James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom
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Stockholm hosts James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom interview UX and accessibility experts.
UX Podcast is a long-running interview show hosted by James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom, recorded in Stockholm, in which the hosts talk with design practitioners, authors, and consultants about user experience work. Episodes sampled here cover design storytelling and narrative structure, accessible design systems and design tokens, sketching and visual thinking as a design tool, and change leadership within design-driven organisations. Guests tend to be authors of design books, accessibility specialists, and design leadership coaches rather than in-house product designers. The show occasionally runs short host-only episodes, such as season wrap-ups referencing its back catalogue.
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UX Podcast is an interview-format show co-hosted by James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom, based in Stockholm, and has been running since 2011 with a twice-monthly release cadence. Most episodes follow a single guest through their area of expertise, with the hosts probing for practical application to digital products rather than staying abstract. Recurring themes in the sampled episodes include narrative and storytelling techniques applied to UX flows, accessibility practices such as design tokens, focus states, and screen-reader labelling, sketching and visual thinking as design and facilitation tools, and organisational change leadership for design teams. Guests are typically established authors, educators, or consultants: examples include a graphic design chair at Maryland Institute College of Art, an accessibility lead at Level Access and W3C ARM community group co-chair, a design leadership author and former Autodesk design evangelist, and a sketching and visual-thinking specialist. The conversations reference frameworks and case studies (e.g., peak-end theory, atomic design, the Leapers/Bridge Builders/Tradition Holders change model) more than product demos. The show occasionally inserts brief host-only episodes, such as season sign-offs mentioning conference appearances and the back catalogue of 300+ episodes spanning over a decade. Listeners who benefit most are practising UX and product designers, design system owners, accessibility specialists, and design leads managing organisational change. Production is conversational and unscripted in tone, built around long-form dialogue rather than scripted narration or panel debate. Episode length and exact runtime were not available in the sampled data.
Made for: UX and product designers, design system owners, accessibility practitioners, and design leaders managing organisational change.
What sets it apart: Rather than focusing on interface trends alone, it draws guests from design theory, accessibility engineering, and organisational leadership, backed by a twice-monthly cadence and a decade-plus archive.
UXPodcast™ is a twice-monthly digital design podcast - hosted by James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom - sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011. We want to push the boundaries of how user experience is perceived and boost your confidence in the work you do.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
UX Podcast connects design craft to accessibility, leadership, storytelling, and the everyday consequences of creative decisions.
UX Podcast turns design practice into a working conversation, with James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom asking guests to connect creative decisions with their human consequences.
A focus state finally gets the airtime your design review denied it.
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A practical UX Podcast conversation about building accessibility into design systems at the component level.
Karen Hawkins makes accessibility feel less like a final audit and more like a design-system habit. As a human factors engineer and certified accessibility professional, she is strongest when she brings the subject down to the smallest working parts: buttons, focus states,…
Ellen Lupton gives UX Podcast a practical language for designing paths, choices, pace, and attention.
UX Podcast brings Ellen Lupton into a conversation about storytelling as something designers build with, not just something writers add later.
A warm, hands-on sketching workshop about reframing ideas and making visual thinking feel less precious.
Eva-Lotta Lamm makes sketching feel like permission rather than performance. In a live workshop with James Royal Lawson and Per Axbom, she starts with a random shape, has the page passed along, and builds toward detail, interaction, and context until a drawing becomes a scene.
Maria Giudice makes change leadership feel like patient emotional craft, built on self-awareness, empathy, and pace.
In this UX Podcast conversation, Maria Giudice frames change leadership as the art of bringing people with you, rather than pushing an idea through sheer authority.
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James and Per close out Season 3 of UX Podcast with a brief, conversational sign-off reflecting on the episodes they produced.
Season 3, Episode 11 opens with accountability.
Good storytelling changes pace.
Sketching begins under pressure.
Change starts with self-awareness.