:27] I  work  for  me  personally  I've  usually
[11:29] 
[11:29] worked  somewhere  from  research  and  like
[11:34] 
[11:34] hype  stories  wireframes
[11:36] 
[11:36] right  I  think  it's  really  important  for
[11:38] 
[11:38] the  person  who's  doing  a  research  and
[11:39] 
[11:39] communicating  if  the  customers  were
[11:41] 
[11:41] possible  to  be  actually  translating  the
[11:44] 
[11:44] findings  and  write  something  some  kind
[11:46] 
[11:46] of  a  solution  because  that  person  is
[11:48] 
[11:48] there  the  reports  that  come  out  of  it  or
[11:52] 
[11:52] the  documentation  that  we  deliver  as  a
[11:54] 
[11:54] result  of  research  it's  a  way  to
[11:57] 
[11:57] communicate  what  was  discovered  and  what
[12:00] 
[12:00] was  found  but  there's  no  replacing
[12:01] 
[12:01] correction  being  there  at  x1  we  try  to
[12:04] 
[12:04] have  as  many  people  involved  in  actual
[12:07] 
[12:07] interview  process  and  product  owners
[12:09] 
[12:09] engineers  are  invited  occasionally  at
[12:11] 
[12:11] least  you  know  can't  be  there  every  day
[12:13] 
[12:13] if  there  may  not  their  core  competency
[12:16] 
[12:16] right  like  sure  but  see  being  there  and
[12:19] 
[12:20] seeing  and  emphasizing  as  a  customer  and
[12:22] 
[12:22] seeing  what  happens  when  these  product
[12:24] 
[12:24] or  seeing  that  they  say  is  incredibly
[12:26] 
[12:26] powerful  anything  is  really  valuable  for
[12:28] 
[12:28] it  especially  it  may  be  a  small  start-up
[12:31] 
[12:31] where  there  is  a  handful  of  people  for
[12:33] 
[12:33] everybody  to  be  there  at  some  point  when
[12:35] 
[12:35] the  interviews  are  happening  and
[12:36] 
[12:36] actually  listening  to  the  customers  it's
[12:38] 
[12:38] not  super  valuable  so  I  mean  you  know  in
[12:41] 
[12:41] the  beginning  some  a  lot  of  research  is
[12:43] 
[12:43] done  also  can  be  done  by  product  donors
[12:46] 
[12:46] I  mean  there's  books  out  there  like
[12:47] 
[12:47] Erica  Hall  it's  just  enough  research
[12:49] 
[12:49] that  I  highly  recommended  for  a  team
[12:52] 
[12:52] that's  maybe  starting  maybe  you  know
[12:53] 
[12:53] there's  pacifically  a  youth  designer  but
[12:56] 
[12:56] there's  no  reason  why  they  can't  talk  to
[12:57] 
[12:57] customers  however  it's  doing  for  each
[13:00] 
[13:00] understand  how  to  talk  to  customers  and
[13:02] 
[13:02] what  kind  of  questions  to  be  asking  and
[13:04] 
[13:04] that's  where  the  experience  of  the
[13:06] 
[13:06] Europe  researcher  really  or  your
[13:08] 
[13:08] designer  general  that  through  experience
[13:11] 
[13:11] and  through  having  talked  to  customers
[13:13] 
[13:13] you  find  out  what  are  the  right
[13:14] 
[13:14] questions  tab  that's  because  that's  what
[13:18] 
[13:18] the  next  thing  I  want  to  dive  into  like
[13:19] 
[13:19] what  I'm  going  to  do  right  questions  to
[13:21] 
[13:21] ask  I  mean  we  can  start  with  you  Camille
[13:23] 
[13:23] I  mean  I've  actually  been  part  of  your
[13:25] 
[13:25] UX  what  to  research  myself  going  through
[13:29] 
[13:29] your  project  per  product  but  I  really
[13:32] 
[13:32] don't  remember  what  kind  of  questions
[13:34] 
[13:34] you  ask  what  do  you  what  are  your  can
[13:36] 
[13:36] you  say  like  what  are  your  favorite
[13:37] 
[13:37] question  well  if  I  don't  have  my
[13:39] 
[13:39] favorite  questions  I  guess  it  depends  on
[13:41] 
[13:41] the  exercise  are  we  doing  and  that
[13:43] 
[13:43] particular  one  we  did  was  to  test  the
[13:46] 
[13:46] set  of  wireframes  and  at  that  moment  I
[13:49] 
[13:49] like  to  just  observe  and  watch  users  I
[13:51] 
[13:51] ask  them  to  speak  out  loud  their  chain
[13:54] 
[13:54] of  thought  so  whatever  they  doing
[13:56] 
[13:56] whatever  they  think  they're  doing  I  like
[13:58] 
[13:58] to  hear  that  I  look  for  reactions  to  to
[14:01] 
[14:01] to  the  project  to  what  they  see  on  the
[14:05] 
[14:05] screen  and  I  generally  like  to  see  a
[14:08] 
[14:08] user  that's  using  the  live  thing  in
[14:12] 
[14:12] terms  of  questions  I  beforehand  I  asked
[14:16] 
[14:16] users  what  do  they  expect  to  see  and
[14:18] 
[14:18] what  do  they  expect  this  solution  ideal
[14:23] 
[14:23] solution  would  be  to  the  to  the  problem
[14:24] 
[14:24] and  that  I  would  say  that  that  would  be
[14:27] 
[14:27] my  favorite  question  hmm  beautiful  yes
[14:31] 
[14:31] well  I'll  just  point  and  add  a  little
[14:33] 
[14:33] bit  that  there's  a  golden  rule  for
[14:36] 
[14:36] researchers  and  us  content  nurses  were
[14:38] 
[14:38] always  open  questions  never  closed
[14:42] 
[14:42] questions  so  we  in  like  in  to  do
[14:46] 
[14:46] multiple  answers  and  act  really  naive  so
[14:50] 
[14:50] like  so  that  we  use  are  really  true  that
[14:52] 
[14:52] you  you  don't  even  know  nothing  about
[14:54] 
[14:54] this  product  right  and  that's  way  they
[14:56] 
[14:56] kind  of  filled  themselves  okay  I'm
[14:57] 
[14:57] believing  one  here  and  I  know  the  person
[15:01] 
[15:01] account  with  experience  or  STI  but  don't
[15:05] 
[15:05] be  judgmental  ative
[15:07] 
[15:07] human  here  is  naturally  natural  to  want
[15:10] 
[15:10] to  kind  of
[15:13] 
[15:13] make  the  other  person  happy  that  way  it
[15:15] 
[15:15] looks  so  the  customers  come  in  and  they
[15:17] 
[15:17] start  talking  to  you  if  you  give  them
[15:19] 
[15:19] any  indication  what  you  want  them  to  say
[15:21] 
[15:21] they're  going  to  try  to  say  it  if  they
[15:24] 
[15:24] see  that  you're  interested  in  saying
[15:26] 
[15:26] certain  thing  they're  going  to  try  to
[15:28] 
[15:28] code  those  expectations  so  it's  really
[15:30] 
[15:30] important  to  be  super  neutral  and  kind
[15:32] 
[15:32] of  pretend  you  don't  know  or  whatever
[15:35] 
[15:35] that  means  to  you  so  that  you  can  just
[15:37] 
[15:37] let  them  tell  you  what  what  they  saying
[15:39] 
[15:39] oh  boy
[15:41] 
[15:41] sorry  yeah  otherwise  you  lose  and  money
[15:42] 
[15:42] when  you  invest  in  their  advocacy  money
[15:46] 
[15:46] it's  it's  expensive  you  know  expenses
[15:49] 
[15:49] because  you  have  to  replace  them  you
[15:50] 
[15:50] have  to  save  them  I  mean  it's  super  nice
[15:52] 
[15:52] if  they're  ready  to  do  it  for  free  but
[15:56] 
[15:56] it's  a  it's  a  it's  a  balance  right
[15:59] 
[15:59] because  it  is  it's  hard  being  both
[16:01] 
[16:01] neutral  super  neutral  and  also  getting
[16:04] 
[16:04] really  valuable  answers  right  it  seems
[16:06] 
[16:06] to  me  or  no  it's  more  like  go  ahead  my
[16:10] 
[16:10] back  I  think  you  have  to  make  it
[16:13] 
[16:13] straight  before  the  interview  say
[16:15] 
[16:15] there's  no  right  or  wrong  and  it's  not
[16:17] 
[16:17] that  hard  to  be  neutral  in  fact  you  just
[16:20] 
[16:20] you  guide  users  to  write  questions
[16:22] 
[16:22] through  small  conversations  and  most
[16:25] 
[16:25] importantly  there's  no  right  or  wrong
[16:27] 
[16:27] and  I  guess  I  mean  soft  skills  got  to  be
[16:30] 
[16:30] quite  important  as  a  UX  designer  then  to
[16:32] 
[16:32] get  people  getting  people  on  your  skin  a
[16:34] 
[16:34] bit  you  know  getting  them  comfortable
[16:36] 
[16:36] right  and  I  mean  I  was  ever  I  guess
[16:43] 
[16:43] there  is  I  mean  both  the  positive
[16:45] 
[16:45] approach  that  we're  talking  about  now
[16:46] 
[16:46] talking  to  users  we  also  the
[16:48] 
[16:48] quantitative  you  know  approach  looking
[16:50] 
[16:50] at  numbers  we  are  not  a  size  forum  in
[16:53] 
[16:53] what  I  mean  at  least  because  you're
[16:56] 
[16:56] dealing  with  such  a  vast  amount  of  users
[16:59] 
[16:59] what's  most  important  for  you  didn't
[17:02] 
[17:02] give  you  one  side  of  the  story  you're
[17:04] 
[17:04] really  lucky  at  typeform  we  have  a  great
[17:06] 
[17:06] head  of  analytics  and  team  who  is
[17:10] 
[17:10] focused  on  crunching  the  numbers  and
[17:13] 
[17:13] getting  the  insights  and  answering  these
[17:15] 
[17:15] recent  big  important  business  questions
[17:17] 
[17:17] and  sometimes  they  can  also  answer  some
[17:20] 
[17:20] of  our
[17:21] 
[17:21] user  question  so  but  analytics  is  one
[17:25] 
[17:25] part  of  the  story  right  the  other  part
[17:27] 
[17:27] of  the  service  what  members  can't  tell
[17:29] 
[17:29] you  is  what's  actually  much  more
[17:34] 
[17:34] specific  so  like  how  people  are  feeling
[17:36] 
[17:36] what  are  the  specific  tax  tests  with
[17:39] 
[17:39] their  Jimmy  why  they're  doing  them
[17:41] 
[17:41] there's  all  kinds  of  questions  that  so  I
[17:44] 
[17:44] advocate  analytics  and  interviews  very
[17:46] 
[17:46] qualitative  research  as  complimentary  to
[17:49] 
[17:49] one  without  the  other  really  is  not  as
[17:52] 
[17:52] powerful  is  to  when  they're  combined  are
[17:55] 
[17:55] incredibly  powerful  articles  so  when  we
[17:58] 
[17:58] and  there  are  certain  types  of  questions
[18:01] 
[18:01] that  are  better  answered  with  analytics
[18:02] 
[18:02] and  we  can  check  the  questions  that  are
[18:04] 
[18:04] better  answers  to  interviews  so  what  a
[18:06] 
[18:06] skill  uux
[18:10] 
[18:10] when  to  employ  the  right  tactic  right  so
[18:12] 
[18:12] a  lot  of  is  and  the  answer  always  in
[18:15] 
[18:15] your  exercise  seems  to  be  like  well  it
[18:16] 
[18:16] depends  and  because  every  situation  is
[18:19] 
[18:19] slightly  different  depending  on  your
[18:21] 
[18:21] customer  base  and  question  you're
[18:22] 
[18:22] seeking  the  answer  if  you're  looking  to
[18:24] 
[18:24] be  more  explorative  if  you're  looking  to
[18:26] 
[18:26] be  more  validated  if  you're  seeking  to
[18:30] 
