10 What is design research?

 👋 For the final episode of this year, we’re giving y’all an update on what’s changed and what’s going to change in the upcoming year. If you ever wondered how we juggle it all, we’ll tell you every part of this year’s podcast-making and our favorite highlights! ✨ For more information about Design Bubble, go to our linktr.ee/designbubble! 

UX Researcher and author Steve Portigal shares his podcasting experience with Dollars to Donuts, the podcast he’s been running for 10 years. Tune in to hear his take (and ours) about planning, maintaining, and creating a design podcast! 🎧 For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

In our inaugural career pop in, we chat about why we’ve stayed at our workplace for three years, what we’ve learned, and how we designed our career trajectory for the coming years. 🎉 For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

Learn all about the field of service design with Service Design Director Christopher Robin Roberts. In this episode, we discuss how to create blueprints, what qualities make a good candidate for this design discipline, and what it’s like being a full-time service designer. ✨ For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

In this Burst Your Bubble episode, design leaders share candid thoughts on hot topics. ❤️‍🔥 Haley House, Heather Winkle & Shannon Leahy returned to Design Bubble to share their latest UX hot takes including the state of the job market, AI in UX, things that hold back designers, and more. 🫧  For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕 

Sumayah and Linh-Hoa unpack what various UX design roles mean (i.e. Researchers, UX/UI, Product, and Content Designers), and share which college majors and skill sets will most likely excel in each role. 🔮 🧙 For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

Your hosts Sumayah Abdulla and Linh-Hoa Nguyen share their experiences getting their first promotions as full-time UX designers. They cover everything from how to know you’re ready to level up to what to do when you get that promotion! 🎉 For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

Lead UX researcher Jennifer Blatz discusses the ins and outs of design research including getting a job as a design researcher, when to apply specific research methodologies, and tips to improve your researcher abilities. 🔍 For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

Join your hosts as they share the experience of being in a design rotational program for two years. In this episode, Linh-Hoa and Sumayah go over everything from transitioning into corporate life from university to graduating from the program! 🎉  For more information, check out our linktr.ee/designbubble! 💕

Reminisce with your hosts about favorite moments of podcasting, trials and lessons encountered along the way, and the inside scoop on becoming podcasters. We’re feeling bittersweet to wrap up Season 1, but so excited to bring you the next iteration of Design Bubble! 🍉