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073 - What the World Needs From Designers

In this episode of the podcast, Sophia announces a rebrand of the OOUX Podcast: The UX Level-Up! Going forward, the show will center around the five Level-Ups (⁠featured in The UX Level-Up⁠). She also asks a game-changing question that reframes the purpose of our OOUX work, and gives her own answer to that question, laying out an ambitious vision for OOUX and the ORCA process going forward.

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A dive into the weeds on UX systems, information architecture, human psychology, data wrangling, structured content, UX process, and above all simplifying the complex.

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UX Level-Up

20 powerful strategies to elevate your UX/product/content practice IMMEDIATELY. (Like really.) With Sophia Prater, chief evangelist for Object-Oriented UX & creator of the ORCA Process.

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