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User Experience with a Capital YOU: Kirsten Thulborn

Podcast: Unofficial QuickBooks Accountants Podcast · Alicia Katz Pollock, MAT

Opublikowano: 2026-04-16

Alicia sits down with Kirsten Thulborn, Group Design Manager at Intuit, for a rare look at how QuickBooks' user interface actually gets built — from the research behind terminology changes like "post" replacing "add," to why some friction in the UI is intentional. Kirsten pulls back the curtain on how her team balances the needs of power users (accountants and bookkeepers) with small business owners who just want to send an invoice, and what she'd redesign from scratch if she could. Plus: why UI changes feel so disruptive, the technology adoption curve, and the story behind the QuickBooks feature you've pr...