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Beyond UX Design

Jeremy Miller
UX Design
VUCA
Customer Experience
User Research
UX Research
Product Management
Soft Skills
Design Systems
Design Thinking
Collaboration
User Experience
Stakeholder Management
Job Market
Automation
Career Development
Empathy
Storytelling In UX
Design Leadership
Core Values
Career Fulfillment

Beyond UX Design’s mission is to give you the tools you need to be a truly effective UX designer by diving into the soft skills they won’t be teaching you in school or a boot camp. These soft skills are critical for your success as a UX professional.

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Have you ever walked out of a usability session completely confident in your findings, only to ship something that quietly missed the mark?

What if the signal was there the whole time, and your brain just decided it wasn't worth logging?

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What does it actually take to be the first, or only, designer or researcher on a team? Spoiler: it’s not just about doing great work. This week, we get into the unglamorous, under-discussed side of the solo role: building systems, managing up, and ea... more

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Why does one vivid customer story outweigh months of research? This week on the Cognition Catalog, we break down the anecdotal fallacy — our tendency to let a single experience override real evidence. Learn why stories hijack decisions, how this show... more

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Mahnaz has lived with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in ways most product teams never will. In this episode, we talk about what happens when VUCA isn’t theoretical, how to avoid becoming an order taker, and how courage, empathy, a... more

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Recent Guests

Julian Della Mattia
Researcher and host of Finders to Builders
Duck the Goat (in-house)
Episode: Party of One: Building a Practice When You're Alone in the Room with Julian Della Mattia
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili
Product designer specializing in human-centered, AI-powered experiences; leads AI experience at Swarm Community and designs at Digital Transformation Solutions
Swarm Community; Digital Transformation Solutions
Episode: From Iran to China to the US: A real-life VUCA Story with Mahnaz Hajesmaeili
Yaprak Gültay Davison
Head of design at Goodnotes and former design leader at Spotify.
Goodnotes
Episode: How Healthy Conflict Creates Better Design Decisions With Yaprak Gültay Davison
Vivianne Castillo
Founder of Humanity Centered and Choose Courage, Inc., known for blending strategy with soul.
Humanity Centered and Choose Courage, Inc.
Episode: The Hidden Cost of Being the Dependable Designer With Vivianne Castillo
Jayneil Dalal
Podcaster, creator, and expert in the design field
Episode: What hundreds of designer interviews reveal about growth with Jayneil Dalal
Ran Liu
Product designer and host of Ran Talks Design, who has worked at companies such as Adobe and Shopify.
Episode: When Up Isn’t an Option: Stop Climbing the Career Ladder with Ran Liu
Sarah Doody
A UX researcher, product designer, and UX career coach who founded The Career Strategy Lab.
The Career Strategy Lab
Episode: The Product of You: Design, Market, & Sell with Sarah Doody
Vitaly Friedman
Founder of Smashing Magazine and UX expert
Smashing Magazine
Episode: The Many Ways to Slice a Watermelon: A Design Journey with Vitaly Friedman
Catt Small
Staff product designer, game maker, and developer
Asana, Etsy, SoundCloud, NASDAQ
Episode: Craft, Vision, and Influence: The Staff Designer’s Playbook with Catt Small

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Jeremy
Host of Beyond UX Design

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 255 ratings
  • Enriching content!

    I’m a UX professional of over 15 years and I find this podcast SO helpful to me STILL in this stage of my career as it reaffirms some of the challenges I confront beyond screen design. New designers would help themselves greatly by listening to Jeremy and his all-star guests chop it up about important topics and be prepared for the arduous yet rewarding career or UX.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    yosoytino
    United Statesa year ago
  • A UX podcast for the practitioner

    Jeremy’s guests talk about the whole practice of UX and aren’t afraid to talk about the real work of UX. Difficult stakeholders, feeling undervalued in a business-first culture, advancing your career in a difficult market. Jeremy’s sense of humor keeps the episodes positive despite the sometimes heavy topics.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    designer abroad
    United Statesa year ago
  • Nice show good sound quality

    The only thing I am not sure about this show is that I really don’t understand the intro line ‘how is your mom and them’. I got no idea what this means but it is very odd for someone to mention my mom.

    ‘How are you.’ Is the kind of thing you say in a conversation. And even in conversations rarely anyone really care. In a podcast, doesn’t make sense to ask your audience how are you, let alone how is your mom…

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    咕叽咕叽amanda
    United Kingdom2 years ago
  • All the stuff that makes one a truly effective UX designer

    Valuable content surrounding all the important, yet oft-overlooked non-design, human stuff that truly makes one an effective UX designer. Jeremy is a fantastic host and asks really great questions to extract the most value from his guests.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    highgrown
    United States2 years ago
  • Valuable content surrounding all the important, yet oft-overlooked non-design stuff that truly makes one an effective UX designer.

    Podchaser
    5
    userdefenders
    2 years ago

Listeners Say

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Shows depth beyond surface UX topics and stays practical for real-world work
Listeners appreciate the authentic, supportive hosting style and actionable takeaways
Content is consistently useful for both junior and senior designers, with a mentorship vibe
Guests blend practical UX with leadership insights and mentorship

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Talking Points

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Party of One: Building a Practice When You're Alone in the Room with Julian Della Mattia
Q: What does finder to builder mean to you?
Finder to builder means expanding impact beyond collecting insights to embedding research into the organization's operations, enabling others to act on findings, and creating scalable, repeatable practices across teams.
Party of One: Building a Practice When You're Alone in the Room with Julian Della Mattia
Q: Tell us a little bit about you. And ultimately, how did you get to realize that navigating the solo gig is different from being on a large team?
Julian explains his path from PM to researcher, the move into agency work, and then becoming the first researcher inside multiple companies, which forced him to build from scratch and develop systems to scale research, not just conduct it.
How Healthy Conflict Creates Better Design Decisions With Yaprak Gültay Davison
Q: Alright, so we have been talking for a little while now, and I've got some questions I like to ask all of our guests to help our listeners get to know our guests a little bit better. What's some advice that you have for everybody out there who might be dealing with conflict, afraid to embrace it?
Bring that empathy in, start designing solutions for it and see what works, prototype and test. Have those conversations openly and be ready to be super vulnerable.
How Healthy Conflict Creates Better Design Decisions With Yaprak Gültay Davison
Q: How did you come to this realization that conflict might not be such a bad thing, and maybe we can leverage it to help our teams grow?
I realized quickly that it's not just about good design, but also good conversations and navigating people. Conflict adds a really good tune to harmony and it's an opportunity to enhance our work.
The Hidden Cost of Being the Dependable Designer With Vivianne Castillo
Q: How do we start to reframe those better, more positive behaviors as success metrics for things like end of year reviews?
Unhealed patterns getting rewarded largely contributes to the toxic workplace; awareness and understanding these patterns is key.

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