UX

topic on 10 shows · 14 statements across 13 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Startups For the Rest of Us We Live to Build Latent Space Lenny's Podcast the Startup Ideas Podcast Top Founders the MAD Podcast the a16z Podcast 20VC

14 statements about UX, every show

Walling: Bootstrap founders only need roadmap prioritization and UX skills
“The two biggest skills I think you want to develop is figuring out of all the feature requests of everything coming in from support and sales and from your own head, all your internal and external everything that you could build next, It's figuring out what to…”
Rob Walling Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 23:54 Episode 837 | How Do You Learn Product? and Optimizing Your Trial...
Isenberg: Vibe coders fail because they neglect conversion copywriting
“The big piece that people miss with vibe coding is they vibe code stuff, but then the copy sucks. So then people, you know, they're converting at one percent or less than one percent and they're like, why? And then, and they come to the conclusion that, oh, vi…”
Greg Isenberg Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 55:20 Reviewing Claude Opus 4.5
LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Up to 75% of Future UX Interfaces Will Be Voice-Driven
“UX is going to be, you know, 50%, 60%, 75% voice in the future. I a hundred percent believe that, and I did not believe that, you know, two years ago, but the trend line is just really, I think, clear.”
Kwindla Hultman Kramer May 6, 2025 ▶ 20:24 Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ensembling coding agents will transition from a cost to a UX challenge
“I think it will become less of over time as cost will come down. I expect it will become less of a cost question and more of a UX question because with ensembling, well, what we found is that users really want to see what the agent is doing and follow along. A…”
Guy Gur-Ari Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 8:54 The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
a16z Insight
Biilmann: Agent Experience (AX) must become a formal discipline like UX
“So I mean, I think I'm kind of proposing AX as a discipline in the similar way as DX or UX as a discipline, right? Like once it starts being an intentional focus of yours and you start really observing how the humans and the agent work together with your produ…”
Matt Biilmann Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 30:40 Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guha: No foundational AI models are built specifically for UX design
“There are some good examples out there, for example, Claude and other stuff, but there are no fundamental models that are just built on specifically doing UX and UX well.”
Rabbi Guha Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:33 Founder Market Fit Got Them $4.2M Before a Product Existed
MAD Insight
Howie Liu: UX is now the main bottleneck to enterprise AI adoption
“And I actually think now the bottleneck to their to their application is UX. It's actually giving people the tools to very easily deploy those models into not just a few Very central core use cases within a large company, but actually into the fractal of every…”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 9:09 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Immerman: Consumer AI battleground will shift from models to UX in 2024
“And my big idea for 20, 24 is the consumer AI battleground is going to move from the model to UX.”
Alex Immerman Dec 27, 2023 ▶ 1:44 Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
20VC Insight
UX Innovation in Software Has Plateaued
“A lot of competition has happened in UX, and I'm not seeing UX ideas that are like, 10 X to where we are today.”
Jean-Denis Greze Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 35:51 Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
O'Neal: Users churn when product roadmaps ignore usability bugs for features
“There are tons of things in your app that just don't work well, and when your roadmap doesn't account for those, people start churning because they get frustrated, because somebody scrappier and newer comes out and creates something better that feels less hard…”
Heather O'Neal Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 6:25 Your Untapped Resource for Creating a Compelling Product Roadmap
O'Neal: Customer Success Holds More Qualitative Data Than UX Teams
“And the one place in your company that has the most qualitative data, unfortunately, isn't UX, even though I would love it to be, but like, in UX research, you can't talk to 4000 people in a month, most months. Customer success is already doing that.”
Heather O'Neal Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 9:21 Your Untapped Resource for Creating a Compelling Product Roadmap
Wodtke: Product managers exist primarily to serve the business
“I mean, it's good that they take a lot from UX, and it is important to be people-centered, but the reality is the product manager serves the business. That's their role.”
Christina Wodtke Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 1:00:39 The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
Srini: Mortgage buyers prefer lower rates and slower processes over slick UX
“Turns out, like, people didn't care that much about UX because it was a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. In fact, they wanted it to take longer. Yeah. And turns out, People get more about, like, a 50 basis points difference, rather than, like, hey, like, I have…”
Laks Srini Dec 11, 2019 ▶ 4:16 Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
a16z Insight
Evans: Removing friction transforms painful capabilities into ordinary daily habits
“And when the friction goes, suddenly the UX changes, and things that were possible but a pain become completely ordinary, and you just do them all the time.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:43 a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile

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