Ep.12 Jill Jacobson: on UX Design at Microsoft, her circuitous journey to UX design from industrial design, and rediscovering joy from creative pursuits

Show Chapters

Full-text transcript

• Intro (00:36)
• The mystery of the churning Jupyter notebook users (01:45)
• The importance of understanding your users (09:32)
• From an aptitude test in high school to industrial design (13:05)
• Learning industrial design at Western Washington University (15:10)
• First job out of college (17:59)
• Getting fired from her first job (20:15)
• Becoming an intern again (22:04)
• An opportunity to learn what she really wanted to do (22:48)
• A crash course in becoming a UX Designer, on the job (27:05)
• Why team is more important than technology (30:22)
• Jill is now a full-time employee! (36:03)
• On rediscovering things that bring us joy (38:16)
• How to optimize your Kindle experience (41:03)
• An outsized amount of joy: a plain air tripod (45:05)
• Conclusion (47:33)
• Outtro (48:43)

Links from the show

• Jill's Instagram
• Jill's web site
• AIMS Aptitude Testing
• Libby
• Story Graph

Music credits

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Track: Lost In Medina — Amine Maxwell [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: https://youtu.be/qNSdpqSkRe4
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