This week we look at why PowerPoint is useless, 16 Product Strategies for Growth and Pixar's Design Critique Approach
Enabling the Team
PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities by Kara Pernice and Raluca Budiu
Confusion continues in teams about the difference between PM and UX responsibilities particularly around user research and IA.
Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless by Geoffrey James
Amazon and Tesla banned PowerPoint - Geoffrey gives us the data behind these decisions. (hint: it's a really ineffective way to communicate)
Product Vision
16 Product Strategies for Growth by Tami Reiss
A concise overview of 16 different strategies you can employ in your product.
The Product Strategy Stack by Ravi Mehta and Zainab Ghadiyali
A great case study of how Slack and Discord, while similar in theory, have very different outcomes due to their strategies.
Continuous Discovery
You Aren't Your User - Even When You Make Employees Dash by Linda Klein
DoorDash is getting some flack over their "everyone must do a delivery every month" rule. Laura explains the problems with this and the better alternatives.
27 top tips from practitioners on how to improve journey mapping practice.
Continuous Design
3 Common Fallacies About Creativity by Pronita Mehrotra, Anu Arora, and Sandeep Krishnamurthy
Companies put innovation at the top of their priority list. But few enable it. Creativity takes time, it takes iteration and it takes multiple perspectives.
Negative criticism is easy, yet it is seen as more intelligent. All criticism must come with a "plus" - a way to make it better.
Continuous Delivery
How Airbnb Supports Co-Hosting by Angelina Rao
A great case study on how complexity can grow over time and a way to refactor it safely, including many gotchas like race condition handling.
A developer intentionally corrupted two of his most popular modules to highlight how he is no longer willing to work for free.
Join us at our latest UXDX community event this Thursday where you can learn about product post MVP launch, adapting your message for different stakeholders, shifting from physical to digital design and more.
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Conferences
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Community Events
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UXDX USA | 29-31 March
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Africa | 13 Jan
UXDX Community USA West | 27 Jan
UXDX Community USA East | 17 Feb
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