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Team Dynamics

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Essential tips on scaling a UX team of professionals.

Article by Joe Knowles
Scaling a UX team
  • Scaling a UX team requires not only navigating a lot of change, improving processes, around onboarding and training, but also having a clear plan in mind for scale.
  • The author suggest ways to scale a UX team:
    • Maintain the culture
    • Increase peer viewing
    • Balance experience
    • Promote within
    • Focus on entry level improvement
    • Protect the T-shaped specialists
    • Keep collective goal setting
    • Always communicate
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Scaling a UX team

What if we shift the focus from solutions to problems? A view on UX research and why prioritizing problems pays off in the long run

Article by David Lick, Julia Barrett
Prioritizing Problems to Inform Product Design
  • Focusing on solutions as you start UX research might lead to misunderstanding or overlooking user problems, which in turn, damages the whole design and development process.
  • To decrease the risk of poorly developed solutions and costly adjustments, it’s necessary to invest time and effort in discovering user problems and pain points, clearly distinguish them from users’ goals, and use diverse research methods.
  • Although focusing on pain points might seem more time-consuming initially, problems are more concrete, easier to uncover, and ultimately are the source for meaningful solutions.

Read the full article for perspective on how this shift from focusing on solutions to focusing on problems can be a powerful tool as you begin UX research.

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Critiquing is about a way to make sure that each person in the room is as smart as the smartest individual in the team.

Article by Rounak Bose
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Ideas are easy and fun to create, which means that, for any given product, you have far more “great” ideas than you could ever build and test.

Article by Laura Klein
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As Design expands into the realms of solving business problems, strategic scenarios, customer experience and services… What is Design today, and who are Designers?

Article by Anish Joshi
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