[18:30] innovate  or  the  other  word  is
[18:34] 
[18:34] incremental  so  if  you're  seeking  to
[18:36] 
[18:36] innovate  in  an  open  way  or  just  itching
[18:38] 
[18:38] to  incremental  improve  their  different
[18:41] 
[18:41] techniques  that  are  applied  fruit  right
[18:43] 
[18:43] I  mean  it's  something  that  I  was  always
[18:45] 
[18:45] curious  about  this  might  be  wrong  but
[18:49] 
[18:49] when  doing  research  I  mean  how  about  how
[18:50] 
[18:50] much  it's  about  usability  and  how  much
[18:53] 
[18:53] it's  about  creating  a  great  experience  I
[18:56] 
[18:56] mean  because  ya  know  say  what  do  you
[19:02] 
[19:02] think  I  was  talking  about  usability  is
[19:05] 
[19:05] this  something  that  actually  exists  for
[19:08] 
[19:08] a  long  time  I  think  it's  like  in  the
[19:10] 
[19:10] beginning  of  90s  oh  the  term  was
[19:13] 
[19:13] officially  for  define  and  you  know  it
[19:21] 
[19:21] can  be  understood  as  a  design  slimmer
[19:24] 
[19:24] design  process  even  but  also  we  can  use
[19:28] 
[19:28] your  ability  as  heuristics  to  evaluate
[19:31] 
[19:31] our  user
[19:33] 
[19:33] right  so  don't  work  like  that  you're
[19:35] 
[19:35] right  it's  more  like  a  mechanical  part
[19:37] 
[19:37] of  user  experience  right  right  I'm
[19:40] 
[19:40] probably  less  human  yeah  yeah  I  think
[19:44] 
[19:44] the  two  are  complementary  so  you  have
[19:45] 
[19:45] like  the  kind  of  heuristics  and  the
[19:47] 
[19:47] overall  because  human  biology  hasn't
[19:49] 
[19:49] change  event  mentions  I'm  going  to
[19:51] 
[19:51] anytime  soon  right  like  the  st.  causing
[19:53] 
[19:53] their  biases  that  we  have  and  emotional
[19:55] 
[19:55] reactions  or  intellectual  reactions
[19:58] 
[19:58] whatever  it  is  that  the  humans  a  direct
[20:00] 
[20:00] list  that  human  part  is  really  the  same
[20:03] 
[20:03] but  what's  changed  is  the  environment  in
[20:05] 
[20:05] which  we  dislike  the  technology  part  so
[20:08] 
[20:08] it's  adapting  that  so  that  I  think  here
[20:10] 
[20:10] is  success  complot  sistah  men  visiting
[20:12] 
[20:13] but  you  know  using  something  easily  and
[20:16] 
[20:16] being  able  to  get  your  task  in  at  the
[20:17] 
[20:17] end  of  the  day  actually  get  whatever  job
[20:19] 
[20:19] that  you  want  to  get  them  and  then  moves
[20:21] 
[20:21] like  a  huge  thing  right  now  it  is
[20:23] 
[20:23] talking  about  jump  students  product  size
[20:25] 
[20:25] this  is  really  new  tremendously  overlaps
[20:28] 
[20:28] with  us  we  have  tons  of  children  to
[20:30] 
[20:30] commuter  exactly  that  so  giving  allowing
[20:33] 
[20:33] the  customer  to  do  what  they  wanted  to
[20:35] 
[20:35] do  not  what  we  want  to  do  what  they  want
[20:38] 
[20:38] to  do  creates  the  experience  of  the
[20:39] 
[20:39] value  and  then  in  addition  we  have  the
[20:42] 
[20:42] emotional  component  and  how  that  feels
[20:44] 
[20:44] from  like  a  very  visual  side  so  it's  a
[20:48] 
[20:48] women  is  one  of  two  parts  work  really
[20:50] 
[20:50] well  I  think  that's  a  great  experience
[20:52] 
[20:52] like  it  functions  really  well  in  it
[20:54] 
[20:54] super  good  and  it  looks  really  nice  and
[20:57] 
[20:57] pleasing  to  you  and  that's  more  the
[20:59] 
[20:59] emotional  component  I  don't  think  is
[21:01] 
[21:01] really  important  I  really  can't
[21:03] 
[21:03] yeah  you  can  that  the  functionality  is
[21:09] 
[21:09] very  utilitarian  hmm  I  want  to  move  on
[21:15] 
[21:15] richer  you're  talking  about  how  you're
[21:17] 
[21:17] interacting  with  other  people  in  the
[21:18] 
[21:18] company  as  well  which  is  a  big  part  of
[21:20] 
[21:20] the  UX  role  I  mean  you're  not  solo
[21:22] 
[21:22] players  and  and  I  mean  I  wanted  to  ask
[21:24] 
[21:24] you  can  be  a  first  this  is  hard  to  get
[21:27] 
[21:27] like  buying  for  from  other  people  in
[21:29] 
[21:29] companies  it's  hard  to  convince  other
[21:31] 
[21:31] people  in  khipu  of  your  findings  I  mean
[21:35] 
[21:35] if  you  have  something  that's  you  know
[21:36] 
[21:36] conflicting  with  with  the  your
[21:38] 
[21:38] developers  thoughts  I  mean  how  do  you
[21:40] 
[21:40] convince  them  that  I  mean  what  you  found
[21:42] 
[21:42] is  the  right  thing  right  way  to  go  I
[21:44] 
[21:44] guess  unlock
[21:45] 
[21:45] enough  not  to  have  these  problems  but
[21:48] 
[21:48] always  after  every  research  after  every
[21:51] 
[21:51] every  interface  we  do  or  any  kind  of
[21:54] 
[21:54] research  I  buy  summary  and  action  action
[21:56] 
[21:56] items  and  you  know  there  are  reasons  in
[21:59] 
[21:59] those  documents  and  I  just  present  every
[22:02] 
[22:02] all  my  findings  to  them  and  if  there  is
[22:04] 
[22:04] anything  unclear  on  the  screen  that  they
[22:06] 
[22:06] see  that  they  have  to  develop  I  just
[22:07] 
[22:07] bring  up  these  reasons  and  it's  fairly
[22:09] 
[22:09] easy  people  try  is  a  pretty  much
[22:13] 
[22:13] I  wouldn't  say  design  mature  company
[22:14] 
[22:14] because  we  don't  have  a  huge  design  UX
[22:17] 
[22:17] team  but  definitely  this  is  something
[22:19] 
[22:19] that  we  will  follow  in  the  next  years  we
[22:23] 
[22:23] will  grow  our  design  team  and  we  put  a
[22:27] 
[22:27] strong  focus  on  the  line  hmm  how  it
[22:29] 
[22:29] stands  for  you  I  mean  you  also  talk
[22:31] 
[22:31] about  how  you're  bringing  engineers  into
[22:33] 
[22:33] interviews  how  you  are  trying  to  like
[22:35] 
[22:35] merge  everyone  into  the  same  process  but
[22:38] 
[22:38] it  is  has  been  times  when  it's  hard  to
[22:40] 
[22:40] commit  people  that's  what  you  found  is
[22:42] 
[22:42] truth  yeah  yeah  it  has  been  super
[22:47] 
[22:47] difficult  I  think  we're  lucky  as  well
[22:49] 
[22:49] but  I  think  what  critical  is  evolving  in
[22:52] 
[22:52] any  company  involving  people  from  the
[22:54] 
[22:54] beginning  letting  them  go  through  the
[22:56] 
[22:56] journey  with  you  and  having  experience
[22:59] 
[22:59] and  sitting  an  interview  and  seeing  what
[23:01] 
[23:01] happens  has  a  tremendous  impact  on
[23:03] 
[23:03] people  of  course  there's  you  know
[23:05] 
[23:05] sometimes  there's  people  that  have  their
[23:06] 
[23:06] own  opinion  and  you  know  they  feel  very
[23:08] 
[23:08] strongly  about  it  and  so  the  way  I've
[23:12] 
[23:12] gotten  around  that  is  essentially  to
[23:14] 
[23:14] bring  those  especially  those  individuals
[23:16] 
[23:16] and  really  as  possible  and  let  them  see
[23:19] 
[23:19] what  was  happening  because  the  point  of
[23:21] 
[23:21] view  of  being  in  when  you're  doing  it
[23:23] 
[23:23] agrees  is  not  to  supplement  or  to  to
[23:28] 
[23:28] supersede  to  users  opinions  your  own  or
[23:30] 
[23:30] to  get  what  you  want  is  to  get  what  they
[23:33] 
[23:33] want  and  there  is  little  difference  I
[23:35] 
[23:35] think  that  it's  easy  sometimes  lose
[23:37] 
[23:37] track  yeah  all  right  yeah  so  yeah
[23:40] 
[23:40] getting  people  involved  early  is  it  just
[23:43] 
[23:43] sort  of  it
[23:44] 
[23:44] I  mean  self  skills  are  needed  talking
[23:46] 
[23:46] with  the  users  those  are  the  death  same
[23:48] 
[23:48] self  skills  are  used  talking  with  other
[23:50] 
[23:50] people  in  the  company  I  think  so  I  think
[23:52] 
[23:52] where  does  difficulty  comes  in  maybe  it
[23:54] 
[23:54] some  day
[23:55] 
[23:55] companies  to  where  I've  been  past  the
[24:00] 
[24:00] business  side  that's  the  most  remove
[24:03] 
[24:03] around  the  customer  hi  can  sometimes
[24:06] 
[24:06] have  the  hardest  time  because  there  is
[24:08] 
[24:08] there's  this  balancing  act  that's
[24:10] 
[24:10] happening  between  business  needs  it  into
[24:12] 
[24:12] me  and  it  for  the  to  overlap  its
[24:14] 
[24:14] business  can  thrive  because  the  business
[24:16] 
[24:16] cannot  sustain  itself  than  sustain
[24:20] 
[24:20] itself  in  this  you  know  that  were  fire
[24:22] 
[24:22] but  its  customers  are  kitchens  the
[24:24] 
[24:24] leader  doing  what  they  need  to  do  if
[24:26] 
[24:26] they  want  to  do  then  they're  going  to  be
[24:29] 
[24:29] custard  so  it's  really  fine  going  to
[24:31] 
[24:31] overlap  and  what  it  sounds  really
[24:34] 
[24:34] effective  is  communicating  the  customers
[24:37] 
[24:37] needs  and  business  terms  always  tying
[24:40] 
[24:40] the  two  together  so  this  is  what  the
[24:42] 
[24:42] customer  wants  and  it's  going  to  serve  a
[24:44] 
[24:44] business  like  this  and  this  is  how  they
[24:46] 
[24:46] overlap  and  really  showing  that  over  and
[24:48] 
[24:48] that  wants  to  prove  hmm  no  no  and
[24:52] 
[24:52] everybody  has  their  things  right  like
[24:54] 
[24:54] you  can  get  attached  to  solution  you
[24:57] 
[24:57] know  it's  really  important  to  talk  about
[24:58] 
[24:58] huh  and  also  I  mean  tech  formers
[25:03] 
[25:03] apparently  become  say  now  150  people  I
[25:05] 
[25:05] mean  Apple  one  how  many  people  are
[25:06] 
[25:06] working  up  on  the  element  Center  which
[25:11] 
[25:11] is  in  Minsk  I  think  something  around
[25:13] 
[25:13] hundred  people  so  the  furniture  company
[25:15] 
[25:15] as  well  yeah  yeah  we  have  some  profiles
[25:17] 
[25:17] and  I  think  quite  a  quite  similar  to  to
[25:22] 
[25:22] your  cases  I  also  try  to  involve  people
[25:25] 
[25:25] to  take  participation  even  if  it's
[25:27] 
[25:27] remotely
[25:28] 
[25:28] I  asked  them  for  deserves  online  what's
[25:30] 
[25:30] going  on  run  interesting
[25:32] 
[25:32] some  see  it  on  your  own  and  just  take
[25:35] 
[25:35] the  nose  run  usually  when  you  do  submit
[25:37] 
[25:37] usability  testing  there's  always  a  note
