Insights on Product Development

Integrating UX into SAFe

UX Research helps drive your teams to build a market-ready product your customers will love. Read about Marc's tips on how to infuse customer feedback and UX Design into Agile in a SAFe environment.

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, Director of Product Management at Indeed Why is this talk important? If you engage with your stakeholders effectively, you will creat

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.

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 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 s

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 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 bring this new practice I learned to hel

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!

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 (industri

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.

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.

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.