NN/G UX Podcast

Laura Klein

Booking Overview

This is a monthly interview podcast focused on user experience research, design, strategy, and professional practice, typically featuring established UX, product, and business thought leaders. Suitable pitches include UX researchers, design and product executives, responsible-AI experts, authors, consultants, and founders with distinctive expertise or published frameworks; booking difficulty is high because recent guests include prominent authors and industry leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 65

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 202.0k subscribers

Instagram: 85.0k followers

Contact Information

podcast@nngroup.com

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Host

Laura Klein - UX professional, author, and podcast host known for her work on building better products and applying user experience practices in product development.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established UX, product, design, research, or business experts with substantial professional experience, recognized expertise, published work, or leadership of notable organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Authored influential books or frameworks, Founded or led recognized companies or consultancies, Developed notable approaches to UX, product, design, or organizational strategy, Demonstrated expertise through substantial industry work

Recent Guest Discussions

Christina Wodtke - Okrs, Team Rituals, Psychological Safety, Strategy, Vision, And Organizational Goals.

Eric Ries - Mission-driven Companies, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Primacy, Product Quality, And Organizational Values.

Erika Hall - Conversational Design, Language In Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Domain Expertise, Consulting, And User-centered Product Development.

Recent Topics

User Experience, Ux Research, Interaction Design, Product Strategy, Usability

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
NN/G UX Podcast
:

Why Most Teams Get Goal-Setting Wrong (feat. Christina Wodtke) | EP 62

July 08, 2026

OKRs are a popular choice to communicate team goals… but most teams do them wrong. In this episode, Laura Klein talks with Christina Wodtke, author of Radical Focus, about what actually makes objectives and key results work: the weekly and quarterly rituals that keep goals alive, why psychological safety matters more than making perfect predictions, and how strategy and vision have to exist before you can even set an OKR in the first place.About Christina Wodtke: LinkedIn | Eleganthack (blog)...

Incorruptible: How Great Companies Stay Great with Eric Ries

May 26, 2026

Most UX practitioners have spent their careers fighting for the user — pushing back against dark patterns, advocating for quality, and insisting that making things better for people is also better for the business. Eric Ries would say that instinct is exactly right. And that it's not enough.In this episode, host Laura Klein talks with Eric Ries — New York Times Best Selling Author of The Lean Startup and founder of the Long Term Stock Exchange — about his new book, Incorruptible: Why Good...

60. Conversational Design and UI: Why Language Matters More Than Ever

April 29, 2026

What does it actually mean to design conversationally? Not "add a chatbot" — but genuinely apply the principles of human conversation to the systems we build?In this episode, host Laura Klein sits down with Erika Hall, author of Conversational Design and Just Enough Research, to re-visit a topic that's only gotten more relevant since her book came out in 2018. They dig into why language has always been an important part of any interface, what the cooperative principle of convers...

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