[25:39] 
[25:39] taker  and  in  the  commitment  and  that's
[25:42] 
[25:42] exactly  what  I'm  asking  to  do  either  a
[25:44] 
[25:44] product  manager  or  a  developer  sometimes
[25:49] 
[25:49] I  mean  you  told  me  earlier  that  you  came
[25:53] 
[25:53] in  at  a  later  stage  in  Apple  on  and  that
[25:56] 
[25:56] they  they've  been  doing  their  things  I
[25:58] 
[25:58] used  to  reach  user  research  researcher
[26:01] 
[26:01] wise  and  without  the  UX  specialist  but
[26:05] 
[26:05] do  you  have  do  you  have  an  opinion  on
[26:08] 
[26:08] when  should  a  company  or  a  start-up  or
[26:10] 
[26:10] technology  company  hire  a  dedicated  use
[26:12] 
[26:12] person  well  depends  of  course  depending
[26:16] 
[26:16] on  what  depending  on  I  think  a  lot  of
[26:19] 
[26:19] factors  startups  they  they  do  hello  they
[26:22] 
[26:22] do  have  a  lot  of  problems
[26:24] 
[26:24] apart  from  UX  in  general  there  are  a  lot
[26:27] 
[26:27] of  challenges  first  of  all  to  cope  with
[26:30] 
[26:30] and  yeah  you  may  hire  a  UX  specialist  in
[26:36] 
[26:36] the  very  beginning  and  that  will  help
[26:37] 
[26:37] you  with  the  preliminary  research  and
[26:39] 
[26:39] into  phi  user  problems  user  needs
[26:41] 
[26:41] probably  build  your  product  around  that
[26:44] 
[26:44] but  there's  a  different  approach  which
[26:48] 
[26:48] can  also  work  lining  up  a  little  case
[26:50] 
[26:50] for  example  by  offering  they  had  a  nice
[26:53] 
[26:53] marketing  people  sales  people  and
[26:56] 
[26:56] business  intelligence  data  scientists  so
[27:00] 
[27:00] all  together  all  these  skills  make  a
[27:02] 
[27:02] good  mixture  together  and  they  found  a
[27:05] 
[27:05] way  to  build  products  that  went  well  so
[27:09] 
[27:09] possible  yeah  so  now  i'm  i'm  more  like  i
[27:12] 
[27:12] you  know  a  new  way  of  and  up  to  my  being
[27:15] 
[27:15] the  product  right  right  I  mean  Camille
[27:18] 
[27:18] you  you're  a  part  of  what  you  can  call
[27:20] 
[27:20] like  fairly  at  an  early  stage  startup
[27:23] 
[27:23] but  you  know  a  hundr  know  hundreds  of
[27:25] 
[27:25] people  and  I  mean  you're  the  first  UX
[27:27] 
[27:27] designer  right  yes  do  you  did  you  see
[27:31] 
[27:31] that  they  were  doing  things  different
[27:33] 
[27:33] than  before  you  arrived  are  you  doing
[27:35] 
[27:35] things  different  now  again  I  tried  to  be
[27:39] 
[27:39] a  voice  for  customer  before  that  it  was
[27:42] 
[27:42] a  product  owner  product  manager  who  did
[27:44] 
[27:44] to  do  these  things  so  they  were  doing
[27:48] 
[27:48] collies  UX  to  some  extent  but  there  was
[27:52] 
[27:52] no  no  dedicated  person  to  do  just  that
[27:54] 
[27:54] so  I  would  say  you  should  hire  as  early
[27:59] 
[27:59] as  possible  but  your  ex  isn't  cheap  UX
[28:02] 
[28:02] is  time  consuming  and  also  you  have  to
[28:05] 
[28:05] budget  for  it  right  to  recruit  people
[28:07] 
[28:07] and  then  pay  for  for  them  to  have
[28:09] 
[28:09] interviews  it's  these  metrics  is  that  -
[28:12] 
[28:12] it's  an  investment
[28:14] 
[28:14] and  is  the  kind  of  investment  that
[28:17] 
[28:17] reduces  risk  so  having  a  us  designer  on
[28:20] 
[28:20] board  really  helps  you  reduce  the  risk
[28:23] 
[28:23] of  totally  getting  it  wrong  yes  and  I
[28:27] 
[28:27] think  to  me  that's  super  valuable  right
[28:29] 
[28:29] like  especially  in  a  noose  or  as  a
[28:32] 
[28:32] start-up  tremendous  a  matter  is  not  just
[28:34] 
[28:34] whether  the  product  is  going  to  work
[28:36] 
[28:36] right  yes  and  so  any  way  that  you  can  do
[28:38] 
[28:38] that  so  I  look  at  it  as  something  that
[28:40] 
[28:40] can  begin  I  would  start  up  I  would  even
[28:47] 
[28:47] I  know  it's  a  bit  higher  somebody  senior
[28:52] 
[28:52] hire  somebody  to  spend  the  money  his
[28:54] 
[28:54] time  like  the  same  way  you  would  invest
[28:56] 
[28:56] in  development  and  we  have  to  say  kind
[28:59] 
[28:59] of  my  hiring  developers  that's  hiring
[29:01] 
[29:01] you're  in  so  important  yeah  there  are
[29:03] 
[29:03] two  sides  of  the  same  coin  right  like
[29:07] 
[29:07] and  the  stronger  structure  it's  like
[29:10] 
[29:10] having  a  two-footed  stool  versus  a  three
[29:13] 
[29:13] citizens  tool  right  yeah  so  because  you
[29:16] 
[29:16] worked  in  fairly  a  fair  amount  of  early
[29:18] 
[29:18] phase  start  with  yourself  right  and  you
[29:21] 
[29:21] came  in  at  the  early  stage  as  well  or
[29:23] 
[29:23] yes  there  was  some  of  my  clients
[29:26] 
[29:26] incentives  it  essentially  hired  you  know
[29:29] 
[29:29] kind  of  a  contract  on  a  contract  basis
[29:31] 
[29:31] and  that's  entirely  possible  -  right  and
[29:34] 
[29:34] if  you  can't  afford  to  have  fun  equal
[29:36] 
[29:36] time  for  every  day  higher  than  beginning
[29:39] 
[29:39] stages  to  set  the  course  of  some  extent
[29:41] 
[29:41] now  the  more  experienced  that  person  has
[29:43] 
[29:43] a  more  quickly  they're  going  to  be  able
[29:45] 
[29:45] to  you  know  give  you  the  right  advice
[29:48] 
[29:48] and  so  it's  like  spending  more  now  so
[29:52] 
[29:52] that  you  can  save  later  in  a  way  yeah
[29:56] 
[29:56] I'm  curious  you  worked  in  several  really
[29:59] 
[29:59] say  started  but  now  you're  working
[30:00] 
[30:00] inside  from  evolving  into  like  a  real
[30:03] 
[30:03] company  and  and  I  mean  talking  with  a
[30:06] 
[30:06] lot  of  people  in  the  beginning  and
[30:08] 
[30:08] you're  trying  to  kind  of  find  the  path
[30:10] 
[30:10] for  your  product  and  you're  getting  all
[30:12] 
[30:12] this  feedback  from  people  telling  you
[30:14] 
[30:14] that  would  be  great
[30:15] 
[30:15] if  you  did  this  that  would  be  amazing  I
[30:18] 
[30:18] mean  how  do  you  stand  this  is  for  all  of
[30:20] 
[30:20] you  but  how  do  you  stay  focused  on
[30:23] 
[30:23] near  vision  or  your  I  mean  your  yet  your
[30:25] 
[30:25] product  what  do  you  want  to  build  yeah
[30:27] 
[30:27] that's  where  it  becomes  an  art  form  at
[30:34] 
[30:34] the  end  of  the  day  I  think  with  in  the
[30:37] 
[30:37] early  stages  more  than  anything  that's
[30:39] 
[30:39] important  is  defining  the  problem  right
[30:42] 
[30:42] like  what's  the  real  problem  that  needs
[30:45] 
[30:45] to  be  solved  and  really  focusing  on  that
[30:48] 
[30:48] and  if  she  understands  technology  that
[30:52] 
[30:52] you're  trying  to  build  or  capabilities
[30:55] 
[30:55] that  you  have  then  you  can  apply  to  that
[30:58] 
[30:58] and  go  okay  we're  the  to  connect  like
[31:00] 
[31:00] this  is  the  problem  that  need  to  be
[31:02] 
[31:02] solved  this  is  the  kind  of  direction
[31:03] 
[31:03] that  we're  building  in  trying  to  find
[31:05] 
[31:05] little  Rob  it's  super  hard  I  mean  it's
[31:07] 
[31:07] easy  for  me  to  sit  here  and  say  this  but
[31:09] 
[31:09] in  a  moment  and  it's  not  a  magic  magic
[31:13] 
[31:13] one  of  the  things  that  you  see  way  will
[31:16] 
[31:16] wand  it  happens  right  like  it  doesn't
[31:19] 
[31:19] eliminate  risk  and  introduces  it  and
[31:23] 
[31:23] more  informed  it's  still  really  easy  to
[31:26] 
[31:26] fail  I  mean  how  many  startups  are  out
[31:28] 
[31:28] there  that  we've  never  heard  of  so  few
[31:32] 
[31:32] can  take  it  or  we  don't  talk  about  those
[31:34] 
[31:34] stories  it's  important  you've  done  right
[31:36] 
[31:36] and  not  only  that  actually  was  just  a  US
[31:40] 
[31:40] LX  and  just  patent  was  there  and  then
[31:43] 
[31:43] the  his  talk  was  that  failure  is  not
[31:46] 
[31:46] what  you  should  be  afraid  of  it's  that
[31:49] 
[31:49] kind  of  in  between  like  it's  neither
[31:52] 
[31:52] right  nor  wrong  kind  of  like  it's  not
[31:56] 
[31:56] terrible  but  it's  not  good  either  that
[31:58] 
[31:58] kind  of  like  dead  them  in  the  middle
[32:00] 
[32:00] where  it's  like  something's  happening
[32:02] 
[32:02] but  we  don't  know  what  yeah  so  it's  not
[32:04] 
[32:04] failure  that  we  should  really  be  afraid
[32:06] 
[32:06] of  it  kind  of  restoring  I  guess  yeah  we
[32:11] 
[32:11] should  you  feeling  is  good  because  it
[32:16] 
[32:16] tells  you  what  you're  really  doing  wrong
[32:17] 
[32:17] and  gives  you  a  lot  more  information
[32:19] 
[32:19] then  like  kind  of  sort  of  getting  it  and
[32:22] 
[32:22] I  think  that  so  so  it  is  in  an  effort  to
[32:25] 
[32:25] eliminate  that  I  think  that's  a  problem
[32:28] 
[32:28] in  the  beginning  and  not  solving  for  a
[32:31] 
[32:31] problem  until  you  know  with  the  real
[32:33] 
[32:33] problem  in  sort  of  like  that  knowing  how
[32:36] 
[32:36] long  to  stay  there  yeah  I  knew  you
[32:38] 
[32:38] talked  about  also  in  regard  to  this
[32:40] 
[32:40] understanding  Nexus  technology  because  I
[32:44] 
[32:44] wondered  I  mean  how  how  develop  do  you
[32:47] 
[32:47] need  to  be  at  the  quarter  and  Camille
[32:50] 
[32:50] and  I  know  that  you  do  so
[32:52] 
[32:52] developments  in  coding  but  I  mean  how
[32:54] 
[32:54] advanced  of  a  code  or  do  you  need  to  be
[32:57] 
[32:57] developed  or  do  you  need  to  be  to  work
[32:59] 
[32:59] you  know  my  patient  class  every  year
[33:00] 
[33:00] designer  UX  in  general  is  a  quite
[33:05] 
[33:05] interesting  field  because  you  can  have
[33:06] 
[33:06] many  backgrounds  and  I  happen  to  have
[33:08] 
[33:08] some  development  background  but  it  was  a
[33:10] 
[33:10] long  time  ago
[33:12] 
[33:12] I  understand  how  programming  works  and
[33:14] 
[33:14] that  helps  me  understand  constraints  at
[33:16] 
[33:16] developer  project  to  me  you  don't  have
[33:19] 
