This week we unpack setting good stream boundaries, finding the elusive leading indicator and rooting out bias from your decision-making process.
Enabling the Team
Dear Manager, You’re Holding Too Many Meetings by Ben Laker, Vijay Pereira, Ashish Malik, and Lebene Soga
Research shows that 70% of meetings keep employees from doing productive work. Here's how to overcome the problem.
Finding Good Stream Boundaries with Independent Service Heuristics by Rich Allen and Matthew Skelton
Independent Service Heuristics is a technique invented to identify potential boundaries across services, domains, applications or streams.
Product Direction
In Search of the Leading Indicator by Thomas Christensen
What actions do successful users take, and what features do they adopt, before they become paying customers?
Best vs. Rest Explained by Marty Cagan
After building a great product a lot of companies shift to sales and marketing because that is what moves the revenue needle, reducing the ability to innovate.
Continuous Discovery
How User Research at Spotify is Getting Ahead of Shifting Trends in Global Culture by Spotify Insights
User researchers unpack how we can adapt to stay ahead of shifting global patterns and ensure an engaging, relevant experience for our users everywhere.
Root Out Bias from Your Decision-Making Process by Thomas C. Redman
Poor decision-making happens in all aspects of our lives. But often we are perpetrators, participating in rigged decisions even if we don't realize it.
Continuous Design
10 Rules for Product Design from Google X by Reda Attarça
Google X may work on large-scale moonshot projects, but this piece of advice can apply to any project: Dream big; technical solutions will follow.
Is Employee Experience the Next-Level Extension for Design Systems by Zoltan Garami
For many companies, there is a missing extension of design systems: designing the employee experience.
Continuous Delivery
The Return of Server Side Routing by Ryan Carniato
Everything is converging on architectural change that we have not seen the likes of since SPAs came on the scene. We're putting routing back on the server.
This article reveals a controversial opinion that hydration is what happens when you add SSR/SSG as an afterthought to a front-end framework.
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UXDX USA | 24 - 26 May
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Europe East | 21 Apr
UXDX Community Nordics | 28 Apr
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