5 Talks You Can’t Miss at UXDX USA 2021

UXDX USA is right around the corner with a goal to break the barriers between product, design, UX and dev. With some of the top industry leaders sharing their personal experiences with transitioning to cross-functional teams we wanted to make sure you were including these five talks in your schedule! Building Strong Relationships with Stakeholders Parul Goel [https://uxdx.com/profile/parul-goel], Director of Product Management at Indeed [https://uxdx.com/profile/parul-goel]Why is this talk i

How do you justify investing in UX?

The traditional answer of gathering data to convince stakeholders doesn't work. Use this UX toolkit to uncover the business pain points and get their buy-in for adopting UX.

How to Futureproof an Organisation? Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion in recent years has been at the forefront of many organisations to help improve relations in the workplace. To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked our speakers from our upcoming events what Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace means to them. > “It means to me that everybody feels welcome, supported and respected. It's being able to be heard and to share your opinion. Being able to find opportunities for impact and personal growth. Diversity gives every company

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.

Feedback Culture in Design Teams

Sarah Stokes, Head of Design at Domain, shares seven things she knows about feedback culture in design teams.

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!

What Benefits Do Cross-Functional Teams Really Deliver?

Cross-functional teams deliver better products and less re-work according to the speakers at UXDX 2020 due to continuous delivery, shared understanding and team spirit.

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.

Team alignment practices in a growing product company

For the leadership, it’s really Important to find the right balance between autonomy and alignment to help teams stay autonomous and moving in the one direction simultaneously. Miro's Head of Product, Anna Boyarkina discusses what it takes to have true team alignment while scaling your product.

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.

Going Online - The Value of a Conference

How do you transition a conference to online but without just doing a webinar? We look at the real customer needs and solutions to satisfy those needs online.

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.

Getting the most from our research data

We've overhauled our systems to help us shift from being data reactionary to data informed. If you've struggled getting the value from your data hopefully this will help.

“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.

15 Influential Product Leaders You'll Meet at UXDX 2019

UXDX thrives on its relaxed environment and the abundance of opportunities it creates for networking, collaboration and business opportunities. We’ve always said that what makes our events so great and useful for the audience, is the amazing crowd of product leaders our team carefully research, select and invite. This year we expect over 2000 product, design and dev experts to make their way to Ireland for our 4th annual event where we’ll be discussing the future of software development and how

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.

The Organisational Changes required to support Cross-Functional Product Teams

The functional structure is dominant in most organisations. But like most things in life one-size doesn't fit all. How can companies shift to support cross-functional product development?

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

Remote Working is Here to Stay - How Do You Make It a Success?

As a remote team ourselves, here at UXDX we’re firm believers in the benefits of remote and home working. With new remote jobs websites popping up every month and already extensive research to back the positive impact on productivity that remote working brings, this is not just a hot trend for freelance digital nomads anymore. More and more companies choose to stop competing for talent with fancy downtown offices and instead offer the flexibility of working from wherever you want. Bali? Your l

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

Michael Gough, Vice President of Product Design at Uber, on How to Become a World-Class Designer

Ahead of UXDX 2019, where Michael Gough [https://twitter.com/michaelgough_] will be talking about designing for pattern [https://uxdxconf.com/agenda],  we discussed his career journey so far and what it takes to lead the design team of a tech giant like Uber. Prior to becoming the Vice President of Product Design at Uber, Michael held leadership roles at Microsoft, Adobe and Nike. Read on to find out how he believes the design industry will evolve, what he's looking for when hiring a designer a

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 1

Measuring projects on time and cost instead of value delivered causes people to optimise for predictability at the expense of speed of delivery and value.

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

The 6 hidden costs of large waterfall projects

Releasing code requires testing. So releasing more regularly can look more expensive. But this is only if you ignore the costs that large projects impose.

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.

The Biggest Risk in Software Development

Software projects fails at an alarming rate but that isn't the biggest risk when building a product. Failure to build the right product costs much, much more.

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

Design, Engineering and Management Are Not Enough to Save the Product

Design, product and engineering go together like chocolate, vanilla and strawberries. They’re the three cornerstones for creating exceptional experiences. But are they enough? Richard Dalton [https://twitter.com/mauvyrusset], Head Of Design at Capital One spoke at UXDX2018 on why companies are at risk of failing, and why design, product management and engineering are not enough to save us. Richard started his talk by giving two interesting examples of poor customer service. The first one was

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

UX Execution: UXDX Community Trends

Focusing on Research, Hypotheses and Prototypes teams can keep innovating towards products that customers love and avoid falling into the feature factory trap.

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.