[33:19] to  be  color  at  all  but  in  a  start-up  the
[33:23] 
[33:23] more  Skills  you  have  the  better  of  you
[33:25] 
[33:25] are  so  I  would  say  coding  is  a  is  a  good
[33:32] 
[33:32] complement  complementary  skill  I  do
[33:35] 
[33:35] coding  only  because  sometimes  there  is  a
[33:39] 
[33:39] development  team  works  hard  on  the
[33:41] 
[33:41] product  heavy  on  the  product  I  use  the
[33:43] 
[33:43] small  things  yeah  just  as  a  night  soon
[33:47] 
[33:47] to  my  team  anyways  it's  at  the  same
[33:49] 
[33:49] point  of  university  I  do  you  think  your
[33:51] 
[33:51] sign  is  shoot  code  or  do  you  think  it's
[33:54] 
[33:54] important  the  moms  say  let's  see  that's
[33:58] 
[33:58] one  different  perspective  they're
[33:59] 
[33:59] different  types  of  developers  Universal
[34:01] 
[34:01] with  face  we're  having  for  example  Apple
[34:05] 
[34:05] we  have  matrix  about  developing  but  we
[34:09] 
[34:09] also  have  machine  learning  deep  learning
[34:10] 
[34:10] computing  which  is  a  little  bit  advanced
[34:13] 
[34:13] and  it's  a  little  bit  more  complex  than
[34:16] 
[34:16] just  a  usual  second  one  and  these  people
[34:21] 
[34:21] are  creating  amazing  things  that  users
[34:25] 
[34:25] do  already  feel  that  it's  working  they
[34:28] 
[34:28] feel  that  interfaces  become  more  and
[34:30] 
[34:30] more  smart  now  and  they  require  more  and
[34:33] 
[34:33] more  reason  to  face  it  and  I'm  speaking
[34:36] 
[34:36] to  users  like  once  and  week  one  too
[34:39] 
[34:39] apart  from  you  know  solving  our  daily
[34:42] 
[34:42] problems  from  a  catch-all  project  I  also
[34:44] 
[34:44] see  them  demanding  more  and  more  every
[34:47] 
[34:47] day  about  that  about  the  way  interface
[34:51] 
[34:51] should  be  now  in  the  future  so  I  guess
[34:54] 
[34:54] going  forward  maybe  becomes  more  and
[34:56] 
[34:56] more  important  or  yeah  it  becomes  one
[34:59] 
[34:59] more  but  probably  not  having  the  skills
[35:02] 
[35:02] of  a  developer  but  just  understand  what
[35:04] 
[35:04] they're  doing  and  understand  the
[35:06] 
[35:06] limitations  I  mean  do  you  do  go  to
[35:11] 
[35:11] yourself  you  know  I  went  to  a  10-week
[35:14] 
[35:14] dev  bootcamp  Ruby  on  Rails  training
[35:18] 
[35:18] right  man  is  so  hard  but  I  think  Canosa
[35:28] 
[35:28] is  really  depend  on  the  environment  I'm
[35:32] 
[35:32] going  to  start  up  having  being  a  really
[35:34] 
[35:34] strong  generalist  will  be  really  helpful
[35:36] 
[35:36] at  a  big  company  where  you  have  these
[35:39] 
[35:39] very  very  narrow  roles  goes  deep  into
[35:42] 
[35:42] one  subject  it's  more  useful  to  really
[35:45] 
[35:45] get  expert  it's  really  hard  to  be  good
[35:47] 
[35:47] at  everything  and  by  the  time  somebody
[35:51] 
[35:51] is  good  at  everything  usually  you  know
[35:54] 
[35:54] it  takes  two  mutants  decades  right  like
[35:56] 
[35:56] you'd  have  to  and  then  think  they're
[35:58] 
[35:58] changing  so  much  with  the  line  of
[36:01] 
[36:01] almonds  and  shift  all  the  time  then  it's
[36:03] 
[36:03] how  you're  not  doing  one  job  for  a  while
[36:05] 
[36:05] what  stays  is  used  as  overall  concepts
[36:09] 
[36:09] and  understanding  where  the  pitfalls
[36:10] 
[36:10] might  be  but  I  don't  know  if  to  some
[36:12] 
[36:13] extent  you  know  sometimes  diction  also
[36:15] 
[36:15] be  good  enough  to  not  to  have  any  of
[36:17] 
[36:17] that  background  because  it's  then  you're
[36:19] 
[36:19] now  limit  or  you're  less  limited  maybe
[36:20] 
[36:20] you  know  I  like  to  out  it's  that  story
[36:25] 
[36:25] of  the  bumblebee  like  the  reason  it
[36:26] 
[36:26] applies  because  nobody's  golden  can't
[36:28] 
[36:28] there's  so  not  your  anchor  and  look  at  a
[36:31] 
[36:31] bumblebee  like  how  does  that  happening
[36:33] 
[36:33] but  so  it's  sometimes  it's  good  to  have
[36:37] 
[36:37] that  naive  friend  that's  cool  you're
[36:41] 
[36:41] talking  about  how  the  you  know  anything
[36:43] 
[36:43] so  fast  and  it's  hard  to  keep  updated
[36:45] 
[36:45] and  I'm  guess  that's  the  same  for  us  I
[36:47] 
[36:47] mean  UX  is  evolving  as  well  you  expiry
[36:49] 
[36:49] search  as  well  it's  evolving
[36:51] 
[36:51] and  I  wanted  to  here  with  you  guys  that
[36:53] 
[36:53] are  working  with  this  every  day  I  mean
[36:54] 
[36:54] what's  you  acting  2010  and  things
[36:57] 
[36:57] probably  not  what  you  what  what's  you
[36:59] 
[36:59] know  a  couple  years  ago  coming  in  I  mean
[37:03] 
[37:03] are  you  are  you  working  in  the  same  way
[37:05] 
[37:05] as  you  did  a  couple  years  ago  are  you
[37:07] 
[37:07] seeing  some  trends  changing  I  guess
[37:11] 
[37:11] while  working  the  same  or  not  you  adapt
[37:14] 
[37:14] to  environmental  projects  so  not  really
[37:17] 
[37:17] aware  of  the  one  working  very  much
[37:20] 
[37:20] different  I  always  stay  true  to  the
[37:22] 
[37:22] problem  that  endured  by  us  all  but  I
[37:25] 
[37:25] think  in  terms  of  trends  for  2017  or
[37:27] 
[37:27] maybe  even  20  18  19  I  I  was  getting  to
[37:30] 
[37:30] anticipatory  design  and  I  explained  in
[37:34] 
[37:34] that  Wow  I  it  has  to  do  something  with
[37:38] 
[37:38] with  a  I  backed  design  this  is  the
[37:44] 
[37:44] interface  changes  as  user  uses  it  and
[37:47] 
[37:47] and  it  that's  fed  to  it  by  if  I  see  at
[37:50] 
[37:50] which  is  sorry  that's  fed  to  it  by
[37:53] 
[37:53] artificial  intelligence  and  that's  more
[37:57] 
[37:57] as  overall  concept  and  not  an  expert  so
[37:58] 
[37:58] about  that  so  I'm  already  gonna  know
[38:01] 
[38:01] know  in  detail  but  that  mean  it's  more
[38:03] 
[38:03] or  less  it  right  I  know  you  guys  are
[38:05] 
[38:05] working  with  conversational  interfaces
[38:07] 
[38:07] and  some  AI  powered  stop  on  me  we're
[38:10] 
[38:10] doing  really  can't  like  that  the  right
[38:13] 
[38:13] direction  go  in  it  so  as  an  industry  as
[38:17] 
[38:17] a  as  a  job  I  don't  think  you  have
[38:21] 
[38:21] changed  time  I  think  that  develop  that
[38:26] 
[38:26] changed  a  lot  more  in  the  sense  of  like
[38:27] 
[38:27] language  is  constantly  evolving  this  is
[38:29] 
[38:29] good  this  is  great  decisions  getting
[38:31] 
[38:31] better  like  there's  the  technologies
[38:32] 
[38:32] really  changing  quite  a  bit  in  UX  truly
[38:36] 
[38:36] creative  problem-solving  from  beginning
[38:38] 
[38:38] right  like  it's  not  so  fluid  design
[38:44] 
[38:44] trends  are  fluid  with  the  like  with
[38:46] 
[38:46] popular  kind  of  you  know  colors  what
[38:48] 
[38:48] kind  of  interactions  animations  things
[38:50] 
[38:50] like  that  or  of  all  these  are  quickly  if
[38:52] 
[38:52] it's  fundamental  like  research  and  UX
[38:55] 
[38:55] design  many  think  I  think  it's  evolving
[38:57] 
[38:58] quickly  but  to
[39:01] 
[39:01] kind  of  anticipatory  design  and  using  AI
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[39:04] to  essentially  make  the  interface  more
[39:06] 
[39:06] intelligent  response  the  person  where
[39:08] 
[39:08] they're  working  in  the  moment  so  that  it
[39:10] 
[39:10] can  it's  predicting  what  they  might  do
[39:13] 
[39:13] stand  right  so  a  typo  me  a  conversation
[39:16] 
[39:16] what  a  conversational  means  I  think  that
[39:19] 
[39:19] we're  kind  of  defining  that  right  like
[39:22] 
[39:22] where  does  it  mean  to  our  customers  are
[39:25] 
[39:25] we  going  to  have  the  same  customers
[39:26] 
[39:26] today  as  we  have  in  two  years  probably
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[39:29] might  not  be  the  same  things  like  us  are
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[39:32] days  men  would  have  conversation
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[39:34] designing  to  them  so  those  are  the
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[39:35] questions  are  trying  to  answer  but  I
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[39:38] think  no  no  no  I  mean  I  feel  like  you're
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[39:45] your  own  board  the  same  thing  zone  we  do
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[39:47] not  thought  that  you're  you're  teaching
[39:49] 
[39:49] the  UX  you  Xer  of  the  future  as  iron
[39:51] 
[39:51] hack  I  mean  are  you  are  you  teaching
[39:53] 
[39:53] them  the  latest  trends  or  I  mean  what
[39:55] 
[39:55] what  do  you  think  our  2017  we're  giving
[39:59] 
[39:59] them  the  basics  of  what  are  the  trends
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[40:00] in  society  what  are  the  trends  in
[40:02] 
[40:02] technology  for  us  we're  not  really  you
[40:06] 
[40:06] know  it's  really  hard  to  predict  what  we
[40:10] 
[40:10] totally  all  understand  if  that  things
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[40:11] are  going  to  go  really  fast  really
[40:14] 
[40:14] really  fast  and  as  I  said  before
[40:16] 
[40:16] during  my  research  studies  I  can  see
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[40:19] that  users  are  becoming  more  and  more
[40:21] 
[40:21] demanding  in  terms  of  the  quality  of
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[40:23] these  interfaces  and  being  yet
[40:27] 
[40:27] especially  if  you  do  test  with  visual
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[40:31] native  people  that  were  born  like  after
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[40:34] a  middle  of  19th  right  they  got  used  to
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[40:38] solve  their  problems  with  digital
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[40:39] solutions  already  so  they  expect  warm
