In this episode of Dollars to Donuts I catch up with Leanne Waldal, five years after she first appeared on the podcast. She’s now a Principal in User Experience at ADP.
A couple of years ago, I realized I know things. We all know things, but sometimes we go through life thinking there’s always something more for us to know, or we don’t know as much as others. A couple of years ago I was like, oh, I know some stuff. I could share it. If I think of myself at 23, 24 years old, I had people who were my age now who were telling me things that I listened to and got advice from. I’m that person now. I can be the person who like gives people advice or says, I don’t actually know everything, but here’s some things I learned over the years that might help you. It makes me feel good to do that. It boosts my confidence. It helps me feel like I can actually do something that’s not just my craft or not just my job for a paycheck or not just this, but I actually have something to offer. And that’s a great feeling. - Leanne Waldal
Show Links

• Episode transcript (portigal.com/dollars-to-donut...)

• Interviewing Users, second edition (rosenfeldmedia.com/books/inte...)

• Beyond The Surface: Navigating The Depths Of User Research With Steve Portigal (Greenbook Podcast) (greenbook.captivate.fm/episod...)

• Leanne Waldal on Dollars to Donuts, 2019 (portigal.com/podcast/15-leann...)

• Leanne on LinkedIn ( / lwaldal )

• ADP (www.adp.com/)

• Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra ( / 24737268 )

• Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie ( / 100469.orbiting_the_gi... )

• Organic Online (web.archive.org/web/199707161...)

• Howard Rheingold (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_...)

• NASDAQ crash, 2000 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com...)

• San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fra...)

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