Human Tech

Hosted by Guthrie Weinschenk and Susan Weinschenk

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171

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Apr 2026

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EN-US

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A podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology.

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April 3, 20261 hr 9 min

Episode #175: Dean Barker Visits The Show

Dean Barker visits the show to talk about his new book "Advance: How To Move Your Business Forward With Design Strategy"

October 11, 20251 hr 5 min

Episode #174: Taking AI Seriously Part 5

We are here to take AI Seriously this time, but for real. This is Part 5 of a multi-part series. We want to have a realistic talk about AI and how it relates to UX while avoiding some pitfalls. We move on to industry-level replacement AI, and specifically how it may impact the UX field.

May 23, 20251 hr 5 min

Episode #173: Taking AI Seriously Part 4

We are here to take AI Seriously this time, but for real. This is Part 4 of a multi-part series. We want to have a realistic talk about AI and how it relates to UX while avoiding some pitfalls. We continue our conversation about step 3 AI which is about doing tasks that experts used to do, but the expert is still involved. We cover what this might mean for trust, and the workplace.

April 26, 20251 hr 8 min

Episode #172: Taking AI Seriously Part 3

We are here to take AI Seriously this time, but for real. This is Part 3 of a multi-part series. We want to have a realistic talk about AI and how it relates to UX while avoiding some pitfalls. We have a conversation about step 3 AI which is about doing tasks that experts used to do, but the expert is still involved. We have a detour to talk about profit and Figma.

April 17, 20251 hr 7 min

Episode #171: Taking AI Seriously Part 2

We are here to take AI Seriously this time, but for real. This is Part 2 of a multi-part series. We want to have a realistic talk about AI and how it relates to UX while avoiding some pitfalls. We have a conversation about the next step in AI which is about super high level task automation.

April 2, 20251 hr 5 min

Episode #170: Taking AI Seriously Part 1

We are here to take AI Seriously this time, but for real. This is Part 1 of a multi-part series. We want to have a realistic talk about AI and how it relates to UX while avoiding some pitfalls. We start with a simple discussion of frivolous uses of AI. We start by laying out the path, and talking about the simple and fun uses.

March 15, 202553 min

Episode #169: Embodied Cognition

We discuss embodied cognition, a large part of the human experience that often goes under-talked about in UX circles.

February 7, 202551 min

Episode #168: Screen Monkey

We discuss a common issue UXers are facing, too often they spend all their time in the tool designing screens, and no time doing UX work.

January 23, 202556 min

Episode #167: Errors

How should UXers deal with designing around errors? Why is it so hard to have designs with good error flows?

October 29, 202454 min

Episode #166: Voting UX

With the US Election season coming to a close we try to talk about some of the potential pitfalls of the UX of voting, and how the mental models are quite weird. We don't get through it all.