With only a week to go until UXDX USA, our first physical event in over two years, we give you a look at what to expect at the conference. Also, we also examine the merit of meetings, look at the pillars of product research, take a decentralised approach to decision-making and give tips for product-centric teams.
Enabling the Team
It’s Confirmed: Meetings are a Waste of Time by Will Dunn
The biggest study so far on meetings and productivity finds that most companies should eradicate them almost entirely.
How To Succeed At Decentralised Decision-Making by Jeff Hicks
Decentralisation can be powerful. The key is to empower employees to establish autonomy. However, this can introduce challenges for leaders and employees.
Product Direction
Adding Too Many Features Will Break Your Product, Users and Team by Megan Gleason
Megan argues that product managers who limit their understanding of value to shipping multiple features are heading for heartache down the road.
Product Centric, Rather Than Product All The Things by Chris Combe
Chris mulls over moving from project to product and explores some of the challenges people are likely to face on this journey.
Continuous Discovery
The Eight Pillars of User Research by Emma Boulton
How can you get started with Research Ops unless you understand what’s important to User Researchers? Read on to find out.
Democratising Research: A Debate by Sean Bruce
This post discusses the democratisation of research: a nebulous, poorly defined term that often provokes polarising reactions from the research community.
Continuous Design
Design Systems are for User Interfaces by Brad Frost
This post articulates how Brad's definition of a design system has recently changed to address some hard-earned lessons.
Why Groups Struggle to Solve Problems Together by Al Pittampalli
To solve problems as a group, we need to jettison the assumption that intuitive problem solving is sufficient, and instead embrace a more methodical approach.
Continuous Delivery
The Fourth Language by Andrew Walpole
The web uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. State management gets lumped with JavaScript, which isn't a great solution. Is it time for a fourth web language?
Building Data-Centric Apps with a Reactive Relational Database by Nicholas Schiefer, Geoffrey Litt, Johannes Schickling, and Daniel Jackson
An exploration of a new way to manage data in apps by storing all app state, including the state of the UI, in a single, local reactive database.
Our first in-person event in over two years is kicking off in less than a week at New World Stages, New York. But that doesn’t mean we’ve been quiet for the last two years! We’ve been running online events which have allowed us to rethink how we deliver conferences, with a focus on driving positive outcomes. Here are 10 things you can check out if you're joining us in New York next week.
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