Welcome to the
UX Fika Podcast
A weekly podcast hosted by Anna Dahlström, the founder of UX Fika and author of Storytelling in Design (O’Reilly).
In this show, she chats to friends from the UX, tech, and conference scene and gets to know them at a deeper level than what group dinners and chats at conferences usually allow. You can find the UX Fika podcast where you normally listen.
Season 3 - The Conference People
This is our current season with many more guests coming.
In the latest episode of the UX Fika podcast, I sit down with Jim Kalbach, author of several books including Mapping Experiences and The Jobs To Be Done Playbook, Collaborative Intelligence. Jim is also the Chief Evangelist at Mural…
In this episode I sit down with Tom Greever, executive design leader, author of Articulating Design Decisions, and someone who’s spent over 20 years helping teams communicate their ideas clearly, confidently, and with impact. We talk about…
In this episode, I sit down with Abby Covert, information architect, writer, and community organiser who’s spent the past two decades helping people make sense of messes. She’s the author of ‘How to Make Sense of Any Mess’…
In this chat, I sit down with Sarah Doody — UX researcher, product designer, and founder of Career Strategy Lab, a job search accelerator helping UX and product professionals find their next role and succeed once they’re there….
In this episode, I sit down with Cheryl Platz — actress, designer, author, and creative director for the Game Studio at The Pokémon Company International — whose career has spanned…
In this episode I sit down with Paulina Modlitba, AI strategist, angel investor, author of ‘Vad fan ska vi med AI till?’ (“What the hell do we need AI for?”), and one of Sweden’s leading voices on technology and innovation…
In this episode I sit down with Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred from Big Medium — design leaders and co-authors of the upcoming book Sentient Design. We talk..
In this episode I sit down with Melissa Perri, strategic adviser, author of Escaping the Build Trap, CEO of Produx Labs, and faculty member at Harvard Business School…
Welcome to episode 15 of the UX Fika podcast. In this conversation sit down with Giles Colborne — design leader, strategist, author of Simple and Usable, and now founder of Made Simple….
In this episode I reconnect with Richard Banfield — author, advisor, and co-founder of Second Harvest, a retreat and coaching venture that believes the second half of life can be the most creative, exciting, and rewarding….
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I sit down with Jared Spool — Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre, designer, speaker, and someone who’s been shaping the field of…
Season 2 - The Catch-ups
Welcome to season 2 of the UX Fika podcast where I catch up with the original guests from 2021 to see what’s happened since our last conversations.
In this episode of UX Fika podcast, I reconnect with Jonty Sharples – product, design, and business leader, and now consulting CPO working from a wooden box at the bottom of his…
In this episode of UX Fika podcast, I reconnect with Be Kaler Pilgrim – founder of Smithfield Search and long-time leader in the digital recruitment world. When we last spoke in 2021, Be was…
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I catch up again with Jason Mesut – creative coach, strategic consultant, and long-time shaper of designers. When we first spoke in 2021, Jason was stepping…
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I reconnect with Jeff Gothelf – author of Lean UX, Sense & Respond, Forever Employable, and most recently Who Does What By How Much?, his latest…
In this episode of UX Fika podcast, I reconnect with Andy Budd – design leader, coach, investor, and long-time advocate for the design community. When we last spoke in 2021, Andy had just…
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I reconnect with Cennydd Bowles – technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recent Fulbright Scholar. We last spoke four years ago, just as ethical design…
Season 1 - The Dinner People
These chats were recorded back in 2021 but are just as relevant today. Welcome to season 1 of the UX Fika podcast where I catch up with some of the people whom we used to meet up with for dinners in London.
In this episode of the UX Fika Podcast, I sit down with Be Kaler Pilgrim, a pioneer in digital recruitment, co-founder of Futureheads Recruitment – one of the most trusted names in design…
In this episode of the UX Fika Podcast, I chat with Jeff Gothelf – author of five books including Lean UX, Sense & Respond, Forever Employable and Who Does What By How Much – about how…
In this episode of the UX Fika Podcast, I sit down with Andy Budd – designer, investor, coach, and founder of Clearleft and conferences such as dConstruct, UX London, and Leading Design….
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I talk to Cennydd Bowles, technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recently a Fulbright Scholar. Cennydd advises companies like Google, Mozilla, …
In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I catch up with Jonty Sharples – product, design, and business leader, and – at the time of our 2021 conversation – CXO at Where Is My Transport. These days…
In this very first episode of the UX Fika podcast, I sit down with the brilliant Jason Mesut – a creative coach, a strategic consultant, a community connector, and a shaper of designers….
The story behind the UX Fika podcast
"One year into the pandemic & our move to Sweden, I got this idea, to interview the people I missed seeing, to get to know them better, & to catch up."
- Anna Dahlström, host of the UX Fika Podcast
There was a group of us who used to meet up for dinners in London every time certain someones passed through town. March 2020 was the last time I was part of those dinners. It ended up being my last social outing before moving to Sweden, and the last one before the pandemic hit.
The first season of the UX Fika podcast are with some of those dinner people. The idea came from a purely selfish place as I missed them, and the other people I used to meet and talk to at conferences and through the UX community. But for once, I wanted to chat one-on-one. To get to know them a bit better. Then I realised that many of you would probably benefit from hearing what we talked about, so I decided to record the chats. And that’s how the UX Fika podcast was born.