Insights on Product Development

Why do projects get slower over time? Part 3

As you scale, products become more complex, alignment becomes more difficult and dependencies can slow things down. Product teams solve all of these issues.

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 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.

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.

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

Rashi shares with us how she manages successful cross-functional teams and balances delivery with upskilling.

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.

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.

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

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

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.