This week, we look at creating a culture that leverages data efficiently, why compassion has a place in high-functioning teams, and the merits of fresh research approaches. We also dive into defining your anti-patterns, designing for dark mode in Figma, and take a history lesson on web design systems. Finally, our trends piece for this week offers an analysis of improving efficiencies in product teams with expert opinions from the industry greats who presented at UXDX USA this year.
Enabling the Team
Leaders Don’t Have to Choose Between Compassion and Performance by Mark Mortensen and Heidi K. Gardner
Leaders experience demands for compassion while improving outcomes. To deliver both sustainably, they need to refocus on data, prioritisation and collaboration.
What are Your Company's Anti-Values? by Will Sewell
Values should cost something. They’re a trade-off. What are you giving up for your value? What’s your anti-value?
Product Direction
Using features to describe your Product Vision explains what’s in front of you, but won’t get anybody excited about where you want to go.
How can PMs Encourage More Teammates to use Data? by Go Practice
To leverage data across an organisation, product managers must often set a strategy, reinvent processes, and change organisational behaviour.
Continuous Discovery
Matching our Research Approach to the Projects by Coop Digital
It’s easy to stick with a research method because it’s familiar or we feel confident using it, but different projects demand different approaches.
Surfing the Waves of UX Research, Swimming in Deep Organisational Water by Lindsey M. West Wallace
As a UX researcher, you are often at the mercy of rhythms in your organisation. Learning to recognise and “surf” these waves can help you.
Continuous Design
A History of Design Systems on the Web by Jay Hoffmann
The implementation of design systems has been formalised into a set of tools, techniques, and ideologies, yet it is still evolving rapidly.
How to Create Dark Mode for Your Designs in Figma by Sepeda Rafael
How to implement colour themes in Figma using native features and with plugins.
Continuous Delivery
7 Ideas for the Future of APIs by David Feuer and Vikas Anand
Here are the biggest trends shaping the future of the API economy to help your organisation continue to thrive.
Chaos Engineering at Expedia Group by Nikos Katirtzis
Nikos presents the framework they built internally enabling them to run chaos experiments at scale.
At UXDX USA 2022 we invited 37 speakers to share their case studies on how their teams are improving their ways of working. This week looks at the topics and speakers who explored the oftentimes grey area of driving efficiencies within fast-changing product teams.
Do you have a great case study that highlights how you have adopted a new practice, tool or technique?
Do you want to share the challenges as well as the successes?
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