How to Create Adaptable Product Strategies

Product strategies should adapt to the evolving user's needs and scaling team, but at the same time should remain aligned to the company vision.

Convincing Your Boss

So you want to attend UXDX but you don’t know how to get your boss onside? We have composed a guide to help prepare you to ask your boss. We even drafted a sample email to send them!

How To Deal With Business Hyper-Growth

Quipper Engineering Manager, Kristine Joy Paas, shares her advice for dealing with the sudden growth of a customer base.

Top 5 Tips To Establishing Design Sprints

Jasper Wu, Chief Experience Officer at U-Next, will deliver a talk at UXDX APAC on March 4th titled 'Creating A CX Culture Through Sprints'. Find out more on Jasper's UXDX Profile [https://uxdx.com/profile/jasper-wu] or buy tickets now at: https://uxdx.com/apac/2021/tickets When working in the USA, I learned the practice of Design Sprints and found it to be a hugely useful tool to validate the concept with fast and decisive speed. When coming to work in U-Next as a CXO in Japan, I wanted to b

Top Tips for Growing a Product Design Team

Aditi Kulkarni, UX Manager for Money & Channels at Shopify, shares her top tips for scaling a Product Design Team successfully!

The Biggest Challenge - Our Focus for 2021

Like nearly everyone else I'm planning out my personal and professional goals for 2020. On the personal front, my goals are pretty standard - get fit, lose weight, travel etc. Covid has impacted all three of those in 2020 but I'm optimistic about the vaccine rollouts. On the professional side, my mission is to help companies shift from building software through projects to building autonomous product teams. The economist Carlota Perez has done some great work on historical disruptions (industr

Lessons learned from 300+ conference talks

Lessons learned on how to give an engaging and highly rated talk from analysing over 300 talks at UXDX.

Making Product Delivery More Sustainable

To make product delivery more sustainable we need to shift from "predictability" metrics of time and cost to "sustainability" metrics.

My 13 lessons for leaders when facing remote team management 💻🎯

How can leaders adapt to the new reality of remote working? Here are 13 tips for team leaders from from the Gitlab team, who have been remote for years.

Becoming Data Informed

How you can use the DIBBs model to empower autonomous teams and help them to become more data informed.

How to get the most out of a virtual event?

With the move to virtual events find out how to get the most out of these events from networking, knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing.

A sneak preview of our first UXDX 2020 Speakers

Introducing the first our our 50+ speakers who will be sharing their knowledge, insights and best practices in product development at UXDX 2020

“User centered design is obsolete”

User Centered Design is just not enough anymore. Our designs can have impacts far wider than just our users so we need to factor in the full ecosystem when assessing the effectiveness of our work.

10 of the Best Ways to Experience Dublin

Thousand of international attendees will make their way to Dublin on 7-8 October for our fourth annual conference [https://uxdxconf.com/]. To help you get the most out of your experience, we’ve shortlisted some fun activities you should try while visiting the Irish capital. The city is known for its colourful buildings, charming streets, historic architecture and live music. Here’s what you shouldn't miss: Dublin Walking Tour Source: PexelsDublin is the perfect city size to get almost everywh

Governing Product Teams

The traditional governance processes work against the efficiency of software delivery. For such an integral part of business today we need a better way of governing software delivery.

Breaking down complex problems

Breaking down complex problems is one of the most critical skills required for modern product development. How do you validate an idea before investing too much time and effort?

Alan Klement, partner at Revealed, on How to Successfully Implement the Jobs to be Done Theory

Alan Klement [https://twitter.com/alanklement?] is an author and product strategist, who helps organisations apply the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) theory and practices to boost their growth. He’s a partner at Revealed [https://www.revealed.market/], where he provides hands-on training and research based on JTBD. He’s the author of the book "When Coffee and Kale Compete" and will speak at UXDX 2019 [https://uxdxconf.com/], discussing “How to Identify your Customer's Needs”. Hi Alan! Great to have y

The Evolution of Software Delivery

What is THE agile process? What is the difference between projects and products? Learn about the principles and assumptions that underpin software delivery and how they've changed over time.

Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, on How to Empower Women in Tech

As the VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, Rashi Khurana is often portrayed as an inspiring role model for Women in Tech. With females still holding just 24% of computer science jobs and roughly 11% of executive positions in Silicon Valley, the topic "how to empower women in tech" is nowhere to go. Prior to her talk at UXDX 2019 [https://uxdx.com/europe/2019/agenda], we discussed with Rashi her experience with gender stereotypes, where she believes change starts and how to make engineering more

Why do projects get slower over time? Part 3

This is part three of a three part series on why projects slow down over time. How many times have you heard - or thought to yourself - that things used to be much better before? We used to be able to release quickly but now there is so much overhead and things move at a snail's pace. You're not crazy - things do slow down over time. There are many causes but I'm going to delve into three of the main causes over the next few articles. * Predictability [https://blog.uxdx.com/why-do-projects-

How to Transition to Data-Enabled Design

Can data and AI decide how your homepage will look like? How much UX designers should rely on data and growth hacking tactics? Eva Deckers [https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-deckers/], Design Director Data Enabled Design at Philips Design, discusses why the future of design is making data and artificial intelligence part of the creative process and deliver on meaningful propositions that encompass data and AI.  Eva elaborates on the need for this competence, the needed skills, expertise of design

Why do projects get slower over time? Part 2

Projects are incentivised to deliver now which leads to cutting corners and increasing complexity. The resulting debt causes delivery to slow down to a crawl over time.

Saying No to Features

Alice Newton-Rex [https://twitter.com/alicenewtonrex], Chief Product Officer of WorldRemit, explains how she reached to the conclusion that learning how to say no to features is the secret to successfully growing a product. Alice jokes that a few years back she was obsessed with creating different types of roadmaps - she was constantly trying to improve and make her roadmaps work better for everyone. She discovered that most of her industry colleagues were the same - all product managers are on

Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, on How She Became an Engineer and How She Manages Fast-growing Dev Teams

With Orbitz Worldwide and Tata Consultancy in her CV, Rashi Khurana [https://twitter.com/rakhurana] is  currently leading the technical teams for the eCommerce platform and the Contributor experience at Shutterstock, New York City. Rashi Khurana [https://twitter.com/rakhurana]Prior to UXDX 2019 [https://uxdxconf.com/agenda] where she will be discussing Emergent Design, she shared with us how she manages successful cross-functional teams, maintains alignment and balances delivery with upskillin

Product development is unpredictable

Our project delivery processes are built around predictability. But software development is unpredictable. How can teams move away from the constraints of current processes to build products that customers really love.

A bad system beats a good person every time

Strict scope management is hurting more than it is helping. Being flexible, where it makes sense, will deliver better products and happier teams.

10 Insightful Quotes by UXDX Speakers

Organisational change starts with a personal motivation for change. We’ve selected 10 quotes from some of our most engaging speakers at UXDX and on how they’re changing the product delivery processes at their organisations. 1. Tony Grout, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Alfresco: > “Always make sure you’re optimising for the flow of work through the teams. This might mean some teams might need to be slower. It’s not about one team moving fast, but for all teams delivering value” Click

What to Expect at UXDX 2019

For those of you who have never attended one of our events before, our aim for UXDX Conf is to bridge the gap between UX, UI, Dev and Product and help teams transition to user-outcome driven development. We know that in order to break down dated established practices, you need the appetite for change followed by both top down and bottom up support. That’s why we gather speakers from the world's leading tech companies to share how they’re aligning their product teams across their organisations an

5 Steps to Improve Agility at Scale

Was the agile manifesto made for fast-growing teams and scale-ups? Tony Grout [https://twitter.com/tonygrout],  Enterprise Agile and DevOps Transformation Director at Atlassian (now Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Alfresco) gave a great talk at UXDX2018 on how to improve agility at scale (and the signs that shout that agile isn’t scaling for you). 18 years ago 17 people got in a room in Utah and argued about the future of software. They decided that they had enough of bad practices, un

Developer Experience: UXDX Community Trends

We explore the best practices in software delivery while keeping a focus on the outcomes that the product is trying to achieve.

Product Vision: UXDX Community Trends

The vision process is where teams spend time understanding the problem, ideating on solutions and defining the high level experimentation roadmap for delivery.

Agile Transformation: UXDX Community Trends

What is the formula for making an organisation agile? Trust, Purpose and Alignment. Easy! Advice from UXDX Community 2018 sessions.