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Cross-Functional #118: The state of UX in 2023 and an engineer's guide to building a database for data
This week we take a look at how company culture shapes employee motivation, an engineer's guide to building a database for data, continuous design and how to enable it, the state of UX in 2023 and more. Enabling the Team How Company Culture Shape
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #117: Why you do not want to bore your users in a UX writer’s guide and looking at the business equation
This week we take a look at the business equation, thoughts on elevating product quality, why you do not want to bore your users in a UX writer’s guide and more. Enabling the Team Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in Leadership for Flat Organizations b
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #116: How product strategy stalls in the real world and How have the layoffs impacted UX roles
This week we take a look at how product strategy stalls in the real world, how have the layoffs impacted UX roles, how Honeycomb used serverless to speed up their servers and more. Enabling the Team Add skills not people to your cross-functional
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #115: Should every team be cross-functional, becoming a customer-centric product leader and journey mapping 101
This week we take a look at should every team be cross-functional?, becoming a customer-centric product leader, journey Mapping 101, feedback & design and more. Enabling the Team Work 10x Smarter With One Magic Word: Asynchronicity by Pim de Morr
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #114: Psychological safety gaps, from finding to doing and the creative switch
This week we take a look at psychological safety gaps , 3 ways product managers can lead their agile teams to own their OKRs, from finding to doing, the creative switch and more. Enabling the Team Psychological Safety Gaps by John SchragPsycholog
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #113: Setting better goals, emotive design and leaving the cloud
This week we take a look at setting better goals, automating contracts between micro-enterprises, emotive design, leaving the cloud and more. Enabling the Team A Radical Change We Don't Regret by Pande Kadek Yuda BaktiPutting employees first, cus
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #112: How to fix a toxic culture, challenges of multi-brand system and streaming - is it worth it?
This week we take a look at how to fix a toxic culture, finding your groove in corporate UX and the challenges of multi-brand design systems. Enabling the Team 4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology by Sachin RekhiWhile I advocate for
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #111: Customer data enables product design teams, how the future of web is on the edge and a new way of designing.
This week we take a look at how customer data enables product design teams, how the future of the web is on the edge and a new way of designing. Enabling the Team How Customer Data Enables Product Design Teams by Alexander ThomsonOne of the thing
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #110: Risks with transformations, how product strategy can stall, open source design and domain drive design tips.
This week, we take a look at how most agile transformations will fail, introducing business design patterns and how some are starting to involve stakeholders in user testing. Enabling the Team Most Agile Transformations Will Fail by Anthony Mersi
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #109: Leading by example, T-shaped designers, real strategies and Design system ROI
This week, we take a look at how some of the best managers lead by example, a former agile coach is now a soldier, finding your T-shape as a generalist designer and this week is your last chance to sign up for the UXDX EMEA in Dublin next week. Enablin
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Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #107
This week, we take a deep dive into the pitfalls of a waterfall model posing as agile, how GitHub CoPilot fared in the usability stakes for developers, and why anti-personas may be a blessing in disguise. Enabling the Team Faster and More Predict
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #106
This week, we look at having too many cooks or too few kitchens when creating an open workplace culture. We also examine how HBO's app experience fails and what we can learn, why not to avoid vendor lock-in and how to up your game when designing for FA
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