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[40:43] and  for  example  our  generation  we're
[40:45] 
[40:45] still  can  use  the  paper  for  something
[40:47] 
[40:47] yes  and  the  younger  like  my  nephew  for
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[40:51] example  when  he  was  not  in  10  but  when
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[40:55] you  were  five  he  expected  he  had  seen
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[41:00] the  comics  like  an  elephant  or  something
[41:04] 
[41:04] but  he  also  saw  an  iPad  already  and  he
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[41:07] was  like  you  want  to  send  this  one  to  be
[41:09] 
[41:09] inlay  I've  had  and  that's  exactly  what
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[41:11] he's  expecting  because  that's  what
[41:15] 
[41:15] and  his  mental  ones  already  so  no  one
[41:19] 
[41:19] section  it  ain't  good  that's  the  way
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[41:21] it's  going  to  change  a  little  bit  we
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[41:24] will  have  to  develop  new  principles  of
[41:26] 
[41:26] evaluating  a  user  experience  I  think
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[41:30] generally  let's  say  time  between  users
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[41:37] and  computers  will  reduce  time  in  the
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[41:43] future  the  going  interaction  was  going
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[41:46] to  be  essentially  less  interaction
[41:48] 
[41:48] that's  great  yeah  yeah  yeah  the  thing
[41:52] 
[41:52] that  we  can  do  for  people  and  that's
[41:54] 
[41:54] even  something  now  that  I  think  about
[41:56] 
[41:56] all  the  time  I  calculate  me  essentially
[41:58] 
[41:58] agreeing  with  this  tent  is  there
[41:59] 
[41:59] something  you  can  do  for  users  that  they
[42:01] 
[42:01] don't  have  to  do  like  we  can  thanks  for
[42:03] 
[42:03] them  and  finding  all  those  little  things
[42:05] 
[42:05] to  reduce  cognitive  load  so  that  it
[42:07] 
[42:08] seemed  like  the  computer  knows  what  you
[42:10] 
[42:10] want
[42:10] 
[42:10] it  doesn't  really  arrive  but  it's  going
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[42:12] to  predict  it  and  maybe  there  will
[42:14] 
[42:14] eventually  be  some  kind  of  intelligent
[42:17] 
[42:17] enough  a  eye  that  can  support  things
[42:21] 
[42:21] every  time  descent  maybe  you're  taking
[42:23] 
[42:23] away  rather  than  having  more  interaction
[42:25] 
[42:25] and  then  switching  some  of  the
[42:28] 
[42:28] interaction  to  voice  things  that  can  be
[42:31] 
[42:31] done  with  voice  easier  than  interface
[42:32] 
[42:32] and  then  there's  of  course  things  that
[42:34] 
[42:34] can  be  done  in  your  pen  interface  rather
[42:35] 
[42:35] than  a  voice  like  an  ugly  voices  like
[42:37] 
[42:37] everything's  going  to  be  with  probably
[42:39] 
[42:39] not  realistic  yeah  taking  a  screen  away
[42:44] 
[42:44] so  later  what  does  the  next  reality  look
[42:46] 
[42:46] like  instead  of  having  the  screen  with
[42:51] 
[42:51] the  information  is  there  any  this
[42:52] 
[42:52] problem  it's  all  their  problems  with
[42:54] 
[42:54] that  too  right  you  need  to  be  able  to
[42:58] 
[42:58] vary  around  the  world  and  not  be  too
[43:00] 
[43:00] distracted  at  the  same  time  but  we'll
[43:03] 
[43:03] see  what  other  this  area  plating  I  think
[43:05] 
[43:05] there's  a  lot  of  things  yeah  I  think
[43:09] 
[43:09] sexology  for  giving  you  some  insights
[43:11] 
[43:11] into  the  future  of  of  UX  and  our  digital
[43:15] 
[43:15] products  so  I  probably  have  like  20  more
[43:17] 
[43:17] questions  I  would  like  to  ask  you  guys
[43:20] 
[43:20] get  seminary  or
[43:21] 
[43:21] you're  sharing  a  lot  of  interesting
[43:23] 
[43:23] experience  with  us  but  at  some  point  you
[43:24] 
[43:24] have  to  say  stuff  but  I  just  want  to  say
[43:28] 
[43:28] Camila  Brianna  and  also  you  know  thank
[43:30] 
[43:30] you  so  much  for  coming  thank  you  so  much
[43:32] 
[43:32] for  for  for  sharing
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[Music] so welcome Brianna Camille and Nastasia thank you all for coming today ethnic podcast we're very happy to have you here sharing your UX experience thank you so to start off to really get people to understand what you do day to day I want to dive into how you work as UX designers and also UX researcher here which is a part of that job and I want to start with you you natasja I mean is it possible to explain how much time you actually spend with the users I mean talking with them observing them actually interacting with the users in a project or in a month well first of all I will start that I do have two jobs at the moment on the finish for Aaron tax which is coding in school here in Barcelona in part of my job 50% of my days writing and the content for students so it's not really a office job for their product but at the same time I'm working remotely for epilim which is part of so interactive school and I help them with research I help them with excerpt students in general and I make users to one or two weeks we're organizing a session and recruit the users and it is something we're testing something or it might be a focus group it might be something else thank right at the moment it's like one book two weeks you meeting them face to face ah yes face to face and the other time we might be working with so tracking tools and I speak with our product owners identify our KPIs what are we looking for and what are the problems the typical situations that they come to me we have troubles consuming right and we have a hypothesis where it's happening see the metrics menu like okay we can do how we can so we have an weirdest sense why it's happening and that's the kind of like that the amount of time that appalam needs a UX researcher like twice twice every second week is that yeah mainly because I don't have that much time at the moment right alright so you would like to do it more or yeah usually do it once a week okay but now because of the context writing force right you're busy yes so moving on to you Brianna I mean you're doing a UX that I form a company that most of us know I mean you have thousands of users and and you're also famous for being a user driven company I guess us is is very important for you it's impossible to do in any way kind of define what's UX in tight for me so UX in general I think for me is is the users voice right through a lens of somebody exchange and understanding and getting getting to understand problems that these are having right so I think that's general I don't think it's any different inside for music lamp for me we have the way we work is that we have our UX designers and joy signers embedded in forms and came working with developers actually and scrum masters and product people and customers and so what everybody kind of works together but so there's research happening all the time there's communication customers happening all the time and I like to look at it as per project so usually there's some hypothesis that you have and something that you want to find out and depending on that question you're designing the communication and the interactions customers our customers happen to me a lot of them overseas in the u.s. so we talked to them via video via voice or phone and when we can like to have them come in and if it's the same I mean in terms of how much you talk with them it is possible to say it's probably very different from project to project but it seems like it's happening time right because each each team is working on its own project in a way right so there's a total of five experiments together and so there's I hear people a little dialing and making phone calls to customers every day you know it is somebody at work an it but I think generally probably what you say every every week or two at some point but like I said it's a project basis so there is a project currently that's happening where we're trying to map out the user journey for a particular type of customer and so but that's kind of a bigger project where everybody's talking and taking you know four to six weeks to put it together so how many times as many as needed yeah yeah exactly exactly sometimes we need more all right I mean that's four times four which I mean millions of users and then you have Camille you're here you're at khipu I mean a fairly big start a book in Spain in Europe but it still it's another scale and I mean you're you don't have like a huge team of UX people around you like most started they don't I mean how does your your approach yeah I think it's in keep with base well it's a team effort despite not having many designers here we share roles we have a product owner we have the customer support team and we try to collaborate it's a constant discussion collaboration between us then we have developers to find constraints but in terms of users I have a lot of metrics here we have a good VI to to monitor everything and do you have seen you do some UX interviews here at work is that like your main approach in terms of understand how people use your product yes but that's at the later stage when when we have a prototype and beforehand we identify problems with our project team with customer support um especially now for example with with the new project we have we identified problems of one particular customers like like you inside form and we tried beforehand we try to identify the main problems they have while working and it was that the problem is verifying their information I mean it's not like problems but more like I'm saying it so much in sorry yeah they they have problems verifying information in terms of it's a industry problem so they they are bookkeepers and they get to go through a lot of information and we had to type