A Couple of Things: A Potpourri Of My Mind

In this episode, I speak with Hillary Omitogun about making decisions, choosing our path, and your power to reframe your narrative.

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In this episode, I share some questions and thoughts I have around shared evolutions of language, how new words are formed within smaller groups (families, friends etc), cultural understanding of memes, and the idea of the collective unconscious

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In this episode, I chat with my friend Dr Seun Newton about experiencing sudden changes in life, bouncing back and starting over, resilience, learning new languages. Seun has had to move countries suddenly twice--first for university and then to escape a war.

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In this episode, I talk about how we attribute the reasons for success and failure and how we determine whether it was the right decision for someone to give up on something or to keep going.

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Similar to just asking, I talked about just trying. Taking the step is how you know what you can and can't do

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Why do we name things how we do? Why do you call your partner what you call them? How do these things become part of our vocabulary. I talk about these things in today's episode.

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In my first Q&A episode, I share my thoughts on the question:

For someone who doesn't have a clear career path and doesn't really know what I'm good at, how do I navigate life after school?

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In this episode, I share about how our little, seemingly insignificant, acts of kindness can have far reaching effects and why we should focus on doing one thing for one person when everything else seems overwhelming. We may not all start foundations and build non profits, but we can all impact someone else

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In this episode, I talk about thinking of accessibility and inclusion beyond tech tools. In how we organise events, design spaces and more.

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In this episode, I have my first guest interview. I talk with my sister about dropping out of school. The reasons behind our decisions to drop out of an undergraduate and a graduate programme respectively and what happened next.

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How do you share online when you don't know where to start from? What do you say when you feel like you're not yet an expert?

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How do you define success? How do you know that you're successful? Who gets to decide that for you?

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In this episode I talk about my love hate relationship with IWD and what I wish we'd focus more on

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With so much conflicting advice and lists of dos and don'ts, how do you decide what advice to follow. I talk about incentives and bias as well as values and how they influence the kind of advice people give and tips for how to filter advice.

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In this episode, I briefly share about what a movie and a TV show which are very different from each other taught me about despair and how fighting to remain hopeful is important

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In this episode, I discuss a theory of how we choose careers and what it means for us especially in the view of the conversation on how do we get more women into tech. It's Women's month and International Women's Day (IWD) is in a few days after all

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In this episode, I bring a new perspective to something I've talked about previously on this podcast: the power of asking.

Sometimes, you know who to ask for something: you send an email to the person in charge of curation or you DM someone about reviewing your resume. But what if what you want is broad?

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Have you ever thought that there was one thing that you need to do that would change everything for you? In any area of your life you can think of. Whether financially? spiritually? relationship wise? health wise? Any way at all?

Well, I think I found the answer

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In this episode, I discuss an underrated research approach: guerrilla research. It's a quick and low-cost exploratory method for showing the potential of research and how it can be valuable. I explain the benefits of guerrilla research, when to use it, when not to use it, and brief example of when I used the approach.

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After the last couple of episodes talking about UX research, I'm breaking down what UX research is and what my work looks like.

I share my definition of it, and two scenarios that illustrate how I think of it.

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In a continuation to the previous episode, I talk about the prioritization side of the managing research requests equation. How do you prioritise multiple research requests as a UX research team of one.

I share some questions to ask and things to consider when deciding which research requests to focus on and in what order and what research requests you can hand over to others.

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You've done a great job showing the value of research, now everyone wants a piece of the research pie. How do you handle it? In this episode, I share some tips and examples from my work on how to operationalise, systemise, and democratise research effectively.

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A challenge that some UX researchers or people who want to do research often have is that, in the beginning, the team may be hesitant. They have concerns about someone else talking to the users especially in B2B settings. So what can you do?

In this episode, as a follow on to the last episode, I discuss some things you can do to get past this initial hesitation.

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Are you the first researcher in your organisation? or are you a Designer or a product manager interested in getting research started in your team? In this episode, I share some tips on steps you can take to start getting your team interested in doing research.

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Level up your UX Research: Planning, Piloting & Avoiding Pitfalls

Are you struggling with UX Research? In this episode, I share some practical, hard learnt tips on things to consider and steps to take to make your research project successful. I cover the importance of planning and piloting and some recruitment and deliverable tips as well as some bonus tips for successful research sessions and projects.

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Are you struggling to find the right participants for your UX research project? In this episode, I share 5 recruitment methods you can start using today to find your audience so you can get useful and actionable insights. I share the ideal use cases for each as well as some examples of how I have used a few of them in the past.

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In this episode, I talk about why obedience is sometimes hard.

Obedience comes from trusting that God is good and has your best interests in mind. I also share how we can take steps to come to truly know, trust, and love God so we can obey Him.

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In this episode, I discuss the common talking point that AI will only enhance, not take away from, our jobs. I share my thoughts on things we need to consider as we barrel towards an uncertain future. Links

In this episode, I challenge the idea that when I feel worried about not knowing something or not doing well, then I have imposter syndrome. I argue that it is possible to not know something and learn it and then be good at it.

What if we approached unknown and new experiences--whether starting a new job or taking on new responsibilities or adding on a new skill--with curiosity and the belief that we can grow and learn.

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The fear of being wrong can be paralysing and hold us back from learning and expressing ourselves. In this episode, I discuss why we should embrace being wrong (even publicly) and how we can look at these as areas of growth.

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How does faith differ from delusion? In this episode, I discuss how healthy faith acknowledges reality while trusting in God's promises and the possibility of better.

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One of the challenges of sharing on the internet is the idea that you could be oversharing. But who decides what oversharing is?

I start by discussing some attribution errors and wrap up with my thoughts on oversharing.

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In this episode, I discuss whether delulu is the solulu. I think not. And I share reasons why. Including that when we live in delusion, we aren't encouraged to take action. But when we have an optimistic view, we can see the reality of things and appreciate that the future hasn't happened yet, so we can do something to make it different from the now and make it look like we envision.

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Can love truly conquer all, or is it a utopian fantasy? In this episode, I discuss the love, what it means to love, why I think that love is more than enough, how we can get there. I also highlight some thoughts from dystopian movies like Mad Max Fury Road, and Everything Everywhere All At Once

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Have you heard the commonly misattributed Henry Ford quote about faster horses? In this episode, I talk about why, even if the quote is true, it's bad advice. At the same time, I also talk about why you shouldn't just do what people tell you and how to listen for problems not solutions.

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Do you ever struggle with the idea of being a jack of all trades? This episode explores the struggle of multidisciplinary interests in a world obsessed with specialization. Dive into the "T-shaped" designer, niche vs. generalist debate, and why "jack of all trades" shouldn't be an insult!

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Ever notice how thinking about something makes you see it everywhere? It's not magic, it's your brain's Reticular Activating System (RAS)!

In this episode, I share about the RAS, how it works, the concept of manifesting, and how you can train your brain and use RAS to your advantage.

In this episode, I talk about how workshops can be used in the UX Research process and what to consider when you want to run a workshop as part of your research.

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of self hype and surrounding yourself with people who hype you (and lovingly correct and give you feedback when necessary).

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