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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.

Oct 12, 2026

5:44
So, um, yeah, so l- let's, let's start with the first one, um, in that.
5:50
Okay.
5:50
Well, um, the, what w- we found is, uh, and the guy who wrote the book was Spencer.
5:56
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.
6:04
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.
6:15
For him, the holy grail has been, as a designer, is to be able to make an emotional connection.
6:20
And I think that we've worked together to sort of, uh, describe in that framework how to do it consistently and repeatedly.

36 MINS LATER

42:53
Excellent.

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