Candid UX talk from the working room.
Sprint follows Jesse Weaver, Alex Hoffman, and Michael Duesing through weekly conversations on UX, product decisions, and tech-industry habits. The tone is casual and often funny, but the arguments stay grounded in real workflows, teams, constraints, and interface choices.
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Sprint is a UX, product, and tech-news conversation with the looseness of friends catching up and the specificity of people who have spent a lot of time inside real product work. Jesse Weaver, Alex Hoffman, and Michael Duesing move easily from jokes about Space Jam, kombucha, crypto, moving houses, garden failures, and weather into sustained arguments about how digital products should behave. The show does not treat UX as surface polish. It treats it as decision-making under constraints. In one episode, a debate about modals becomes a practical taxonomy of overlays, full-screen workflows, cancel states, confirmations, settings panels, and moments when background context still matters. In another, hybrid work becomes less about remote-work ideology and more about who gets forgotten when half the room is on Zoom and the real decision happens afterward in a hallway. The conversations often circle back to trust. Teams need guardrails, but designers also need room to notice new tools, absorb design-community changes, and evolve before a company has to play catch-up. Tech commentary lands in similar territory. Algorithmic feeds, Medium, Twitter, and Facebook become examples of how discovery shifted away from individual curation. AI prompts questions about whether machines can create the next design habit or only produce endless variations of known patterns. Company-culture stories get treated with skepticism, especially when leadership language about focus collides with employee identity and past internal issues. Guest episodes add adjacent perspectives, including Parker Quackenbush discussing product management at Specs Technologies and offline-first field capture work, and Kim explaining site reliability engineering as the quiet foundation that keeps services available. The show’s charm is its working-room honesty. It is sometimes rowdy, often funny, and usually more interested in the uncomfortable tradeoff than the clean answer. Sprint suits listeners who want product judgment from people actively wrestling with interfaces, teams, tooling, and the strange social life of software.
Made for: Sprint is for UX designers, product managers, engineers, and design-curious tech workers who like practical debate over polished keynote language. It also fits listeners interested in how team culture, remote work, and interface patterns shape everyday software decisions.
What sets it apart: The show pairs casual, joke-heavy rapport with concrete product reasoning about modals, feeds, workflows, AI, and team dynamics. Its strongest moments come when a small interface question turns into a broader argument about context, trust, and how software teams actually work.
Each week Michael Dusing, Alex Hoffman, and Jesse Weaver sit down for Sprint, a UX podcast. Listen as they drink and converse their way through UX, product and tech news.
A modal becomes the argument your product meeting did not know it needed.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A relaxed, useful look at how feeds moved from human signals toward algorithmic curation.
Episode 170 of Sprint tracks the move from human curation to algorithmic curation in online feeds, keeping the subject grounded in how discovery actually worked.
A grounded UX debate about when a modal should become a page.
Sprint's 169th episode frames the modal as more than a visual treatment. Michael Duesing, Jesse Weaver, and Alex Hoffman look at when a dialog should stay contained, expand into a full-screen modal, or become a separate page, especially when the task depends on surrounding…
Hybrid work can fail quietly when remote colleagues miss the conversations that shape the decision.
Returning to the office lands here as a design problem with real social consequences. Alex Hoffman, Jesse Weaver, and Michael Duesing move from amused confusion about crypto and NFTs into the messier question of hybrid work: what happens when some people are present for hallway…
A focused discussion of when decisive leadership starts to sound like a command to stop questioning.
Episode 167 of Sprint turns a company-culture directive into a measured discussion about what product leaders owe employees once a decision is already settled.
Sprint asks whether AI can invent truly new interfaces or mainly reshuffle the patterns people already know.
Episode 166 of Sprint takes up a clean, thorny question: can AI create a new design language, or is it better at speeding up variations on patterns people already know?
PC hardware talk with real builder context.
Weekly tech commentary, antennas, and honest creator numbers.
Gen X tech talk with rough edges.
Tech power, platform culture, human fallout.
Tech news with the tabs still open.
Tech policy argued among old friends, swearing included.
Sprint episode 170, "Feed Frenzy," centers on Facebook News Feed and the shift from human curation to algorithmic ranking across Twitter, Instagram, Medium, and Google.
Sprint episode 169 is a discussion of modals, dialogs, non-modal overlays, and the screen-mode changes that make those patterns different.
Sprint episode 168 uses Beeple's $69.3 million Christie's NFT sale and a Bitcoin/Ethereum/Dogecoin detour to tee up a return-to-office debate.
Jason Fried's Hey.com post about six Basecamp policy changes drives Sprint episode 167, including the ban on societal and political discussions.
Sprint episode 166, "AI Spiderwebs," starts from a machine-learned metal part that uses 50% less material and asks whether AI-driven design can outperform humans.
Jesse Weaver says leaders should be a shield, take the blame, and hand out the credit.
The hosts celebrate 150 episodes and interview a former coworker about his work on an offline-first iPad app for insurance adjusters.
The hosts kick off a holiday series by drinking and discussing UX design and tech news, featuring a guest site reliability engineer.
The hosts debate UX and tech topics with audience participation at a conference.
The hosts discuss UX design and tech news with casual conversation and personal anecdotes.