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Marty Gage
VP of User Experience Research at Lextant and co-author of "User Experience Research: Discover What Customers Really Want" (Wiley, 2022), a pioneer in generative/desired-experience research.
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Oct 12, 2026
“Easy to Use” Means Six Different Things (w/ Marty Gage) | S2 E4
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5:50Marty GageGUEST
Well, um, the, what w- we found is, uh, and the guy who wrote the book was Spencer.
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5:56Marty GageGUEST
He's retired recently, but he was a designer, and I'm a human factors person by training, so he always felt he was a better designer- When he understood what the user wanted.
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6:04Marty GageGUEST
And I was always trying to be a good researcher by bringing him stuff he could use, because the first time I brought him stuff, he looked at it, he said, "Marty, I don't know what to do with this." So being actionable has always sort of been like the holy grail to me.
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6:15Marty GageGUEST
For him, the holy grail has been, as a designer, is to be able to make an emotional connection.
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6:20Marty GageGUEST
And I think that we've worked together to sort of, uh, describe in that framework how to do it consistently and repeatedly.
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