Podcast appearances and mentions of david farkas

David Farkas is a 49-year-old climber who works as the Adult Programming Manager at The Front Climbing Club in Salt Lake City, UT. He's been climbing since 1991, and found himself in a bit of a slump with his climbing and nutrition when he signed up to work with me in 2018. After working together on his nutrition and him working on his climbing training with various trainers and coaches, he went from climbing 5.10 to 5.12 in about a year, lost some weight he'd been trying to lose, and found that his energy levels were much better. He also found relief with some digestion and skin issues he was having. In this episode, we talk about the struggles he went through before, during, and after working with me, and what kinds of things we changed about his diet and lifestyle to get him the results he wanted. He was living in a van at the time, so we talk about how to improve your diet even if you don't have a kitchen of your own. David is one of my all-time favorite clients, and the results he's seen are inspirational (but not abnormal when working with nutrition), so I asked him to share his story. I was impressed with his willingness to be vulnerable and honest about his journey, and I hope you love it as much as I did.   Work with Me on Your Nutrition I'm currently taking new clients, and if you'd like to work with me to improve your climbing performance, overall energy levels, digestion, and blood glucose, I'm here for you. We can do an hour session, a month session, or you can do my self-paced nutrition course: Nourish and add a single session onto that for more personalization. >>>Find Out More about My Nutrition Services

David Farkas is the founder and CEO of The Upper Ranks. Specializing in link building, David and his company have been helping clients rank higher and level up their SEO game for over ten years through custom link building strategies.In this episode, David tells us how he went from SEO enthusiast to link building expert, and he shares with us some of the best link building tips, tricks and insights he's picked up along the way. He also details why link building is an essential part of your SEO strategy, what you should look out for in a good backlink, and why you shouldn't trust unsolicited emails from SEO “experts” about the quality of your links.What's In This Episode Who is David Farkas How you can stand out online in the saturated legal market. Why you need to think carefully about PBNs. How you should handle toxic links. Why directories are still a valuable asset in your link building toolkit. How you should approach guest posting on your website. Why your amazing website won't succeed without a solid link-building strategy.

UX Researcher We talk to Jesse Lee Despard is a user experience design researcher and Los Angeles native who loves the ocean. She uses psychology skills to better communicate and empathize with users in research to inform design decisions. Contact Jesse: Twitter: jesseleedespart LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jesseleedespard email: j.l.despard@gmail.com Ramblings of a Designer podcast is bi-weekly design news and discussion podcast hosted by Lazslo Lazuer and Terri Rodriguez-Hong (@flaxenink, insta: flaxenink.design). Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ramblings-of-a-Designer-Podcast-2347296798835079/ Send us feedback! ramblingsofadesignerpod@gmail.com, Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/ramblingsofadesigner Conference: World Information Architecture Day (February) UX Research by Brad Nunnally, David Farkas

Im Linkaufbau geistern unglaublich viele Lügen herum. Was ist wirklich wahr? David Farkas hat eine nette Liste mit zehn Lügen des Linkaufbaus zusammengestellt. Da musste ich auf jeden Fall ganz schön schmunzeln. Eine elfte ist mir dann auch noch eingefallen: 10 Link Building Lies You Must Ignore Hör auch mal in Folge 6 rein. Da geht es um eine coole Case-Study von David. → Werbefreie Version

If you’ve got a background in waterfall processes, it can seem as if agile techniques are just about making it up as you go along. (MTP’s own James Mayes once commented that waterfall, on the other hand, “is making it up before you even begin”.) What happens if we embrace this, and bring improv techniques [...] Read more » The post Don’t Call it Improv – David Farkas on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

What best practice advice can you give for working with other designers?Each weekday morning at 8 AM Eastern, UX leader and influence Doug Collins posts a UX-related question on his Twitter profile using the hashtag #uxtalk, and each morning industry professionals and experts from around the world take a moment to answer his question in 280 characters or less. Each afternoon Doug takes the best answers from yesterday’s #uxtalk discussion,and makes it into a quick, five-minute listen to help you keep your UX juices flowing in the second half of the day.Today we look at this question and get answers from Mike Rapp, David Farkas, Ed Chavez, and Jason Baker. You can view all the answers at https://twitter.com/DougCollinsUX/status/1175016762049359876.Tomorrow we’ll cover today’s question “How do you explain the difference between sympathy and empathy?” If you want your answer to be featured, either stop by my twitter profile (@dougcollinsux) or simply tweet your response with the #uxtalk hashtag.If you enjoyed the podcast please do me a favor and drop by your podcasting platform of choice (or Apple Podcasts, the purple icon on you iPhone, if your preferred podcasting platform doesn't have a ratings system) and leave me a 5-star review and some message - you can say anything you’d like, this isn’t for my ego, just to feed the weird algorithms that decides podcast rankings. And if you REALLY want to be an awesome human being, feel free to leave me a donation on my Patreon page, patreon.com/dougcollinsux.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/dougcollinsux)

