Everyday Experiences Podcast

Geoff discovers Guy’s fascination and revelations on the careful balance of utility, durability, aesthetics, and business drivers behind your everyday bag design. This is [likely] the last exploration episode of single-topic products/services before we begin a new run of more design-topic centred episodes.Highlights include:💡 Is designing the ‘perfect’ bag actually the fas

Geoff and Guy both acknowledge and lament the challenges in getting airlines and international travel "back to the way it was", particularly in regard to all the extra security and forms being required to arrive or depart a country. However, let's all ignore the fact that this episode is being released 6 months after it was recorded together in person since many of the discussed re

Geoff and Guy are finally back and recording together in person for the first time... from a phone... in a car. If you like your podcasts to really put you in the context of the moment, this episode is for you - road noise and all. Highlights include:💡 How can we make asking for product help more approachable?💡 How can we drive in-store sales through service propositions?💡

The local designer series continues with Lulu Pachuau giving a mother's perspective of the pros and cons of three different methods of family travel along with the little tweaks and wins that could really make for a more pleasant experience.Highlights include:💡 What are the risks of missing the "nested problems"?💡 How do you design for the little touches people never forget?�

Geoff and Guy return to talk about web browsers without even once saying "surfing the web" (so of course it had to be squeezed into the episode title). From checking emails to watching videos and purchasing products, we use these ubiquitous tools multiple times a day, so we thought they deserved a deeper look and a moment to consider why we aren’t readily seeing if a different on

Kicking off our new Local Designer series, Janice Chan joins Geoff to explore the most niche topic: utensils. But, if there's ever a topic worth finding design and business opportunities in, it's noticing the individual usefulness of the countless variety of these tools we use daily. Highlights include:💡 How cultural differences influence the design of our everyday tools💡 Wha

Guy is back with Geoff to explore the design villainy behind shopping mall layouts and the bombardment of product eye candy that serves to make us lose track of our original goals and spend, spend, spend! Listen in to better recognise what nefarious design choices you’re subconsciously up against so you can be a more intentional consumer. Highlights include:💡 What is a Gruen T

Kim Goodwin joins Geoff to explore Hotel UX beyond the websites and into the design of rooms, amenities, check-in and out experiences, life hacks, and more. Highlights include:💡 Why are interruptions, discrimination, and creepiness key experience issues to avoid? 💡 Why is it important for marketing and website teams to set the right customer expectations early?💡 How can te

Geoff and Guy team up together again to verbally trade barbs and laugh way too much whilst discussing the act and factors behind upgrading our physical and digital products. They just don't make 'em like they used to anymore.Highlights include:💡 How do "anticipointments" shape our future expectations? 💡 What is "planned obsolescence"?💡 When and why should we upgrade our pr

Doug Collins joins Geoff to talk about the careful balance between designing for customers versus users, but in this case, the customers being parents and users being their children. Listen in to how we can "keep the good moving forward."Highlights include:💡 What factors go into "good" products made for kids?💡 Is there such a thing as "ethical consumerism"?💡 How does the l