into their workflows and accommodate to that so you had a couple of calls with them beforehand what I did find the problem we went to the prototyping and NASA not this dot before the interviews that that you might have seen here and I mean you're also talking about that your approach having people face-to-face at your office especially with that balloon I mean what kind of people do you gather I mean you're going on series and getting ten random people or I mean what kind of users are you looking for well before you recruit any user of course you have to understand that your user types you will use a personal that's why before I was saying that you three sir it's not really that and you will invent it this is a hybrid roll that has a lot of academic research taking some from the past is delta T right it's just the perfect series that just defines that okay we're we're doing everything they are the principles of user experience to learn something a little bit but the research part is something that also don't by marketing people change because like they identify markets feed market acceptance with their own messages what we're doing and what I'm doing particularly at the moment I'm trying to search for people that are complement with the profiles of our user personas of our segment marketers and I call it signal Oracle user person so we just look for the profiles with the age that we're looking for with their occupation with same motivations as we have searched before and you know - yes yeah I mean as you say I mean this is a collaborative efforts of everyone inside the company and also we have many years which is not something new as you added Brianna I mean for me it's kind of hard to understand what's the westin what's the new thing about UX research compared to other research done by other people you know in other sectors it's hard to define or if they're kind of like the fish definition new or different yeah what's different is the kind of end product areas like the digital interfaces actual technology side but the way that you saw problems your creative thinking is that around for thousands of years right like you have really long industry - you know architecture and industrial design for a long time and these kinds of approaches like interviewing a customer Pena what their problem is you know designing for somebody else has they're out for very long time maybe something's tool the techniques of the bulb and we give them different names may be in this new words that were presented right like us user experience design it was a call down before it was like you know systems engineering information architects so there is and there's specific information architects to deal with just that but it's the out the process is very similar it's improved it's a wall that people right right so you I mean it is an advantage having a UX researcher onboarding or startup but it's not a necessity in the start or I think it is I think it is because the closer you get to the customer what they're actually doing the more you will have confidence or the more likely it will be that you will actually solve problems at Anthony's so right I don't think there is ever time with early enough or I think from the beginning you see the value of us and then there's you know there's really a lot of overlap usually I work for me personally I've usually worked somewhere from research and like hype stories wireframes right I think it's really important for the person who's doing a research and communicating if the customers were possible to be actually translating the findings and write something some kind of a solution because that person is there the reports that come out of it or the documentation that we deliver as a result of research it's a way to communicate what was discovered and what was found but there's no replacing correction being there at x1 we try to have as many people involved in actual interview process and product owners engineers are invited occasionally at least you know can't be there every day if there may not their core competency right like sure but see being there and seeing and emphasizing as a customer and seeing what happens when these product or seeing that they say is incredibly powerful anything is really valuable for it especially it may be a small start-up where there is a handful of people for everybody to be there at some point when the interviews are happening and actually listening to the customers it's not super valuable so I mean you know in the beginning some a lot of research is done also can be done by product donors I mean there's books out there like Erica Hall it's just enough research that I highly recommended for a team that's maybe starting maybe you know there's pacifically a youth designer but there's no reason why they can't talk to customers however it's doing for each understand how to talk to customers and what kind of questions to be asking and that's where the experience of the Europe researcher really or your designer general that through experience and through having talked to customers you find out what are the right questions tab that's because that's what the next thing I want to dive into like what I'm going to do right questions to ask I mean we can start with you Camille I mean I've actually been part of your UX what to research myself going through your project per product but I really don't remember what kind of questions you ask what do you what are your can you say like what are your favorite question well if I don't have my favorite questions I guess it depends on the exercise are we doing and that particular one we did was to test the set of wireframes and at that moment I like to just observe and watch users I ask them to speak out loud their chain of thought so whatever they doing whatever they think they're doing I like to hear that I look for reactions to to to the project to what they see on the screen and I generally like to see a user that's using the live thing in terms of questions I beforehand I asked users what do they expect to see and what do they expect this solution ideal solution would be to the to the problem and that I would say that that would be my favorite question hmm beautiful yes well I'll just point and add a little bit that there's a golden rule for researchers and us content nurses were always open questions never closed questions so we in like in to do multiple answers and act really naive so like so that we use are really true that you you don't even know nothing about this product right and that's way they kind of filled themselves okay I'm believing one here and I know the person account with experience or STI but don't be judgmental ative human here is naturally natural to want to kind of make the other person happy that way it looks so the customers come in and they start talking to you if you give them any indication what you want them to say they're going to try to say it if they see that you're interested in saying certain thing they're going to try to code those expectations so it's really important to be super neutral and kind of pretend you don't know or whatever that means to you so that you can just let them tell you what what they saying oh boy sorry yeah otherwise you lose and money when you invest in their advocacy money it's it's expensive you know expenses because you have to replace them you have to save them I mean it's super nice if they're ready to do it for free but it's a it's a it's a balance right because it is it's hard being both neutral super neutral and also getting really valuable answers right it seems to me or no it's more like go ahead my back I think you have to make it straight before the interview say there's no right or wrong and it's not that hard to be neutral in fact you just you guide users to write questions through small conversations and most importantly there's no right or wrong and I guess I mean soft skills got to be quite important as a UX designer then to get people getting people on your skin a bit you know getting them comfortable right and I mean I was ever I guess there is I mean both the positive approach that we're talking about now talking to users we also the quantitative you know approach looking at numbers we are not a size forum in what I mean at least because you're dealing with such a vast amount of users what's most important for you didn't give you one side of the story you're really lucky at typeform we have a great head of analytics and team who is focused on crunching the numbers and getting the insights and answering these recent big important business questions and sometimes they can also answer some of our user question so but analytics is one part of the story right the other part of the service what members can't tell you is what's actually much more specific so like how people are feeling what are the specific tax tests with their Jimmy why they're doing them there's all kinds of questions that so I advocate analytics and interviews very qualitative research as complimentary to one without the other really is not as powerful is to when they're combined are incredibly powerful articles so when we and there are certain types of questions that are better answered with analytics and we can check the questions that are better answers to interviews so what a skill uux when to employ the right tactic right so a lot of is and the answer always in your exercise seems to be like well it depends and because every situation is slightly different depending on your customer base and question you're seeking the answer if you're looking to be more explorative if you're looking to be more validated if you're seeking to innovate or the other word is incremental so if you're seeking to innovate in an open way or just itching to incremental improve their different techniques that are applied fruit right I mean it's something that I was always curious about this might be wrong but when doing research I mean how about how much it's about usability and how much it's about creating a great experience I mean because ya know say what do you think I was talking about usability is this something that actually exists for a long time I think it's like in the beginning of 90s oh the term