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How designers can use systems thinking to impact enterprise software strategy

  • Customer Experience, Design, Software, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Using systems thinking can have a positive impact on enterprise software strategies. A few tips on how to implement it in the design process.

Article by Danielle Elchik
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How designers can use systems thinking to impact enterprise software strategy
  • Using systems thinking can have a dramatic, positive impact on enterprise software strategies.
  • In the software design world, systems thinking is a way to keep the detailed complexities of user flows tucked away so you can understand the mental model of the system as a whole.
  • Systems thinking can be used in many ways depending on the problem to be solved or the point of view you are seeking to support, influence or change.
  • Where to start:
    • The user
    • The general system
    • The visual elements
  • Things that help you understand if you are heading in the right direction:
    • Alignment and Feedback — leverage your findings by recommending how to improve or suggest new solutions, from the users point of view.
    • Awareness — make sure the artifact is presented in a way others can follow along or reference it on their own.
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UX and Evangelism: Undoing What’s Undoing UX

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

UX/CX aren’t what other people think them to be. Learn the truth about UX Evangelism and how the reliance on an approach to workshops, design thinking and empathy might stop you from being a true customer-centered UX/CX professional.

Article by Debbie Levitt
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UX and Evangelism: Undoing What’s Undoing UX
  • This article presents two key pieces of advice on how to undo what’s undoing us:
    • Stop relying on an approach to workshops.
    • Look at old and current projects.
  • How do we raise CX and UX maturity?
    • Shift away from making UX look easy.
    • Talk about money and time.
  • How to start undoing what’s undoing us:
    • Stop doing Aspirology workshops
    • Promote different versions of design sprints
    • Get rid of design thinking
  • Great design decisions are all about the knowledge designers can generate through proper research and the actions that we choose to take based on that research.
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UX and decision making

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

An insight into the relationship between various brain models, decision making and UX

Article by Sreya Majumdar
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UX and decision making
  • Your brain does a lot of things when you try to make a decision, here are some of them:
    • Survival instinct — human species have evolved physically as well as mentally and always adapt to their environment to survive.
    • Wiring — the pre-existing knowledge and emotions associated with the information create deeper belief systems which dictate how the user feels, thinks and responds.
    • Biases — humans begin to learn through the loop of prediction ↔ correction and this process helps reduce uncertainties.
    • Design — designers need to tap into psychological mechanisms and predict irrationalities and decision-making patterns (without being coloured by our own biases).
    • Choice architecture — limiting choices can cause discomfort to the users.
  • When making a decision, we can:
    • Present choices in a way that would not require much cognitive effort.
    • Cater to the users’ needs and biases (conscious and subconscious).
    • Drive action.
    • Appeal to the emotion of the user.
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Scaling Your Design System

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

When scaling a design system, it’s necessary to consider the goals of your system, architect it for scaling, and strategically determine when and how you want to grow. Read the guide for your system scaling.

Article by Tony Walt
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Scaling Your Design System
  • It’s important to think about what direction in which you take the system in order to get the most value from it.
  • Tony Walt, Senior Director leading Spectrum’s Design System, shares his perspective on scaling a design system:
    • Work smarter, nor harder — plan what kind of system you want to build and determine how to best get there in a sustainable way.
    • Flexibility of The System — look at a spectrum of flexibility from opinionated to loose.
    • Shaping Your System — there are two primary ways in which your system can grow, it can get wider by adding more consumers or deeper by adding more to the system.
    • Planning for Support — focus on self-service support, determine how to prioritize your support load, and track your unplanned work.
  • It’s necessary to consider the goals of your system, architect it for scaling, and strategically determine when and how you want to grow.
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Using Research Synthesis to Build Better Products

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

A research synthesis as an essential step in performing user research. Follow this framework for conducting a quality Research synthesis.

Article by Alexis Neigel
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Using Research Synthesis to Build Better Products
  • A research synthesis is a powerful method to uncover new insights about users and surface durable insights about customers though it is not always considered an essential step in performing user research.
  • The more streams of insight are woven into the synthesis, — that is to say, insights from market research, sales, qualitative research, and quantitative research — the better your understanding of the user and customer you’re representing with your products and experiences will be.
  • Lexi Neigel, Senior UX Research Lead at Microsoft, shares a framework for conducting a quality research synthesis:
    • Step 1. Understand your motivations and goals for conducting a research synthesis.
    • Step 2. Start generating research questions to guide the synthesis.
    • Step 3. Begin your literature search.
    • Step 4. Manage and distill your user insights.
    • Step 5. Share and communicate your user insights.
    • Step 6. Maintain your research synthesis.
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Is “research” the best word to describe what UX researchers do?

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

As a UX researcher, using a different lingo to describe what you do could be beneficial to promoting the craft

Article by Yaron Cohen
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Is “research” the best word to describe what UX researchers do?
  • Learning languages can help you become a better UX professional as it matters for understanding humans.
  • There are different ways to reframe what UX researches do.
  • What’s so problematic with the word “research”?
    • It sounds academic
    • It sounds time-consuming and expensive
    • People confuse market and UX research
    • It sounds like a cost center to business managers
    • It sounds ambiguous
  • What to use instead of “generative research”:
    • Customer Discovery
    • Problem exploration
    • Benchmark/review of the current state
    • Opportunity mapping
  • What to use instead of “evaluative research”:
    • UX/Usability audit
    • Design evaluation/validation
    • Monitoring/review
  • UX researchers aren’t academic researchers so changing the lingo around what “Research” means in UX context is the means to achieve this goal.
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