Insights on Product Development

UXDX USA 2022 Trends: Improving efficiencies in product teams

Functional teams are more efficient in low change environments. But we are in a fast-changing world so companies are looking at new ways to improve product team efficiencies.

UXDX USA 2022 Trends: Ensure your research lands

How do you ensure that your research doesn't just end up on a shelf? Here are three tips to ensure your research delivers an impact.

WeighMyRack

A case study on how WeighMyRack upgraded their site to expand their business.

Building better teams with a simple thought experiment

What kind of team would we want if we did not know what roles we would play in the team?

How Autodesk implemented Dual-Track Agile

A case study on how Autodesk implemented dual-track agile to tackle the friction between design and dev

Shifting an Agribusiness to Direct to Consumer

How Kimmus Kitchen, an Indian agribusiness, pivoted their product strategy to direct-to-consumer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inspiring Teams with a Way of Working Vision

Starting from first principles we build a vision for a way of working that teams can use to streamline their product delivery.

How to Measure Efficiency in Software Development

Time and cost metrics lead to inefficient software delivery. Using lean manufacturing as the inspiration, teams have shifted to throughput metrics to track and improve efficiency.

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 Why is this talk important? If you engage with your stake

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?

How to Successfully Implement the Jobs to be Done Theory

Alan Clement, author of When Coffee and Kale collide, shares his insights on how to implement the Jobs to be Done Framework.

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

How do you successfully onboard people? Is it cheaper? How do you know people are working? Insights from our panel at UXDX 2018

How to Empower Women in Tech

Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, talks stereotypes, ways of supporting women and what companies can do.

How to Become a World-Class Designer

MIchael Gough, Vice President of Product Design at Uber, shares his approach to hiring and tips for aspiring designers.

How to Transition to Data-Enabled Design

Eva Deckers, Design Director at Philips Design, discusses why the future of design is making data and artificial intelligence part of the creative process

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, 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.

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 and strawberries. They’re the cornerstones for creating exceptional experiences. Are they enough?

5 Steps to Improve Agility at Scale

Was the agile manifesto made for fast-growing teams and scale-ups? Tony Grout gave a great talk at UXDX2018 on how to improve agility at scale.

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.