This week: UXDX trends: techniques to make workshops more effective, designing teachable products and steps of scaling your customer business
Enabling the Team
Keep Your Agile off My Lawn, Please by Friedrich C.F. Meertaube
While I am biased, agile isn't the only way of working. Friedrich argues why fixed price agencies should continue Waterfall.
It’s Time to Reimagine Employee Retention by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Employee turnover is forecast to be 50–75% higher than pre-pandemic. Leaders need to take action to ensure higher retention.
Product Direction
by Gagan Biyani
Gagan successfully created 4 startup companies by testing specific market hypotheses instead of building the product and testing it in the market.
by Lenny Rachitsky
Lennys six fundamental steps of kickstarting and scaling your consumer business: Insight, Audience, Hook, Reach, Retain and Scale.
Continuous Discovery
by Dan Brown
Workshops can be a little stale or, worse, disconnected from the desired outcomes. Dan offers techniques to make workshops more effective.
by Jonathan Kendler
Jonathan shares how training can actually have a negative impact on user competence when using a product. And how to fix it.
Continuous Design
by Srishti Mehrotra
Every person creating a system influences how the system works often times to negative effects. This can happen with designers as well if not actively managed.
by Arkajyoti Das
Out of every 100 users visiting your website, 8 of those will suffer from CVD. How you can factor in colour blindness in your designs.
Continuous Delivery
Love shares a list of the top 10 Architectural Characteristics that architects need to consider along with questions on how to prioritise them.
by Emily Omier
Granting access based on roles is not secure enough. Access requests should be granted to only a single resource, for only a set amount of time.
We're busy finalising the agenda for this year's conference but it is already shaping up to be our best year yet! From drones to video streaming to telecoms to dating we have some amazing speakers to announce over the coming weeks.
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