The Product Model

Cross Functional #20

UXDX Cross-Functional #20
 
Digest the best news and learning of the week at speed... 
What's new in Product, UX, Design, Dev and Empowering your Teams
 
Product
 
Empowering Teams
Empowered Teams Build the Best Products by Marty Cagan, with hosts Sean Flaherty and Paul Gebel
This podcast discusses the power of empowerment. The job to be done by empowered teams is to solve hard problems. Sounds simple, but the implications are enormous.

Empowering Teams To Create Impactful Products by Audrey Tsang
Audrey talks through how she has empowered her team to deliver an impactful product experience by listening to their users' needs and actioning these insights.
 
UX
 
Remote UX
Remote UX Research: A Necessity Now, But Valuable at Any Time by Inge De Bleecker
Inge talks through the strengths of remote UX research that not only applies to today's circumstances but how it can benefit future UX research for your business.
How I completed an all-remote UX research project under a month with $0 by
Nicolette Wong
Broken into 4 distinct phases, follow Nicolette's journey on how she conducted her remote UX research from sketch to being fully tested in 4 weeks and with $0.
 
Design
 
Design Tools
29 of My Favourite Design Tools & Websites You’ve Never Heard of by Danny Sapio
Danny lists his 29 favourite design websites that have helped him improve his workflow and made him a savvier designer.
Measuring the Value of Design Systems by Maya Hampton
Rather than focusing on outputs (the design elements) teams need to shift a focus on the outcomes of their design systems.
 
Development
 
The Responsibility of Developers
The Lies that can Undermine Democracy by Martin Fowler
Martin takes a brief detour from his usual tech writing to share his thoughts on the regulation needed for online platforms - "while we must have free speech we must not be free of the consequences of that speech".
The Anti-Parler: Principles for decentralized social networking by Paul Frazee
Paul, a co-creator of the P2P Beaker browser, shares his thoughts on how developers need to focus on elevating truth as much as on censorship resistance.
 
Enabling Teams
 
Working Together
How to Manage a Stubborn, Defensive, or Defiant Employee by Liz Kislik
In this article, Liz discusses methods on how to deal with a stubborn, defensive, or defiant employee. She also makes a point that the employee may actually be right.
Merging Teams At Buzzfeed: 6 months, 4 crisis, 7 lessons. by Peter Wang
Peter Wang will reflect on his first six months as BuzzFeed CTO of a cross-functional team, and the 4 challenges he faced: health, economic, social, and attrition. 
 
Upcoming Community Events
 
We have a few of our free community events taking place over the next few weeks, with a focus on the APAC region as we get ready for the main APAC event on 3-5 March. 
UXDX Community Sydney - 4th February
 
And our big 2-day event:
UXDX APAC - 3rd-5th March
 
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