UXDX Community:Using Comedy and AI Insights for Team Success

Join me in this talk where I will share how we set a long-term goal for a Product Design team with distributed designers by combining our UX maturity assessment with an Opportunity Solution Tree. I’ll take you through the steps of how we managed to connect all our pain points, turn them into potential improvements, and stay focused on what is most important right now to level up the team.

What do stand-up comedians and product designers have in common? We design experiences, they write jokes that make you create abs with laughter. However, in our hearts, we both care about building an emotional connection with our users.

This talk will detail theories, practical examples, and best practices used by comedians to help you challenge the status quo and craft your next product vision. We’ll draw on case studies about everything from your favorite Netflix comedy special to jokes that connect people from all parts of the world. Additionally, I will go over how I applied these tools in creating vision-brainstorming team workshops and use examples from my published articles on the intersection of comedy and design to help story-tell your products’ mission.

If you’re ready to gain a different perspective on how comedy frameworks such as David Chapelle’s anamnesis technique, Hasan Minhaj’s punchlines or Schitt's Creek's use of euphemism can translate into Morning Brew’s content strategy, Tinder’s automated messaging prompts, and help you design beyond users’ and business needs – this is the talk for you.

As the landscape of AI continues to evolve and take shape, how can we as tech leaders make sure we're keeping pace and building products in the right direction? As a lead researcher charged with bringing stakeholders into a tech-driven age, I am hoping to share how I am working to make our AI developments intentional and strategic, in a time when every company is in a race to be at the forefront of AI.