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Reframing UX in Complex Organisations: Marijke Jorritsma
When products slow, meetings multiply, and decisions dissolve into “task forces to decide how to decide,” the problem isn’t your interface. It’s your organisation.
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1Win Sportsbook Review: Football, Cricket and Live Betting
A teenage death-metal fan who swore he’d never work at a bank walks on stage and opens with a promise: “This talk is guaranteed AI-free.” Steven smiles, then gets serious. The real superpower in complex organizations isn’t another
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Evolution of Grammarly's Platform: From Developer Operations to Developer Experience
From Operations to Experience: How Grammarly Rebuilt Its Engineering Culture What makes 500 engineers move in sync without slowing each other down? At Grammarly, the answer wasn’t a new framework or another automation layer; it was a change in philosophy. “We
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Bridging the Gap: How Product, UX, and Dev Can Build AI-Native Products Together
When AI blurs the lines between designer, developer, and product manager, what holds a team together isn’t process. It's purpose. “It’s a team sport,” says Jacobus Kok of Priceline. “The more fluid you keep it, the better the
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From Vendor to Partner: Getting the Most Out of Your Agency Relationship
“Stop buying deliverables. Start buying outcomes. When you and your agency align on why the work matters, scope stops ballooning, invoices stop surprising, and momentum finally sticks.” Agencies inspire strong feelings. Some swear by them, others have the scars to prove it.
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Bridging Perspectives: A Framework for Seamless Collaboration Between UX Researchers and Product Analysts
“Numbers without context can be misleading. Stories without scale can be dismissed. But when UX researchers and product analysts join forces, the full picture emerges and with it, better products.” That was the central argument made by Archana Shah, Principal UX Researcher,
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Hiring Beyond 2025: Breaking the Algorithm, Beating the Bots, and Building Better Teams
“In a market where CVs are rewritten by machines and screened by other machines, the only reliable differentiator is the one thing algorithms cannot fake for long: how people think, collaborate, and grow with others.” That was the unspoken tension running through
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Impact Without the Despair: Navigating Complexity with Intent
“Design isn’t just making screens. It is making decisions.” That was a quote Niall O’Kelly shared at UXDX EMEA 2025, reframing chaos as ambition in motion and showing how impact comes not from controlling complexity but from navigating it with clarity, trust and timing.
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From Product to CEO: Leading Beyond Execution
“Numbers up when you speak to the board, people down when you lead the team. That balance, of capital and care, is what unlocks trust at every level.” That is the mantra Rhiannon White shared at UXDX EMEA 2025. When Rhiannon White
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Hiring Beyond 2025: Breaking the Algorithm, Beating the Bots, and Building Better Teams
Excerpt:“Stop applying into the void. You already have a ‘no,’ so why not reach out directly? A single human connection will always beat an algorithm.” This is the advice of Mrinali Kamath, former Product Design Director at Ford. That was one
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Thriving as a Long-Term IC: Lessons in Influence, Growth, & Fulfillment
“Designers often think success means climbing the management ladder. But what if your real impact and fulfilment comes from staying an individual contributor?” That’s the provocative question Cliff Seal, UX Architect at Salesforce, put on the table in his talk at
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