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Asking the right questions, conducting research in an agile environment, and conscious confidence.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with David Farkas, associate director of user experience at EPAM and co-author of the book UX Research. We talk about his book, why everyone should learn to conduct research, and how to open up your mind to ask the right questions. Farkas and his co-author Brad Nunnally also are teaching a series of online courses: Learning UX Research: Understanding Methods and Techniques—May 8 or July 10, 2017. Learning UX Research: Analyzing Data and Sharing Results—May 22 or July 24, 2017. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Asking the right questions The best way to understand if your product or service is resonating with the customers is through some sort of observation. Regardless of your role within an organization, I think everyone should have some awareness of the research going on and, at the very least, be observing it, if not directing and driving it themselves. I think there are two main areas people struggle with when asking questions, especially in the context of research. The first way is trying to craft questions so they can sound smart and really knowledgeable about the domain. What we always have to remember when we're conducting research is: this isn't about showing off my skills as an interviewer or researcher. It's about trying to learn something new. There's this discomfort in a lot of places—and I’ve felt it too and I still feel it, depending on the project domain—where we want to be able to go into a research session knowing everything we need to know to ask the smartest questions. That's counterintuitive in a lot of ways to what research is—the whole reason we conduct research is because we don't know something. The first challenge is trying to sound smart when conducting research, when the whole point of conducting research is to fill a knowledge gap. The second challenge is probably a little bit bigger: when conducting research, you really want to elevate the participant. It sort of comes second to wanting to look smart. You have to put that ego down and make sure the person you're conducting research with is able to look and feel like a rockstar. This is particularly hard when doing any type of product testing or product validation, where the participant might feel frustrated about not being able to accomplish a task. It’s important to make sure they know this is not about them or their skill sets. It's about their opinions, and putting them in the best light possible is a really hard challenge for even good researchers, but it’s an important skill newer researchers need to learn and practice. Agile and UX research: Debunking research misconceptions There's a bit of a misconception that thorough means long, time consuming, and expensive. Thorough really just means, in my mind, that it's ongoing. I think the real lesson in any type of Agile or Lean environment is that any research is better than no research, and to start as small as you possibly need to. If that's gorilla research, taking out sketches to a coffee shop and having a conversation there, it gets the ball rolling, it gets the conversation started. There's a lot of risk involved in doing gorilla research like that as opposed to doing something a little more formal and properly sourcing your participants, but any research is better than no research. There's another misconception that research has to happen at the beginning of a project, and if we missed the research, the ship has sailed. Really, we can do research at any time, and we should do research at any time. When we're discovering the problem, defining the solution, and validating the solution, all of those things can happen very quickly and become part of a sprint cycle and part of our design iterations. One of the most common misconceptions is that you need to be a researcher to do research. I've been on projects where everyone—business analysts, project managers, account managers, etc.—has conducted the research with me. With a five- or 10-minute conversation beforehand, they've been able to understand what our area of inquiry is and learn some best practices in terms of the participant dynamics between the researcher, moderator, and note taker. Really, with just a little bit of training and preparation, anyone can conduct research. The conscious confidence matrix The idea of the ‘conscious confidence matrix’ starts with actually being unconsciously incompetent. It's the idea that you start out not knowing what you don't know, and then you move into knowing what you don't know; knowing what you know; and, finally, subconsciously knowing what you do know. It becomes ingrained in you. That only happens through research, so the idea that you start not knowing what you don't know is like this: ‘David, you're going to be doing a project on a large health care application. Okay, I don't know anything about health care, I don't know where to start.’ That's actually the first question of research—then I can start to understand that the project is about these areas of health care, and I know I don't know about these three of the four areas, so let me explore that. Then, I learn about those areas and, on a very conscious level, I can pull the different pieces of knowledge out of my memory bank. Then, ultimately, by the end of the project, the knowledge is so ingrained in my brain that I don't have to think about what the answers are when people ask me about acronyms or workflow or process; it just becomes a natural part of my conversation and something I'm able to speak about naturally.

