Dollars to Donuts

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43. Leanne Waldal returns
In this episode of Dollars to Donuts I catch up with Leanne Waldal, five years after she first appeared on the podcast. Shes now a Principal in User Experience at ADP. A couple of years ago, I realized I know things. We all know things, but sometimes we
42. Celeste Ridlen of Robinhood
For this episode of Dollars to Donuts I had a wonderful conversation with Celeste Ridlen, the Head of Research at Robinhood This is a fundamental leadership-y thing where no two people are going to do that same leadership role the same way. Youre never g
41. Carol Rossi returns
In this episode of Dollars to Donuts Carol Rossi returns to update us on the last 9 years. Shes now a consultant who focuses on user research leadership. Im happy making the contributions that Im making, even though its hard to directly measure impact
40. Gregg Bernstein returns
In this episode of Dollars to Donuts I welcome Gregg Bernstein back for a follow-up episode. Hes now Director of User Research at Hearst Magazines. The thing that I always come back to is that there is no one way to do research. And I also think theres
39. Mani Pande of Cisco Meraki
This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my interview with Mani Pande, Director and Head of Research at Cisco Meraki. We used to do these immersion events where we would bring everybody who worked on, who was our stakeholder, to come and listen and talk
38. Vanessa Whatley of Twilio
This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my interview with Vanessa Whatley, UX Director Research & Documentation at Twilio. For many years, I had anxiety and regret around not starting my career in the field that Im in sooner because I felt very very
37. Nizar Saqqar of Snowflake
This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my interview with Nizar Saqqar, the Head of User Research at Snowflake. For a domain that takes a lot of pride and empathy and how we can represent the end user, theres a component that sometimes gets overshadow
36. Noam Segal returns
This episode of Dollars to Donuts features a return visit from Noam Segal, now a Senior Research Manager at Upwork. AI will help us see opportunities for research that we havent seen. It will help us settle a bunch of debates that maybe weve struggled t
New episodes! New book!
Today weve got a quick program note about new episodes of Dollars to Donuts, an announcement about my new book, and an interview with Steve Portigal. Show Links Interviewing Users (2nd Edition) Steve on The Rosenfeld Review Podcast How-to with John Wils
35. Danielle Smith of Express Scripts
This episode of Dollars to Donuts features my interview with Danielle Smith, the Senior Director of Experience Research & Accessibility at Express Scripts. Something that Ive really changed the way I thought about since Ive been at Express Scripts we