Endings Matter: Joe Macleod on Offboarding, Brand Value & Responsibility | Next Conference
Leaving a product's final chapter unmanaged is a high-stakes gamble with your brand's reputation and compliance track record. This video interview maps out why full-lifecycle responsibility is a non-negotiable requirement for modern product management teams.
Warmth of the Setting Sun: Belief and Identity in Digital Life | Next Conference
As our lives move entirely online, deleting an account or leaving a platform shifts from a minor tech hurdle to a profound identity crisis. This high-profile keynote explores how digital product endings must respect user agency, human belief systems, and personal legacies.
Design for Planet: Endineering Joe McLeod | Design Council
Designing sustainable products is a futile effort if we make disposal effortless, invisible, and disconnected from human behavior. This planet-focused keynote details how aligning design systems with circular goals requires an authentic commitment to engineering the exit.
BBC Click. World Service. 15.12.2015 | Click BBC
In this classic feature broadcasted to a global audience, the foundational principles of Endineering are introduced to the mainstream. The segment challenges the tech industry's obsession with frictionless onboarding by highlighting the urgent societal need for designed closure.
Getting Closure, saying goodbye to gadgets | Restart Podcast
Our relationship with hardware has become disposable, yet the psychological weight of letting go of our personal devices lingers. This episode unpacks how creating intentional goodbye rituals for physical gadgets bridges the massive gap between customer experience and circular economy goals.
Healthy Ending Experiences with Joe Macleod | UI Breakfast
Designing a premium offboarding experience is an essential protective buffer for maintaining brand equity at the scale of enterprise CX. This tactical episode details how providing clear closure experiences directly insulates brands from compliance issues while maximizing customer win-back rates.
Closure experiences with Joe Macleod | UX Podcast Hosted by Per Axbom & James Royal-Lawson
A simple onboarding sequence welcomes a user into an ecosystem, but the absence of a structured goodbye leaves them trapped in product limbo. This feature outlines the core mechanics of closure experiences and explains why designing a clear farewell is a foundational requirement for modern service design.
Joe Macleod talks about Endings | Australian Design Radio
Every customer onboarding pipeline is backed by months of metrics, but what happens when the relationship naturally winds down? This episode unpacks the profound psychological and environmental impact of consumer departures and explains how brands can design better exit loops.
Book Excerpt: Ends. by Joe Macleod | UX Magazine
Historically, humanity maintained rich cultural and emotional rituals around endings—until the modern consumer boom severed that connection. This excerpt explores the historical roots of why we became so detached from product conclusions and why we urgently need to rebuild them.
Joe Macleod: “Designers should consider the lifecycle of products they create” | Design Week
For decades, the design industry has trained its talent to focus exclusively on product creation and user acquisition. This feature challenges the global design community to take responsibility for the entire lifecycle, showing why true innovation requires designing the exit.
Why we need to start designing endings | The Drum
While the industry is fixated on capturing attention and maximizing engagement, it completely ignores the brand impact of the exit. This piece challenges designers and marketers to broaden their focus, demonstrating how a structured ending is vital for maintaining long-term consumer trust.