This week, we explore purposeful leaders and product manager effectiveness, delve into atomic design theory and understand how to streamline the user research process. Plus more on our meetup bridging the gap between Product, UX, Design and Dev in the Nordics this week.
Enabling the Team
5 Principles Of Purposeful Leadership by Hubert Joly
Hubert presents five attributes that characterises leaders who are able to unleash the kind of human magic you see at work at high-performing companies.
Use DICE Instead of RACI by Clay Parker Jones
DICE (decide, inform, consult, execute) is specific, easy to use, and shines a bright light on dysfunction.
Product Direction
Project-based roadmaps present their hypotheses while outcome-based roadmaps express “the problem to be solved,” using customer language.
Product Manager Effectiveness by Prachy Mohan
As PMs decisions are our output (not outcome). Decisions come in the form of the following artifacts: vision, strategy, goals, roadmap, and requirements.
Continuous Discovery
Streamline Your User Research Process in Seven Simple Steps by Nikki Anderson
Here are the steps Nikki took to continuously streamline her research processes.
User Research x Product Teams: How to Build a Stronger Partnership by Nikki Anderson and Thumpy Phan
Working closely with product managers, designers, and developers not only enhances the user experience, but sets the foundation for user research growth.
Continuous Design
A Tutorial on Creating a Responsive Design in Figma by Vikalp Kaushik
You can add multiple breakpoints and multiple screens which can help you in creating much more complex designs.
As designers, we stand on the shoulders of giants, looking at the marvelous work they've created. Like Brad Frost, who pioneered the atomic design revolution.
Continuous Delivery
Architecture & DDD Kata: Online Car Dealership by Nick Tune
This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems.
Engineering Metrics: 12 Pitfall of Serverless Architecture Layers by Lee James Gilmore
How and why the author believes enterprise organisations should use domain-driven design with the five serverless architecture layers.
Building a universal checkout framework for developers is hard, a challenge that the team at Primer has successfully executed.
In this talk, Monika, Head of Product Design, will talk through the journey of how the product team at Primer designed and built Universal Checkout — Primer’s fully customisable checkout SDK that comes with a visual tool for no-code styling and customisation. It not only stands out from the competition but more importantly, solves a massive problem for their users.
Catch Monika and other speakers such as Jesper Stenberg of Mestro at our community event this week.
Conferences
UXDX USA | 24 - 26 May
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Nordics | 28 Apr
UXDX USA | 24 - 26 May
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Nordics | 28 Apr
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