RethinkingUX

We are back with another episode of the RethinkingUX product room podcast. This time, hear Madhumita Gupta, Director UX at Myntra, talk about the basics of UX research. Is it pure science or pure art to understand what the user wants? Does it have to be qualitative or quantitative? How can you get the real insights from user interactions and put it to product level ideas?

Product Room: This is the first episode of the Product Room series within the RethinkingUX podcast channel. The product room series will be hosted by Akshey Walia & Shailendra Jha who will be talking about the intricacies of Product Management without all the frameworks, jargons, and bookish knowledge that you would expect from a podcast like this. Our first episode gives listeners a glimpse into the different types of Product Management roles like Technical Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Category Manager, and much more.

This episode of the RethinkingUX podcast is all about Mentoring. We all know that mentoring is important. Not only because of the knowledge and skills people can learn from their mentors but also because it provides a way for us to socialize professionally. Our host Priya Saraswat is joined by Ashish Anand, Sr. Lead UX Designer at Rockwell Automation to dive into the topic of Mentoring and to understand what mentoring is and what it is not

This episode is dedicated to all those amazing Storytellers who distill a vision or idea into a product story. It’s for those who look at the big picture while ensuring each step in the process is focusing on completing that big picture. Our host Priya Saraswat is joined by Shailendra Nath Jha, Vice President and Head of Digital Product Management at Max Life Insurance who shares his ideas on what Storytelling entails and why it's important to understand its value in product development.

These days Agility and Agile innovation methods are so ingrained in our product development life cycle that we hardly pay attention to them but their importance can't be undermined. Agility is here for more than two decades now and it definitely deserves the credit for the fast-paced nature of this rapidly changing information and technology landscape. In this episode our host Priya Saraswat connected with Sevda Pruitt, Senior Scrum Master at axial Healthcare and asked some fundamental question on Agile and Scrum that can hopefully help the listeners to get a better understanding of what these techniques are and how can we be smart in bringing their true value to our teams

This episode tries to demystify the discipline of Content Strategy and UX writing and aims to highlight their importance in creating meaningful experiences. Our host Priya Saraswat is joined by Kati Hoeschen, currently a UX writer for Adecco at Google and a former content strategist at Expedia Group who shared her experience working in the space for several years. With great references and resources, this episode is packed with some great insights for people curious about the discipline.

Under the big umbrella of customer research there are several methods through which you can learn and know your target audience. However, usability testing due it its quick and less expensive nature is the most popular of all among technology teams to create usable solutions. In this episode, I am joined by Monica Ferro, a seasoned user researcher who is currently working as Senior UX Research Analyst at CME Group. Monica shared her experience and knowledge on how can teams get better at the sessions of learning from their customers.

When it comes to hiring the best talent in any industry there is no recipe or secret sauce for it every company, every group, every manager has their own ways and strategies to form a team. UX and product industry are no different. In this Episode, I am joined by Kshitiz Anand, Associate Vice President at Paytm. Kshitiz shared his experience on what hiring the best talent really means and how people who are looking for new design opportunities should prepare for their next job interview.

Entering into a new job or transitioning a career into UX is exciting but it can also be filled with anxiety.  It's all about taking some time in the beginning, to discover what you want to achieve as a UX professional and thereby exploring endless possibilities UX has to offer to move forward in the career. This episode is a cheerful conversation on setting the very first foot in UX with Sameer Bhivani, VP Design & customer experience at Scripbox and Nitin Gupta UX/UX Manager, IT by design. From starting with a mentor to focusing on people's problems, both Sameer and Nitin shares great insights that can be extremely helpful for newcomers and future generation of UXers.

Join us in our very first conversation with Mayur Chaudhary, Director of UX Design at NCR Corporation and Akshey Wallia, Corporate Strategy and Program Management at Magicbricks where we talk about the vision of RethinkingUX community, its uniqueness, and enormous future possibilities that come with it.