UXDX Community:Visual Maps, Healthy Designing and Creating Optimized Teams

Have you ever wondered if you should have a team of generalists or a team of specialists? What is the best ratio between the two groups? Let's answer those questions and see how this can easily be achieved by creating a single chart with each team member.
The best part? I can promise you it's definitely not for designers only, but can be utilized across the whole industry.

From the psychological significance of a parent-child relationship to the ravelling of the modern schooling system, in this discussion, we will approach humanity's attempts at passing knowledge on across generations and the lessons we can learn from them and apply in our daily social and professional engagements.

In this talk, you will be able to take away 3 things.

1. A strong argument for the importance of mentorship in the building of a relatively new industry.
2. A working knowledge of some of the underlying biological processes that undergird human development
3. And a clear & PRACTICAL guide on how to begin your career as a mentor in your own domain of knowledge.

In this talk, I'm going to present a series of visual maps used to foster cross-discipline collaboration and team alignment in an enterprise search redesign. Search is a complex experience that requires a highly technical team and cross-discipline collaboration. For this project, I created a search framework to understand users' pain points in a visual map to guide design/development and foster collaboration. We used this framework to redesign search experiences and found it useful to prioritise search features and support collaboration. Participants will learn why using visual maps is useful for team collaboration and they will be inspired to create maps with practical examples.