was officially for define and you know it can be understood as a design slimmer design process even but also we can use your ability as heuristics to evaluate our user right so don't work like that you're right it's more like a mechanical part of user experience right right I'm probably less human yeah yeah I think the two are complementary so you have like the kind of heuristics and the overall because human biology hasn't change event mentions I'm going to anytime soon right like the st. causing their biases that we have and emotional reactions or intellectual reactions whatever it is that the humans a direct list that human part is really the same but what's changed is the environment in which we dislike the technology part so it's adapting that so that I think here is success complot sistah men visiting but you know using something easily and being able to get your task in at the end of the day actually get whatever job that you want to get them and then moves like a huge thing right now it is talking about jump students product size this is really new tremendously overlaps with us we have tons of children to commuter exactly that so giving allowing the customer to do what they wanted to do not what we want to do what they want to do creates the experience of the value and then in addition we have the emotional component and how that feels from like a very visual side so it's a women is one of two parts work really well I think that's a great experience like it functions really well in it super good and it looks really nice and pleasing to you and that's more the emotional component I don't think is really important I really can't yeah you can that the functionality is very utilitarian hmm I want to move on richer you're talking about how you're interacting with other people in the company as well which is a big part of the UX role I mean you're not solo players and and I mean I wanted to ask you can be a first this is hard to get like buying for from other people in companies it's hard to convince other people in khipu of your findings I mean if you have something that's you know conflicting with with the your developers thoughts I mean how do you convince them that I mean what you found is the right thing right way to go I guess unlock enough not to have these problems but always after every research after every every interface we do or any kind of research I buy summary and action action items and you know there are reasons in those documents and I just present every all my findings to them and if there is anything unclear on the screen that they see that they have to develop I just bring up these reasons and it's fairly easy people try is a pretty much I wouldn't say design mature company because we don't have a huge design UX team but definitely this is something that we will follow in the next years we will grow our design team and we put a strong focus on the line hmm how it stands for you I mean you also talk about how you're bringing engineers into interviews how you are trying to like merge everyone into the same process but it is has been times when it's hard to commit people that's what you found is truth yeah yeah it has been super difficult I think we're lucky as well but I think what critical is evolving in any company involving people from the beginning letting them go through the journey with you and having experience and sitting an interview and seeing what happens has a tremendous impact on people of course there's you know sometimes there's people that have their own opinion and you know they feel very strongly about it and so the way I've gotten around that is essentially to bring those especially those individuals and really as possible and let them see what was happening because the point of view of being in when you're doing it agrees is not to supplement or to to supersede to users opinions your own or to get what you want is to get what they want and there is little difference I think that it's easy sometimes lose track yeah all right yeah so yeah getting people involved early is it just sort of it I mean self skills are needed talking with the users those are the death same self skills are used talking with other people in the company I think so I think where does difficulty comes in maybe it some day companies to where I've been past the business side that's the most remove around the customer hi can sometimes have the hardest time because there is there's this balancing act that's happening between business needs it into me and it for the to overlap its business can thrive because the business cannot sustain itself than sustain itself in this you know that were fire but its customers are kitchens the leader doing what they need to do if they want to do then they're going to be custard so it's really fine going to overlap and what it sounds really effective is communicating the customers needs and business terms always tying the two together so this is what the customer wants and it's going to serve a business like this and this is how they overlap and really showing that over and that wants to prove hmm no no and everybody has their things right like you can get attached to solution you know it's really important to talk about huh and also I mean tech formers apparently become say now 150 people I mean Apple one how many people are working up on the element Center which is in Minsk I think something around hundred people so the furniture company as well yeah yeah we have some profiles and I think quite a quite similar to to your cases I also try to involve people to take participation even if it's remotely I asked them for deserves online what's going on run interesting some see it on your own and just take the nose run usually when you do submit usability testing there's always a note taker and in the commitment and that's exactly what I'm asking to do either a product manager or a developer sometimes I mean you told me earlier that you came in at a later stage in Apple on and that they they've been doing their things I used to reach user research researcher wise and without the UX specialist but do you have do you have an opinion on when should a company or a start-up or technology company hire a dedicated use person well depends of course depending on what depending on I think a lot of factors startups they they do hello they do have a lot of problems apart from UX in general there are a lot of challenges first of all to cope with and yeah you may hire a UX specialist in the very beginning and that will help you with the preliminary research and into phi user problems user needs probably build your product around that but there's a different approach which can also work lining up a little case for example by offering they had a nice marketing people sales people and business intelligence data scientists so all together all these skills make a good mixture together and they found a way to build products that went well so possible yeah so now i'm i'm more like i you know a new way of and up to my being the product right right I mean Camille you you're a part of what you can call like fairly at an early stage startup but you know a hundr know hundreds of people and I mean you're the first UX designer right yes do you did you see that they were doing things different than before you arrived are you doing things different now again I tried to be a voice for customer before that it was a product owner product manager who did to do these things so they were doing collies UX to some extent but there was no no dedicated person to do just that so I would say you should hire as early as possible but your ex isn't cheap UX is time consuming and also you have to budget for it right to recruit people and then pay for for them to have interviews it's these metrics is that - it's an investment and is the kind of investment that reduces risk so having a us designer on board really helps you reduce the risk of totally getting it wrong yes and I think to me that's super valuable right like especially in a noose or as a start-up tremendous a matter is not just whether the product is going to work right yes and so any way that you can do that so I look at it as something that can begin I would start up I would even I know it's a bit higher somebody senior hire somebody to spend the money his time like the same way you would invest in development and we have to say kind of my hiring developers that's hiring you're in so important yeah there are two sides of the same coin right like and the stronger structure it's like having a two-footed stool versus a three citizens tool right yeah so because you worked in fairly a fair amount of early phase start with yourself right and you came in at the early stage as well or yes there was some of my clients incentives it essentially hired you know kind of a contract on a contract basis and that's entirely possible - right and if you can't afford to have fun equal time for every day higher than beginning stages to set the course of some extent now the more experienced that person has a more quickly they're going to be able to you know give you the right advice and so it's like spending more now so that you can save later in a way yeah I'm curious you worked in several really say started but now you're working inside from evolving into like a real company and and I mean talking with a lot of people in the beginning and you're trying to kind of find the path for your product and you're getting all this feedback from people telling you that would be great if you did this that would be amazing I mean how do you stand this is for all of you but how do you stay focused on near vision or your I mean your yet your product what do you want to build yeah that's where it becomes an art form at the end of the day I think with in the early stages more than anything that's important is defining the problem right like what's the real problem that needs to be solved and really focusing on that and if she understands technology that you're trying to build or capabilities that you have then you can apply to that and go okay we're the to connect like this is the problem that need to be solved this is the kind of direction that we're building in trying to find