The Lighthouse Podcast
A deep dive into UX design, all things digital product, and the ins and outs of running a modern creative agency.
Lighthouse is a UX and UI design specialist, based in London and working in digital since 2008. We partner with ambitious businesses from all over the globe to help solve their toughest problems, grow their product teams and strengthen their digital futures.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2023
#14: Startup Stories - From MVP to Techstars With Stan Mcleod from Headliner
Stan talks about his startup journey, creating two business in five years which took them from humble beginnings to graduating Techstars in 2015
#13: How To Use Prototyping To Get Instant, Meaningful Feedback From Your Customers
Dan and Tom talk about how to chat to customers and get awesome feedback on your product. What should you be asking? Where can you find your users and much more...
#12: How to Spend Your Time on the Right Startup Ideas with Howard Gray
We chatted with Rozel Studio founder Howard Gray about how to evaluate your startup ideas and choose which are the best ones to test and launch
#11: Three Simple Steps To Self-Starting Your Idea
What are the steps needed to get your startup idea out of your head and into the real world? Follow these three simple steps to start engaging with your audience and learning about your product witho…
#10: The Lighthouse Christmas Show and 2015 Roundup
We all sat around and talked about our high and lowlights of 2015 as well as our wishes for 2016. There's also a tense vote for the internal results of the Best Christmas Card competition.
#9: Coin: The Birth of a Side Project
Russ chats to Tom about Coin, a side project he set up in early 2015. He discusses where it's at now, where it might go and what problems it needs to overcome in the future.
#8: How To Be Your Own Worst Client: The Story of Re-designing Our Website
As part of our hack day trip to Bath we got round a table and talked about the recent re-design of the Lighthouse website. There were laughs, there were tears, there was authentic rural background no…
#7: Totally Wired: Project Planning and Prototyping With Wireframes
#6: Left Hand Green: Should You Play Twister in Kick-off Meetings?
Kick off meetings, are they the best meetings? Everyone’s so positive and excited. Russ and Dan immerse themselves in these most cherished moments in the client/agency relationship, the bit before an…
#5: Designer Origins: Our Paths From Low To Pro
And you may ask yourself, how did I get here?
Russ & Tom learnt design over 10 years apart, in this week's podcast they discuss how they started their careers and how things done changed. Hear Tom gr…
#4: How We Became Addicted To Prototyping
Prototyping is great. So great that we talked and recorded and it's a podcast. Dan & Tom on the mics.
- What are prototypes?
- Why are they so useful?
- How can they save your startup idea?
We discuss ho…
#3: Technology Choices And How You Should Make Them
Dan and Christy discuss choosing technologies. Trying to stay impartial because unbalanced views are the biggest problem, they fail to be impartial. There was swearing. Apologies to any technologies …
#2: On The Importance Of Side Projects
Christy and Russ discuss their personal experience of side projects, of which they have started many and finished few.
- Why do side projects?
- Why is finishing them so hard?
- What happens to the unfini…
#1: What Skills Should A Founder Have?
Tom & Dan discuss the skills and qualities a startup founder needs and a couple that they probably think they do but don't.
- The importance of a strong vision
- Why you don't need coding skills
- The irr…