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UXDX · 17 Jun, 2025

UXDX Community:The UX of Career Building: Failing Forward in Tech

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17 Jun, 2025

16:00 - 17:00

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Tue17 Jun

16:00

Cringe Driven Development (CDD), a Template for Unavoidable Valuable Progress

Consistent feedback from actual users is critical for success, but building takes time, and startups have no time. How is it possible that the world’s most successful startups rocket to notoriety, attracting no end of actionable feedback before building tangible progress? Prominent organisations optimise to mitigate the risk to reputation. How might any team size 2-20 push themselves below their quality bar to quickly discover and deliver work which excites users enough to result in repeat feedback with next to no resources invested? Join me in this talk where I share how I, after 1.5yrs a team with no product or audience forced growth to one hundred users in three months.

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Kevin McDonagh

Director of Product Management

AppVelocity

Tue17 Jun

16:30

How Not to Apply for a Design Job

In a galaxy far, far away, where design portfolios are as common as droids and job applications are sent via hologram, young Padawan designers often make mistakes that would make even Jar Jar Binks cringe.

Join John in this talk to explore the dark side of job applications and learn 'How NOT to apply for a design job.'

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John Freeborn

Director of Design

Art of Problem Solving

16:00

Cringe Driven Development (CDD), a Template for Unavoidable Valuable Progress

Consistent feedback from actual users is critical for success, but building takes time, and startups have no time. How is it possible that the world’s most successful startups rocket to notoriety, attracting no end of actionable feedback before building tangible progress? Prominent organisations optimise to mitigate the risk to reputation. How might any team size 2-20 push themselves below their quality bar to quickly discover and deliver work which excites users enough to result in repeat feedback with next to no resources invested? Join me in this talk where I share how I, after 1.5yrs a team with no product or audience forced growth to one hundred users in three months.

Watch

Kevin McDonagh

Director of Product Management

AppVelocity

16:30

How Not to Apply for a Design Job

In a galaxy far, far away, where design portfolios are as common as droids and job applications are sent via hologram, young Padawan designers often make mistakes that would make even Jar Jar Binks cringe.

Join John in this talk to explore the dark side of job applications and learn 'How NOT to apply for a design job.'

Watch

John Freeborn

Director of Design

Art of Problem Solving

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