little Rob it's super hard I mean it's easy for me to sit here and say this but in a moment and it's not a magic magic one of the things that you see way will wand it happens right like it doesn't eliminate risk and introduces it and more informed it's still really easy to fail I mean how many startups are out there that we've never heard of so few can take it or we don't talk about those stories it's important you've done right and not only that actually was just a US LX and just patent was there and then the his talk was that failure is not what you should be afraid of it's that kind of in between like it's neither right nor wrong kind of like it's not terrible but it's not good either that kind of like dead them in the middle where it's like something's happening but we don't know what yeah so it's not failure that we should really be afraid of it kind of restoring I guess yeah we should you feeling is good because it tells you what you're really doing wrong and gives you a lot more information then like kind of sort of getting it and I think that so so it is in an effort to eliminate that I think that's a problem in the beginning and not solving for a problem until you know with the real problem in sort of like that knowing how long to stay there yeah I knew you talked about also in regard to this understanding Nexus technology because I wondered I mean how how develop do you need to be at the quarter and Camille and I know that you do so developments in coding but I mean how advanced of a code or do you need to be developed or do you need to be to work you know my patient class every year designer UX in general is a quite interesting field because you can have many backgrounds and I happen to have some development background but it was a long time ago I understand how programming works and that helps me understand constraints at developer project to me you don't have to be color at all but in a start-up the more Skills you have the better of you are so I would say coding is a is a good complement complementary skill I do coding only because sometimes there is a development team works hard on the product heavy on the product I use the small things yeah just as a night soon to my team anyways it's at the same point of university I do you think your sign is shoot code or do you think it's important the moms say let's see that's one different perspective they're different types of developers Universal with face we're having for example Apple we have matrix about developing but we also have machine learning deep learning computing which is a little bit advanced and it's a little bit more complex than just a usual second one and these people are creating amazing things that users do already feel that it's working they feel that interfaces become more and more smart now and they require more and more reason to face it and I'm speaking to users like once and week one too apart from you know solving our daily problems from a catch-all project I also see them demanding more and more every day about that about the way interface should be now in the future so I guess going forward maybe becomes more and more important or yeah it becomes one more but probably not having the skills of a developer but just understand what they're doing and understand the limitations I mean do you do go to yourself you know I went to a 10-week dev bootcamp Ruby on Rails training right man is so hard but I think Canosa is really depend on the environment I'm going to start up having being a really strong generalist will be really helpful at a big company where you have these very very narrow roles goes deep into one subject it's more useful to really get expert it's really hard to be good at everything and by the time somebody is good at everything usually you know it takes two mutants decades right like you'd have to and then think they're changing so much with the line of almonds and shift all the time then it's how you're not doing one job for a while what stays is used as overall concepts and understanding where the pitfalls might be but I don't know if to some extent you know sometimes diction also be good enough to not to have any of that background because it's then you're now limit or you're less limited maybe you know I like to out it's that story of the bumblebee like the reason it applies because nobody's golden can't there's so not your anchor and look at a bumblebee like how does that happening but so it's sometimes it's good to have that naive friend that's cool you're talking about how the you know anything so fast and it's hard to keep updated and I'm guess that's the same for us I mean UX is evolving as well you expiry search as well it's evolving and I wanted to here with you guys that are working with this every day I mean what's you acting 2010 and things probably not what you what what's you know a couple years ago coming in I mean are you are you working in the same way as you did a couple years ago are you seeing some trends changing I guess while working the same or not you adapt to environmental projects so not really aware of the one working very much different I always stay true to the problem that endured by us all but I think in terms of trends for 2017 or maybe even 20 18 19 I I was getting to anticipatory design and I explained in that Wow I it has to do something with with a I backed design this is the interface changes as user uses it and and it that's fed to it by if I see at which is sorry that's fed to it by artificial intelligence and that's more as overall concept and not an expert so about that so I'm already gonna know know in detail but that mean it's more or less it right I know you guys are working with conversational interfaces and some AI powered stop on me we're doing really can't like that the right direction go in it so as an industry as a as a job I don't think you have changed time I think that develop that changed a lot more in the sense of like language is constantly evolving this is good this is great decisions getting better like there's the technologies really changing quite a bit in UX truly creative problem-solving from beginning right like it's not so fluid design trends are fluid with the like with popular kind of you know colors what kind of interactions animations things like that or of all these are quickly if it's fundamental like research and UX design many think I think it's evolving quickly but to kind of anticipatory design and using AI to essentially make the interface more intelligent response the person where they're working in the moment so that it can it's predicting what they might do stand right so a typo me a conversation what a conversational means I think that we're kind of defining that right like where does it mean to our customers are we going to have the same customers today as we have in two years probably might not be the same things like us are days men would have conversation designing to them so those are the questions are trying to answer but I think no no no I mean I feel like you're your own board the same thing zone we do not thought that you're you're teaching the UX you Xer of the future as iron hack I mean are you are you teaching them the latest trends or I mean what what do you think our 2017 we're giving them the basics of what are the trends in society what are the trends in technology for us we're not really you know it's really hard to predict what we totally all understand if that things are going to go really fast really really fast and as I said before during my research studies I can see that users are becoming more and more demanding in terms of the quality of these interfaces and being yet especially if you do test with visual native people that were born like after a middle of 19th right they got used to solve their problems with digital solutions already so they expect warm and for example our generation we're still can use the paper for something yes and the younger like my nephew for example when he was not in 10 but when you were five he expected he had seen the comics like an elephant or something but he also saw an iPad already and he was like you want to send this one to be inlay I've had and that's exactly what he's expecting because that's what and his mental ones already so no one section it ain't good that's the way it's going to change a little bit we will have to develop new principles of evaluating a user experience I think generally let's say time between users and computers will reduce time in the future the going interaction was going to be essentially less interaction that's great yeah yeah yeah the thing that we can do for people and that's even something now that I think about all the time I calculate me essentially agreeing with this tent is there something you can do for users that they don't have to do like we can thanks for them and finding all those little things to reduce cognitive load so that it seemed like the computer knows what you want it doesn't really arrive but it's going to predict it and maybe there will eventually be some kind of intelligent enough a eye that can support things every time descent maybe you're taking away rather than having more interaction and then switching some of the interaction to voice things that can be done with voice easier than interface and then there's of course things that can be done in your pen interface rather than a voice like an ugly voices like everything's going to be with probably not realistic yeah taking a screen away so later what does the next reality look like instead of having the screen with the information is there any this problem it's all their problems with that too right you need to be able to vary around the world and not be too distracted at the same time but we'll see what other this area plating I think there's a lot of things yeah I think sexology for giving you some insights into the future of of UX and our digital products so I probably have like 20 more questions I would like to ask you guys get seminary or you're sharing a lot of interesting experience with us but at some point you have to say stuff but I just want to say Camila Brianna and also you know thank you so much for coming thank you so much for for for sharing [Music]