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XD Ideas   /   Perspectives   /   Wireframe Podcast

Wireframe Podcast

Wireframe reveals the stories behind user experience design and how it helps technology fit into our lives. It’s a unique, highly produced podcast for UX/UI designers, graphic designers, and the design-curious. Hosted by Khoi Vinh, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. Choose your favorite podcast player to subscribe to Wireframe.
Wireframe Podcast

Why Are Elections So Hard to Design Well? – Season 3, Episode 6

By Patrick Faller

The fundamental design feature of a democratic society is a citizen’s right to vote. But ensuring that every person is able to vote is not as easy as it seems. Everything from how you design a paper ballot, build an electronic terminal, process a mail-

Wireframe Podcast

Can an App Actually Help You Sleep? – Season 3, Episode 5

By Patrick Faller

The sleep-aid market is a multi-billion dollar industry, but do apps designed to help us sleep really help?

Wireframe Podcast

How Streaming Services Design Interfaces to Keep Us Watching – Season 3, Episode 4

By Patrick Faller

Explore how video streaming services, in a battle to win subscribers, deliberately design interfaces that keep us binge-watching.

Wireframe Podcast

How Crowdfunding Design Makes It Easy for Us to Give – Season 3, Episode 3

By Patrick Faller

Explore how platforms like GoFundMe, Kickstarter, and Patreon deploy different UX design strategies to encourage us to give.

Wireframe Podcast

Why Can’t Dad Unmute Himself on Zoom? – Season 3, Episode 2

By Patrick Faller

Sometimes design, tech, and getting older don’t add up. If design is failing the elderly, it will eventually fail us all.

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Wireframe Podcast

COVID-19 Is Changing How Designers Think – Season 3, Episode 1

By Patrick Faller

How has COVID-19 affected designers and the work they do? Explore the changing nature of work in the design world and what it means to design during a pandemic.

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Wireframe Podcast

Falling in Love with Good Design – Season 2, Episode 6

By Patrick Faller

There are few digital innovations as popular as they are maligned as dating apps. The world of ‘dating’ has always been a messy experience; getting to know people, let alone choosing to partner with them involves a lot of ups, downs, and time spent get

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Wireframe Podcast

Faking Good Design in Film – Season 2, Episode 5

By Patrick Faller

For any film or TV fan with an eye for design, the user interfaces that characters interact with are more than just set dressing—they can make all the difference in the believability of the narrative. Whether a flashing ‘Access Denied’ screen, a slow-m

Design layouts across a variety of mediums, and applications all share similar, fundamental elements that result in similar-looking end products.
Wireframe Podcast

When Everything Looks Like Good Design – Season 2, Episode 4

By Patrick Faller

If you’re old enough to remember the early days of web design, you know the aesthetics of our digital experiences have changed considerably. What was once a ‘wild west’ of icons, buttons, images, and navs is now a space of mostly organized, functional,

Wireframe Podcast

Sounds Like Good Design – Season 2, Episode 3

By Patrick Faller

We live in a world where the digital products we use do so much more than just show us what we want or need to see, they also tell us, through sound.  Sound plays a crucial, and increasingly common, role in determining whether an experience is suc

Wireframe Podcast

Privacy, Trust, and Good Design – Season 2, Episode 2

By Patrick Faller

Think about the last new digital app or service you signed up for; before you got whatever bells, whistles, and shiny objects it was promising, you probably had to agree to the terms and conditions of using it. You probably also realize that part of th

Wireframe Podcast

A Prescription for Good Design – Season 2, Episode 1

By Patrick Faller

It is, without a doubt, one of the most important services you need to access in your life, and for most of us, we will depend on it when we’re at our most vulnerable: health care. But when it comes to the people we need to help us — the doctors, nurs

Wireframe Podcast

Inclusivity is a Recipe for Good Design – Season 1, Episode 6

By Patrick Faller

This episode of Wireframe starts in an unexpected place: the kitchen of Julia Child’s cooking show The French Chef — the first TV program ever to broadcast captions for the hearing impaired.  From there, Khoi Vinh and producer Isabella Kulkarni di

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Wireframe Podcast

Is Good Design Good for You? – Season 1, Episode 5

By Patrick Faller

In episode six of Wireframe, Khoi Vinh and producer Rikki Novetsky take a look at the intersection of ethics and design and explore the controversy of addictive UX design by tracing the origins of Facebook’s famous Like button. Initially conceived as a

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Wireframe Podcast

Good Design is Why You’re Not Wearing AR Glasses – Season 1, Episode 4

By Patrick Faller

Episode five of Wireframe explores the role design plays in AR’s immersive technology and what kind of challenges it presents for designers. Among other things, you’ll meet a guy who’s been wearing a computer on his face since 1993, which eventual

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Wireframe Podcast

Good Design According to You – Season 1, Bonus Episode from Adobe MAX

By Patrick Faller

A short but special bonus episode recorded at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, the world’s largest creativity conference, which brought together more than 14,000 creative pros — designers, photographers, videographers, illustrators, artists, and more.  K

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Wireframe Podcast

Good Design Is ? – Season 1, Episode 3

By Patrick Faller

Yes, this episode’s title contains a poo emoji. Sometimes design journalism takes you to unexpected places. In episode 3 of Wireframe, we dig into the origin story of how emoji became an essential part of our communication (and this particular pictogra

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Wireframe Podcast

Good Design is Good Civics – Season 1, Episode 2

By Patrick Faller

Episode 2 of Wireframe explores design’s role in city services, specifically how the city of Boston tried to turn its 311 hotline into an app and what it learned along the way about how design serves its people. The city decided they could reach a whol

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Wireframe Podcast

Good Design is Human – Season 1, Episode 1

By Patrick Faller

The episode looks at how bad UI/UX almost caused a nuclear meltdown in 1979’s Three Mile Island accident.

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