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Asking the right questions, conducting research in an agile environment, and conscious confidence.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with David Farkas, associate director of user experience at EPAM and co-author of the book UX Research. We talk about his book, why everyone should learn to conduct research, and how to open up your mind to ask the right questions. Farkas and his co-author Brad Nunnally also are teaching a series of online courses: Learning UX Research: Understanding Methods and Techniques—May 8 or July 10, 2017. Learning UX Research: Analyzing Data and Sharing Results—May 22 or July 24, 2017. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Asking the right questions The best way to understand if your product or service is resonating with the customers is through some sort of observation. Regardless of your role within an organization, I think everyone should have some awareness of the research going on and, at the very least, be observing it, if not directing and driving it themselves. I think there are two main areas people struggle with when asking questions, especially in the context of research. The first way is trying to craft questions so they can sound smart and really knowledgeable about the domain. What we always have to remember when we're conducting research is: this isn't about showing off my skills as an interviewer or researcher. It's about trying to learn something new. There's this discomfort in a lot of places—and I’ve felt it too and I still feel it, depending on the project domain—where we want to be able to go into a research session knowing everything we need to know to ask the smartest questions. That's counterintuitive in a lot of ways to what research is—the whole reason we conduct research is because we don't know something. The first challenge is trying to sound smart when conducting research, when the whole point of conducting research is to fill a knowledge gap. The second challenge is probably a little bit bigger: when conducting research, you really want to elevate the participant. It sort of comes second to wanting to look smart. You have to put that ego down and make sure the person you're conducting research with is able to look and feel like a rockstar. This is particularly hard when doing any type of product testing or product validation, where the participant might feel frustrated about not being able to accomplish a task. It’s important to make sure they know this is not about them or their skill sets. It's about their opinions, and putting them in the best light possible is a really hard challenge for even good researchers, but it’s an important skill newer researchers need to learn and practice. Agile and UX research: Debunking research misconceptions There's a bit of a misconception that thorough means long, time consuming, and expensive. Thorough really just means, in my mind, that it's ongoing. I think the real lesson in any type of Agile or Lean environment is that any research is better than no research, and to start as small as you possibly need to. If that's gorilla research, taking out sketches to a coffee shop and having a conversation there, it gets the ball rolling, it gets the conversation started. There's a lot of risk involved in doing gorilla research like that as opposed to doing something a little more formal and properly sourcing your participants, but any research is better than no research. There's another misconception that research has to happen at the beginning of a project, and if we missed the research, the ship has sailed. Really, we can do research at any time, and we should do research at any time. When we're discovering the problem, defining the solution, and validating the solution, all of those things can happen very quickly and become part of a sprint cycle and part of our design iterations. One of the most common misconceptions is that you need to be a researcher to do research. I've been on projects where everyone—business analysts, project managers, account managers, etc.—has conducted the research with me. With a five- or 10-minute conversation beforehand, they've been able to understand what our area of inquiry is and learn some best practices in terms of the participant dynamics between the researcher, moderator, and note taker. Really, with just a little bit of training and preparation, anyone can conduct research. The conscious confidence matrix The idea of the ‘conscious confidence matrix’ starts with actually being unconsciously incompetent. It's the idea that you start out not knowing what you don't know, and then you move into knowing what you don't know; knowing what you know; and, finally, subconsciously knowing what you do know. It becomes ingrained in you. That only happens through research, so the idea that you start not knowing what you don't know is like this: ‘David, you're going to be doing a project on a large health care application. Okay, I don't know anything about health care, I don't know where to start.’ That's actually the first question of research—then I can start to understand that the project is about these areas of health care, and I know I don't know about these three of the four areas, so let me explore that. Then, I learn about those areas and, on a very conscious level, I can pull the different pieces of knowledge out of my memory bank. Then, ultimately, by the end of the project, the knowledge is so ingrained in my brain that I don't have to think about what the answers are when people ask me about acronyms or workflow or process; it just becomes a natural part of my conversation and something I'm able to speak about naturally.

David Farkas, host of the Farkas Files on Empower Radio joins the show to discuss spiritual healing and shamanism in the post modern world. David will share insights from his own practice and from hosting The Farkas Files on Empower Radio.

What do we do when things stop flourishing? What do we do when houses don’t sell, businesses fail, and illness keeps cycling through the family? Where do we go when we sense that the very matrix of the energy that supports life is somehow torn or set asunder? This week guest, David Franklin Farkas, joins host, Christina Pratt to explore practical ways to clear and restore the energies in our physical world so that we are able to maintain good communication and reciprocity with the spirits of the land, the elementals, and the Earth herself. Years ago a moment of prayerful asking how to repair a profound distortion in our energy world David was shown the energetic geometry of the etheric matrix and instructed in how to repair it. Over the past two and a half decades David has developed this proprietary method he calls Quantum Grid Restructuring, which normalizes distortion in the energetic geometry of a buildings and space by clearing the human dramas, the emotional history of human events, and other traumas we inflict on the world around us. These practices support the reconciliation with underground water, ley lines and vortexes as well as offering a context for rescuing ghosts and banishing meaner entities. Join us this week as we explore how to effectively clean up the mess we have made and restore right relationship with our world.