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How to grow a Research and Insights Team

It's really easy to hire someone and say that you want to change the mindset of how you make decisions about how to build and what to build. But doing so in practice is of course much more difficult. Daniele shares how to grow research teams effectively.

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Scaling Design at SumUp

How SumUp scaled design to create a cohesive merchant experience that focuses on merchant value, while empowering autonomous teams to launch products.

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Validating the effectiveness of Design

By aligning metrics with your goals and choosing 3-5 actionable metrics you can more accurately assess the performance of your product.

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Improving Website Performance by 11x

Taylor shares how he redesigned the Krogers.com website using the Marko framework and how his design choices led to an 11x improvement in performance.

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How the Craziest UX Ideas became Successful Products

Releasing every 3 weeks gives you more learning opportunities. But building something meaningful in that time is a challenge. So instead of building a product you need to shift to thinking how you can validate assumptions.

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How Atlassian are meeting the increased demand for user research

To keep up with demand for research, we need to upskill cross functional team members to become self-sufficient, in particular UX designers and product managers. We need to put structures in place to ensure that this decentralized research is of high quality and answers the right questions.

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Building a High Impact UX Research Team at Wildlife Studios

Om Tandon shares his three-step approach to building and scaling high-impact UX Research teams.

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Creating Visual Product Visions

Visions are about getting buy-in. By creating vision stories you can hook people on the emotions of the customer's pain and joy. And using high-quality visuals ensures that they are excited for the future.

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The Mindset Shift needed to Improve Product Teams

We learn a me-centric mindset early on but this inhibits strong collaboration. Tyler shares practical examples of how to shift to an others-first mindset to build better products.

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How to Innovate with Quick Experiments

People are really falling into the product discovery valley of death where the focus is on building. Shifting to quick experiments lets you learn before building.

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Using field trips to generate insights at Kitch

Instead of making assumptions about what customers need the Kitch team run field trips to see how their products are being used and uncover real pain points.

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How to Level Up Your Continuous Product Discovery Using the Product Science Success Path

Holly shares the five levels of success that teams can adopt to improve their discovery process and outcomes.

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UXDX EMEA: How Customer Data Enables Product Design Teams

Aer Lingus and Adidas share their key learnings on how their teams are evolving and how they empower them with customer data.

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