
The Pendulum Podcast
A podcast series exploring The Pendulum methodology: shifting perspectives, UX as lived experience, and mastering complexity without oversimplifying it.
Listen on Spotify →The Pendulum is a UX methodology rooted in shifting perspective to deeply understand how real users experience complexity, not just how they interact with screens, emphasizing lived experience as the foundation for clarity in complex systems.
The Pendulum was created to address why many products feel “almost intuitive” yet still fail: teams think about users without truly becoming them, so the methodology focuses on internalizing the user’s lived situation and emotional triggers.
Unlike conventional UX approaches that treat “user-centric” as a slogan, The Pendulum insists on experiencing the user’s condition, starting with the unavoidable emotional tension (distress) that drives any action, rather than settling for abstract personas or generic needs.
The Pendulum is both a methodology and a public dialogue. Explore the Insights below for deep dives into our UX philosophy.

A podcast series exploring The Pendulum methodology: shifting perspectives, UX as lived experience, and mastering complexity without oversimplifying it.
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Yoram Rosner joins Tom Even to discuss The Pendulum methodology, its origins, and reframing how we understand users, systems, and experience.
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The Pendulum methodology explained and discussed in the Israeli Hi-Tech book, The Marker.
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Imagine a world where no one had yet thought kitchens belonged inside homes. Now, picture the very first person who decided to design one.
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You might never have been an astronaut, a Chinese retailer, or an Iowa farmer, but you have definitely experienced distress.
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