Brendan Jarvis
Saying Goodbye to Brave UX
In this final episode of Brave UX, Brendan Jarvis reflects on the origins, growth, and close of Brave UX – a journey of curiosity, courage, and connection 🎙️🌍🫶.
Highlights include:
- Why Brave UX is ending
- The early days: starting a podcast in a pandemic
- How the show evolved and grew
- Lessons in leadership and curiosity
- Gratitude for the Brave UX community
Who is Brendan Jarvis?
Brendan Jarvis is the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween, New Zealand’s first UX research and innovation lab 🌏. He’s also the host of Brave UX, a globally recognised podcast that has featured 170+ conversations with UX, design, and product leaders from around the world 🎙️.
Since launching the show during the pandemic, Brendan has been on a mission to humanise leadership, spotlight meaningful work, and explore what makes teams and individuals thrive 🌱. His work is grounded in curiosity, courage, and a commitment to creating more thoughtful digital experiences 🤝.
Now, as Brave UX reaches its conclusion, Brendan continues to challenge and support leaders through his research practice and public speaking 🌟.
Transcript
- Brendan Jarvis:
- Hello and welcome to the final episode of Brave UX. Yep. You heard me right. I've decided to wrap up the podcast. Brave UX began back in October of 2020 as a bit of a pandemic project, a way to soothe some professional and intellectual loneliness during what was for many of us, a strange and isolating time. Five years later, it's become something much more across 171 episodes, and more than 200 hours of long form interviews. It's been my pleasure to bring you the perspectives of a diverse range of emerging and established world-class design, research, and product leaders.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- My hope is that Brave UX has been entertaining, educational, and useful to you. I know it's helped me to grow as a host, as a researcher, and as a person, through the process of researching, curating, and reflecting on these conversations.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- Along the way, I've had the privilege of developing a number of meaningful friendships with past guests. I've also been fortunate to be invited to share my perspective on design, including keynote talks at Rosenfeld Media's Design at Scale conference and Design Ops Summit, and a main stage appearance at Design Outlook in Australia. And, in a particularly special moment, one of my earliest guests and someone who I greatly respect, Steve Portugal, kindly asked me to contribute a blurb to the second edition of interviewing users, which was both surreal and humbling.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- There have been moments across the show's run that have been tense, emotional, and lighthearted, and all of them have helped me better appreciate the complex, beautiful, and sometimes challenging task of understanding and being understood.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- My thanks to Dave, Terry and the team at a podcast geek who edited the vast majority of the show's episodes. Their work behind the scenes made everything you heard sound effortless, even when it wasn't.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- This hasn't been an easy decision. Brave UX has been a substantial part of my life for five years, but it feels like the right time to close this chapter and make space for what's next to every guest who gave their time and trusted me with their stories. Thank you. And to you. Thank you for listening. Whether you tuned in regularly or just dipped in once or twice, I've appreciated your time support and your interest in the craft and community we share.
- Brendan Jarvis:
- The archive will still be available both on your preferred podcast platform and on YouTube. You can also find the full catalogue of episodes at my website, which is thespaceinbetween.co.nz. Brave UX is ending but I'm not disappearing. You'll still find me on LinkedIn sharing my thoughts, and perhaps whatever comes next. So for one last time, thank you for being here. Goodbye for now and keep being brave.